New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-09
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STATE OF LOUISIANA-PARISH AND CITY OF
NEW ORLEANS,
CHARTER
NHARTER

Be it known. that on this twenty second day o.
April, in the year OF our Lord one Thousand eight
hundred end seventy five, and of the ependence
OF the United States of America the ninety ninth.
before me, Andrew Hero. Jr, a notary public in
and for the parish and city of New Orleans, State
Of Louisiana, duly commissioned and qualified, and
ia the presence of the witnesses herein after named
and undersigned. personally came and appeared
vice president and Louis Mathis the secretary of
the LAFAYETTE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF
NEW ORLEANS. duly organized corporate body
this city. instituted under an act passed before
John +. COfey, notary in this city on the TWEEN
in their said respective capacities and for and in
behalf OF said COMPANY under aud by virtue of a
resolution Of the Board of Directors thereof,
adopted at their meeting held on the fifteenth day
OF April instant, a duly certified copy of which
said resolution is hereby annexed for reference.
Which said Messrs. Auch. jackson and Mathis
declared, in their said several capacities, that
after thirty days notice in the English and Ger
man Languages published in the New Orleans Re-
publican and German Gazette two daily ne wspa.
pers OF this city. general meeting of the stock
holders of said Lafayette Fire Insurance COmpar
Of Orleans was convened and held at the office or
domcile Of said company, in the Fourth District of
the city OF New Orleans, on the fifteenth day OF
February. 1875 for the purpose of modifying, alter
ing and amending the original act of Incorporation
of said company, p issed before said notary John
r. Con y. on the twenty-third day OF No
vember, 1869. and that at said general
meeting, more than three fourths of the whole
c 'pital stock of said company being represented
it was unanimously decided, OF assented and
dSToou W OV Tue StOCknOl1crS Oh Sa1O company
there IRE sent and re- presented, that articles four
and twelve of the act of incorporation OF said La
fayette Fire Insurance Company of New Orleans,
passed before said notary, John F. COtfey, the
twenty third day Of November, 1869. should be SO
changed, modified. altered or amended as to here
after read and be "a follows. viz
ARTICLE ".
The capital stock of the company shall be two
hundred and ten thousand dollars, divided inrO
three thousand shares OF seventy dollars each
thirty seven dollars and twenty cents of which
has been paid in cash and dividends on each share:
ii, d and for the rem aiming thirty two dollars and
eighty cents on each share notes of the stock.
holders heretofore furnished are in the possession
of said company payable on demand at the Office
of the company at such times aud in such manner
as the bOard OF Directors may determine; provided
that the same shall be made payable by Install
at such periods as may be agreed upon By the Board
of Directors and forty days notice i'll the English
and German languages in two daily newspapers
published IN he city, shall be given OF payment or
payments to be made. And when il becomes neces
sary to give such notice the publication thereof,
if in the German newspaper shall be in the Ger.
man language Oily; if IN the English newspaper,
it shall DO i'll the English language only.
ARTICLE XII
Yearly dividends shall be made of so much of the
and in case of any loss or losses whereby the CAPT.
tai stock OF said company shall be lessened no
subsequent dividend shall be made until such di.
minution shall have been coveted and made up by
the profits.
And under the authority in them vested by the
aforesaid resolution of said Board Of Directors the
said Messrs. Auch, Jackson and Mathis moreover
declared in their said several capacities and for and
in behalf of said Lafayette Fire Insurance Company
of New Orleans that the fourth and twelfth arti-
Giles of the act OF Incorporation Of said company,
passed before said notary John F. COffey, on No.
VEN ber %. 1863, have been modified altered,
changed or amended SO as to hereafter read and
be is herein written and forth and that they
hereby authorize and require the said alterations
or amendments to be recorded and published in the
manner required by law to the end that the same
shall hereafter and at all times be binding upon the
stockholders and all such other persOns as may
fayette Fire Insurance Company Of New Orleans.
Thus done and passed in my Office at New Or.
leans aforesaid. IN the presence OF George Cenas
ana Paul A. Conand, witnesses. both OF this city,
who hereuntO sign their names with the parties
and me, the said notary, the day and date afOre-
said.
Original signed:
KASPAR AUCH, President;
LOUIS MATHIS Secretary;
ROBERT JACKSON,
P. A. CONAND,
GEORGE CENAS.
ANDREW HERO, JR., Notary Public.
L. the undersi gned, deputy recorder of mortgages
in and fol the parish of Orleans and State of Louis.
lana do hereby certify that the within and fore
going act amend ng the charter of the Lafayette
Fire Insurance Company of New Orleans this
Hay duly recorded i'll my office according to law,
in book No. ll8 folios $50, SOC and 59l.
New Orleans, April 49, 1875.
G. DARCANTEL Deputy Recorder.
A true copy of the original on file and of record
IN my Office
New Orleans April "a 1873.
ANDREW HERO, JR., Notary Public.
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