The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-03
STATE OF LOUISIANA.

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PARISH OF ORLEANS, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.
BE 1T KNOWN, That on this the THIR-
TENTH day of the month of MAY, in the year
Of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Seventy-five, and of the Independence of the
United States of America. the Ninety -ninth-
Before me, WILLIAM BERNARD KLEIN
PETER, Notary Public, duly commissioned and
qualified, in and for the city of New Orleans, and
parish of Orleans, in the State of Louisiana,
donnie, LATED in the said city OF New Orleans, and
in the presence OF the witnesses hereinafter
named and undersigned:
Personally appeared, EDWARD MCGOWAN,
GEORGE w. COTTON, THOMAS W. BROWN,
GEORGE s. lKUNTZ, WILLIAM H PERRY,
PETER ROEHM, PATRICK O'DOWD, TER
RENEE O'BRIEN, PETER CROSBY, JAMES
GRIFFIN, SR., CHARLES HAHN, JOHN
SOHAFFtR and others, whose names are hereto
subscribed, all residents of the said city of New
Orleans who declared
That, availing themselves of the rights and
privileges conferred upon them by the laws of
the State of Louisiana, relative to the ORGAN
IZATION OF CORPORATIONS FOR LITER
AIRY, SCIENTIFIC. RELIGIOUS AND CHARI-
TABLE PURPOSES" as provided for under
sections numbered respectively from six hundred
and seventy-seven to six hundred and eighty-two
inclusive, of the Revised Statutes of the State OF
Louisiana, approved March IA. 1870, being laws of
the said State for such purposes made and pro-
vided; They do, by. these presents, form
FOR CHARITABLE AND BENEVOLENT PUR-
POSES" and for such other objects as shall here
matter be enumerated and set forth; and to
that end they do hereby covenant and agree to
form and organize, and do, by these presents,
persons may hereafter become associated with
them, into ''BODY CORPORATE" and there
under bind themselves and their associates and
successors to be governed by the following stipu-
lations regulations and obligatlhos as articles of
the Charter Of the said Corporation
ARTICLE 1.
The name and title of the said Corporation
shall be "THE BUMPERS BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION OF LOUISIANA and its domi-
Gle is hereby established at, and shall be in the
city of New Orleans aud parish of Orleans, in the
ARTICLE II.
The object and purposes Of the said Corpora
ton shall be to cultivate and practice charity and
benevolence amongst its members I; to promote
the welfare of its members to assist help and
succor the poor and needy; to relieve the dis
tresses Of the unfortunate among their members
and their families; to care for the sick and to
bury the dead; to cooperate among themselves
as laboring men engaged in a common calling
for the purpose OF fnrthering their mutual and
individual VT lfare and, generally, to do good to
each other, to the families of the members, to
those who may hereafter become associated with
them, and to all whose distresses and necessities
appeal to their sympathies or claim their aid.
ARTICLE III.
The officers of the said Association shall be a
President, Vice President, Recording Secre-
tary, Financial Secretary, Treasurer, and
Chairman of the Finance Committee, who shall,
in ali cases, be elected by ballot Elections for
such officers Except for the purposes of organi |
cation as hereinafter provided for) shall take |
place at the Annual Meetings of the said Asso- |
citation On the First Mondays of December of |
each year, or at the first Regular Monthly Meet
ing thereafter, in case of failure to elect on |
that day. Officers elected shall hold Office until
their successors are duly elected and qualified.
For the purpose of the organization of this |
Corporation, and until the first annual election |
TO be held on the First Monday of December, |
1875, and until their successors shall have been
duly installed into Office, the following persons