Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-05-29
CHARTER
INTERPRETATION
HELENA PLANTING COMPANY,
LIMITED.

subscribed. availiDg ourselves
II the laws Of the State of Louisiana, IN
uch cases made and provided and es-
,ecially of act Of the Legislature OF this s
State known as Act No. 36 Of the ses-
don of 1883, approved on January 18th,
1888 do by these presents. covenant.
md bind ourselves as follows. as wen
IS such other person as may become q
hereafter associated with us TO form ana
constitute body corporate and polite
In law for the objects and purposes ana
under the stipulations and agreements
which we adopt IS our char
ter, to-wit:
ARTICLE
The name and title of the corporation |
shall be the HELENA PLANTlN r
LIMITED. Its domiciie I
shall be in the Parish Of Tensas, in TINS
State, and 1t shall have and enjoy sue
cession under its corporate name for q 7
period of ninety-n nine years from ana
after the date hereof.
ARTICLE III !
The objects and purposes OF this cor
poraticn shall be the carrying on or 81
plautiue business. and particularly OPP
Grating and cultivating the plantation
known as the Helena Plantation in the
aforesaid Parish OF TeBsas, to purchase
snd lease, sell, and mortgage, or pledge,
property povable or immoFable, con-
struct buildings, to buy and sell mer-
candise, either in connection with said
planting operations or separately, ana
to conduct and carry on any other mer-
camille business that may be necessary
profitable, advantageous or expedient
In connection with any of the aforesaid
objects or enterprises. The corporation
shall begin business ss soon as this char
ter shall be signed by three persons and
it shall have the right TO sue and De
sued and may have corporate seal with
snch device and inscriptions as the
Board Of Directors may select, and the
same 1t may break at pleasure.
ARTICLE III
The capital stock Of this corporation
is fixed at Ten thousand dollars o.
Oe0. O0) which may be increased to (e25.-
OO0.00) Twenty-Five thousand dollars ny
vote of three-fourths Of the share nold-
ers, the capital stock to be divided into
-Four hundred shares of Twenty-Five
($25.00) dollars each.
ARTICLEIv
The officers of this corporation shall
be President, Observation-Disclosures ary,
and Treasurer: but the Man5ger-and-
Secretary may be authorized by the
Board of Directors to act as Treasurer
whenever 1t becomes eKpedient or al
vantageous to do so.
The said officers shall be the ex-offlctc
members Of the Board Of Directors
which shall be four in number. two o
whom may constitute quorum and the
said Board of Directors shall have the
power to fill all vacancies In their body
from whatever cause arising.
ARTICLE V
All process shall be served upon thu
Manager and-Secretary or in his alb
sence, Upon the Treasurer. William
Moss shalI'be the first President, M. II
Heller, the first ManageT-and-Secr-tary
and Charles Wise. the first Treasurer
The first Board of Directors shall con
sist Of the three above mentioned officer
and Mr.. Hartwig Moss, and the sal
Board shah have power to make all BY
Laws for the government and conduc
of this corporation and TO change tn
same at pleasure.
Any share holder owning one shar
of stock Of this Corporation shall be q
igible to any Office.
The foregoing officers shall hold oftic
/ until the Tuesday following the fri
, Monday in January, 1893; on said da
and on the Tuesday following the hri
{ Monday of each and every year therea
tier the officers and directors shall
elected.
: At all elections, each share holdt
6 shall be entitled to as many votes as
has shares, and may vote by proxy.
I'll ARTICLE VI
This charter may be amended, altere
J OF modified or the corporation dissolve
OF by vote of three-fourths of the shar
holders, voting By shares, at a gener
}, meeting convened for such purpose, Q
ter such notice as the Board Of Directo
may select, and at its dissolution for al
q cause ITS affairs shall be iiquldated
three commissioners or iqHidators w
: shall be chosen by the shareholders.
~ No shareholder of this corporate
- shall be held liable for any Of the indef
h edness. contracts or faults thereof In a.
further sum that the unpaid balance d
the Corporation on the shares owned
1t him, nor shall any informality in orga
:, iZation have the effect Of reDdring q
iS charter null or of exposing a sharehol
he er to any liability beyond the amount
the unpaid balance due on his stoC
10 ARTICLE VIr'
le Failure to hold the meetings provid
for in the foregoing articles shall
q, work forfeiture of this charter and
At officers and directors shall hold tn
places until their successors are elect'
He In witness whereof. we the AZORES;
o. persons hereby sign our names on q
LIST day Of May, 1896.
7, H. MOSS,
N p. FRANKENBERGE
Per pro H. Moss,
ed WILL MOSS,
ID NJ. n. HELLER,
CHAS. WISE.