The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-31
CHI A n Err
Berwick Lumber and Shingle
Company.

company.
State of Louisiana-Parish OF Ascension and
City Of DOnaldsonvilJe.
pE 1T KNOWN that on this 18th day of Sep
ID tember. in the year OF Our Lord One Thou
sand Eight Hundred and Eighty-Five and Of
the Independence Of the United States of
America the one hundred and tenth, before me,
G. Fl. Hill, Clerk Twenty-Second Judicial Dis
State of Louisiana, duly commissioned and
qualified, and ex-officio Recorder herein resi-
ding and herein acting Notary Public. and
in the presence of the witnesses hereinafter
named and undersigned personally came and
appeared the several presons hereinafter named
who declared that they hereby agree and bind
themselves and their associates and successors
to form and constitute corporation and body
polite i'll law under the following terms and
conditions: M~4.
ARTICLE FIRST.
The name and title Of said corporation shall
he the Berwick Lumber and Single Company.
power and authority to exist and enjoy success
sion for the fnll term and period of twenty-five
years, commencing from and after the day and
date hereof, to contract, sue and be sued. to
make and use corporate seal and the same to
break and alter at pleasure, to hold, receive,
build charter, purchase and convey, ae we'll az
mortgage and hypothecate under its corporate
name property both real and personal, machin-
cry, timber and timber lands. and generally to
do all and everything pertinent to or in any
wise incident to the general purpose herein
ABOVE expressed.
ARTICLE SECOND.
The domicile of said corporation shall be in
the city of Donaldsonville in the State Of Lou
isiana. Citation and all legal proceedings shall
be served on the President OF said corporation.
ARTICLE THIRD.
The object and purpose of said corporation
and the nature of the business to be carried on
by it are declared and specified to be the build
ing a lumber and single mill or mills for tho
fnofr orfoox Inn, and wi md
the transaction of any and all business connect
ed with the manufacture of sawed lumber and
shingles at Berwick City, in the State of Louisi-
ana.
ARTICLE FOURTH.
The capital stock of said corporation shall be
ten thousand dollars. divided into and repre-
sented by four hundred shares of the sum of
twenty five dollars each, which shall be paid
manner as the Executive Board Of said corpti-
ration may determine, with the privilege of is
suing said stock for labor done or money or
property actually received. and Of said capital
cessities of the corporation may require in the
mode prescrlbesi by the laws Of Louisiana.
ARTICLE FIFTH.
All the corporate power of this corporation
shall be vested in an Executive Board composed
of three stockholders, each owning at least ten
shares to be elected by ballot annually on the
first Monday Of November in each year. Said
Board ut its first meeting shall elect of their
number to be President of said corporation and
they shall also appoint such other officers. en-
ploy6s and agents as the interests Of the oorpo-
ration may require, and adopt such rules and
regulations for the transaction of the business
of the corporation as they may deem proper and
the same to alter and amend at pleasure.
ARTICLE SIXTH.
At the termination of the charter OF this cor
said corporation shall be hQnidated by three
stockholders. to be selected at u general meet
ing Of the stockholders convened for that pur-
pose after thirty. days public notice given in
one of the weekly newspapers published In
Donaldsonville and Morgan City. State of Lou
isiana, and said iquidators shall have full pow
err to sell and dispose OF all the assets and prop
erty and to settle and liQuiGate the affairs of
said corporation.
ARTICLE SEVENTH.
OF unpaid stock held by said stockholders of
this company.
ARTICLE EIGHTH.
William NJ: McGalliard John B. Quimby and
james E. Ellington, with said William Mctial-
Iiard as President, have been chosen and Sc
lected as the first Executive Board. to serve as
such until the first Monday in November,
1886, or until their successors ehall have been
convened for that purpose after ten days writ
ten notice from the Secretary of said corpora
ton. The first Executive Board shall hold their
office until the first Monday In November, 1885.
Thus done and passed at the parish of Assem-
sion on the day, month and year first above
mentioned, and in the presence Of Messrs. M.
w. barton and John D. Cantey. lawful and
competent witnesses. who have signed these
presents. and me, Clerk, after due reading of
the same. Original signed) w. NJ. McGalliar1,
]: B. Quimby. J. Z. Ellington. Witnesses. NJ.
". Darton, Jno. D. Cantey. IL. 81 6. H. Hill,
Clerk Of Court.
l, the undersigned, Clerk of the 2Snd Judicial
District Court of the parish of Ascension and
e.r-otf1io Recorder of said parish of Ascension
do certify that the above and foregoing act of
incorporation of the Berwick Lumber and
Single Company was this day duly recorded in
my Office, in book of miscellaneous acts No. 5,
folios 29 ct seq. Parish of Ascension, this 18th
day of September, A. D., 1885. (Signed) G. H.
Hill, Clerk of Court.
State of Louisiana. parish of Ascension.-I
Jno. d. Cantey. a duly qualified deputy Clerk of
the 22nd Jud. Dist. Court in and for the parish
Of Ascension, do certify the above and forego-
ing to be true copy of the original act of in
corporation of the Berwick Lumber and Shin
gle Company. as also of the certificate of the
Clerk of Court in and for this parish thereto
attached. on file and of record in the current
notarial archives of this office.
In faith whereof witness my hand and seal of
~ office aforesaid. at the parish of AS
IErar cension, this 18th day OF September,
A. D. 1885. JNO. D. CAN'TEY.
NV Dy. Clerk of Court and Recorder: