St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-06-13

and be sued; to make and use a corpor-
ate seal, and to break and alter the
same at pleasure; to purchase, rent,
lease, hold, sell, mortgage, and other
wise receive or dispose Of property,
real or personal and of every nature
and description; to borrow and loan
money, to grant and receive pledges
and securities of any and every char
acter; to issue mortgage bonds, and
notes secured and unsecured by mort
gage, pledge or otherwise; to make and
enter into any and every manner OF
contract and obligation, with the same
force and validity as an individual
might: to name and appoint and elect
such directors, officers, agents and en-
ployees andrepresentatives as the in
ferests or convenience of this corpora
ton may require; TO make and establish
rules and bylaws for the proper gov
eminent of this corporation, andto alter
or amend the same at pleasure; and
generally to do and perform all such
acts and things as are permitted by the
law and as may be deemed necessary
or proper to carry out the principal OBJ.
iects and purposes OF this corporation.
ARTICLE II.
The domicile of this corporation shall
be in the parish of st. Landry, State OF
Louisiana, and its principal office and
business establishment shall be In or
within five Isl miles of the corporate
limits Of the City of Opelousas; and all
the citations and other legal process
shall be served upon the President, or
in his absence upon the Vice-President,
or in the absence of both OF these of
ficers upon the Secretary; and, in the
absence of all these officers, then in
the manner provided by statute.
ARTICLE III.
The objects and purposes for which
this corporation is organized and the
nature Of the business to be conducted
and carried on by it are the following,
viz:
To purchase or construct a complete
supar-manufacturing establishment, to
be erected upon a tract OF land to be
purchased or otherwise acquired by
This corporation, in st. Landry Parish,
Louisiana, and to manufacture OF and
from sugar cane, sugar or syrup, and
all other products and ~by-products
thereof, to purchase sugar cane, to ad-
vance money thereon, and to take
pledges thereof; to acquire sugar lands,
to develop and cultivate lands, to con
struct and operate tramways, railroads,
and othermeans of transportation, with
out, however, the right of eminent do
main; to buy and sell and generally deal
in sugar cane, sugar and all other pro-
ducts and by-products; and, if deemed
advisable by the directors, to establish
alcohol distIls, paper factories, and any
other factories establishments for utllIZ-
ING or disposing OF the products or by
products of sugar-cane; to manufacture
and place upon the open market Tor
sale syrups or molasses reduced or OBJ
tanned from sugar cane, or its products
or by-products, and to patent, register,
own and use trademarks, trade pictures,
wrappers, covers, cans, jars or other
reeepticles, and to obtain from the gov
eminent protection from imitation or
infringement thereof, and generally to
do and perform any and all acts and
transactions as may be directly or In
directly, Immediately or remotely con.
nected with the manufacturing OF sugar
and other products or by-producfs q
sugar cane and the dealing in said arfI
Giles; provided, that the foregoing
enumeration of specific purposes ane
objects and powers shall not be con
strued or held to limit or restrict tbs
general and legal powers Of this cor
poration.
ARTICLE Nv.
The capital stock of this corporation
is fixed at Thirty Thousand ($30,000.N
Dollars, to be divided into and repre-
scented by Three Hundred 1900 shares
! of the par value of One Hundred Dol