New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-07

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PARISH OF ORLEANS, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS
DE IT KNOWN THAT ON THIS SIXTEENTH
| ID day OF the month Of December in the year OF
CUR Lord one Thousand. light hundred and seventy.
| five and of the independence the United States
| OF America. the one hundredth, before me,
| GCS.ave Le Gardeur Jr., notary public duly
commissioned and sworn in and for the parish and
| city aforesaid therein residing, and in the pres.
ence of the witnesses hereinafter naned and under.
| sgned, personally came and appeared, Jean Jules
and acting for and in the name and as president
| of the BlENVlLLE OIL WORKS COMPANY, cor.
poration duly organized under the laws of this
State by act passed before the undersigned notary
on the twenty-ninth day OF August, 1871, and To-
Gated in this city.
| Which said Jean Jules Aldige in his said ca
pacity, declared that pursuant to the act of in
corporation OF the ssid company, general meet.
ing of the stockhollers of the said Bienvilie Oil
| Works Company was held and convened at the
office of the said Company on the eleventh day of
| December. 1873, for the purpose Of authorizing
! certain measures and making certain amend.
ments to it's act of incorporation.
That at said general meeting stockholders hold
| ing and owning fifteen hundred and f0rty-six
shares of the capital stock of said cOmDanv-being
| more than three-fOurths of the whole amount of
the shares. which is fifteen hundred and fifty
| were present or represented And that at said
! general meeting the following resolution was
unanimously adopted, to wit:
Resolved, That in view of the fact that the COM
pany has acquired nine hundred and fifty shares
of its stock the capital Re reduced to that xtent.
That the charter of this company be amended 80
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| The capital stock Of this company is hereby
fixed at one hundred and tifty.five thousand dol
lars, divided into fifteen hundred and fifty shares
| OF ore hundred dollars each, reserving to the
! stockholders. duly assembled, according to the
provisions of the charter, the privilege OF ihcreas-
ing or reducing SAID capital stock.
| Transfers OF stock shall be made on the books
of the company at its office in this city, only, but
| not while any Indebtedness to the company exists
stock shall be issued until the same is paid in full.
As the whole fully appears by the minutes of
| the proceedings Of the said general meeting,
hereto annexed for reference.
New, therefore the said Jean Jules Aidige. as
president OF the said Bienvile Oil Works Com:
pany. declared that by virtue of the foregoing and
in order to more fully carry into effect the afore.
said amendment adopted by the stockholders of
erai meeting held and convened at the Office OF the
said company on the eleventh day ofDecember, in
slant. as Aforesaid he, the said Jean Jules Adge,
does by the presents in his said capacity, publicly
declare and make known that article three of the
Charter or act ofncorpOraton of the said Bienvile
~ WORKS company, as passed before the under
1871 has been changed and amended SO as to read
and be as follows, to wit:
ARTICLE I'LL
THE capital st ,ck of this company is hereby
fixed at one hundred and ifty-tive thousand dol
OF one hundred dollars each, reserving to the
stockholders duly assembled, according to the
provisions OF the charter the privilege Of increas
Ing or reduciHg said capital stock.
Transfers OF stock shall be made on the books
OF the company at its office in this city only, but
not while any indebtedness to the company EXITS
on the part of the holder, and no certificate Of
stock shall be issued until the same is paid in full
Thus done and passed in the city of New Or
leans at my office, the day. month and year first
above written, in the presence of Armand Pilot.
Jr, and Ambrose G. La Pice competent witnesses.
who have signed with the said appesrer and me,
notary, after reading the whole.
Origina! signed:
J. ALD1GE,
A. PILOT, JR.,
A. &. LA PICE,
&. LIE GARDKUR, JR,
Notary Public.
!, the undersigned. deputy recorder of mort.
cages, for this city. parish Of Orleans, State Of
Louisiana. do hereby certify that the foregoing
act Of amendment to the charter Of the Bienvill6
Oil Works Company, has been this day duly re.
corded in this Office, agreeably to law, In book
society 118, folio 73l.
New Orleans December l6. 1875.
CHARLES DARCANTEL.
Deputy Recorder.
true copy:
G. LR GARDRUR, JR.,
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