The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-01-27
CHARTER
c,s,e,o cettpn Gin Company. Ltd.

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cneauo cettna Sin Company. Ltd.
UNITED STATES OF AMERIcA.
STATE or LpuIs.AsA. Pas
Be il known. that this l7th day of
December. in the year of Our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred aud ninety ni.ie. be-
fore me, William ]. Sandoz, q notary public
duly commissioned and qualified in and for
said parish aud State. and in the presence
Of the Witnesses hereinafter named and un-
dersigned; personally came and appeared:
Isaac Roos, Jacques j. Perrodin. Gordon
| I.adore Isaac, If 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. 50 of the session of the General
| Assembly IF this State for the year 1883.
presents form and organize themselves. their
| successors and assigns. into, and constitute
| a corporation, for the objects ana under
| The conditions hereinafter set forth, to-wi,:
\ ton shall be .sThe Carencro Cotton Gin
Company. Limited, and under that name
| it shall enjoy corporate existence and sue
cessiOn for a period at ninety nine years.
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| name; to make and to use a corporate seal;
20 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
Incorporation 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.
| tificaies for said shares shall not be issued
until they have been fully PAID up IN money
, property services rendered The ceTi';
, ficates shall be signed by the president and
: the Secretary of the Corportion, and shall
be entered on the Transfer Book kept by
, shall affect the corporation until il has beer
entered on the tran sfer book of the corpora
ton.
;: ARTICLE w. The objects and pur
poses of this corporation, and the nature
and the business to be carried on by 1t, ar
; declared to be. to erect or to purchase, t.
. own lease, and to operate, one o
more cotton G ms; to purchase cotton IN seet
II cotton for the public for pay; to purchase
! own and operate, to lease and to sell
rent out, mortage or pledge any property
J.. real or personal required or convenient to
), ton is organized, and generally to make al
q contracts required or appropriate for an
s of said purposes, including the power t
q borrow m',nev for any of its purposes, an
2 to- issue therefor its Pr"missory notes secure
by mortgage or pledge or pawn or Privileg
any Of its property, real or personal:
ARTICLE " All the powers of tn
corporation shall be vested in and exercise
by Board of Directors composed of thre
= shareholders, who shall be elected at a
annual meeting of the shareholders to t
held on the second Tuesday of May, ever
year. after notice published once week fo
three successive weeks in newspaper pull
} Iished in the said parish of Lafayette II
= Board of Directors of this corporation sha
exercise all the powers OF this corporate
without referring to the shareholders r.
authority; to borrow money and to execu
the notes of the company and grant NOR
cages or pledges and generally to make 3
contracts and do all acts in any mann
"a pertinent to the objects of this corporatio
or which are, or may be, permitted una
% the laws applicable to corporations. Al
II in exercising said powers, the said Board
So Directors may act either directly or ihrou.
. such officers and agents as it may aPPol
S. with general special authority IN wh
relates to contracts and the administrative
M Of the affairs IF this corporation Sa
q bylaws as they shall deem proper, and sh
% provide in what manner special meetings
the shareholders shall be called, pr"v,de
e that not less than ten days notice shall
ent notice Of said meeting and of the Purpo
WI thereof to the address left by him with I
secretary.
, The following named persons shall sci
as the first Board of Directors, and III
their successors shall have been elect
and qualified, ,o"it: Isaac Roos sh
N be the president, Gordon A. Sand
81 vice president, and Jacques J. Period
~ shall be the secretary and treasurer. >
SN Board of Directors shall at the first meet
ri after their own election elect one of tn
81 own number as president, and one to
* vice president, and they shall also cleo
III ! person TO be secretary and treasurer, v
~ need not be a stockholder. All direct
X and officers of this corporation, both tn
" | named in this charter and those herea1
. elected, shall continue in Office until II
* success, ,rs have been elected and qualil
~ Two members shall constitute a qu"r'
& and no salaries be paid TO the officers
q Directors of the Company except such
shall be fixed at the annual meeting OF
stockholders for the election Of officers.
= ARTICLE WI. The president of
Board of Directors shall preside at all m
inys Of the Board of Directors, issue thro
u the secretary and treasurer all notices
meetings of the Board of directors,
@ special of regular meetings of the ste
Il holders; sign together with the secre
Is and treasurer all obligations of the corp
EN ton and exercise such other powers
"a duties as may be delegated to him ny
~ Board of Directors.