St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-12-12
CHARTER.

the month OF August, In the year OF Oul
Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred anc
Fourteen 1914 before me, j. Edgar
Andrepont, a Notary Public duly com
missioned and qualified and sworn il
and for the Parish and State first above
written and in the presence OF witness
es hereinafter named and undersigned,
personally came and appeared the per
sons whose names are hereunto sub
scribed, who ~severally declared thai
availing themselves of the provisions
of Act No. 267 of the Session ofthe Leg
islature of the State of Louisiana of 1871
approved July 9th, 1914 as well as the
General Laws of the State of Louisiana
relative to the formation and organiza.
ton of Corporations, they have formed
and organized and by these presents do
form themselves and such other per-
sons as may hereafter become associat-
ed with them into a Corporation and
body polite in law for the object and
purposes and under the stipulations fol
lowing to-wit:
ARTICLE l.
The name and style of this corporation
is hereby declared to be the Farmers
Union Gin Co. Ltd. And it shall have
and enjoy succession and existence for
a period of ninety-nine years from the
date hereof. It shall have the power
to contract III and be sued, to make a
corporate seal and the same to break
or alter at pleasure; to hold purchase,
lease rent, sell, mortgage, pledge and
h~ypothecate property real, personal and
mixed, to name, elect and appoint
managers, statesmen and agents; to
make and establish bylaws, rules and
regulations forthe management Of its
business, and affairs.
ARTICLE II.
The domicile of this Corporation shall
be at Prairie Ronde, in the Parish of
st. Landry, State of Louisiana, (P. O..
address O%pelousas, La, Route21 where
all citations and other legal process
shall be served upon its President and
in case OF his absence upon the Vice
President, or in the event OF the ab-
sence of both the President aid Vice
President. on the Secretary-Treasurer
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 fol-
lows to-Wit: To establish and operate
warehouses, yards and store rooms for
handling, storing, weighing, sampling
sheltering cotton, cotton seed, corr, rice
and other farm products. To own and
operate a cotton gin Or gins, to do
general brokerage and commission
business in all farm products to own
and operate rice, sugar and syrup mills
to manufacture and sell bricks and ce-
ment blocks, to operate wood and lum-
Der yards; to operate a canning plant
for preserving fruits and vegetables
and to manufacture vinegar, pickles
etc. To buy and sell all necessary raw
materials and to handle all by-products
OF the things SO manufactured and to
carry on in connection Herewith a
General Mercantile business and to do
any and all things incidental and ger
name and to the objects and purposes
herein set forth.
ARTICLE ".
The capital of this Corporation is
hereby fixed at the sum of Seven
Thousand Dollars $4,000 O divided in
to m hundred shares of the par value
of One Hundred Dollars each. The
amount of each share shall be paid for,
in cash n its equivalent and the Cor
poration shall become a going concern
when thirty-five shares Shall have been
subscribed and paid for.
ARTICLE v.
All the corporate power of this Cor
poration shall be vested in a board of
Directors to be composed of five stock
holders, and the management of the
business shall be in the hands of this
board. The members of the said board
shall be elected annually, on the second
Tuesday in December o. Teach year and
every year commencing in the year
1914. The members of said board shall
hold offices until the successors have
been elected and qualified. Any va
cancy occurring in this body shall be fill
ed by the remaining numbers from
among the stockholders. At all meet
ings of stockholders each stockholderI
shall be entitled to one vote for each
share of stock owned by him, which
The Board Of Directors shall have pow
to make all rules and regulations for
their own government, and the proper
conduct Of the affairs of the Corpora
ton. They shall elect from their own
number a President, Vice President
a Secretar Treasurer but however the
offices of Secretary and Treasurer may
be combined into one office; as the
board may from time to time direct; I'M
the election to be held by the stock
holders on the second Tuesday of Dec
ember 1914 as hereinafter provided is
had, Adolphe Guillory, Edgar Prud-
homme, Armand Manuel, Philip Hicky
and Emar Lafleur shall constitute the
first Board of Directors, with the said
officers Adolph Guillory as President.
Edgar P~rudhomme, ST., as Vice Presi-
dent and Emar Lafleur as Secretary
Three members of the said
Board shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business.
ARTICLE VI.
The capital stock of this corporation
may be increased at any time in ac-
cordance with the laws of this state.
The charter may be amended, alter
ed or changed or the corporation dis
by a vote of two thirds of the
stockholders voting by shares, at d
meeting convened for that purpose, af
ter thirty days previous notice of such
meeting shall have been given each
stakeholder by letter and republication
n one or more newspapers published
n the Parish of st. Landry.
ARTICLE VII.
No stakeholder of this corporation
shall be held liable for any of the
'aults, indebtedness or contracts there
in anv further sum of than the I'M