New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-28
CORPORATIONS.
STATE OF LOUISIANA-PARISH AND CITY a.
NEW ORLEANS.

April in the year Of our Lord one Thousand eight
~ no, Enc seventy re and OF In, Inc
before me, Andrew Hero. Jr., a notary public in
and for the parish and city of New Orleans State
in the presence Of the witnesses hereinafter named
and undersigned, personally came and appeared
Kasper Auch, the president: Robert jackson. the
vice president, and Louis Mathia the secretary of
the LAFAYETTE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF
NEW ORLEANS. duly organized corporate BODY
Of this State domiciled in the Fourth District OF
John +. COffey, notary in this city, the TWEEN
ty-third day Of November, 1869, and herein aching
behalf of said company. under and 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 here by annex ed for referepce.
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 stOch-
holders of said Lafayette Fire Insurance Company
of Orleans was convened and held at the office or
the city OF New Orle ans, OF the fifteenth day of
February, 1875 for the purpose Of modifying, alter
ing and amending the original act of incO,p oraton
OF said company passed before said notary John
F. Cot y. on the. twenty-third day Of No
vember, 1863. and that at said general
meeting more than three fourths Of the whole
it was unanimously decided, OF assented and
agreed to by the stockholders d said company
there pre- sent and represented, 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, on the
twenty third day of November, 1859. should be so
changed, moc;fed, altered or amended as to here
after read and be as follows, viz:
ARTICLE ".
The capital stock of the company shall be Two
hundred and ten thousand dollars, divided into
three thousand shares of seventy dollars each,
thirty seven dollars and twenty cents of which
hSe he in md on oacha ho
and and for the remaining thirty-twO dollars and
eighty cents each share notes of the stock.
holders heretofore fuI nshed are in the possession
of said company, payable on demand at the office
OF the company. at such times and in such manner
as the Board Of Directors may determine; provided
that the same shall be made payable by install
ments of not more than ten do lars each share,
at such periods may be agreed upon by the Board
Of Directors, and forty days notice III the English
and German languages in two daily newspapers
published in the city shall be given of payment or
payments to be made. And when il becomes neces-
sary to give such notice the publication Hereof
if in the German newspaper, shall be in the Ger.
man language only; if IN the English newspaper.
ii shan b. in the English language only.
ARTICLE XII.
Yearly dividends shall be made of so much of the
profits of the company as snail appear Advisable;
and in case Of any loss or losses whereby the CAPT
tai stock OF said company shall be essened, no
subsequent dividend shall be made until such di.
mnution shall have been covered and made up by
the profits
Aid under the authority in them vested by the
aforesaid resolution of said Board of Directors the
said Ne ssrs 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-
cles OF the act OF incorporation Of said company.
passed before said notary John F. COffey, on No.
tember %. 1862 have been modified altered,
changed or amended to hereafter read and
be as is herein written and set FORTH and that they
hereby authorize aud require the eaid 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
& n no u,aU
hereafter become stockholders Of thu said La.
Thus done and passed in my office at New Or.
leans aforesaid. IN the presence OF George Cenas
and Paul A. COnand witnesses. both OF this city,
who hereuntO sign their names with the part les
and me, the said notary, the day and date afOre-
said.
Original signed:
KASPAR AUCH, Presidents
LOUIS MATHIS Secretary;
ROBERT JACKSON,
p. A. CONAND, d,
GEORGE CENAS.
ANDREW HERO, JR, Notary Public.
l, the undersigned deputy recorder Of mortgages
liz and fol the parish of Orleans and State of Louis
lana do hereby certify that the within and fore
Fire Insurance Company of New Orleans was this
da- duly recorded in my Office, according to law,
in book No. 49, fOioe $50. 500 and SOL.
New Orleans, April %, 1875.
Z. DARCANTEL, Deputy Recorder.
true copy of the origina. on fe and Of record
Il my office.
New Orleans April "a 1878.
ANDREW HERO JR., Notary Public.
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