St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-05-11
CHARTER OF THE
LAWTELL GIN CO,
State OF Louisiana.

LIN ~ A ~ 4kAG4 IA SAA5 H0AA8J
seventh (27th1 day of the month OF
March, in the year of our Lord nine-
teen hundred and twelve (19l2l before
me, Sbanfslas Joseph Gosselin, a Notary
Public, duIy commissioned, qualified
and sworn in and for the Parish and
State first above written, and in the
presence of the witnesses hereinafter
named personally came and appeared
the persons those James are hereunto
subscribed who severally declared that
ayailfng themselves of the provisions
of Act No. SO of the session of the Legis-
Elature of the State of Louisiana of 1885,
approved June 10Th, 1883, as well as the
general laws OF the State relative to-
the formation and organization of COR
porations, they have formed and or
ganized, and by these presents do form
themselves and such other persons as
may hereafter become associated with
them into q corporation and body poll
tic in law for the object Ait6 purposes
and under the stipuiations following,
to-wit:
Article I. The name and style ofthis
corporation is herebydeclared TO bs the
Lawtel Gin Company, Limited, and IL
shall have and enjoy succession and
existence for q period of ninetY-Eine
years from the date hereof. It shall
have the power to contract, sue and be
sued, tc make a corporate seal aud the
same to break or alter at pleasure; to
hold, purchase, lease, rent, sell, mort
gage. pledge, and hypothecate property
real, personal and mixed; to name,
elect and appoint managers, statesmen
and agents; to make and establish by
laws, rules and regulations FOR the
management of its business a af-
fairs.
Article IL. The doRieile of this corr
poratfon shall be at LawteII in the
Parish of st. Landry, State of Louis
lana, where all citations and other legal
process shall be served upon its Presi-
dent, n in case of his absence upon
the Vice-President, or in the event OF
the absence Of beth the President and
Vice-President on the Secretary-Treas-
urer.
Article III. The object and purposes
for which his corporation is organized
and the nature of the business to be-
carried on by it are hereby declared to
be as follows, to-wit:
To establish and operate warehouses,
yards and store rooms for handling,
storing, weighing, sRmpItng shell
terfng cotton, cotton seed, corn, rice n
other farm products to and oper-
ate . cotton gin or gins; to do a general
brokerage and commission business In
all farm products; to own and operate
rice, sugar and syrup mills to manu-
facture n sell bricks and cament
blocks; to operate wood and lumber
yard; to operate a canning plant for
preserving fruits and vegetables, and to
manufacture vinegar pickles, etc; TO
buy Rnd sell all necessary raw mater
ials, and to handle all by-prodncts OF
the things so manufactured; and to
carry on in connection Herewith II
general mercantile business, and to do
any and all things incidental and GER
name to the objects and purposes herein
set forth.
Article ". The capital stock of this
corporation is hereby fixed at the sum
of twenty thousand dollars, divided
into two thousand shares of the par
value of ten dollars each. The amount
of each share shall be paid for In cash
OF its equivalent and this corporation
shall become . going concern when
i've hundred shares shall have been
subscribed and paidfor.
Article w. All the corporate power
of this corporation shall be vested Iii b
board of directors, to be composed OF
five stock holders, and the manage
ment of the business shall be In the
hands of the board. The members Of
the said board shall be elected annually
on the second Tuesday 1T March ct
each and every year, commencing iii
the year 1912. The members of said
board shall hold offices until their sT1e-
cessOrs have been elected and unaIffEeda
Any vacancy occurring In their body
shall be filled by ne remaining num-
hers from among the stockholders. AZ
all meetings of stockholders each stock
holder shall be entitled to one vote
for zach share os stock owned by him,
which vote may be east in person or by
proxy. The Board u Directors shall
have power to ntaAe all rules and regn-
~fatIons FOR their own government and
the proper conduct OF the affairs
of The corporation. They shall
elect from their own number a Presi-
dent, Viee-Presfdent and q Secretary
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OF Secretary and Treasurer al be
combined into office as the board
may from time to time direct. Until
the election to be held by the stock
holders on the second Tuesday of
March, 1913, as hereinafter provided for
is had, w. ~. Dejean, j.. =. Evans, DIR.
Paul Foster, jules JouBeTt and Job IL
ECannon shall constitute the first Board
of Directors with the said w. G. De-
Jean as President, .. $. Evans as Vice.
President, and DR.. PanI Foster rs Sec
retary-Treasnrer. Three members of
the said Board shall constitute a qno-
rum FIR the transaction of business.
Article VII. The capital stock of this
corporation may be increased at any
time IN accordanGe with the laws or the
state. This charter may be amended,
altered or changed Or The corporation
Il ssolved by a vote Of ~tWo-thirds Of the
Stockholders voting BY shares att q
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after thirty days previous notice of
such meeting as shall have been given
each sIuckholder by letter and by pnb-
l~tcatian ltone or more newspapers pub
ii he'd in the Parish of st. Landry.
Article VII. No stakeholder OF this
corporation shall ns held liable for any
Of the faults, Indebtedness, or contracts
thereof i'm any further sum thai the
a. paid balance due the corporation on
the shares owned by him, noF shall any
fnfurmality in the organization rave
The effect OF rendering this charter null
or of exposing a shareholder to any
ii -bility whatever.
Article VIII. A failure 1T any time
III hold meetings or elect directors or
officers as herein provided, shall not
work "a forfeiture OF this Charter or dis
solve the corporation, but the existing
board III directors and officers shall
fenstiaue until their successors hare.
+ L.ea chosen by election, which election
Il shaft be held as d az possible.
Atticle TX. At the expiration OF this
Charter, unless sooner dissolved, its af-
LIARS shall be llquilatcd by commits
sioneFs to be elected by the ~stockhotd-
ere, and said commissioners are in-
vested with full powers to iiqlidate the
affairs uf the corporation. said COM
nj fssioners to be three in number and
to bs selected or elected in such manner
AZ the stockholders ma designate.
y Thus done aud passed al Eawteli,
Parish and state aforesaid, on the day.
month aud year first herein above writ
ten, in the presence of Joe r. Cormter
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