The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1914-08-20
CHARTER
LAZARE LEVY SHRIMP COMPANY.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, PARISH OF OR
LEANS

STATE OF LOUISIANA, PARISH OF OR
LEANS.
Be it 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 H. Manion, 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 /. Cain and Leonard
IIoChstein. who declared that being desIrous
Of forming a corporation under the laws q
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,
associated with them, under the following
terms and conditions, to-wit:
shall ali be LAZARE LEVY SHRIMP COM.
PANY. Its domicile 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 or otherwise preserve for sale
| shrimp and other foodstuffs; and in fact the
| buying and selling at wholesale and retail CT
! 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 (slOOOO.OO) dollars, divided
into one hundred shares of the par value Of
one hundred $4,000 dollars each, which shall
4 be fully paid for in cash or property received
| This corporation shall be a going concern
| when three thousand (S5,OOOOO) dollars OF said
stock shall have been subscribed and paid
1 for.
| ARTICLE IV.-All 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 nrst
| 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
| their number not less than three nor more
| than seven directors to serve during the en-
| suing year.
of the President, Vice President, the Secre-
| tary the Treasurer and such officers as the
Board of Directors may elect The offices OF
| Secretary and Treasurer may be combined IN
one person, but the Secretary need not be a
| stockholder 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 officers:
Lazare Levy, President; Joseph L. Cain, Vice
President; Leonard Hochstein, 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 discharging be particularly desig-
mated by the Board Of Directors in officer
thereof or some other designated person.
| ARTICLE N.-This charter may be amend
ed, modified or altered, or the corporation dis
solved at any time by vote OF ee-fourths
of the stockholders in general meeting con.
Directors after ten days notice III writing "a
each stakeholder; and whenever this corpora
tiOn shall be dissolved by limitation other
wise, its affairs shall be lqudated by the
Board of Directors then in office, and in case
Of the death of one or more of them, the sur,
vvor or survivors shall continue TO act and
I'LL 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 and
| 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 anC
date aforesaid.
Lazare Levy, ten shares, $1,000; Joseph L
Cain, per Lazare Levy, four shares. $500
Leonard Hochstein, fourteen shares, sl,4O0
Arthur Schmidt, per s. Goldman, share
500; Samuel Goldman. one share, $780,
Witness:
JAMES II. FINLEY.
JOHN A. WENTWORTH.
l, the undersigned, Recorder of Mortgages
in and for the Parish of Orleans, State o
Louisiana, do hereby certify that the abov,
and foregoing act of Incorporation of tn,
Lazare Levy Shrimp Company was this da,
duly recorded in my office in Book ll27
Folio 296, New Orleans, July 22nd, 1914
EMILE J. LEONARD, by. Oh.
A true copy.
MARTIN H. MANION, Notary Public
aug Is % n sept 10, 1914