The herald., 1914-08-13
CHARTER
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LAZARE LEVY SHRIMP COMPANY.
STATE OF LOUISIANA. PARISH OF OR
LEANS

LAZARE LEVY SHRIMP COMPANY.
STATE OF LOUISIANA. PARISH OF OR
LEANS.
BE 1t known, that on this 2lst day Of the
month of July. in the year OF Our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and fourteen, before
me. Martin II. Manlon, a Notary Public, duly
commissioned and qualified in and for the
Parish and State aforesaid, and in the pres.
euce of the witnesses hereinafter named and
undersigned, personally came and appeared
the following named persons OF the full age OF
majority, and all residing IN this city, to-wit:
Lazare Levy, Joseph l.. Cain and Leonard
Hochsteiu, who declared that, being DESTROYS
of forming a corporation under the laws Of
the State OF Louisiana, they have formed and
organized, and by these presents do form
themselves into and constitute a corporation
and body polite IN law, binding themselves
their successors and those who may become
associated with them, under the following
terms and conditions, to-wit:
ARTICLE The name OF the corporation
shall be LAZARE LEVY SHRIMP COM.
PANY. Its domcile shall be in the city Of
New Orleans. and it shall have its corporate
existence for ninety nine years from the date
hereof. unless sooner dissolved according to
law.
ARTICLE 1.-THE objects and purposes for
which this corporation Is established, and the
nature of the business to be carried on are
hereby declared to be the buying and selling
at wholesale and retail of shrimps, oysters
and other commodities that might be here
after determined by the Board of Directors;
also to can otherwise preserve for sale
shrimp and other tOOdStuttS; and IN tact the
buying and selling at wholesale and retail OF
any merchandise without any restriction
whatsoever. with the right and power to do
any and all things necessarily connected with
or in any manner incidental to the aforesaid
purposes and the owning of real estate.
ARTICLE III.-The capital stock of this
corporation is hereby declared to be the sum
of ten thousand, SlO,mOOC) dollars divided
into one hundred shares of the par value of
one hundred $4,000 dollars each, which shall
be fully paid for in cash or property received
by the corporation.
This corporation shall be a going concern
when three thousand CS5,OOOOO dollars of said
stock shall have been subscribed and paid
ARTICLE IV-AlI corporate powers OF the
corporation shall be vested in Board of DI-
rectors consisting of not less than three or not
more than seven stockholders. The first
Board of Directors shall be composed of La
zare Levy, Joseph l.. Cain, Leonard HOch-
stein, Arthur Schmidt and Samuel Goldman.
They shall serve until the second Tuesday
after the second Monday in January, 1915, or
until their successors have been elected and
installed.
On the second Tuesday after the second
Monday in January, 1915, and Of each year
thereafter, the stockholders shall elect from
their number not less than three nor more
than seven directors to serve during the en-
suing year.
The offices of this corporation shall consist
of the President, Vice President, the Secre-
tary, the treasurer ana SuCn Objects as inc
| Board of Directors may elect. The offices of
Secretary and Treasurer may be combined IN
one person, but the Secretary need not be a
stakeholder or member of the Board, and may
be selected by the latter at any meeting de-
| termined upon by the Board.
Until after the first election in January,
1915, the following shall be the otticers
Lazare Levy, President; Joseph L. Cain, Vice
| President; Leonard Hochsteln, Treasurer, and
| Arthur Schmidt, Secretary.
All citation or other legal process shall be
served on the President, or, in his absence,
the Vice President or the Secretary, at the
| domicile of the corporation.
All employees shall hold their employment
| at the will of the Board unless authority for
hiring and dscharging be particularly desig-
mated by the Board of Directors in an officer
| thereof or some other designated person.
| ARTICLE N.-This charter may be amend
/ ed, modified altered, or the corporation dis
solved at any time by vote of three-tourths
| of the stockholders in general meeting con.
vened called for that purpose by the Board OF
| Directors after ten days notice IN writing "a
| each stakeholder; and whenever this corpora
| ton shall be dissolved by limitation or other.
| wise, its affairs shall be iquIdated by the
] Board of Directors then in office, and in case
| OF the death of one more OF them, the sur
| vivor or survivors shall continue to act and
| fill Vacancies.
! ANY vacancies occurring in the Board of Di
rectors after their election shall be filled by
| the remaining members.
| Thus done and passed in my notarial office
| IN the presence OF John A Wentworth anC
| lanes III. Finley. competent witnesses Of law
| ful age and residing in this city, who here
unto sign with said parties and me, Notary
| after reading of the whole on the day and
| date aforesaid.
| Lazare Lew. ten shares, $1,000: Joseph l.
| Cain, per Lazare Levy, four shares, 500
| Leonard Hochstein, fourteen shares, l,4OO
Arthur Schmidt. per s. Goldman, one share
| 500: Samuel Goldman, one share, 500.
| Witness:
| JAMES II. FINLEY.
| JOHN A WENTWORTH.
l, the undersigned, Recorder of Mortgages
| in and for the Parish Of Orleans, State o.
and foregoing act of Incorporation of III,
\ Lazare Levy Shrimp Company was this day
| duly recorded in my office in Book liz
| Folio 2o6, New Orleans, July 22nd 1914.
| EMILE J. LEONARD, by. Oh.
| A true copy.
MARTIN H. MANION, Notary Public.
| aug Is % u sept 3 TO- 1914