New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1912-02-24
OH ARTEjR
OF THE
New Iberia, Lafayette and North.
western Railroad Company.

month Of December. A. D. 1911, before
me, Vertress J. Smith, Notary Public,
duly commissioned and qualified in and
for the Parish of TERRA. State of Louis
lana, and in the pa. sence of the witnt S.
SEES hereinafter named and undersigned,
personally came and appeared the several
persons whose names are hereunto sub
subscribed, and declared that, avalipg
themselves of the benefits of the law of
the State of Louisiana relative to the Or
ganizstion Of corporations, they have
formed and organized and by these pres
ents do form ana organize themselves, as
we'll as such other pei sons as may he re-
after join with them or their successors:
into a corporation for the objects and
purposes and under the covenants, stipu-
lations and agreements following, to-vi':
ARTICLE l.
The name, style and title Of this corpo-
ration shall be the NEW IBERIA, LAF-
AYETTE AND NORTHWESTERN
RAILROAD COMPANY, and under said
name it shall enjoy Il corporate existence
and succession for the full tenn and pc
riod of ninety nine years from ana after
the date of this act; it shall have the
power TO contract, sue and be sued, to
make and use a corporate seal, and the
same to alter and break at pleasure; 10
have, hold and receive. purchase, sell,
convey, lease, pledge, bond, hypothecate
and mortgage PROV erty of sny kind, whe-
the, zeal, p. rsonal or mixed. corporeal OF
incol poreal; to have and u )oint such
managers, directors and officers and
agents as its business may require; to
make and establish, as we'll as to alter
and amend from time to time, such by
laws, rules and regulations for the proper
management and government Of the af-
fairs of said corporation as may be nee
essary and proper, aud generally to pos
sess all the powers hereinafter mentioned
and that now are or may hereafter be con-
ferIed b. law or necessary to promote its
objects and interests.
ARTICLE 2.
The domirile Of this corporation shall
lie Mt NV Iberia. Lt uisiana, where SER
vice Of clta,ien or other legal process
shall be- AIDE upon the President of said
-o,poIaiiCr, or, in bis absence, upon one
OF the vice preside nts, or in his alb
s,rce Of said Ulcers, upon the secretary
ct said Cs mpany.
ARTICLE 8.
The oil j. cts and purpose for which this
corporation is organized and founded and
the nature of the business to be carried
on by it are hereby declared to be: tt
construct or otherwise acquire, maintain
and operate for the carriage Of passeng-
srs, freight mail and express matter, q
line of railroad which will be a common
carrier with one or more tracks, from the
City of New Iberia in q northwestern d.
rection, through the Parishes of Iberia,
ST. Martin, Lafay cite, Acadia, and St
Landry, Louisiana, to or within three
miles of the Town of Eunice, Louisiana,
and to such other points in or out of the
State as may be determined by the Board
of Directors, with such motive power ss
the Company may determine expedient,
with all necessary spurs, side tracks,
switehcs turnouts, water tanks, sand and
gravel pits, stations, station houses, ards,
depots, warehouses, grain elevators, cot
son com press. round houses, sheds, coal
sbutes, warehouses, platforms, ferries,
bridges, and all other acce -sories, ad-
juncts and appurtenances, connecting
lines of railway. branch lines and extern
sions from such other points on main line
"a said cooperation may select, to other
points in the State OF Louisiana or outside
thereof; to obtain and receive by grant,
purchase. gift or bequest both real and
personal property; and for the purchase
OF land, supplies, material, rolling stock,
or the payment of labor contracts and
wo, ks, to issue stock certificates or bonds
in payment thereof, and at such valua-
tions as may be agreed upon by and be-
tween the directors Of this corporation
and owners of land, material, supplies,
rolliBg stock, and laborers or contractors
of work; to obtain, receive, or accept
from any stats. county, levee boards. par
ish, district, ward, village, town, corpor-
ations or person, any rights, subsidies,
privileges or franchises which the name
may offer for the construction, mainte-
nance, management or use of its transpor-
tation lines, their dspots, whaDves, shops,
cars, locomotives, and general business
which the same may choose to grant, 70
lease or otherwise confer or give; to bor-
row money or o purchase and lease prop
erty on its own credit for the purpose of
constructing, maintaining and operating
the lines of transportation and telegraph,
and, 40 evidence of the indebtedness of
this corporation for such loans or the pur-
chase or lease Of said property, to issue
it's corporate bonds, or pr omissory note,
bearing interest and made payable either
in United States currency or gold coin,
and ut such time and place as may be ap-
proved by the directors; and for securing
the payment Of said bonds, or notes; to
mortgage and pledge its railroad, capital
stock, company buildings, corporate
franchises and immnnities. real or per-
sonal propertyepr any portion Of the same;
to lease or sell its lines of r0adways in
whole or IN part to other companies; to
lease other railways either within or with
out the State Of louisiana; to purchase or
consolidate With other railway companies
organized under the laws of the State Of
Louisians, or any other State Of the Union;
and acquire and bold stocks, bonds. and
securities Of such other railway corpora
tions as this corporation may be interes-
ted in; to construct and maintain passen-
ses depots. freight yards, and warehouses;
and 70 permit the ms Of sueb depots -
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