Lower coast gazette., 1914-11-07
Charter of the Geraty Wholesale
Plant Company, Incorporated

Plant Company, Incorporated .
United States OF America, .
State OF Louisiana, =
Parish OF Orleans,
City of New Orleans. :
BE IT KNOWN, That III this 18th
! day of the month of October IN the
YEAR Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen
Qs1il. +,
sEtORE Me, Eraste Vidrine, q NO.
tafy public. duly commissioned, quail
1ed and sworn. in and for the above
na1lad Parish and state. personally
came AMI appeared the several per-
sons, whose names are hereunto SUD
scribed, VINO each and all declared:
That, availing themselves OF the
laws OF the State Of Louisiana, on the
subject Of the incorporation Of corpo-
;ations, and especially Of Act 2e7 OF
the Legislature Of the Stata OF Louls'-
ana for the year 1914, they have anc
do by these presents, organize n n
stitute themselves into a corporation
and body polite in law under the foi-
: lowing stipulations and PROVISIONS
: which. they hereby adopt as thelr
t ~,,t,cles OF incorporation, or charter,
: to-Wit::
ARTICLE I.
Inc lame OF this Corporation shall
oe:
TIE eeraty Wholesale Plant Company
incorporated,
and It's domicile is hereby declared 10
ne at Harlem Plantation, in the Far
ish OF Plaquen!nes, State Of hou's'-
This Corporation shall have and en-
,oy corporate existence and succession
#, for and during a period Of Ninety-nire
700, wears, unless sooner dissolved.
a, ARTICLE II.
ID The objects and purposes OF TINS
III Corporation and the nature OF the'Dnsi-
nese to be carried on by it are hereby
e. declared to he, the cultivation ana
selling of vegetable plants and nursery
On stock, the owning or leasing OF LANDS
r, for this purpose and for the CULTIVATION
by and sale O. truck and farm products
the right to buy and sell farm pro
duets for others on commission o.
brokerage, including the doing OF any
thing that NAV be incidental to tn
i said purposes and necessary Tor thei
III" successful accomplishment. The col
ooration shall have The poHer 70 ~
uuire from James Ray Geraty, fora
NO erly of Yonge's Island, S. G., ua Gus
~ ness Of raising and selling at Whol'
rio sale, vegetable plants and nurser
for stock heretofore e"ilieu on
;he name of James Ray Geraty, t
rather with the good will Of said bus
NESS and mailing lists. and shall nay
TIE power TO acquire scch mules II
clements, farming equipment ana su
pi,es. frem Warren Buckley, OF Hare
plantation. La, and Charles W. buc
ley, OF Chicago, ILL.,, as the Boa
NY Directors may desire, and in payne
thereof. to issue full paid comm'
stock Of this Corporation as here
ect- ' -,
after provided.
ARTICLE III.
The cauital stock OF this Corpo'
..,o ton is hereby fixed at Ten Thousa
,,;,, Dollars tsl0,Ooa.0 O>, Of which five tn
Tho sand dollars (s5,00o .o0) shall be &C
~ mon a,ock. and five thousand doll
onth ts5, 100000 shall be preferred sto
m. which capital stock shall consist
v to fifty (5o) shares of one hundred {
of lars (s10o.Oo) each Of common sto
lings and two hundred (2oO) shares
/ the twenty-five dollars H25.oo) each
vant- preferred stock. The preferred ST
tain shall have no voting power OF any s
aque- whatsoever, and shall not be consi'
right ed AZ affecting the amount Of the st
of the Cooperation in connection '
Venty the amendment OF the charter, or
Or increase or decrease Of the cap
rpen' stock as provided for by Act 267 OF
by Legislature CT the State Of l.ou1s1
oeio" of 1914. The preferred stock shal
Alpe'' entitled to receive IN annual d!vle
@" of Ten Per Cent (10R), payable
}, and .,0s,s :, tho company
'"" tho urpyious year, prior to the !
ers of the common stock receiving
dividend upon their common 3
NJ. holdings. This ten per cent u
c.. annual dividend on the preferred
,o1c shall. however, not be cumulative.
,.,,oa preferred stock shall be subject I
.rv in demption by the Company at any
and at par after thirty uass no1.''
ed by Company by mail, addressed to I'M
.norat- known, address Of such preferred $
be. holder bas shown BY the books o
Public Company. such notice 70 colsai'
y lst, vice of the intention o. inc oo''
nee Of SO tosicdcem said stock. II. earn
mes in pro rata of the annual dividend
the date OF redemption shall he
at time OF redemption. The PREF