St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-05-04
CHARTER or THE
LAWTELL GIN Co,
state OF Louisfana.

March, in the year OF our Lord nine
teen hundred and twelve (I9I2l before
me, Stanislas Joseph Gosselin, q Notary
Public, duly commissioned, qualified
and sworn in and for he Parish and
State first above written, and in the
presence of the witnesses hereinafter
named personally came and appeared
b persons whose names are hereunto
subscribed who seyeraIly declared that
ayailing themselves of the provisions
Of Act No. 80 of the session of the Legis-
lature Of the State of Louisiana of 1888.
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 IS
may hereafter become associated with
them intoa corporation and body poll
tic in law for the object and purposes
and under the stipnlations follo wing,
to-Wit:
Article I. The name and style . fthis
corporation is herebydeclared to be the
Lawtell Gin Company, Limited, aud 1t
shall have and enjoy succession and
LexiStence for a period of nfnety-nine
years from the date hereof. 1t shall
have the power to contract, sue and be
sued, tic maxi a corporate seal and 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 Tor the
management of It's business and af-
fairs.
Article Ii. The domicile of this cor
poration shall be at Lawtell in the
Parish Of st. Landry, State of Louis
lana, where all citations and other legal
process shall be served upon its Presi-
dent, and in case of his absence upon
the Vice-President, or in the event of
the absence of both the President and
Vice-Presieent on the Secretary-Treas-
urer.
Article III. The object and purposes
for which this 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 and shell
tering cotton, cotton seed, corn, rice and
other farm products; to and oper-
ate o cotton gin or gins; to do a general
brokerage and commission business In
all farm products; to own a operate
rice, sugar and syrup mills to manu-
facture and sell bricks and cement
blocks; to operate wood and lumber
yard; TO operate q canning plant for
preserving fruits and vegetables, and to
manufacture vinegar pickles, etc; to
buy and sell all necessary raw mater
ials, and to handle all by-products of
the things so manufactured; and TO
ea,araI mercantile hnainass snS ~ IA
any and ali things incidental and ger
name to b objects and purposes herein
set forth.
Article w. The capital stock Of this
corporation is hereby fixed at the sum
into two tbonsand sberas ~ tLe rar
yoTna re tar 5oIlars aaoh N.Y. aneorrt
- aach sha-a shaII - nai5 e. - $500
~ 10 -annivaIant and this -cnrnoratioT
sbaIl becoma q gning concarn when
&C. 80 ssa shau 800 baar
snbscrihad ana naid Tor
Articie " III The cornorata ,,nwar
e thss cornoret;on shalI x 1900 IL
6asr = ~ 5iraotora ~ ha ycsaS -
Ave- s4oek boiSers mi ~ Tarara.
naant - tha hnsinass sbsIi 10 - m
haaas ~ the $500 Tha nan,hars q
1900 hoasa sLaiS ~ $3.50 ans.a
=, ~ saanrd rsnas5.v ~ 49,
oaob and avarv vaar c-nmmsncson - 4.
shovaas ,osS hana
~ haar3 shan hold of~sioas nntiI 9ba.r \
$500 100 saan 1890 Sna npaI4sa4
$50 naanrtn@ = 1870 hsl.
s1ha1i * aiIsd hv tha 5anna,ntns n.my
80 a~.nn - $500
IA maetin@ ~ stocE $500 stae
Ialdar Sbsn 80 antstisS Il 80 49,
10 ~ asob shara ~ stanL osrr = ~ Lsss
U y &c nea1 ha .ast ~ $3.50 - hL
nrnTv IRE Raard - nIra.tnrs shsIt
oAy. na1s. III snAAA
hass 49, e@s 49, ( 49, = $3.50 " 49,
~ nsa = sarSnot So La ~
rs ornaraI5on rhar nLaII
eiaot fror sLaEr own r,ro 4 D..
5ant Winaspsas3San and e caaLntssr
ma ireasnrar hns hn,1anar 80 ngSa.ys
aP Sacsatsrv NJ trraasnr 800 -
com into nna of1ica a. tha zee -
nav frnm time "a time diract Tnti1
The eIaction ~ 10 held ~ tha sfceE
h,,Iders an The sacona Tnasaav ~
March 1914 a. h~arainaft nrnwidad a.
Is had W a Daiaan i i Evans ~
rannan shall eonstitnts fha asst Rnard
If directors viii tha said u n na-
iaan a. President II g Evana d vfre.
| President. and Dr. Panf Foster Al sec-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES erhraa members ~
/ the said Hoard shall eonatifuta 4 nno-
rIIm for the transaction of bnsiuass
Artiele III. The canitaI sfoek nf thfs
c~orDoration NAV be Increased II anv
I time iii a~ccardai,,,e with the laws Al tha
state. This charter ma he
altered or l1anpe ar .he cornoraff0n
| dRsoIved Nv a Vote nf two-thfra4 ~ tha
/ stockholders voting bv shares ri 4
meeting convened for that purpose
after thirty DAYS previous notice at
such meeting Ms shall have been given
each stakeholder by letter and by pub.
IIieation in or more newspapers pub
IIi-hpd in the Parish Of st. Landry.
Article VII. No ~stockholder Of this
corporation shall be held liable for any
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