New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-10
AoHAnrER.

STATI OF LOUISIANA
City of New Orleans
Be it known that on this seventeenth day
of November, AID. eighteen hundred and
sixty-eight, before me, Henry G. Dibble, a
Notary Public, duly commissioned and
sworn in and for the parish of Orleans and
city OF New Orleans, personally came and
appe AIRED the several parties whose names
are hereunto subscribed, who declared that
avalilng themselves OF the provisions OF the
laws of the State of Louisiana in relation to
the organization of con yorations, they have
covenanted and agreed and by these pres.
ents do covenant and agree and bind them.
selves and those whom they represent, to
establish an incorporated Company for the
objects and purposes and under the obliga-
tions, stipulations and regulations herein
after set forth, to wit:
ARTICLE FIRST. et
This corporation shall be domiciled and
have its principal Office in the city OF New
Orleans, in the parish of 0rlean', State of
Louisiana, and the name and title of the
same shall be 1.-THE New ORLEANS REpuBL1.
CAN PRINTING COMPANY" Said corporation
shall have and enjoy corporate powers and
privileges for the full term of TWENTY-FIVE
years from the date hereof, and the same
shall commence business as soon as the sum
of one hundred thousand dollars shall have
been subscribed to its capital stock. The
President of said Corporation shall be the
proper officer upon whom to serve citation
and all ether notices in case of any suit or
suits for or against said corporation.
ARTICLE SECOND.
The objects and purposes of this Corpora
ton are declared to be the printing and pub
fishing of newspapers and the carrying on
Of Il general book and job printing business
in the State of Louisiana and all things
properly appertaining thereto.
ARTICLE THIRD.
The capital stock of this corporation Is
hereby fixed at one hundred and ten thou
sand dollars, divided into eleven hundred
shares of one hundred dollars each, to be
paid at the time of subscription, and which
capital stock once subscribed and paid may
be increased at any regular meeting of the
stockholders, called for that purpose, and by
majority of all of the stock of said COM
pany, to any amount not exceeding two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Pro-
vided, That each and every stakeholder
shall have at least thirty days notice of such
intention either in person or by notice of the
same published,fo for said time in any of the
newspapers published in the city of New
Orleans.
ARTICLE FOURTH.
All the corporate powers of the Corpora.
ton shall be vested in and exercised by
Board of Directors and such officers and
employees as they may appoint. The Board
of Directors shall consist of five members of
the Company who, after the expira.
ton of the term of Office of the
present Board, hereinafter named,
shall be elected by ballot on the
second Tuesday of January of each year,
at the Office of said Corporation, of which
election the Board of Directors shall give at
least ten days notice in one Of, the newspa-
pers published in the city of New Orleans,
and the Board of Directors shall appoint
three stockholders to preside as in
spectors at such election; and
should any of the inspectors decline
or fail to attend the President shall appoint
other persons to i'll the vacancies. And any
failure from any cause whatever to elect
Directors on the day named for that pur.
pose shall not dissolve this Corporation, but
the Directors then in office, as well as the
President and Secretary, and all other
officers, shall hold over until their success.
sors are elected. In the event Of no cleo.
ton taking place on the date aforesaid, the
President shall cause another election to be
held within thirty days thereafter and give
notice OF the same as aforesaid.