The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-03-24
CHARTER
Or THE
Oak Bluff Planting L. Manufacturing
Company. Limited.
STATE Of LOUISIANA J
PARISH OF ST. MARY.

\ | AflsH Or II. MARY.
BE it known that on this 9th day O
! ! Nh!ch, 4. d.. 1906. before me. Per,,
SAINT Notary Public. duly commits
slEhea ana qualified in and for sai,
PARISH ana state. personally Appeared
hc several persons whose names arr
hcleunto subscribed. who declared thar
aVail1iig themselves Of the provision, o,
be laws Of the State relative To the or.
@anizaton ot CORPORATIONS. they ,io h,
these presents form themselves, A. wei
as al! sach other person, as MAY here
after become associated with them into
a corporation for the objects and pur-
iposts as follows. to-wit:
ARTICLE
The name and title of the corporation
hereby formed shall be THE OAK
BLUFF PLANTING AND MANUFAC-
(TURING COMPANY, LIMITED. and
tunder this corporate name it shall
have power and authority to have
and enjoy succession for the term
| OF ninety-nine 1896 years from the date
| hereof: TO contract. sac and be sued. to
! make and use ii corporate seal. and the
same to break or alter at pleasure: to
hold, lease receive, purchase and con-
vey under its corporate name, property
real, personal and mixed. to name and
Appoint such officers and agents at its
domicile and elsewhere as the interests
and conveniences Of said corporation
may require to make and establish such
bylaws. rules and regulations for the
management OF its affairs as NAV be
necessary and proper. the same to
change and alter at pleasure. and to do
and to perform al! acts and things neees-
sary and requisite to carry out the OBJ
Jects and purposes of said corporation
ARTICLE Ii.
The domiCile of the corporation shall |
be in the Parish of st. Mary. State of |
Louisiana, and all citations or other le- |
gal process shall be served on the Presi |
dent, and in his absence on the Vice
President or Secretary.
ARTICLE III.
he objects and purposes of this cor
poratlon are declared to be: To carry
On general merchandise business: to
acquire and sell real estate; to cultivate
same IN sugar cane. corn and al, crops
to the soil of Louisiana and to
erect. eqnip. maintain and operate all
structures, buildings, machinery. roads,
ram-ways and railways. and all and
very appliance and appurtenance ne
essary and proper for the manufacture
i the crops grown, especially sugar cane.
N the property owned or acquired in fee
lmple or by lease by the corporation.
20 Duy sugar cane and all other pro-
ucts grown In Louisiana, and generally
deal in real estate and carry on
eneral plantation business and such pro-
uce and crops grown and produced in
ald state as the corporation, acting
trough its proper officers may deem
roper and profitable, and in carrying
ut the objects and purposes specified, it
lall have power to borrow money, is
le notes and mortgages and hypothe-
tte its property.
ARTICLE
The capital stock of this corporation
hereby fixed at Eighty Seven Thousand 8,
olars lsS1 .O0O.OO divided into Eight 81
undred and Seventy $50 shares of o
ne Hundred (SlO0OO Dollars each q
'Idenced by certificates signed by the
resident, Vice-President and Secretary,
be paid for in cash or its equivalent u
hen the stock is subscribed for and this f'
rporation shall be authorized to begin W
lslness as soon as the majority of the ct
ares of stock Of this corporation are &C
described for or issued No stockholder "
tins corporation shall ever sell any al
ares of stock held by him until he NJ
all have first offered the same for sale V
the other stockholders " ho shall have re
G option OF purchasing same for ten OF
ys at the best price offered the holder: al
u II The remaining Stockholders do not dt
y, then any of them shall have the dc
lVllege of doing so before said stock is be
cred for sale elsewhere as
ARTICLE V. ut
All the powers of said corporation are tr
reby vested in and shall be exercised 81
Board OF Directors, composed Of 'i'
ur az stockholders to be elected at a en-
'eting to be held on the first Tuesday
j January. OF each year commencing in
u. Notice of such meeting shall be an
bllshed three times, in one of the co
wspapers published in the town of of
anklin. Such election shall be held at ca
Office of said corporation. Every in,
lder OF stock shall be entitled to one th
fc tor each share of stock standing in Tin
name on the books of the corpora in
II, 10 be cast III person or by PROXY,
! "A majority of the votes cast shall
CT. Failure to hold an election on
day specified. shall not dissolve the cit
poratl"n, but the Directors in office aft
III remain in office until new Board mi
Directors is elected at meeting of no
stockholders convened upon notice tn,
above Sc; forth The Directors shall siO
ct from their number President. an
'e-fresdent and Secretary and pl,
,asnrer. by
III matters relating to the admins
lion; creation IF any Indebtedness, st.
ing vacancies in the Board of Direc- in
S. appointment of clerks, agents or tn.