The herald., 1912-05-02
AMENDMENT TO
CHARTER
OF ]. BART DAVIS PIANO COMPANY.

OF ]. BART DAVIS PIANO COMPANY.
Be it known, that on this sixth day OF
the month OF April, in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and twelve, be-
for me, Lawrence Mclean Janin, a notary
public, duly commissioned and qualified in
and for the parish OF Orleans state of Lou
isiana, personally came and appeared, J.
Bart Davis, herein appearing In his official
capacity as president of The J. Bart Davis
Piano Company, corporation duly organ
ana, and domiciled in this city the said ap-
pearer herein, acting in his said official ca
pacity. and for and in behalf Of said corpo-
ration under and by virtue of a resolution
adopted at the special meeting of the stock
holders thereof hereinafter referred to- who
declared !; that written notice thereof having
been mailed TO each stakeholder more than
forty (4O) days prior to said meeting, and
publication thereof having been made In the
Daily States, a daily newspaper in this city
on the 4th, 18th, 18th and 25th Of Febru-
airy, 1912 and March 4th. 1912, in addition
thereto, a special meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the said J. Bart Davis Piano Company
was convened and held at the Office of said
company In this city, on the 14th day Of
er and Marie #. Dodge were chosen chairman
and secretary, respectively, for the purpose
of amending the original act of incOrpora-
tion OF said company, passed before me, the
undersigned notary public, on the 22nd day
or November, 1911, and recorded in the
mortgage office of this parish in book 1851
folio 800; and that at said meeting more
than threefourths (3-4) of all Of the capt.
tai stock of said company was present and
voted; and 1t was at this said meeting
unanimously agreed and decided by all Of
the STOCKHOLDERS of said company that Arti-
Gle Nv Of said act Of Incorporation should
be changed. altered and amended so as to
hereafter be and read as follows. to-wit:
The capital stock Of this corporate
shall be forty thousand dollars (S4OOOO)
divided into two thousand (2,0O0) shares Of
(S20.O0) twenty dollars each One thou
sand shares G,OO0) shall be common stock
ana tl,O0ol shares shall be preferred stock,
bearing eight per cent (S96) interest cumul-
alive. All stock shall be paid in cash or
Its equivalent. and shall be paid for in such
instruments and ON such terms as the board
or directors may fix"
And the said appearer, ]. Bart Davis, in
his said capacity, further declared that ga id
change and amendment to Article Nv of the
original act OF Incorporation was adopted
unanimously by the stockholders of said cor
poratlon and acting under the authority
vested In him as president Of said corpora
ton, by resolution at said meeting adopted
as per duly certified copy of same annexed
hereto and made a part hereof the said I
Bart Davis further declared for and in bebaIf
or said j. Bart Davis Piano Companv that
Article Nv Of said act of incorporation of
said company has been modified, changed,
altered and amended, so as TO hereafter read
be and exist as Is hereinbefore written and
| set forth. and he does hereby authorize and
require said alteration and amendment TO
oe uuly Itcorueu ana puDllShed In the man.
| ner required by law, to the end that the
same shall hereafter and at all times he
binding upon the said stockholders and all
such persons as may hereafter become stock
holders OF said corporation.
Thus done and passed. in nv office in the
| city or New Orleans, on the day month and
year herein first above written, in the pres-
ence or Messieurs Edward Montegut and Ed.
ward j. Thilborger, competent witnesses.
VINO have hereunto signed with the said an,
pearers, and me, notary, after reading of
Original signed) J. Bart Davis. presi
dent; OWtnesses) z. Montegut, e. ].
Thilborger.
CSeaD LAWRENCE N. JANIN.
Notary Public
i, the undersigned. recorder Of mortgages.
in and for the parish OF Orleans state of
| louisiana. do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing act OF amendment of incorpo-
ration of The ]. Bart Davis Piano COMPANY
was this day duly recorded in my Office In
book 1851, folio =.
New Orleans, April 9th, 1912
(SeaD (Signed) EMILE LEONARD,
STATE of Louisiana,
Parish of Orleans