The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-04-21
tIIARTEI,
Oak Bluff Planting T. Manufacturing
Company. Limited.
STATE OF OUISIANA.
PARISH OF ST. MARY.
-oF THE.

| PARISH OF ST MARY.
BE it known that on this 9th day of
March, \. D.. 1906 before me. Percy
Saint Notary Public. duly commits
stoned and qualified in and for said
Parish and State. personally appeared
the several persons whose names are
btleunto subscribed. who declared that.
availing themselves Of the provisions of
the laws of the State relative 10 the or
ganizntion of corporations. they do hv
these presents form themselves, IS well
ne all such other persons as may here
after become associated with them into
a corporation for the object, and pur-
poses as follows, tO-wt:
ARTICLE
The name and title Of the corporation
hereby formed shall he 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 ninety (99l years from the date
hereof; to contract. sue and be sued. to
make and use corporate seal, and the
same to break or alter at pleasure; to
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. 70 make AMI establish such
BY laws. rules and regulations for the
management Of It's affairs as may be
necessary and proper. the same to
change and alter at pleasure, and 10 do
aud - perform AL acts .sna things nrces-
saly and requisite - carry out tht Oh
jects and purposes of said corporations
ARTICLE II.
The domicile Of the corporation shall |
be in the Parish Of 81 Mary. State Of |
Louisiana, and all citations or ether le- |
gal process shall be served on the Presi |
dent, and in his absence on the Vice |
President or Secretary.
ARTICLE III.
The objects and purposes of this cor
poration are declared to be: To carry
,n 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
rect. eqnip maintain and operate all
structures. buildings. machinery. roads
ram-wavs and RAILWAYS. and All and
very appliance and appurtenance ne
'essary and proper for the Manufacture
# the crops gown, especially sugar cane.
III the property owned or acquired in fee
implc or by lease by the corporation
Fo buy sugar cane and all other pro-
lucts grown in Louisiana, and generally |
o deal IN real estate and carry on a
eneral plantation business and such pro-
uce and crops grown and produced in
aid State as the corporation, acting
trough its proper officers may deem
roper and profitable, and i'll carrying
III the objects and purposes specified. it
hall have power to borrow money. is
ne notes and mortgages and hypothe-
ate its property.
ARTICLEIV
The capital stock of this corporation
hereby fixed at Eighty Seven Thousand s
'ollars tSS7 200. .OO) divided into Eight S
hundred and Seventy (81O) shares of (
me Hundred (s1OO.O0) Dollars each c
by certificates signed by the
resident, Vice-President aud Secretary.
, be paid for in cash or its equivalent ,
hen the stock is subscribed for and this
usiness as soon as the majority of the c
1ares Of stock Of this corporation are c
described for or issued. No stock holder
this corporation shall ever sell any a
lares of stock, held by him until he
lail have first offered the same for sale Y
the other stockholders who shall have r
le option Of purchasing same for ten c
ays at the best price offered the holder; a
nd if the remaining Stockholders do not d
ny, then any of them shall have the d
rivilege Of doing so before said stock is b
Tered for sale elsewhere. n
ARTICLE V. b
All the powers of said corporation are l
ereby vested in and shall be exercised
!, a Board of Directors, composed Of I
our (4) stockholders. to be elected at c
Getting to be held on the first Tuesday
January, of each year commencing in
'O7. Notice of such meeting shall be =
lblished three times, in one of the G.
,wspapers published in the town Of o
rankin. Such election shall be held at q
. Office of said corporation. Every j,
,lder Of stock shall be entitled to one II
tie tor each share of stock standing in Il
s name on the books of the corpora il
on, to be cast in person or by proxy,
ID majority of the votes cast shall
ect. Failure to hold an election on
e day specified, shal! not dissolve the e
rporation, but the Directors in office a
all remain in Office until new Board n
Directors ia elected at IA meeting of h
e stockholders convened upon notice Il
above set forth Tha Directors shall 81
ect from their number President. "A a
Ce-! resident and a Secretary and =
'casurer b
All matters relating to the admins
alton; creation Of any Indebtedness $
ling vacancies in the Board of Direc- i,