Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-06-26

INCORPORATION
OF THE
HELENA PLANTING COMPANY,
LIMITED.

LIMITED.
KNOW ALL MEN By THESE PRES
IA ents: That we whose names are
kereunto subscribed, availiDg ourselves
Of the laws of the State of louisiana, IN
such cases made and provided and es-
pecially of act of the Legislature OF this
State known as Act No. SO OF the ses-
sioa of 1888, approved. on January 29th,i
] SSS do BY these presents, eovenant.agreei
and bind ourselves az follows. as Wen
as such other person as may become
hereafter associated with US &c form and
a body corporate and polite
In law for the objects and purposes anu
under the stipulatioDs and agreements
which we adopt rs cur char
ter, to-wit:
ARTICLE
The name and title of the corporation
shall be the HELENA PLANT1Si
LIMITED. =, Its domicile
shall be Ia the Parish Of Tensas. IN this
State. and it shall have and enjoy sue
cession under its corporate name for a.
period of ninety-nfne years from and
after the date hereof.
ARTICLE III
The objects and purposes of this cor
poration. shall be the carrying on of a
business. and particularly OPP
Grating and cultivatiEg the plantation
known as the Helena Plantation IN the
aforesaid Parish of ,1ensas, TO purchase
and lease, sell. and mortgage, or pledge,
movable or immovable, con-
str1ct Buildings, to buy and sell meE-
candise, either in connection with said
planting operations or separately. ana
to conduct and carry on any other mer-
camille business th3t may be necessary,
advantageous or expedient
in connection with any of the aforesaid
objects or enterprises. The corporation
shall begin business IS SOON as tliis char
ter shalltbe signed by three persons and
it shall have the right 10 sue anu DC
sued andmay have 4 corporateseal with
such device ana Inscriptions rs the
Board ofGirectoTs may select, and tRe
same it niay break at pleasure.
ARTICLE III
The capital stock Of this corporation
is fixed st Ten thousand doilars lSlO,-
O00. 0O) which may be increased TO ($25s-
600. OO) twenty-five thousand dollars by.
a vote ofshree-foartbs OF The share hold
ers, the capital stock to be divided into
-Four hundred shares of Twenty-Five
($25.O0) dollars each.
ARTICLE "
The officers of this corporation shall
be President. Ms,ager-and Secretary,
and Treasurer; but the Manager-Nnd-
Secretary may be authorized by the
Board Of Directors TO act as Treasurer
whenever It becomes expedient or adj
vantageols 20 do so.
The said officers shall be the ex-oflicio
members Of the Board of Directors,
which shall be four IN number, two OF
whom may constitute quorum and the
said Board OF Directors shall have the
power to fiji ali vacancies in their body,
from whatever ca.tse arising
ARTICLE V
All process shall be served upon the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES or in his alb
sence, upon the Treasurer. William
Moss shall be the first President, M. III.
Heller. the first Mapager-and-Secrata
and Charles Wise. the first Treasurer.
The first Board OF Directors shall con-
sist of ethree shove mentioned officers
and Mr. HarIwig Moss, and the said
Board shall have power TO lGake all By
Laws for tae government and conduct
of this corporation and TO change the
same at pleasure.
Any Share holder owning one share
of stock Of this Corporation shall be ell
igible TO any Office.
The foregoing officers shall hold Office
until the tuesday following the first
Monday in January, 1885; on said day
and on the Tuesday following the fret
Monday of each and every year thereaf'
ter the officers and directors shall be
elected.
At all elections, each share holder
shall be entitled TO Is. many votes as he
has shares, and NAV vote by proxy.
ARTICLB vi
This charter may be amended, altered
or modified or the corporation dissolved
by vote of three-fourths of the share
holders, voting by shares. at p general
meeting convened for such purpose, af-
ter such notice as the Board OF Directors
may select, and at its dissolution for any
cause it's affairs shall be Iiquldated by
three commissioners or iiquldators who
shall be chosen by the shareholders.
No shareholder of this corporation
shall be held liable for any of the indebt-
edness, contracts or faults thereof in any
further sum that the unpaid Balance due
the Corporation on the shares owned-by
him, noT shall any informality in organ
ization have the effect OF rendring thit
charteT.nul or Of exposing a sharehold
erto any liability beyond the amount oi
the unpaid balance due ON his stock
ARTICLE VII
Failure TO hold the meetings provided
for In the foregoing articles shall not
work forfeiture OF this charter and the
officers and directors shan hold their
places until their successors are elected
In witness whereof, VIC the aforesaid
persons hereby Sign our names on THU
LIST day Of May, 1896.
ii. MOSS.
r. ,FHANKENBERGIss
Per pro ii. Mess,
WILL MOSS,
N. Ii. HELLER,