St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-11-21
CHARTER

State of Louisiana, Parish of St. Landry
Be Unknown, that on this eight day of
the month of August, in the year of our
! 7 ord One ThensandN Nine Hundred ard
Fourteen 1914 before me, J.. Edgar
Andrepont, a Notary Public duly COM
missioled and qualified and sworn in
and for the Parish and State first above
written and in the presence OF witness
es hereinafter named and undersigned,
personally came ana appeared ne per-
sons whose names are hereunto SUD-
sciibed, who severally declared that
of Act No. IS of the Session Of the Leg
approved June 18th, 1888 as well as the
General Laws Of the State Of Louisiana
relative to the formation and organiEa-
ton Of Corporations, they have formed
and organized anaby these presents DC
form Themselves and such other per
SONS AZ f1iay hereafter Dssome asaoe
ed with them into 4 Corporation and
BODY polite in iaw for the object and
purposes and under the sdpulatfons fol-
loving to.Wlt:
ARTICLE +.
The name a~ndstgie of this corporation
) is hereby declared to be the Farmers
Union Gin Co. Ltd. And it shall have
ajeJ Succession N lE1s fer
q period OF n~inety-nine years FROM the
date hereof. It shall have tie power
40 Contrast sue and 81 sued, to make a
corporate seal and the anne to break
or alter at pleasure; to hold purchase,
lease rent, sell, mortgage, pledge and
h~ypothecate property real, personal and
mixed, to name, elect and appoint
managers, statesmen and agents; to
make and establish bylaws, rules and
regulations for the management OF its
business, and affairs.
ARTICLE II.
The domicile Of this Corporation shall
be at Prairie Ronde, in the Parish OF
ST. Landry, State of Louisiana, (P. O..
address Opelousas, La, Route2) where
all citations and other legal process
shall be served upon its President and
! in case of his absence upon the Vice
President, or in the event of the abb
sence of both the President and Vice
President. on the Secretafy-Treasurer.
ARTICLE Iii.
The object and purposes for which
this corporation is organized and the
/ nature of the business to be carried on
by it, are hereby declared to be as fol-
lows to-wit: To establish and operate
warehouses, yards and store rooms for
handling, storing, weighing, sampling
sheltering cotton, cotton seed, corn, rice
and otherfarm products. To own and
general brokerage and commission
1,,1.ro@1 ~, all Efax.rsa .1Y4N1..c3r fn n1xrta
and operate rice, sugar and syrup mills
to manufacture and sell bricks and ce-
8}eg locks, to operate W39adfi lsm-
Der yards; to operate a canning plant
for preserving fruits and vegetables
and 10 manufacture vinegar, pickles
etc. To buy and sell all necessary raw
materials aid to handle all b~y-products
carry on in connection Herewith a
General Mercantile business and to do
any and all things incidental and ger
nane and to the objects and purposes
herein set forth.
ARTICLE II.
The capital of this Corporation is
hereby fixed at the sum of Seven
Thousand Dollars {$7000.00) divided in
to one hundred shares Of the par value
of One Hundred Dollars each. The
amount of each share shall be paid for,
in cash or its equivalent and the Cor
poration shall become a going concern
when thirty-five shares shall have been
subscribed and paid for.
ARTICLE v.
All the corporate power of this Cor
poration shall be vested in a board of
Directors to be composed Of five STOCK
holders, and the management of the
business shall be in the hands of this
board. The members of the said board
shall be elected annually, on the second
Tuesday in December ofeach year and
every year commencing IN the year
1914. The members of said board shall
hold offices until the successors have
been elected and qualified. Amy va
cancy occurring in this body shall befill-.
ed by the remaining numbers from
among the stockholders. At all meet
ings of stockholders each stakeholder
shall be entitled to one vote for each
share of stock owned by him, which
vote may be cast in person or proxy.
The Beard OF Directors shall have pow
er to make all rules and regulations for
their own government, and the proper
conduct OF the affairs of the Corpora
ton. They shall elect from their own
number a President, Vice President
a Secrefary-Treasurer bat however the
officesof Secretary and Treasurer may
be combined into one office; as the
board may from time to time direct; I'M
til the election to be held by the stock
holders on the second Tuesday of Dec
ember 1914 as hereinafter provided is
had, Adelphe Guillory, Edgar Prud-
homFne, Armand Manuel, Philip Hicky
and Emar Lafleur shall constitute the
first Beard of Directors, with the said
officers Adolph Guillory as President,
Edgar Prudhomme, Sr., as Vice Presi-
dent and Emar Lafleur as Secretary
Treasurer. Three members of the said
Board shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business.
ARTICLE vi.
The capital stock of this corporation
may be increased at any time in ac-
cordanee with the laws of this state.
The charter may be amended, alter
ed or changedo or the corporation dis
solved by d vote of two thirds Of the
stockholders voting by shares, at a
meeting convened for that purpose, af-
ter thirty days previous notice of such
meeting shall have been given each
stakeholder by letterand by publication
in one or more newspapers published
in the Parish of ST. Landry.
ARTICLE VII.
No stakeholder Of this corporation
shall be held liable for any of the
faults, indebtedness or contracts there
of in any further sum of than the I'M
paid balance due the c%ornorafion on