New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-29
CORPORATIONS.
STATE OF LOUI>IANA-PARISH AND CITY OF
NEW ORLEANS.
CHARTER

Be it known, that this twenty second day of
April, i'll 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- Andrew Here Jr., a notary public in
and for the parish and city of New Orleans, State
of Louisiana, duly commissioned and qualified, and
in the presence of the witnesses herein after named
and undersigned, personally came and appeared
Kasper Auch, the president: Robert Jackson. the
vice president and Louis Mathis, the secretary of
the LAFAYETTE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF
NkW ORLEANS. q duly organized corporate BODY
of this State dOmicied in the Fourth District OF
this city. instituted under an act passed before
John +. COtfey, notary in this city ON the TWEEN.
ty-third day Of November 1869. and herein acting
in their said respective capacities, and for and in
behalf of said npsny. 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 her. by annexed for reference.
Which sal / Messrs Auch, Jackson aud Mathis
after thirty days notice in the English and Ger
man languages. Published in the New Orleans Re-
publican and German Gazette, two daily newspa-
pers of this city a general meeting Of the stock.
holders of said Lafayette Fire Insurance Company
Of Orleans was convened and held at the Office or
domc,le of said company, in the Fourth District of
the city New Orleans, on the fifteenth day of
February, 1875 for the purpose of modifying, alter
ing and amending the act of inco porati0n
+. Corf y. on the twenty-third day OF No
vember, 1869. and that at said general
C ,pital stock of said company being represented,
it was unanimously decided, or assented and
agreed to bv the stOckhOl iers of 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, 1869. should be so
changed moOifi d. altered or amended as to here
after read and be as follows viz:
ARTICLE w.
The capital stock of the company shall be two
hundred and ten Thousand dollars, divided into
three thousand shares Of seventy dollars each,
hal oan yaid n caah Dividend IN ar thar
ard and for the remaining thirtytwO dOllars and
eighty cents on each share notes of the stock
of said company, payah'e 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 on each share.
at such periods as may be agreed upon by the Board
of Directors, and forty days notice in the ugsh
and German Ian guages in two daily new spapers
published in the city, shall be ven of payment or
payments to be made. And when it becomes neces-
sary to give such notice the publication thereof
if in tie German newsp iper shall be in The Ger.
man langua 20 oniy if IN the English newspaper.
it shall DO i'll the English language only.
ARTICLE XII
Yearly dividends shall be made of go much Of the
profits of the company shall appear advsa BILE;
and in of any loss or losses whereby the CAPT.
tai stock OF said company shall be iessened no
subsequent dividend shall be made until such di.
mnutlon shall have been covered and made M 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 i'll their said several capacities and for and
in behalf of SAID Lafayette Fire Insurance Company
of New Orleans, thai the fourth and twelfth arti-
Giles of the act OF incOrpOrs ton of said company,
passed before said notary John F. COtfey, No
vember %. 1852 have been modified altered,
changed or amended SO as to hereafter read and
be as is herein written and set 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
stnc1h OjSa and al a al
hereafter become stockholders of the said La
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
and Paul A. COnand witnesses. both or 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.
I, the undersigned, deputy recorder of mortgages
in 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. Ila fOlios $50, 500 and SOL
New Orleans, April 49, 1875.
G. DARCANTEL, Deputy Recorder.
A true copy of the original file and of record
in my office
New Orleans April a. 1875.
ANDKEW HERO, JR, Notary Public.
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