The Opelousas courier., 1893-04-01
HsTER.
State Of Louisiana, Parish Of 81. Landry
I0wn Of OpclouSaS.

L IL NNO Gudt On tulS, aura La
ID in the month of March, in the Year of on
Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninet,
Three. before me, Alfred Pavy, a Notary Pub
lie, in and for tho Parish of st. Landry, Stat
of Louisiana, duly commissioned aud quail
fled, and in the presence of the witnesses
hereinafter named and undersigned, person
ally came and appeared the persons whose
names are hcrcunto subscribed, who s~everally
declare that, availing themselves of the pro
visions of the law Of the State of Louisiana
on the subject Of corporations, they have con
traCted and agreed, and by these presents do
contract and agree and obligate themselves
and their associates and successors to form,
and by these presents they do form a corpo
ration for the objects and purposes, and I'm.
der the terms and stipulations herein SET
forth, tO-Wit:
article |. The name ana title of said corpo.
ration shall be THE OPELOUSAS COM.
PRESS COMPANY.' BY that name said cor
poration shall have. power and authority to
exist and enjoy succession for the full term
and period Of Ninety-Nin1 (99) years, from
and after The day and date hereof, to con-
tract, sue and be sued, to make and use a
corporate seal, and the same to break or. al.
ter at pleasure to hold, receive, purchase
and convey as we'll rs mortgage and hypoth-
ecate property. real, personal and mixed to
name and appoint such managers, directors
ami officers OF agents as the interest of said
corporation may require, and to make and
: tdbii0 SUI Nv Ia W =, IlitS anu REGULATIONS
Tor the proper mana cement and regulation
OF the affairs OF said corporations, as may be
necessary and proper and the same to alter
and change at pleasure.
Art. J. The domicilc of said corporation
shall be in the town Of Opclousas, Parish of
st. Landry, State of Louisiana, and all eta
ton or other legal process shall be served up
on the President Of said corporation, and in
case of his absence. upon the Secretary there
of.
Art ;. The objects and purposes for which
this corporation is established, and the ma
ture of the business to be conducted or car
ricd on by it, are declared to be, to provide
for the storage, or safe keeping of cotton and
other NcTch0ndiSe CT produce. to COMPRESS
cotton. and transact all business inciderHa al
thereto, and in furthcrance of aforesaid bur
noses 70 maintain and onerate suitahln ware.
| houses, cation presses and other appurte.
nances requisite for the transaction of the
business OF storing aud COMPRISING cotton,
as well rs the storage of any and all Dae),
chundiSe nr produce.
1rt. (. The capital stock pf said corporatin,,
is hereby fixed AT the sum of Fifty Thousand
Dollars. $50, O00j to he divided into or rep
resented by Five Hundred Shares 1T the sum
of One Hnndrrd Dollars t$l00l each, which
said stock shall he paid for fhirty.scycn and
one halt per cent ut time of subscription, and
the balance at such time as the Board of Di-
rectorS shall determine ta call same. such
tdIIS IA it NOT more IMAM 4Wtili N-uNt tg.)l per
cent of its mar value at enc time, nor slutl
such calls he made offcnrr rhau once in thirty
I3W days, or the said stock NAV be issued At
not less than par, in payment IF property ac-
tunlly received or purchased bv said corpo-
ration. W Tor labor done therefor. and the
corporation shall commence business as soon
as iwcnty-F Rive Thousand iS25. GOOl Dollars Of
it, capit4i stock will haze been subscribed.
Art, ;. All the corporate mowers Of said cor.
]poratinn shall be vested in and exercised by
q Boagl of Directors. to be CONFESSED of five
stockholders, which Board shall be elected
annually on the first Monday of Nav in each
and every wear, beginning in the wear Eigh-
teen Hundred and Ninctv-Four. All such
elections shall be by ballot, aud held at the
office 81 aid corporation. under the superin-
tcndeuce OF Two "a commissioners to he an
pointed lov that purpose bv the Board of Di-
rectors, OF which election ten lIOI days urior
notice shall he given ~ publication in any |
newspaper published i" tic town of Opelou.
sas, or in default of such newspaper being
in said tnwn, in any paper uub. |
iished nearest thereto. Elrl Share Of stock
shall Us culitl"l 40 opn vote, To- H., cast bv its
owner, citHcr in peraon or BY g.roxy. at all
elections or meetings of the Stockholders, and
persons receiving tha greatest number of
votes cast at surh election shall be- The Direc.
tors.
4 ]faiIur. to elect Directors ol the date
above specified. shall not dissolve the c0rpo-
ratinm, but the then Incumbent Directors
cause another election to be held, with
IN thirty 1901 days, whereof ten G1Ol DAYS
PRIOR nuticc shah be given ia The newspaper
published. as aforesaid, and all officers shall
hold over until their successors are elected
md qualified.
Vacancies occurring i'll the Board of Di-