St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-05-18
CHARTER or THE
LAWTELL GIN co.
State of louisiana

Il AAG %Oo2RA S0o5CA1G9 u 1N0tAA4
Public, duly commissioned, qualified
and sworn in and for the Parish and
State first above written, and in the
! presence of the witnesses hereinafter
named personally same and appeared
the persons whose names are hereunto
subscribed who seFerally declared that
awaiting themselves Of the provisions
of Act No, SO of the session OF the Lagis-
Ilature of the State OF Louisiana OF 1883,
approved June 29th, 1888, as well as the
general laws of the State relative to
the formation and organization OF cor
porations, they have fornas and or
ganized, and by these pres do form
may hereafter become asst tied with
them into corporation ane soay poll
tic in law for the object aaai purposes
and under the stipulations aolie wing,
to-wit:
Article +. The name and style It this
corporation is hereby declared to ba the
LaWtell Gin Company, Limited. aud it
shall have and enjoy succession and
existence for q period of n~inety-niue
years from the date hereof. liz shall
have the power to contract, sue and be
sued. TIC make a corporate seal aud the
same to break or alter at pleasure to-
hold, purchase, lease, rent, sell. mort
gage, pledge, and h~ypothecate property
real, personal and mixed; to name.
elect and appoint managers, saIssmen
and agents to make and establish by
laws, rules and regulations Tor the
management of its business and at
fairs,
Article II. The domieile Of this cor
poration 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 both the President and
Viee-President on the Secretary-Treas-
urer.
Article III. The object and purposes
for which this corporation Is organized
| n 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, sampling and shell
tering cotton, cotton seed, corn, rice and
other farm products to own and oper-
ate . cotton gin or gins to do a general
brokerage and commission business In
all farm products; to w and operate
rice, sugar n 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, etes to
buy and sell all necessary raw mater
ials, and to handle all by-products OF
the things sc manufactured; and to
carry on in connection Herewith d
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
or its equivalent and this corporation
shall become q going encer when
five hundred shares sAalI have been
subscribed and paid for.
Article ". All the corporate power
Of this corporation shall be vested Ii 3
board OF directors TO be composed OF
i've stock holders, and the
ment of b business shall be in ths
hands Of the board. The members OF
the said board shall be elected annuAIlN
on the second Tuesday af March OF
each a every year, commencing In
the year 1912. The members or said
board shall hold offices until their sue
|~cessors have been elected and qualified.
Any vacancy occurring in thetF body
shall be filled by the remaining num-
hers q among the st6e&E04SaE
all meetings Of stockholders each stock
holder shall be entitled To one vote
" CAGh 5GA&C - 1kOCh by uAEN4M#
which vote may be east in person or by
proxy. The Board III Directors shall
have power to MAKE all rules and regu-
Iattons for their oWn government and
The proper conduct of the affairs
of the corporation. They shall
elect from their own number q Presi-
dent, Yfce-president and 8 Secretary
and Treasurer, but however the offices
of Secretary n Treasurer may be
combined into one 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, 1919, as hereinafter provided for
is had. w G. Dejean, J.. q. Evans, DR..
Paul Foster. jules Joubert and John Il.
Cannon shalt constitute the first Board
OF Directors with the said w q. De-
jean as President, j.. S. Evans rs Vice.
President, and DR.. Paul Foster as sec
retary-Freasufer. Three members of
the said Board shall constitute 4 quo
rum FIR the transaction OF business
Article vi. The capital stock Of this
corporation may be increased az any
time in accordance with the laws of the
State. This charter may be amended,
altered or changed or The corporation
A ssolxed by q vote pf two-thirds of the
stockholders voting by shares al b
meeting convened for tina purpose
after thirty days previous notice OF
stlch meeting as shall have been given
eaeli stoekhoider by letter and by pub
~lieati0u iii one or more newspapers pub
ti-hed in the Parish OF st. Landry.
Article VII. No stakeholder OF thf5
.~corp0ratiten shall be held liable for any
IF the faults, indebtedness, or contracts
thereof in any further sum than the
unpaid balance due the corporation on
the shares owned by him, nor shall any
InfoTmafitY In she organization have
The effect Of rendering this charter null
or Of exposing q shareholder to any
tiabllity whatever.
Article VIII. Al failure at any time
To hold meetings u elect directors or
officers As herein provided, shall not
work i forfeiture of this Charter or dis
solve the corporation, but the existing
heard Of directors and officers ahalL
continue until their successors have
ieft'b chosen by election, which election
slia he held M soon as possible.
tIete IN. Al the expiration of this
Charter, unless sooner dissolved, its At
fairs shall be llquidated by commits
sio1ers 10 be eleeied by the stoekhoLd-
efs, and said mmissioners are In
vested with full powers to liqnidate the
affairs Of the corporation. said COM
m~lssionefs to be three in number and
10 be selected or elected in such manner
a. the stockholders may designate.
Thus done and passed at Lawtell,
Parish and state aforesaid, on the day,
month and year first herein above writ
ten, ia the presence Of Joe r. Gormter
and Amos Bihm, competent witnesses,
who hay signed these presents to-
gether with the appeareFs and me,
Notary, after due reading OF the whole.
We. DEJEAN,
j.. EVANS,