New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-16
CORPORATIONS.
4 nhAhTEh.."......... ..........C CHARTER
STATE OF LOUISIAEA-PARISH OF ORLEANS
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS,

Be IT known that on this twentieth day Of Os.
toser, in the year one thousand eight hundred end
seventy,fve, before me, John Bendernagel, q no.
aforesaid, and in the presence Of the witnesses
hereinafter named and undersigned, personally
hereunto subscribed, who declared that, availinS
themselves Of the prOvisons of the general laws
OF this State relative to the organization of cor
porAtions they have formed and organized, and by
these presents do form themselves into and consti
tuts corporation for the objects and purposes and
nnder the regulations, stpuatiOns and Obligations
following, to wit:
the NEW ORLBANt AND OuaCHITA RIyER
TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, and its domiciIe
shal be in the city of New Orleans State of Louis
lana u shall exist and enjoy succession from and
alter the fret dsv of December the present year
Thousand eight hundred and seventy. seven, and
shall have power to sue and be sued, and to con-
tract in its corporate name; to name and appoint
such managers, directors and ofice Is it's bust
ness may require; to make, have and use a c0rpor-
ate seal; and to make and establiah such bylaws
for the proper management and regulation of the
AFFAIRS OF sal corporation as may be deemed nec.
esssryi all citations, notices other legal process
wherein the said COMPANY may be interested, sh all
be served upon the president of said company or
IN his absence upon the vice president.
ARTICLE II.
tion is established and the nature of the business
to be carried on by 1t hereby declared be to
procure anu MAINTAIN a SufnClent number of suit
able steam boats or other vessels for the convey
ance and transportation Of passengers, ails, etc.
and the transaction of all business for compensa-
non connected with or appertaining to the run
ming, chartering and maint aiming OF one or more
lines of steamboats, from and between New Or
leans aud all points on tine Mississippi river and
it's tributaries. and more especially on OuachitS
river SO as to grant aud afford beter facilities to
freight and products to and from New Orleans,
and 10 create and continue freight express.
ARTICLE III
The capital stock of said company is hereby de.
clsred to be ten thousand dollars, divided into
And represented by two hundred shares of the sum
shall be payable in cash demand, and the re-
mainder of each share shall be paid at such times
and in such amounts as the Board Of Directors
may direct. Any stockholder neglecting or re-
fusing to pay the instalments Of his stock when
Thirty days from the publication Of sotice to pay
the same shall forfeit any and all share or shares
OF stock upon which any instaliment may be due
IN favOr OF SAID corporation, and the Board Of
Directors may dispose OF such forfeited stock at
public or private sale for the use and benefit Of
this corporation.
ARTICLE ".
:, All the corporate powers of this company shall
be vested in and exercised by Board Of Directors
composed of seven stoc KhOders thereof-Freder-
ick 4. Blanks, Gus, Hodge, William wenzel I'd
and John De Hart with the said Frederick A.
Blanks as president, are hereby declared TO be the
first Board OF D r-etors and shall mold office until
the first of December 1876, or until their success
sors shall have been elected. On the second Mou-
day OF November, 1876 an election for directors
shall take place at the office or domicile of said
corporation, under the supern ntsndence of three
commissioners 10 be appointed by the Board of Di.
rectors, of which election ten days previous no.
tcs shall be given IN one Ct the daily newspapers
rectors then elected shall serve until the period
herein fixed for the expiration of this charter a
majority Of votes shall elect, and each share OF
stock shall be entitled to one vote, either in per-
son or by proxy. Any vacancy occurring in said
board from any cause whatever shall he filled by
election by the remaining directors. Three direc-
tors shau form q quorum for the transaction of
business. and said Board of Directors shall appoint
SUCH officers, clerks, or agents as may be deemed
necessary for the business of this corporation and
have full power to make and establish as well "a
change any and all bylaws rules and regulations
and affairs OF said company.
ARTICLE v.
The capital stock of this corporation NAV ba In.
creased to any sum not excaedug one Hundred
thousand dollars and this act OF Incorporation NAV
be change modified altered or this cor pOration
dissolved with the assent of three-fourths of the
capfal stofk thereof at any general meeting of
the stockholders of said corporation convened for
such purpose after ten days notice of such meet
ing shall have been given IN two newspapers pub
lished in New Orleans
ARTICLE VI.
This corporation, whenever dissolved either by
limitation or other cause shall be iiauidated by
three commissioners TO be appointed by the Board
OF Directors who shall remain ia office unit! the
nnal settlement and liquidation of its affairs.
ARTICLE VII.
No stockhoder shall ever be held liable or re-
sponsible tor the Coatracts faults of this cor.
porat.on in any further than tae unpaid bal
ance due to the company on the shares owned by
him.
ARTICLE VIII
The names of the stockholders are for the
present, declated TO be as signed below
Thus done and passed in my office at New Or
leans Aforesaid, in the presence of Edward Smith
and Martin L. Answorth, competent witnesses.
residing in THIS city who hereunto subscribe their
day and date set forth in the caption hereof
Original signed
J. W. BLANKS, JOHN JANNEY
JOHN BE HART GUS HODGE
z H. ARTHu z, N. A. BLANKS,
EDWARD CONERl per ED. CONERY
EDWARD SMITH NJ L. AINSWORTH
j. BESDERSAGEL, Notary Public.