The herald., 1912-05-02
CHARTER
RICE BELT MILLING COMPANY.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, STATE
OF LOUISIANA. PARISH OF ORLEANS.
BE 1T KNOWN, that on this Dist day OF
March, in the year OF our Lord Nineteen
Hundred and Twelve, and OF the Indepel-
dence Of the United States Of America, the
one hundredand thirty sixth, before me,
ALEXIS BRIAN, a notary public in and for
the Parish OF Orleans, aforesaid, duly com
missiOned and qualified. and in presence of
OF the witnesses hereinafter named and IN
dersiSned, personally came and appeared
the several persons whose names are here
under subscribed, who declared to ne. no
tary, in the presence of the undersigned
witnesses, that availing themselves OF the
privileges or the laws Of the State OF Louis
lana, respecting the organization OF corpo-
rations, they have mutually agreed and con-
tracted, and by these presents do agree and
contract and bind and Obigate themselves,
their heirs and assigns, and all persons who
may hereafter become associated with them
herein, to form corporation and do hereby
form and organize a corpora tioH under the
name and for the objects and purposes AID
under the terms, stipulatiOns and provis-
ions contained in the following articles, to-
wit:
ARTICLE l.
The name and title Of this corporation Is
hereby declared to be RICE BELT MIL
LING COMPANY" and under its said cor
pOTdIe name IL snail nave ana enjoy cor
porate existence and secession for the full
term and period of ninety nine years from
and after the date hereof, unless sooner
dissolved by the action Of the stockholders
in the manner provided by law; and by and
under that name it shall have, enjoy and eI-
ercise all rights, powers and privileges here
inafter set forth, as well as those granted,
or that may hereafter be granted by law to
corporations of this character, with full
authority to contract, sue and be sued,
plead and be implicated, appear, answer aad
prosecute In any and all courts of justice
and elsewhere to make and use corporate
seal and the same to alter and break at
at pleasure; to acquire, receive and own
by purchase lease, donation, exchange or
otherwise, and to hold, use and operate, and
TO convey, sell, lease, mOrtage, pledge nv
pothecate and otherwise dispose Of property
real personal and mixed, corporal or in
corporeal; to borrow money and to issue in
evidence thereof notes, bonds, debentures or
other securities, and to secure same by
mortgage, pledge or other hypothecation OF
property, real, personal and mixed; to sc-
cept mortgages, pledges or other forms of
security for money loaned or other debts
to name, select and appoint such directors,
officers, managers, attorneys, clerks and en-
plOyees as its business, interests and con-
venience may require; and to make and
adopt, and at its pleasure amend or abro-
gate, such rules, regulations and bylaws
for the proper government of the affairs of
the corporation as may be necessary, proper
| or convenient
The domicile of this corporation is hereby
declared to be in the City of New Orleans,
State OF Louisiana, and all citations or
president; or, in the event of his death,
absence or inability to act, upon its vice
president, or in the absence of both presi-
dent and vice-president, upon the treasurer.
ARTICLE III.
Tho ohiac+s or5 nu-r.osa. ror ubich tbi.
corporation Is organized and the nature of
the business to be carried on by 1t, are
hereby declared to be: to acquire BY
purchase, lease, donation, exchange or other
wise and TO sell or ALLEVIATE real and person
al property Of every description and kind
and particularly rice mills, irrigation plants,
canals, pumping stations, lands, warehouses,
| or such other plants and machinery as nay
be operated for the manufacture and prep
| aration for the market of rice or rice-prO-
ducts or by-products Of any kind, and the
| appurtenances thereof, and articles made
or developed from the rice plant or any pat
| thereof: to buy, sell, store, ship, forward,
receive or consignment, make advances on
| and handle rice, riceIproducts AID byIpre-
ducts Of all kinds and articles made or de.
veloped from the rice plant or any part
thereof, TO own and operate rice mills, irri-
cation plants, pumping stations, canals, rice
| plantations, warehouses, bonded or not bon
ded, public or private to loan money upon
real or personal property and to take mort
cages or assignments OF mortgages or other
security on the same, and to buy, sell and
deal in bonds and loans secured by mort
cages and other liens on real property to
exchange its entire assets in business in
whole or In part, for money or stocks or
bonds or other obligations Of other CON
panies and in general TO engage in any and
all business of any nature whatsoever not
prohibited by law.
ARTICLE ".
The capital stock of said corporation Is
hereby fixed at $1,000, divided int -
shares Of par value of 800 each.
ARTICLE V.
All the corporate powers now or hereafter
vested in and exercised by a Board Of Direc-
| tors composed Of not less than three nor
more than seven stockholders, who shall be
elected at a meeting of the corporation to
| be held on the first Wednesday Of April In
| each year. A sjority of the directors
shall constitute a quorum.
The Board of Directors shall MI any va
| cancies among their number or in any other
| Office arising through death, resignation,
| disqualification or other cause, for the IN
expired term thereof, the remaining direc-
| tors being hereby vested with full power
| TO fill such vacancy by any Affirmative vote
| of a majority Of the remaining directors.
The Board of Directors shall elect from
among their number Immediately after the
/ election Of the Board or as soon thereafter
as may be possible a President, one or more
| vice-presidents and a Treasurer. Any two
| Of such officers may be held by the same
| person The Board of Directors shall APP
point a Secretary and may also appoint one
more Assistant Secretaries.
For the time being and until the stock
| holders Of this corporation shall convene in
general meeting on the frst Wednesday OF