St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-12-05
CHARTER.

Fourteen tl5l45 DGlOFG HE. D. EuSdI
Andrepont, a Notary Public duly com
missioned and qualified and sworn in
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
seribed, who ~severaIly declared that
aVailing themselves of the provisions
OF Act No. IS of the Session of the Leg
islatureo of the State of Louisiana of 1888
approved June 18th, 1888 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 stipuIations 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 sue 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~ypotheeate property real, personal and
mixed, to name, elect and appoint
managers, statesmen and agents; to
make and establish bylaws, rules and
regulations for the management of its
business, and affairs.
ARTICLE II.
The domieile of this Corporation shall
be at Prairie Ronde, in the Parish of
st. Landry, State of Louisiana, (P. O.
address Opelousas, La, Route2) where
all citations and other legal process
shall be served upon its President and
in cas- of his absence upon the Vice
President, or in the event of the abb
senee of both the President and 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
shelfering cotton, cotton seed, corn, rice
and other farm products. To own and
operate a cotton gin or gins, to do a
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 ot-oro..vriBa~ f-Ir,4e arl rroro{oIJ1ri
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 OF 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 w.
The capital of this Corporation is
fixed at the sum of Seven
Dollars $1,000 O) divided in
to one hundred shares Of the par value
OF One Hundred Dollars each. The
amount of each share shall be paid for,
IN cash or its equivalent and the Cor
poration shall become a going concern
when hirty-five shares shall have been
subscribed and paid for.
ARTICLE v.
All the corporate power of this Cor
ooration 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
be elected annually, on the second
Tuesday in December of each 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
sancy occurring in this body shall be fill
I'd by the remaining numbers from
among the stockholders. At all meet
.ngs OF stockholders each stakeholder
be entitled to one vote for each
share of stock owned by him, which
vote may be cast in person n proxy.
The Board of Directors shall have pow
n to make all rules and regulations for
heir own government, and the proper
conduct of the affairs of the Corpora
They shall elect from their own
number a President, Vice President
/ Seeretary-Treasurer but however the
offices of Secretary and Treasurer may
1e combined into one office; as the
BOARD may from time to time direct; UNI }
Il the election to be held by the stock !
on the second Tuesday of Dec
1914 as hereinafter provided is
lad, Adolphe GuiIlory, Edgar Prud- ]
Armand Manuel, Philip Hicky
nd Emar Lafleur shall constitute the !
irst Board OF Directors, with the said
'fficers Adolph Guillory as President,
edgar Prudhomme, Sr., as Vice Presi-
lent and Emar Lafleur as Secretary
treasurer. Three members of the said !
Board shall constitute a quorum for the !
transaction of business. :
ARTICLE VI. t
The capital stock of this corporation {
nav be increased at any time in ac- |
ordance with the laws of this state. {
The charter may be amended, alter !
d or changed or the corporation dis !
olved by a vote of two thirds of the q
tocknolders voting by shares, at a :
meeting convened for that purpose, af-
err thirty days previous notice of such
Meeting shall have been given each /
tockholder by letter and by publication j
q one or more newspapers published !
4 the Parish of St. Landry. /
ARTICLE VII. q
No stakeholder of this corporation {
hall be held liable for any of the 5
aults, Indebtedness or contracts there !
t in anv further sum OF than the I'M 2
aid balance due the corporation on
he shares owned by him or her, nor {
hall any informality in the organiZa- !
ion have the effect of rendering this /
harEor null or of oYnnsinn q Share {