The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1915-03-18
CHARTER
OF DIXIE LAUNDRY COMPANY, INC
United States of America, State of Louisian
Parish of Orleans

United States of America, State of Louisiana,
Parish of Orleans.
Be 1t known, That on this 9th day of the
month of March, 1915, and of the indepen.
dence OF the United States of America, the
18th, before me- Herman Michel, notary
public, duly commissioned and qualified in
and for the Parish OF Orleans, State of Louis
| lana, and i'll the presence of the witnesses
hereinafter named and undersigned, person.
whose names hereunto subscribed who
severally declared that avaling themselves
Of the privileges and of the statutes and
laws of the state of Louisiana, relative to the
formation OF corporations, and particularly
Act No. 267 of the session of the General AS
sembly of 1914, they have covenanted and
agreed, and do by these presents covenant
and agree, and bind and obligate themselves,
as well as all such persons may hereafter
become associated with them, to form and
constitute a body corporate and polite in
law, for the objects and purposes, and under
the siipulations and provisions following
to-wit:
Article 1.-The name and title of this cor
pOration shall be the Dixie Laundry Com
pany, Inc, and under that name ii shall
have and enjoy all the rights, privileges and
advantages granted by law to corporations
and shall have the power and authority to
enjoy succession ad corporate existence for
and during the period of ninety-nne (o9)
years from the date hereof, unless sooner
dissolved, in the manner hereinafter provided
for. Said corporation shall have the power
and authority to contract, to sue and be sued,
10 hndhe ana use corporate seal, ana the
same to break, alter amend at pleasure,
to hold, receive, purchase, convey, deliver,
mortgage, hypothecate and pledge any prop.
erty, real or personal, and to issue notes and
other obligations, negotiable instruments or
other evidences of debt; to have and employ
such managers, agents and other employees
as the interest and convenience of said cor
poration may require or demand, and to
make and establish such bylaws, rules and
regulations for the corporate management
and control of its affairs may be deemed
necessary and expedient.
Article 1.-THE objects and purposes for
which this corporation is created, are hereby
declared to be, to operate and conduct
steam laundry or laundries in the City of
New Orleans, State of Louisiana, or else
where, and in connection Herewith, to do a
clothes and repairing of shoes, and generally
to do any and all things and acts whatsoever
necessary or incidental to, or connected with,
the transaction of the business of said cor
poration.
Article III-The capital stock of this cor
poration is hereby fixed at the of fifty
thousand (SS0OO0.0O) dollars, divided into,
shares of the par value of fifty 5000 dol
lars each, and when issued. shall be paid
for in cash or in property, or in the equiva-
lent thereof. The capital stock of this cor
poration may be increased to one hundred
and fifty thousand (Sl50,OOO0O) dollars. All
shares of stock shall be issued as full paid
and non assessable, and no transfer of stock
less recorded on its books, and no stakeholder
shall sell or dispose of his stock until he
shall have first offered it for sale to the then
stockholders, at its then book value. This
corporation shall be going concern, as
soon twenty-five thousand (S25 10000 dol