The herald., 1914-10-29
CHAR TER
OF BLACK AND COMPANY, INCORPOR
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| United States Of America, State Of Louisiana.
| Parish ot Orleans, City ot New orleans.
! BE IT known. that on tins twcn,v-third dav
| If the month OF September, IN the year Of cur
! Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen
! and OF the independence of the United States
| ut America the one hundred and thIrty-uinth,
| before me, Purncil Mitchell Milucr a notary
public, IN and for the parish If Orleans, state
| ot Louisiana aforesaid, duly comm siouCl and
qudllned. aud IN the presence 81 the w.tucss scs
| hereinafter named and undersigned. person
| ally came and appeared the parties whose
names are hercunto subscribed, who scvcrllly
| declared that. ayailIng themselves of the pro
| visions OF the laws Of this state relative to
the organization OF corporations, and particu-
| larly Act No. 2o7 Of the legislative acts Of the
General Assembly of the state OF Louisiana
! for the year 1914 approved July ., lgI4 they
have Coveuanted and agreed and do by these
presents covenant, agree and bind themselves,
aS well as such other persons who may here
after become associated with them or their
successors. 70 form and constitute a Corpor-
/ alton or body polite IN law. for the objects
and purposes and under the agreements and
supuldtious following, to-wIt:
la) The name Of this corporation shall be
Black Company, Incorporated"
(b) The objects and purposes for which this
corporation Is established and the nature OF
the business to be carried on by it are de
cldred to be as follows, to-wIt:
To engage in buying and selling Of articles
Of merchandise or OF trade OF any kind or
character, particularly lumber; to do d general
brokerage or commission business OF any kind
or character; to represent other persons, indI-
vlduals or corporations and to act for them
IN any capacity; to acquire, own, hold or lease
lands, personal mixed property and use
the same and to dispose OF the same by sale
lease or otherwise, and to do all such things
and acts as may be necessary proper to
carry out or prepare to carry out the objects
and purposes of this corporation.
(C) The capital stock of this CorpOratitu
shall be five thousand dollars (S5OO0O).
cd The capital stock of this corporation may
be increased to twenty-five thousand dollars
(S25OOOOO.
(e) The capital stock as presently consti-
tuted, shall consist of fifty (5OD shares of the
par value OF one hundred dollars (SiOO.UUD
each.
% The domicile of this corporation shall be
in the city of New Orleans, in this state,
and service OF all legal process shall be made
upon any officer OF this corporation.
(g) This corporation shall exist and enjoy
succession for the full term and period Of
nInety-nIne (99) years from the date hereof.
th) The business and affairs and corporate
powers OF this corporation shall be transacted
by three 90 directors, the following being
selected TO serve for the first year, or until
their successors are duly elected and quail.
fed: Charles Hamlin Black, Octavia and At
lanta streets, New Orleans, Louisiana; Gra-
ham 5. Black, I'LL Lowerline, New Orleans,
La; Alexander l.. Black, 42O4 St. Charles
avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana.
(D The annual meeting of stockholders of
this corporation for the election OF directors
shall be held on the fourth Monday of each
December, and the directors now chosen TO
represent this corporation shall hold their
Offices until that date, or until their success
sors duly elected and qualified. In case
vacancies occur during the year. same shall
be filled by the remaining directors or dI-
rector.
Thus done and passed, at my Office in the
city of New Orleans, on the date and in the
month and year herein first above written, in
the presence of Hampton Reynolds and Noel
Bunol, competent witnesses, residing IN this
city, who have hereuntO signed their names
with appearers and me, notary, after reading
Of the whole.
Original signed: Chas. II. Black, II shares,
1929 Octavia street, y. O., La; Graham :.
Black, ! share, I'LL Lowerline ST., n. o., La;
A. l.. Black, II shares, 42O4 St. Charles Ave,
y. o., La. Hampton Reynolds, Noel BunOl.
PURNELL NJ. MILNER, Not. Pub.
/, the undersigned deputy recorder OF mort
cages, in and for the parish OF Orleans, state
of Louisiana, do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing act of Incorporation of Black &
Company, Incorporated this day duly
recorded in my office in book ll27, folio 4d7.
New Orleans, La, September ., 1914.
(SignedD EMILE j. LEONARD,
Deputy Recorder of Mortgages.
State of Louisiana, Parish Of Orleans.
|, Purnell Mitchell Miner, a notary public,
in and for the parish OF Orleans, state of Lou
iisiana, duly qualified and commissioned, do
hereby certify that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy OF the act OF Incorporation
of BLACK & Company, Incorporated" as also
the certificate of the recorder OF mortgages for
this parish, thereto attached, as appears by
the original on file and Of record in my Of
fee.
/ In faith whereof, witness my hand and seal
lat New Orleans this 18th day Of September,
PURNELL NJ. MILNER, Not. Pub.
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