The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-27
CHARTER OF THE
Protestant Cemetery Association
Parish of Ascension.


Parish OF Ascension.
Be it known that on this the sixth day of
April. in the year of our Lord One Thou
sand Eight Hundred and Seventy Eight, be-
fore me, Robt N. Sims, a Notary Public in
and for the Parish of Ascension, State of
Louisiana, duly commissioned and qualified
and therein residing, and in the presence of
the witnesses hereinafter named and under
signed, personally came and appeared the
persons hereinafter named and undersigned,
to-wit: Il. T. Hanson, r. j. Duke, Jonas
w. Bailey, Christian Kline, w. G Wilkin-
son, w. w. Buford, Pierre Landry, d. F.
Evans and John Francois, who declared
that under the provisions and authority of
an act Ct the Legislature of this State, en-
titled An Act for the organization of Cor
porations for Literary, Scientific, Religious
| and Charitable purposes" approved on the
fifteenth day of March, A. ID. 1855, they
being desirQus to acquire and enjoy for
themselves and their successors the powers
and immunities of a corporation of body
polite in law, have to that effect made and
agreed to the following articles of associa-
ton:
ART. l. The objects and purposes of this
association are declared to be the advance
ment of the cause of BenevOlenee and
protect and to beautify the Cemetery of the
Pr0testants, which said Cemetery is stua-
ted on st. Patrick street in the rear of the
town of Donafdsonville.
ART. 2. The name and style of the Cor
pOratiOn shall be the Protestant Cemetery
Association, and the Association shall exist
for the space and term of twenty-five years.
Its domicile shall be the parish of Ascension,
ON the right bank of the Mississippi river, in
the city of Donaldsenville and State of
louisiana 1t shall be capable in law to
take, receive and hold all manner of land,
tenements, rents and hereditaments and
any sum of money and all manner of goods
and chattels given and bequeathed unto it
and acquired by it in any manner, to be
employed and disposed of according to the
object article and conditions of this instru-
ment of incorporation. or according to the
consultation and bylaws of this association,
or according to the will and intention of the
donors.
ARTS 8. The association shall have the
right to make such rules, bylaws and ordi-
nances and to do everything needful for it's
good government and support not ineon-
sistent with or to tie laws of the United
States and of this State or to this instrument
of incorporation.
ART. 4. To sell or lease burial lots for the
purpose of the interment of the dead, or to
donate lots to any association or society.
provided the same are to be used for the
said purpose of the interment of the dead.
and providing further, that certain space
shall be expressly reserved and set apart
for the burial of any pauper or any person
| whose friends are not able to pay for the
same.
ART. 5. The general management of the
association shall be confided to Board of
Directors to consist of seven persons, from
| among whom they themselves shall select
a President Treasurer and Secretary. The
manner OF the selection as well as the time
of the election of said Board to lse fixed by
the persons hereinafter named in these
presents as constituting the first Board of
Directors said Board shall define what are
the duties of said above mentioned officers.
They shall also have power to appoint
sexton or such other persons as they may
deem requisite to regulate and take care Of
the said cemetery.
ART. 6. In order to establish at once this
association and Immediately to enjoy the
rights and privileges Of u corporation, the
following members are declared to be the
first Board of Directors, and they to serve
till the manner and time of their successors
shall be fixed by them as provided III article
5, viz: Il. T. Hanson, r. j. Duke, w. G.
Wilkinson, w. w. Buford, Pierre Landry,
b. +. Evans and John Francois.
Thus done and passed at my Office ut the
city of DonaldsonviIle, parish of Ascension,
State of Louisiana, in presence of Joseph
NJ. Heating and James s. Reynaud, lawful
anu COmpeIGnt WItnesbeS, WHO HiNb Heft-
unto signed their names, together with the
said parties, and me Notary, on the day.
month and year first above written.
C.. KLINE,
w w. BUFORD,
JOHN X FRANCOIS,
r. I. HANSON,
X. j. DUKE,
w. G. WILKINSON,
PIERRE LANDRY,
). n n. f Rasrlse, = w. Vi BALE BAILEY
R. N. SIMS,
Notary Public.
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Fourth Judicial DISTRICT ,
Parish of st. Charles.
/, Ferdinand B. Earhart Diatriet Attor-
ney of the Fourth judicial District of the
State of Louisiana, within the limits of
which District the domicile of the corpora
ton mentioned in the foregoing and
annexed act of incorporation is fixed, name
", the parish of Ascension, do hereby Ger
tify that have examined the said act of
incorporation, as to its legality, aud am of
the opinion that the purposes aud objects of
said corp Grafton, as specified in said act are
legal, and that none of the provisions there
in contained are contrary to law.
Thus done and certified at the Court
House, parish of st. Charles, Fourth Judi
cial District aforesaid, ON this 18th day OF
! April, A. ID. One Thousand Eight Hundred
| and Seventy Eight. r. B. EARHART,
i Dist Atty. 4th Jud. Dist La
| Recorded IN Book of Miscellaneous Acts
No 4, page Dol ct seq, this the 18th day OF
April, 1873. Wv. BUFORD,
u.s.l Recorder
hereby certify that the foregoing is q
| true and correct copy of the original ON fiIf
/ and Of record in my Office.
| Parish of Accession. fhis 18th day oil