The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-30
STATE OF LOUISIANA.

PAhIsH OF ORLEANS, CRY OF NEW ORLEANS
BE IT KNOWN, That on this the THIR-
TENTH day OF the month of MAY, in the year
of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Seyenty-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
domiciated n the said city Of New Orleans, and
| in the presence of the witnesses hereinafter
| named and undersigned:
Pe5sonslly appsmsTreed EpWARp MMcsoWAN
GEORGE s. !KUNTz, WILLIAM +; PERRY,
PETER ROEHM, PATRICK O1DOWD, TER
RENEE O'BRIEN, PETER CROSBY, JAMES
GRIFFIN, SR., CHARLES HAHN, JOHN
SOHAFFER and others, whose names are hereto
subscribed, all residents OF the said City OF New
That, awaiting 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
TABLE PURPOSES" as provided for under
sections numbered respectively from six hundred
and seventy-seven to six hundred and elghty-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
organize, institute, and found a CORPORATION
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,
form and organize Themselves and all such other
persons as may hereafter become associated with
them, into "BODY CORPORATE" and there
successors to be governed by the following stipu-
ations regulations and obligatlhos as articles of
the Charter Of the said Corporation:
ARTICLE I.
The name and title of the said Corporation
shall be 1.-THE BUMPERS BENEVOLENT
Gle is hereby established at, and shall be in the
city Of New Orleans an parish Of Orleans, in the
ARTICLE II.
+ The object and purposes OF the said Corpora
ton shall be to cultivate and practice charity ard
benevolence amongst its members 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
as labOring men engaged in common calling
for the purpose OF fnrthering their mutual and
individual VT flare 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 .
President, a Vice President, Recording Secre-
tary, Financial Secretary, Treasurer, and
Chairman of the Finance Committee, who shall,
in all 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 hsso-
citation on the First Mondays of December of
each year, or at the first Regular Monthly Meet
ing thereafter, in case Of a 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