The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-24
CHARTNEE
STATE OF LOUISIANA \,
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the gear Of Our Lurd One Thousand Eight
Hundred md Ninetv-seven
Before me, AUBlN BOURG. Clerk Of the
18th Judicial District, Ey-OfficiO Recorder
and Notary Public, duly qualified and sworn
IA and for the Parish of TerrebOnne, State
aforesaid, and in the presence of Msssrs. E..
Clarenes WuFzlOw aud Henry NJ BOurg,
lawful witnesses residing in said Parish
Personally came and appeared. ARTHUR
a. BONNILLIAN, residing H. the Parish OF
st. Mary. il this State;
FELIX a. B0NVILLIAN. residing in the
Parish of Terrehonne. acting for himself and
as the duly authorized agent aud attorney in
tact Vl Mrs. FLAVlA BONViLLIAN. wife
Of lawful age of Joseph l., DUhart, of the
Parish Of Lafayette, under and by virtue OF
the annexed power of attorney
ftiss M4RY ELMIRE BUNVILLAIN, of
lawful age
MARSH a. j. BONNILLAIN & ALtInE
y. BANNILLAIN, also residents of said
Parish Of T~errehOnne, who severally declared
ntto me-, said Clerk, that a~vailing themselves
of the provisions of Act No. 36 of the General
Assembly of Louisiana, approved ON the 29th
day OF June, 1888, as well as the Provisions OF
Section 6S3 of the Revised Statutes of the
State Of Louisiana. relative to the formation
and organization of corporations Tor works
of pubic Improvement and ether purposes,
they have contracted and agreed. and by
these presents do contract md agree, and
uiilo ttlU OOllEulb lIltilistiNtS eos - Z A0
other persons as may hereafter become assU-
GATED with til ~. ar their suerrssnrs. TO
form aud erect, ami dn hereby forHl, erect
and constitute themselves into Il body polite
aud cor crate in law. for the purposes and
objects, and under the conditions and stipu-
latiUns which follow tO-wit:
ARTICLE |.
The name and style of this corporation is
aud shall be the Argyle Planting Il Manu'
ficturlng company, Limited 0f Terrehonar,
Louisiana mud under that name aud style
may acquire real aud personal property by
purchase. donation OF otherwise may sell
mortgage, hyp0therate and pledge both real
and personal property may accept aud re-
lease lmOrtgu yes. hynOthecatiOns and pledges :
may sue and be sued may plead ard be
pleaded and stand in Judgment may make
and use a corporate Sc II WIT. the name of
this corporation inscribed III the margin !
may appoint ruth officers. agents and mana-
gers as may be deemed proper and necessary
and remove them at pleasure.
ARTICLE III
The Object and purpose iUr which this corr
porttiun Is utrlned amt established. and the
mOtite OF the business 10 he hy Ii carried on,
are hereby declared to br
l. To work, plant and cultivate the plan
tations IN said Parish Of Ieirehnnne now
belonging to said aIpearrrs, aud those that
they may hereafter acquire To erect, miin-
tain ana operate ia said Parish of TcrIrbuunG
at klrlI locality W lttiIllAtS dS iihN w ny
the Bnaii of Directors determined and fixed,
u Rt fiurIy and Ccnual sugar Factory or
Factories with al the mci rSaTy Buildings,
machinery, equipments. appliances aud APP
p~urtena, ceS for the refining OF syr1ps pro
dncrd from sugar cane, Lid tor tho mulu-
faotutn of sugar cane aud either products into
sugar ana mOldssrs.
2 10 build, maintain aud operate lines
of Railway with the necessary locomotives,
cars, switches, stations, Appliances, aud hN-
lures for She Misrepresentation OF sugar came
and ntlcr products to tne Factory and Tor
other pu pusrs ds the corporation may dcenl
proper.
3 To build aud construct, or cause TO he
built and constructed, aud to operate the
Same or tha iuldn,l waters Of Ellis state, such
| steambOat- and barges for the purposes Vi
the said ruutnry amt Tor other purposes ~
| this curlrafiiioa utY decin proper.
A. To n,fFli, .nlaintair aud opeta'e trlc'
phcnc lin : iroia the Factory, or I. Um amy
other punt ut points III the Farish Of terrG
bonnie, To tau AifS III New Orleans ur
elsewhere.
S. 10 contract for, purchase and acquire
cane, slrul,s, sugar, mola>scs. lIitSsr.rnIIr, or
any other Substance, product or iialCrtti con
tainiu2 ~saccliari e matter. lar conversion into
sugur. in such quInjit's ANA Ut such price
ia said corporation may d|etermlne, ami td
manufacture the same into sugar AMI niulAs'
SEES uI 0rtliur products, and To sell the same
in such market, aud at such tiun amt ion
such price as the c0rpnrati0. may direct.
ARTICLE Iii.
Tlis capital stock Of this corporation l.
hereby liked at the sum of Ninety IeUIisluu
Dollars. which shall be divlttd into arI
represented by six shares Of Fifteen lh0nsau,
Dollars each. 10 be pald Tor III cash at thu
time of subscription.
The capital StucS'of this corporation may
hereafter be Increased to any SUN not eA
ceeduLg 1tGe tInmlred and titiY lhUusan'