The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1914-08-20
CHARTER
or >TIONAL FURNITURE COMPANY
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United STATES OF AMLTLIA' oi> nIt ;.
nT LOUISIANA, PARISH O D,~S -"

r-rIrDD STATES or AMERICA, SIA NJ l.
nF LOUISIANA, IAtlS nhprUDsANS
LEANS. CITY OF NEW %, ohl Fifteenth
Be it known, that on 1r IHl' in n" the year Of
gay I'D nineteen hundred and l9u n,.,,nS,
ana of the independence OF Tue ~ thirty
loF America, the one huhultI -. a no
ninth. before me, Edward laI' IA cnoiidrd.
IN. nnhlic. duly commissioned ana qu".' ~
20 - "a for the parish of Orleans S'atr
Tanisiana therein residing, and IN tIlS n III
.oca of the witnesses hereinafter nan, ,",,, aI
undersigned, personally CANT ~ ~, barr.
tho sayeral persons whose names dle -.
nc Subscribed who Severally declared th"'
4 vaIling themselves OF the laws Oh Tue So
OF Louisiana, in such cases maue anu P,o,
yided, they have contracted anu astrcu, "l ii
hind themselves as well As such Olher per
sons as may hereinafter become assoclatyu
with them, to form a corporation, tor the
objects and purposes, ana and under III, tle '''''''0
ARTICLE 1.-The name of TINS corpora
+ion shall be the NATIONAL FURNll uhf'
COMPANY, LIMITED, and under us corpo,
rate name it shall have and ENJOY cOrPoIa'Ii
existence for ninety-nine years from ana
after this date. The dOmicile of this corpo-
ration shall be in the city OF New orleans,
La, and all legal process shall be served
upon the president of this corporation, or in
his absence upon the yice-preSident. II shall
have the power to sue and be sued, TO bor-
row money, hold, purchase, sell, mortgage
and hypothecate real and personal property,
10 make and use a corporate seal. the same
to break and alter at pleasure, and to make
such bylaws, rules and regulations for the
management Of the business and affairs OF
the said corporation as may be necessary.
ARTICLE 1.-THE objects and purposes
Iof this corporation are to engage in the
wholesale and retail sale OF furniture, house
hold goods, crOckery, and glassware, for cash
or on the installment plan and TO do every
thing proper and needful for carrying on
said business.
| ARTICLE III-The capital stock OF this
Icorporation shall be the sum ef seventy-hve
hundred (S1,500.00D dollars, DIVIDED INTO
three hundred shares OF the par value OF
twenty-five (S25.00) dollars, each, whlch
shall be paid for in money, property, or labor
when issued. This corporation shall De
going concern and authorized TO do business
under this charter as soon as the sum OF
three thousand (S3,00oOO) dollars Is sub
scribed for. -,
ARTICLE IV.-All corporate powers OF
this cornora tIon shall be vested In and eAer-
rised by a board OF directors, VINO shall nav
mower to ALLEVIATE, mortgage, sen, vi Ill
| the property of this corporation, lneT hoa~d
he +brea directors to compose the salu Dodru,
Ntbc said directors to be elected from ainO anon
the stockholders in said corporation ne
meeting Of stockholders TO eject ulL.N ~ =
shall be held on the second M9nday VI Su -,
| in each wear, commencing with the year .,
Io15. Such election shall be by Oailot anu
each share OF stock shall be entltled 10 onS
vote After the election or Sald Ooaru vi
directors the said board shall from its own
number elect a president, a vlceIpreSIueh1 u,
and a secretary-treasurer. The Following 81
rctors shall constitute the first BOARD OF III
rectors OF this corporation and shall serve
until their successors are duly and Legally
elected George A. Gomperts, president Use
dore Levitan, vice-president; Herman FER
lof, secretary treasurer.
| ARTICLE V.-This charter may be amend
ed changed or the corporation dissolved or
llIGuidated at a stockholders meeting called
for that purpose, by a twO-thirds vote or the
stock issued after five days prior notice In
writing mailed to each stakeholder at his
Hast known address, and after publication
twice in a daily newspaper during said five
days. The liquidation Of this corporation TO
| be by three stockholders to be named by the
stockholders at meeting called for that
purpose.
Thus done, signed and passed, In my no
Iitarial Office, in the city Of New Orleans, on
1.-The day, month and year first above written
lin the presence OF Joseph Murray and James
Beer, competent witnesses. who hereunto
sign their names with the said appearers
and me, notary. after the reading OF the
whole. The said subscribers writing oppo
lsite their names their subscriptions 10 tn'
tcapltal stock OF this corporation, which said
klst Is to act as the original subscription
His.
| COriginal signed) George A. Gomperts
moo shares Isedore Levitan, 100 shares