Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-10-17

valid meetings of directors may he held
outside the State or within the State
elsewhere than its donicile. All eta
tons or other legal process shall be
served upon the President, or, in case OF
his absence, upon the Nice-President, or
in the absence Of both of these officers,
upon the Secretary of the Corporation.
ARTICLE ".
The objects and purposes for which
this corporation is established and the
nature of the business 10 be carried on
BY it are hereby declared and specified
to be, as follows, tO-wit:
To purchase, own, hold, sell, eX-
change. reclaim. develop, improve, build
upon, irrigate. cultivate, rent and mort
gage, real property, improved and un-
improved, rural and urban; to raise, buy
sell. mortgage and deal i'll mules, horses,
cattle and any other live stock: to buy,
sell, own, lease. build. construct. operate
and manage mills. gins, refineries, fac
tories, congresses, printing Offices, man
ufactures of goods, wares, merchandise
and personal property of every class ana
description, and to hold, own, sell or
dispose of, trade. deal i'll and deal with
all the articles of commerce, at wholesale
or retail; to carry on all or any part OF
the business of manufacturers, mer-
/ chants, traderss importers, exporters
and dealers in and with goods, wares
and merchandise of every description, OF
establishing, developing, managing,
/ operating and carrying on of industrial,
commercial, trading, manufacturing
mechanical, engineering, building, con
structing, contracting, mining, refining,
chemical, real estate, logging, lumber
ing, agricultural, plantation, and dairy
| ing. enterprises, undertakings, propo-
sitions, concessions of franchises, i'll all
their respective branches of construct
ing, equipping, improving, working,
developing, purchasing, selling, leasing,
hiring, 1nortgaging, operating. and deal
ing i'll and with the public and quasi
public and development works and con-
veniences, including docks, harbors.
piers, wlarves. canals, reservoirs. en-
bankments and improvements and other
engineering work; of operating ware
houses, markets. buildings, tunnels
bridges and other works and CONVEX
fences of public or quasi-public use or
utility; or purchasing or otherwise &C
curing. maintaining. selling, pledolng,
mortgaging, leasing, hiring and fulfilling
any contracts. franchises and conces
sions, for or in relation to the Construc'
ton, execution, equipment, improve
inent, management, operation or ContrUl
of such works, and of undertaking, eN-
ecuting. carving out, disposiug of, or
otherwise turning TO account OF the
the same, and generally, i'll carrying oil
its business or businesses, or for the
purpose If cttaining and furthering all,
of its objects or purposes, to do any ant
all other things and exercise any and al
other powers which are now or may b.
hereafter permitted bv the laws of til
State of Louisiana, relative to the or
! ganization of corporations.
, ARTICLEv.
The business affairs of this corporation
shall be managed BY Board OF Three
~ Directors, and all of the powers o
this corporation, without restriction
shall be vested in and exercised BY sait
, Board of Directors. Each director shall
own in his own right at all times durin!
his term of office, at least one fulf-pait
and unpledged share of capital stock
I Said Board of Directors shall he elected
annually on the first legal dav of Tn
: : month of October, of each wear, til
,, first election to be held in the year 1911
The said directors shall elect from thei
, number a President. Vice-Presiden
!, and Secretary Treasurer. They ma
= appoint other agents and employees
y who may be removed at the pleasure G
u said directors, They shall also hav
y power to fill any vacancy i'll their mum
=. Der.
II The directors shall be elected at
: stockholders meeting, held at the don
icile of the corporation, and notice {
;. said meeting shall be delivered, person
Il ally or by depositing i'll the postotict
> properly addressed. to each stockholdei
> at least fifteen days before such meetint
Other Stockholders meetings may /
held when ordered by the Board OF ID
II rectors or upon the demand OF twenty
5 five per ceIftum of the outstandin
IS stock, notice of such meetings to
= given as prescribed for meetings to eie'
- directors. Each stakeholder shall ;
!. every stockholders meeting be entitle
to one vote, i'll person or by write
proxv, for each share of the capit
stock held by him. or he may send Il
vote BY letter, the signature of who
must be acknowledged before a Notai
Public or other officer authorized 10 tai
affidavits. The stockholders shall hay
the right of cumulative voting III Il
II election Of directors.
III Until the next general meeting to !
II held under this charter OIL the first leg
III dav in the month of October. 1915, Il
Board of Directors shall be composed
| Messrs Frank a. Godchaux, OF Ne
] Orleans. La, Robert +. Putnam.
| Abbeville, La, and J. Otto Broussard, =
] Abbeville, La, with the said Frank
/ Godchaux. president; Robert +. Putnam
/ vice-president, and J. Otto Broussar
| observation-disclosures.
III The President, or i'll his absence, u
/ | Vice President of this corporation sha
have power i'll the name and III behalf
the corporation, to authorize the instit
ton of any suit and other legal procee
ings. as authorized by Section 10 OF A
l No. 267 of 1914.
ARTICLE VI.
At meeting OF the stockholders du
called for the purpose, by the vote
TX two-tlirds of all its stock. these articl
of incorporation may be amended, nio'
l fed or changed in any manner co
farmable TO the laws OF this state.
IN cluCing the increase or decrease OF
II capithI stock. Presided, however, I'll
III the objects and purposes OF incorpoi
III ton Shall not be changed, and the cat
W tel stock shall not be increased TO nc