St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-04-27
OF
The George Champagne Co.
State of Louisiana,

u0CIES SAdL1 SACy VA ohS
st. Martin, Louisiana, Mrs. Camelia
Champagne assisted and authorized by
her husband Albert q. Resweber, or
the Parish of st. Landry, louisiana,
and Louis Champagne Of the Parish OF
| st. Martin, Louisiana, who declared
that hereby availing themselves OF the
laws of this State, and especially OF the
provisions of Act 70 of the General AS
sembly of the State of Louisiana, of the
wear 1904, relative to the formation and
organization of corporations in this
| State, to carry on the business herein
after stated and enumerated, and to
acquire the rights, privileges n power
OF a body, corporate and polltlc IN Jaw
they do hereby form themselves into
such a corporation under the name and
style and for the purposes and bust
ness hereinafter set forth, viz:
The name and style of this corpora
ton shall be the "George Champagne
Company
The object and purposes Of the said
corporation shall be to carry on a gene
raj mercantile business, buying, selling,
and trading for goods II merchandise,
selling on commission or otherwise.
making advances on crops, or other
wise, loaning or borrowing money with
or without pledges or mortgages; buy
ing. selling or leasing real estate; buy
ing established business, or selling
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forming all such acts and things, ana
~transacting all such business in con-
nection with the foregoing objects and
PURPOSES, not inconsistent with or con-
trary to law. ~
The domicile of this corporation shall
be at Port Barre, st. Landry PARISH,
Louisiana, citation and other legal
process shall be served on its President,
and in his absence on its Vice Pres1-
dent, and in the manner prescribed by
law.
The capital stock of this corporation
shall be eight thousand dollars l$8,000l
divided into eighty (80( shares of one
hundred dollars ($100. 00l each, to be paid
for at the time of its issuance. And
this corporation shall commence bust
ness whenever fifteen hundred dollars
of its capital stock shall have been
subscribed and paid for.
The officers and managers OF this
corporation shall be a President, a vice.
President and a Secretary-Treasurer,
and these three officers shall also COM
pose and constitute the Board OF Dl-
| rectors of the said corporation; and
they shall lie elected from the stock
| holders of this corporation, for q term
| of one veal, and serve until the cleo
ton of their successors; said annual
!! election shall be held Oh the secoud
Monday of January, at the office Of this
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nine a. m. and four p. m. The said
Board of Directors shall have full
power to adopt all such bylaws, not
contrary to law or this charter, that
may be necessary for the carrying on
of the business and branches OF busi-
| ness, as above set forth, of this corpora
| ton: also to fix the salaries and wages
of its employees and officers; to fill all
vacancies on the said Board and In said
| offices. Until the election of the said
| officers and Board of Directors on the
| second Monday of January, A. d.. 1913
nineteen hundred and thirteen) Geo.
Champagne shall be the President,
Louis Champagne shall De the vice
president and (Mrs.) Camelia Cham
payne shall be the Secretary-Treas-
urer, and they shall constitute 2
compose the Board of Directors until
that time.
No stockholder of this corporation
shall ever be held liable or responsible
for the contracts, debts or faults OF the
said corporation, in any further sum
than the unpaid balance, ii any, due to
the corporation on the shares by him
subscribed for.
This corporation shall exist for q
term of twenty-five years (25) from this
| date; and at the dissolution of the same
by the expiration of its charter or other
wise, the affairs thereof shall be liqu1-
4 aAL6u BLU S6bb1Cu DH&tH AAAeAd0HSA1S
be elected by q majority OF Its tock-
holders, at an election specially called
for the purpose after thirty (30) days
notice to that effect, by publ: ation in a
newspaper published at O~pelousas, st.
Landry parish, Louisiana, and also by
written notices sent by registered mail
to all of the stockholders of this cor
poration, at their usual q known ad-
dresses.
Transfers of stock shall be made on
the books of this corporation, at its of
fee; and no sale or transfer of the same
shall be made by the owners thereof,
nor be valid, unless sixty (60l DAYS
written notice of the intention to trans
fer the said stock, shall have been given
to the President. Yiee-president and to
the Secretary-1reasurer of this curpo-
ration, and unless this corporation or
any of its stockholders shall fall with
in said term of sixty days from receipt
of said notices, to purchase The sald
stock or stocks at the bona hde price
offered therefor by any one not q stock
holder, and 1T no price be thus offered,
then at the book value of such stock or
stocks the intent of this clause being
til at this corporation or its stockhoId-
ers shall have the preference over out
siders TO purchase the stock thereof as
aforesaid.
Done and passed at Port Barre, La.
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the presence of Messrs. John Burleigh
and Anthony Patin competent and
lawful witnesses who have signed
these presents with the above named
appearers and me Notary, after due
reading of the whole.
CHAS. o. DEJEAN, Notary Public.
Witnesses: Anthony Patins John
Burleigh.
Listof subscribers:
Geo.. Champagne,
Subscribe for nine (9) shares.
Louis Champagne,
Subscribe Tor one ~ share.
CameIia Champagne,
Subscribe for five i5l shares with her
own personal parapheTnal money and
said shares to be her separate property,
Albert e. Resweber,
70 assist and authorize my wife Ca
melia Champagne.
State of Louisiana,
Parish OF St. Landry.
j hereby certify that the within and
foregoing is q true and correct copy of
original act No. 7I2lS, OH file II of
record in my office i'll Miscellaneous
Book NJ. "A, page -, Of date March
2bth, 1912.
Witness my hand and the seal of my
office al 0peluusas, La, on this 18th day
March, A. b.. 1912.
tseaD L. A. SANDOZ,
by .GIerk 18th Jud. Dist of La.
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