The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-04-14
CHARTER
Oak Bluff Planting l. Manufacturing
Company. Limited.
STATE or LOUISIANA. J
PARISH OF ST MARY.

PARISH OF st. MARY. E,
Be it known that on this 9th day of
Mach A. b.. 1906. before me. Percy
SAM Notary Public. duly commits
stoned and qualified in and for said
Parish and State. personally appeared
t he several persons whose names are
htlrunto subscribed, who declared that :
awaiting themselves Of the provisions Of
the laws of the State relative To the or
ganiZaton of corporations they do bv
these presents form themselves. is We'll
as all such other persons rs may here
after become associated with them into
a corporation for the objects aud pur-
posrS as follows, to-wif:
ARTICLEI.
Thr name and title of the corporation
hereby formed shall be THE OAK
BLUFF PLANTING AND MANUFAC-
TURING COMPANY. LIMITED. and
under this corporate name it shall
have power and authority to have
and enjoy succession for the term
of ninetl-nine 900 years from the date
hereof: to contract, sue and be sued to
make and use a 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
dOmiciie and elsewhere as the interests
aud cnnvenienccs of said corporation
may require 10 make and establish such
bylaws. rules and regulations for the
management Of its affairs as may be
necessary and proper, the same TO
I N Tr1 M 4 al It.g to, al
and To perform all acts and things neces-
sary and requisite t" carry out the oh
jects and purposes OF said corporation.
ARTICLE H.
The domcilc 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 Pres
dent and in his absence on the Vice
President or Secretary.
ARTICLE Ill
The objects and purposes OF this cor
poration 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
suitable to the soil of Louisiana, and to |
erect. equip. maintain and operate all |
structures. buildings. machinery, roads |
tram-ways and railways. and all and |
every appliance and appurtenance ne
cessary and proper for the manufacture |
IF the crops grown, especially sugar cane. |
Dn the property owned or acquired in fee |
simple or by lease by the corporation.
TO buy sugar cane and all other pro-
lucts grown in Louisiana and generally |
% deal IN real estate and carry on a
general plantation business and such pro-
luce and crops grown and produced in
aid State as the corporation, acting
trough its proper officers may deem
proper and profitable, and in carrying
,ut the objects and purposes specified, it
hall have power to borrow money, is
ue notes and mortgages and hypothe-
,ate its property.
ARTICLE ".
The capital stock Of this corporation
5 hereby fixed at Eighty Seven Thousand
Dollars (SS.. 100000 divided into Eight
hundred and Seventy (S7O) shares of
)ne Hundred (SlOO.OO) Dollars each
videnced by certificates signed by the
President. President and Secretary,
o be paid for in cash or its equivalent
when the stock is subscribed for and this
shall be authorized to begin
business as soon as the majority of the
hares of stock Of this corporation are
ubscrbed for or issued. No stockholder
# this corporation shall ever sell any
hares of stock held by him until he
hall have first offered the same for sale
o the other stockholders who shall have
he option of purchasing same for ten
laws at The best price offered the holder:
nd if the remaining stockholders do not
my. then any of them shall have the
of doing so before said stock is
tfereG for sale elsewhere.
ARTICLE V.
All the powers of said corporation are
ereby vested in and shall be exercised
IS a Board of Directors, composed Of
'our "a stockholders. to be elected at a
neeting to be held on the first Tuesday
n January. of each year commencing in
9O7 Notice of such meeting shall be
published three times in one of the
ewspapers published in the town of
franklin. Such election shall be held at
hs office of said corporation. Every
Older of stock shall be entitled to one
nte tor each share of stock standing in
is name on the books of the corpora
ion, to be cast in person or by proxy,
nd majority of the votes cast shall
lect. Failure 10 hold an election on
he day specified, shall not dissolve the
but the Directors in Office
hall remain in office until new Board
f Directors is elected at a meeting of
he stockholders convened upon notice
; above Sc; forth Tn Directors shall
1T from their number Il President. 4
,ct : resident and Il Secretary and
reAsurer.
All matters relating to the admins
.ation: creation "i any Indebtedness,
Hing vacancies in the Board of Direc-