The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-15
CHARTER.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,

CHARTER.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
PARISH OF ORLEANS, CRY OF NEW ORLEANS, }
BE 1T KNOWN, That on this twenty ninth
day of the month of June, in the year OF oul
| Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy
five, and of the United States OF America the
ninety ninth.
lie. in and for this citv, and parish OF Orleans
State of Louisiana, duly commissioned and quail
| fed. and in the presence OF the witnesses here
| matter named and undersigned:
Personally came and appeared, e. y; a. Pa
JOHN PHELPS, JOHN q. KENNARD, CYRUS
BUSSEY, GEORGE JONAS, W. B. SCH MIDI
JAMES A. GIRDNER, JULIUS WEiS, E. L.
RANLETT and DAVID WALLACE, ali resi-
dents Of this city, who severany declared a
rights and privileges conferred by the sta
tutes of the State of Louisiana, relative
to the Reorganization OF Corporations, III
thi State, they do, by these presents, form,
organize, constitute and found C0rporaeiron iol
| the objects and purposes as shall hereafter be
enumerated and set forth; and to tha5 emo tney
| do hereby covenant and agree to form ana con-
stitute and do, by these presents, form ana con-
stitute themselves, and all such other persons as
may hereafter become associated WIN lnean'
whether by subscription, purchase, transfer,
succession or otherwise, into BODY Cor,
norste and hereunder bind themselves, and
ali who NAV hereafter become associated with
them. to be governed by the following. stipu,
obligations and regulations as articles OF
the charter Of said Corporation.
ARTICLE I.
NAME.
The name and title of said corporation shall be
the NEW ORLEANS PACIFIC RAILWAY COM
PANY and by that name shall have succession,
and have corporate exi- tence for and during the
full term and period OF twenty-five tZo) years
from the date of the execution OF these presents,
unless sooner dissolved IN the manner herelna11er
provided for; may sue and be sued, may hold
real and personal property, may make contracts,
NAV receive grants of land or personal property,
aud shall possess all the powers and privileges
which CORPORATIONS are or may be by any general
law of this State authorized to possess, ana saio
company may exerciseits corporate powers within
any other State of the United States that shall
authorize the same.
ARTICLE II.
CAPITAL STOCK.
Sec 1. The capital stock Of this corpora ton is
hereby fixed at THREE MILLION DOLLARS
($3, 900 ,OOO), represented by THIRTY THOU
SAND SHARES of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
(s1OO) EACH, with the right to increase SAID
provided that said corporation shall be organized
under the incorporators herein named, who
shall constitute the Board of Directors and shall
hold their Office, together with the following
named gentlemen, who shall be the ofhcers OF
the Company until the second Wednesday in
January, 1877 Officers, ID. B. WHEELOCk,
President; HUGH KENNEDY, Vice President;
s. H. KENNEDY, Treasurer. When one hun
bred and fifty thousand dollars $780, O0 OF the
capital stock shall have been subscribed, the
Board of Directors are authorized to CONNIE nee
the construction of the road, and to carry out the
provisions of this charter; to enable them to do
this, subscriptions to the capital stock shall be
due and payable as herein provided for when
this amount has been subscribed.
SEC 2. The time and manner of payment for
stock shall be such as may be determined by the
Board of Directors, provided however, that no
call shall be made of more than ten per cent 90
per cent? on each share at any time, and thirty
days must elapse before another Call can be
made.
SEC 8. No stakeholder shall be held liable or re-
sponsble for the contracts aud faults OF the COM
pany in any further sum than the unpaid balance
or balances due the company on shares owned by
him. nor shall any informalities in the organlza-
ton have the effect of annulling this Charter or
of exposing stakeholder to any liability beyond
the amount OF his stock subscription unpaid.
SEC 4. The domicile of the company shall be
the city of New Ofleans, and citation shall be
served there on the President OF the company, or
in his absence, on the Vice-President.
SEC 5. The ock books shall be kept at the
Office of the Company, whence certificates OF stock
shall be issued to the subscribers, but no trans
fer of stock shall be binding upon ohe Company
until made upon it's stock books, and no stock
certificate shall be issued except for full paid
stock.
SEC. 6. In the case of failure on the part of any
subscriber to pay the in-talments on his stock as
required, the Board of Directors shall have the
option. after thr days written notice to the
DELINQUENT of forfeiting his stock, or the amounts
previously paid thereon; and no stakeholder
shall have the right to vote while in default.
SEC T. All rules relative to the declaration OF
dividends or divisions of profits, as well as the
bylaws Of the Company, shall be made by the
Board OF Directors, but said rules and bylaws
shall be subject to repeal, change or modifica-
ton by the holders # a majority OF the stock OF
the Company at their meeting.
ARTICLE III.
GENERAL POWERS.
The said company is empowered and author
lied:
a railroad with one or more tracks and suitable
turnouts, Of such guage and construction and
upon such a course or route as may be deemed
by a majority of the Directors OF said company
most expedent, beginning at point on the Mis-
sissippi River at New Orleans, or between New
Orleans and the parish OF Iberville on the right
bank of the Mississippi, and Baton Rouge on the
left bank; or from New Orleans or Berwlck's
Bav, via Vermillionville, in the parish OF Lafay-
cite, and Opelousas, in the parish OF st. Landry,
or from any of said points, or from any point
within the limits of this State, and running thence
towards and to the city of Shreveport. or the
city of Marshall Dallas, in the State OF Texas, IN
such direction and route or routes as said company
shall fix, and with such connecting branches in
the State of Louisiana as may be deemed
proper.
Second-To locate, construct, lease, own, main
tain and use such branch railroads and tracks as
majority of the Directors OF said company may
from time to time deem proper and expedient
and for the interest Of said company to own and md
in the exercise Of this privilege to the State Of
Louisiana, but MAJ, connect tseir main line with
any other line or lines in other States which
shall authorize the exercise Of said privilege
within their limits, and the said company shall
have a right to establish and maintain in the
CITY of New Orleans proper freight and passen-
ger depots, and to connect them by tracks and
ferries with the left bank of the Mississippi River
at such point or points as may be deemed most
convenient for the public interest, and to use in
such ferries steamboas pats and so other vessels and
for the purposes OF such deposs Tracks ana fer
Third-To construct, establish, or purchase in
this State, and thereafter, to own, lease, MAIN
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