The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-24
: ADVERTISEMENTS.
G. HI a R TIE H
Berwick Lumber and Shingle
Company.

OOhA pNhIs
State Of Louisiana-Parish of Ascension and
City Of Donaldsonvil]e.
de IT KNOWN that on this 18th day of Sep
ID TENDER. 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. T. Hill Clerk Twenty-Second Judicial Dis
trict Court in and for the parish of Ascension,
State of Louisiana, duly commissioned and
qualified. and ex-oificio Recorder herein resi-
ding and herein acting Notary Pnbllc. 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 a corporation and body
polite i'll law under the following terms and
conditions:
ARTICLE FIRST.
The name and title of said corporation shall
be the Berwick Lumber and Shlngle Company.
and by that name said corporation shall have
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 aud alter at pleasure, to hold, receive,
build, charter, purchase and convey, as we'll as
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 In any
| wise incident to the general purpose herein
| above expressed.
| ARTICLE SECOND.
| The donicile 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 lumber and shingle mill Or mills for the
manufacture Of sawed lumber and shingles and
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
| for in instalments at such times and in such
ration may determine, with the privilege of is
| suing said stock for labor done or money OF
property actually received and of said capital
stock being increased or diminished as the ne
cesstics of the corporation may require IN the
| mode prescrlbe'i by the laws of Louisiana.
ARTICLE FIFTH.
All the corporate power OF this corporation
/ shall be vested III an Executive Board com posed
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 at It's first meeting shall elect of their
number to be President of said corporation and
they shall also appoint such other officers. en-
ployes and agents as the interests of the corpo-
| 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
porat1on or earlier dissolution the affairs OF
said corporation shall be hlnidated by three
stockholders. to be selected at a general meet
ing of the stockholders convened for that pur
pose after thirty. days public notice given il
Dnnaldsonv Vile and Morgan City State of Lou
siana. and said liquldators shall have full pow
er to sell and dispose of all the assets and prop
erty and to settle and iquldate the affairs o
said corporation.
| ARTICLE SEVENTH.
Stockholders shall only be liable for amour
of unpaid stock held by said stockholders o.
thus company.
ARTICLE EIGHTH.
William NJ McGaliard John B. Quimby ane
James E. Ellington, with said William Mccall
lard as President. have been chosen and Sc
lected as the first Executive Board to serve a
such until the first Monday in November
1886. or until their successors shall have beel
elected at a general meeting of the stakeholder
convened! for that purpose after ten days writ
ten notice from the Secretary of said corpora
ton. The first Executive Board shall hold thei
Office until the first Monday iii November, 1886
Thus done and passed at the parish Of Ascen
sion on the day, month and year first abov
mentioned, and LII the presence of Messrs. NJ
W. barton and John ID. Cantey. lawful AM
competent witnesses, who have signed thes
presents, and me, Clerk. after due reading 9
the same. (Original signeCl w. nj. McGalllard
]. B. Quimbs, J. Z. Ellington. Witnesses. NJ
; w. barton. Jno. d. Cartey. l.. S. G. H. Hill
, Clerk of Court.
l. the undersigned Clerk of the 28nd Judicia
District Court of the parish Of Ascension an
e.c-oHicio Recorder of said parish of Ascension
do certify that the above and foregoing act @
!. incorporation of the Berwick Lumber an
S-Shiagle Company was this day duly recorded i
my office, in book OF miscellaneous acts No.
foiios 229 ct seq. Parish of Ascension. this ut
day of September. A. D., 1855. (Slgned) q. Il
Hill. Clerk of Court.
State of Louisiana. parish of Ascension
, Jno D. Cantny. duly qualified deputy Clerk {
the 22ni Jud. Dist. Court in and for the paris
of Ascension. do certify the above and forese
ing TO be a true copy of the original act of il
corporation of the Berwick Lumber and S.lir
gle Company. as also Of the certificate OF til
Clerk Of Court in and for this parish theret
attached Oh file and of record in the currer
notaria1 archives of this Office.
In faith whereof witness my hand and seal c
| ~ office aforesaid. at the parish of A:
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