The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-01-20
CHARTER
CaIencro Cotton Gin Company, Ltd.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, J
STATE OF LOUISIANA, PAR
IsH OF ST. LANDRY,

BE il known. that this I2th day of
December, in the year of Our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety nine, be-
fore nae, William J. Sandoz, notary public
duly commissioned and qualified in and for
said parish and State. and in the presence
of the Witnesses hereinafter named and un-
dersigned; personally came and appeared:
Isaac Roos, Jacques j. Perrodin. Gordon
A. Sondoz, +. +. Coping, f. Lee Gil,
Isadore Isaac, Of the parish Of St. Landry,
La, all of lawful age, who severally de
clared: That awaiting themselves of the
provisions~of the Constitution and laws Of
this State relative to the organization of
Corporations, and specially of the provisions
of Act No. SO of the session of the General
Assembly of this State for the year 1883,
approved June 20, 1888, they do by these
presents form and organize themselves, their
successors and assigns, into, and constitute
corporation, for the objects and under
the conditions hereinafter set forth, to wit:
ARTICLE 1. The rame of this corpora
ton shall be 'sThe Carencro Cotton Gin
Company, Limited, and under that name
it shall enj Joy corporate existence and sue
to contract, and be sued, in its corporate
nams; to make and to use corporate seal;
to hold, receive, purchase and convey, un-
der their corporate name, property, both
real and personal for the objects hereinafter
stated, and generally to do all things lawful
for a corporation to do.
ARTICLE II. The domicile of this
corporation shall be in the town of Carencro,
parish of Lafayette, louisiana; citation and
other legal process shall be served on the
president of the corpe ration, or, if absent
from the parish, on the Secretary.
ARTICLE III. The capital stock of
this corporation shall be six thousand dol
lars, represented by sixty shares of the par
value of one hundred dollars each, and GER
tificates for said shares shall not be issued
until they have been fully paid up in money,
property services rendered. The certl-
ficates shall be signed by the president and
the Secretary of the Corportion, and shall
be entered the Transfer Book kept by
the corporation: and no transfer OF shares
shall affect the corporation until il has been
entered on the transfer book of the corpora
ton.
ARTICLE ". The objects and pur-
poses of this corporation, and the nature
and the business to be carried on by 1t, are
declared be. to erect to purchase, to
own lease, and to operate, one or
more cotton gins; to purchase cotton in seed
and cot,onseed and gin said cotton; to gin
cotton for the public for pay; to purchase,
own and operate, or to lease and to sell,
rent out, n,r,agc pledge any property,
real pc: sonal required or convenient for
any of tbs. purposes for which this corpora
ton is organized, and generally to make all
contacts required or appropriate for any
borrow M .ncv for any Of its purposes, and
issue therefor its Pr,'mssory notes secured
by mortgage or pledge or pawn or privilege
on any "i its property; real or personal: 49,.
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corporation shall be vested in and exercised
by a Bosrd of Directors composed of three
shareholders, VIII" shall be elected at an
annual meeting of the shareholders to be
held on the second Tuesday of May, every
year, after notice published once week for
three successive weeks in newspaper pub
lished in the said parish of Lafayette The
Board of Directors of this corporation shall
exercise all the powers of this corporation
without referring the shareholders for
authority; to borrow money and to execute
the notes of the company and grant mort
cages pledges and generally to make all
contracts and do all acts in any manner
pertinent to the objects of this corporation,
which are, may be, permitted under
the laws applicable to corporations. And
in exercising said powers, the said Board of
Directors may act either directly or through
such officers and agents as 1t may appoint
with general special authority in what
relates to contracts and the administration
of the affairs of this corporation Said
Board shall have power to make all such
bylaws they shall deem proper, and shall
provide in what manner special meetings of
the shareholders shall be called, provided,
that not less than ten days notice shall be
given by mailing to each Shareholder a
notice of said meeting and of the purposes
thereof to the address left by him with the
secretary.
The following named persons shall
as the first Board of Directors, and until
their successors shall have been elected
be the president, Gordon A. Sandoz,
vice president. and Jacques J. Perrodin,
shall be the secretary and treasurer. Said
Board of Directors shall at the first meeting
after their own election .elect one of their
number president, and one to be
vice president, and they shall also elect a
person to be secretary and treasurer, who
need not be a stakeholder. All directors
and officers of this corporation, both those
named in this charter and those hereafter
elected, shall continue in office until their
successors have been elected and qualified
Two members shall constitute quorum;
and no salaries to be paid to the officers
Directors of the Company except such as
shall be fixed at the annual meeting of the
stockholders for the election of officers.
ARTICLE vi. The president of the
Board of Directors shall preside at all meet
ings of the Board of Directors, issue through
the secretary and treasurer all notices
meetings of the Board of Directors, of
special of regular meetings of the stock
holders; sign together with the secretary
and treasurer all obi cations of the corpora
ton and exercise such other powers and
duties may be delegated to him by the
Board of Directors.
ARTICLE VII. The vice-president shall
preside at meetings in the absence of the
president.
ARTICLE VIII. The secretary and
treasurer shall keep minute book in which
shall be inscribed all proceedings of special
and regular meetings of the Stockholders
and of the doings and resolutions adopted
at the meetings of the Board of Directors.
and such other duties may be required of
him by the Board of Directors.