Lower coast gazette., 1914-11-28
Charter of the Geraty Wholesale
Plant Company, Incorporated.

IldilI company AASOA pOAos>S
United States Of America,
State of Louisiana,
Parish of Orleans,
City Of New. Orleans.
BE IT KNOWN, That on this 18th
day of the month of October in the
year Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen
(1914),
BEFORE Me, Eraste Vidrine, a mo-
tary public, duly commissioned, quail
led and sworn, in and for the above
named Parish and State, personally
came and appeared the several per-
sons, whose m are hereunto SUB
scribed, who each and all declared:
That, ~availing themselves OF the
laws of the State of Louisiana, on the
subject of the incorporation Of corpo-
rations, and especially of Act 2G7 OF
the Legislature of the State Of Louisi-
ana for the year 1914, they have and
Go by these presents, organize and con-
stitute themselves into a corporation
and body polite in law under the fol-
lowing stipulations and provisions
which they hereby adopt as their
articles of incorporation, or charter,
to-wit:
ARTICLE I.
The name of this Corporation shall
be:
The Geraty Wholesale Plant Company,
Incorporated,
! and its domiciie is hereby declared to
be at Harlem Plantation, in the Par
! ish OF Plaquemines, State Of Loulsl-
ana.
This Corporation shall have and en-
, ioy corporate existence and succession
for and during a period of Ninety.nine
500 years, unless sooner dissolved.
ARTICLE II.
~ The objects and purposes Of this
:, Corporation and the nature Of the bust
;, ness to be carried on by it are hereby
/ declared to be, the cultivation and
selling of vegetable plants and nursery
stock, the owning or leasing OF lands
N for this purpose and for the cultivation
n. and sale OF truck and farm products
" the right to buy and sell farm pro
IN ducts for others on commission o.
d, brokerage, including the doing of any
d, thing that may be Incidental to tn
d, said purposes and necessary for thel
u successful accomplishment. The col
poration shall have the power to ae
ey ouire from James Ray Geraty, form
mt erly of Yonge's Island, S. c., the bus
he ness of raising and selling at whole
sale, vegetable plants and nurser
stock heretofore carried on by him i
ne the name of James Ray Geraty. t.
lu- gether with the good will OF said bus
y" hess and mailing lists, and shall hay
'ne the power to acquire such mules, IL
''o plements, farming equipment and su
plies, from Warren Buckley. of Hare:
Plantation, La. and Charles w. Buc
y. ley, of Chicago, ILL.,, as the Board
-. Directors may desire, and in paymel
thereof, to. issue full paid commt
hot stock OF this Corporation as herel
ohv after provided.
ARTICLE III.
,;sh The capital stock of this Corpol
ton is hereby fixed at Ten Thousal
the Dollars ($1O,o O.O0), Of which five the
sand dollars ($5,o00.0 0) shall be CO
ton mon stock, and five thousand dole
AIRY ls5,OOO.OO shall be preferred stot
Mr.. which capital stock shall consist
pom fifty (5O) shares of n hundred q
hers lars ($1O0.OO) each of common sto'
fol- and two hundred (20O) shares
twenty-five dollars (s25.00) each
ma, preferred stock. The preferred ste
shall have no voting power of any s.
Gre whatsoever, and shall not be consid
oe ed rs affecting the amount Of the ste
of the Corporation in connection W
'ne the amendment of the charter, or
all 900 ~ aacre,se ~ the capj
stock as provided for by Act 267 OF
LEGISLATURE Of the State of Louisl:
of 1914. The preferred stock shall
entitled to receive an annual dlvld'
49, of Ten Per Cent 5000, payable
~ of the net profits of the Company
,cra. the previous year, prior to the a
do ers of the common stock receiving
dividend upon their common ST
all holdings. This ten per cent w
NAV annual dividend on the preferred st
J. M. shall, however, not be cumulative.
/ C. preferred stock shall be subject to
ap- demption by the Company at any I
at par after thirty days notice by
ema, Company by mail, addressed to the
meet known address of such preferred st
ay in holder as shown by the books OF
ouse, Company, such notice to contain
ok a. vice of the intention Of the ComI
30 10 redeem said stock. II earne
pro rata Of the annual dividend u
,ction the date Of redemption shall be