New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-12-30
CORPORATIONS.
A 0fEND1aKNT OF CHARTER.
Louisiana Levee Company.
PARISH OF ORLEANS CITY OF sEw ORLEANS.

Be it known that this day, before me, Pierre
Charles Cuveilier, notary public duly commits
and city Of New Orleans State Of Louiaians afore-
said, and in the presence of the witnesses herein.
after NAMED nan ed and personally came and
subscribed and set forth, who severally declared
that they and those whom they represent are
stockholders OF the Louisiana Levee Company, .
corporation organized under the general laws Of
this State by notarial acts passed before me. the
ruary, in the year 1871 and recorded the same day
in the office of mort in the parish Of Orleans,
r 9Gox OF NO. d ~ xss ana ~ and
General Assembly of this State. approved February
e. fsl being act No. in the volume of the acts
That, in conformity to the ninth article of the
aforementioned charter OF act Of incorporation, a
pany was convened and held at the dOmicie there
Of on Tuesday, the twelfth day of December. 1871,
in the original articles Of said charter were pro-
posed and assented to by majority of all the cap
ital stock OF said corporation; the same being as
follows, to wit:
That paragraph four of said article second by the
addition of the words cor by the United states" be
made to read as follows
~. To accept and exercise all such poWers priv
neges and franchises as may hereafter be granted
to or conferred upon the said company by the gov
eminent Of the United States Of any Of the States
interested in the construction and maintenance Of
levees the banks Of the river mississippi or ito
tributaries or outlets and further to consolidate
States or by the United States for the same or like
purpOses."
That the following be substituted instead Of said
article, which will now read:
ART T. The capital stock Of the company shall
be one million dollars. represented by one hundred
ever that the Directors are authorized and re-
CURED to increase the capital stock to one million
s nuada dollars Il; sy
fifteen dollars per share, payable only in the
t0 owl to Wit IT, Ten dollars Per share
Thereafter as ordinary stoeH the B. S.sncs
five dollars to be paid in lawful currency at such
mine; provided, further, that the right Of sub
scrhers to the preferred stock to pay ten dollars
At the Of sH
date OF the adoption Of this article. Said preferred
stock shall b Of the q the
cent per annum of said earnings before the or
binary stock shall participate therein.
shall hereafter be made except in dividends Of
stocks to the stockholders, and the capital stock
of the company shall never be increased beyond
five million dollars."
That said article be amended by adding thereto
the following clause
is not resident Of this State, and the owner Of at
least one hundred shares of the stock Of the COM
pany."
That said article be amended by striking GU
therefrom the words 'Or dissolve this corpora
ton so that Will hereafter read as follows:
purpose, and of which notice by publication, as in
the case of general elections shall be given
for at least twenty days. the stockholders may
make any notifications, additions changes in
these articles with the assent of majority Of all
tiers submitted to the vote of the stockholders
they shall be entitled to one vote for each share
held by them respectively and to cast the same in
person or by proxy"
ARTICLE XII.
That the said article be amended by substituting
the word three" for the word five" therein so
that the first lines thereof will hereafter read as
follows:
Article II. The liquidation of the affairs of
the company IIas shall be made By three commits
designated for the last general election of drec-
tors etc.
the number of shares of the capital stock Of said
company set opposite their respective signatures
jorty, do hereby declare and acknowledge the
above specified additions, modifcatiOns and
are part of the charter of the said company and
binding upon all the stockholders thereof and
such as may hereafter become stockholders therein
publication thereof according to law.
Thus done and passed at the city of New Orleans
aforesaid in the presence of Martin Ainsworth and
Benjamin Dry. competent witnesses, no hereuntO
sign their names, together with the said appearers
and the said notary this twenty first day of the
month of December, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and seventy one.
lOriginal signed by stockholders representing
eight three thousand two hundred and ffty-siS
(83 1850 shares of the capital stock.l
NJ L. AISswoRTH
BENJAMIN DRY.
2. CHS. CUvELLIER. Notary Public.
I, the undersigned. Recorder of Mortgages in and
for the city and parish OF Orleans, State of Lou.
isana. do hereby certify that the foregoing amend
ment to charter Of Louisiana Levee Company,
has been this day NcOrded in this Office ac-
cordnS to law, in Book Society g. fo.ios $50 59l
and 500.
New Orleans December 3D. 1871.
c. DARCANTEL, Deputy.
certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the
gnal act and certificate of record in nv nOtariaI
register.
P. CHS. CUvELLIER, Notary Public
Ge29 lac L 20 q -"