St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-12-19
CHARTER.

the month of August, in the year of our
Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and
Fourteen 1914 before me, J.. Edgar
Andrepont, a Notary Public duly com
missioned 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 carNe and appeared the per-
sons whose anne r hereunto sub
scribed, who severally declared that
.availing themselves OF the provisions
of Act No. 267 of the Session ofthe Leg
i~slature of the State of Louisiana of 1914
approved July 9th, 1914 as well as the
General Laws of the State of Louisiana
relative to the formation and organiza-
ton Of Corporations, they have formed
and organized and by these presents do
form themselves and such other per-
sons as may hereafter become ~associat-
ed with them into a Corporation and
body polite in law for the object and
purposes and under the stipulations fol-
lowing to-wit:
ARTICLE /.
The name and style of this corporation
is hereby declared to be the Farmers
! Union Gin Co. Ltd. And it shall have
and enjoy succession and existence for
a period of ninety-nine years from the
date hereof. 1t shall have the power
to contract sue and be sued, to make a
corporate seal and the same 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 Secretary-Treasurer
ARTICLE III.
The object and purposes for which.
this corporation is organized and the
nature of the business to be carried on
by II, are hereby declared to be as fol
lows to-Wit: To establish and operate
warehouses, yards and store rooms for
handling, storing, weighing, sampling
sh~eltering cotton, cotton seed, corn, rice
and otherfarm products. To own and
operate a cotton gin or gins. to do a
general brokerage and commission
business in all farm products to own
and operate rice, sugar and syrup mills
to manufacture and sell bricks and ce-
ment blocks, to operate wood and lum-
Der yards; to operate a canning plant
for preserving fruits and vegetables
and to manufacture vinegar, pickles
etc. To buy and sell all necessary raw
materials and to handle all by-products
OF the things SO manufactured and to
carry on in connection Herewith a
General Mercantile business and to do
any and all things incidental and ger
name and to the objects and purposes
herein set forth.
ARTICLE ".
The capital of this Corporation is
hereby fixed at the sum of Seven
Thousand Dollars $1,000. 00l 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 of each 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. Any va
cancy occurring in this body shall be fill
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 Board OF Directors shall have pow
er to make all rules and regulations for
their W government, and the proper
conduct of the affairs of the Corpora
ton. They shall elect from their own
number a President, Vice President
a Secretary-Treasurer but however the
offices OF 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 or the second Tuesday of Dec
ember 1914 as hereinafter provided is
had, Adolphe Guillory, Edgar Prud-
homme, Armand Manuel, Philip Hicky
and Emar Lafleur shall constitute the
first Board of Directors, with the said
officers Adolph Guillory as President,
Edgar Prudhomme, ST., 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-
cordance with the laws of this state.
The charter may be amended, alter
ed or changed or the corporation dis
solved by a 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 letter and by publication
in one or newspapers published
in the Parish of st. Landry.
ARTICLE VII.
No stakeholder of this corporation
shall be held liable for any of the
indebtedness or contracts there
Of in any further sum of than the UNI
paid balance due the corporation on
the shares owned by him or her, no