The herald., 1914-09-03
CHARTER
OF


LAZARE LEVY SHRIMP COMPANY.
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 II. Manion, Notary Public, duly
| commissioned and qualified in and for the
| Parish and State aforesaid, and in the pres
| ence of the witnesses hereinafter named ant
/ nderslgned, 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
| HoChstein, 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 1.-The name of the corporation
shall be LAZARE LEVY SHRIMP COM.
| PANY. Its domcile shall be in the city of
| New Orleans, and II shall have its corporate
| existence for ninety-nine years from the date
hereof, unless sooner dissolved according to
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 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 IIl.-The capital stock of this
corporation is hereby declared to be the sum
of ten thousand CslO,OOOOO) dollars, divided
into one hundred shares of the par value of
one hundred ($l0O.00 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 (s5,0OOOO) dollars of said
stock shall have been subscribed and paid
for.
Article Iv.-AlI corporate powers of the
corporation shall be vested in a Board of Di-
rectors consisting of not less than three not
more than seven stockholders. The first
Board of Directors shall be composed of La
zsre 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
suing year.
The offices of this corporation shall consist
OF the 1TeSlOent, vice IreSldent, 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
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 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-
thereof or some other designated person.
ARTICLE V.-This charter may be amend
ed, modified or altered, or the corporation dis
solved at any time by vote of three -fourths
of the stockholders in general meeting con-
vened called for that purpose by the Board OF
Directors after ten days notice in writing 10
each stoSkholder; and whenever this corpora
tion shall be dissolved by limitation or other
wise, its affairs shall be liquidated BY the
Board of Directors then in office, and in case
OF the death of one or more of them, the sur
yiiyor or survivors shall continue to act and
NIL vacancies.
Any vacancies occurring in the Board of Di.
rectors after their election shall be filled BY
the remaining members.
mus uoHc anu passed IN my nOtarial office
in the presence of John A. Wentworth and
J ames II. Finley, competent witnesses of law.
full 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 Levy, ten shares, $1,000; Joseph L.
Cain, per Lazare Levy, four shares, $500;
Leonard Hochstein, fourteen shares, sl,4OO
Arthur Schmidt, per s. Goldman, one share,
500; Samuel Goldman. one share, s10O.
Witness:
JAMES II. FINLEY.
JOHN A WENTWORTH.
/, the undersigned, Recorder of Mortgages.
in and for the Parish of Orleans, State Of
Louisiana, do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing act of Incorporation of the |
Lazare Levy Shrimp Company was this day
duly recorded in my office in Book III, |
Folio 2e6, New Orleans, July 22nd, 1914
EMILE J. LEONARD, by. Oh.
A true copy.
MARTIN H. MANIoN, Notary Public.
aug IS 20 u sept 10, 1914 |
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