The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1916-11-16
AMENDMENT TO
OF LAFAYETTE FIRE INSURANCE COM
PANY

OF LAFAYETTE FIRE INSURANCE COM
PANY.
United States of America. State of Louisi
ana, Parish of Orleans, City of New Or
leans.
Be it known, that on this twentieth day
of the month of October, in the year of oui
Lord one thousand nine hundred and six
teen. and of the independence of the United
States of America, the one hundred ant
for,y-hrst, before me-, Henry P. Dart, Jr,
qualified, in and for this city and the Parish
of Orleans, therein residing, and in tn,
presence of tfhe witnesses hereinafter named
and undersigned, personally came and a,p
A. Gordon, both of age and residents of the
City Of New Orleans. here appearing in their
capacity as president and secretary. re-
spectively, of the Lafayette Fire Insurance
Company, a corporation organized under the
laws of the State of Louisiana and domiciled
in the City of New Orleans; who declared
that as will appear by the certificate hereto
annexed, a meeting of the stockholders oil
held at the Office of the corporation, No
2l3 Magazine street, on Wednesday, Octo.
Der II, 1916, at the hour Of eleven o'clock
a. N. That there were present and repre-
(l42O shares of the capital stock of said
corporation out of fifteen hundred shares
issued and outstanding. That said meeting
was called for the purpose of considering
Of the said corporation, which amendments
were in due course adopted by the said meet
ing That at said meeting the appearers
were appointed a committee for the purpose
Of causing to be embodied in due formal and
legal shape the amendments to the Charter
of tfhe Lafayette Fire Insurance Company
adopted at such meeting.
And the said appearers further declared
that by virtue of the authority in them
vested by said stockholders at said meeting
held Wednesday, October II, 1916, and for
and in behalf of said corporation, and in
order to carry out the purposes of said meet:
ing and to give the alterations, changes and
amendments adopted at said meeting full
legal force and effect, they do now declare,
publish and give notice 10 the world that
Article II of the Charter of the Lafayette
John ] Ward, notary public, on the Dist
day Of November. 1894, was amended, and
the same is hereby amended and re-enacted
SO as to read as follows. to-wit:
ARTICLE Il.-This corporation Is created
for the purpose of transacting the business
of insurance against loss or damage to prop
erty by fire, lightning, windstorm or lorna
does, and to do any and all things necessary
and purposes.
The corporation may cause itself to be
reinsured against any risk upon which II
may have made or shall make insurance"
Said appearers further declare, publish and
give notice to the world that Article III OF
the Charter of the company as executed be-
fore John J. Ward, notary public, on the
21st day Of November, 1894. was ended,
and the same is hereby amended and re.
enacted so as to read as follows. to-wit:
Article III.-The capital stock Of this cor
poration shall be two hundred thousand dol.
lars (s2000O00), divided into and represented
by two thousand shares of one hundred dol
lars $4,000 each, to be paid for in cash
at the time of subscription.
mo fractional shares shall hereafter be
issued.
THE fractional parts Of shares now exist
ing shall not be entitled to vote.
"The capital stock may be transferred,
provided such transfer shall be made on
the books of the corporation and upon sur
render of the certificate thereof"
APpearers further declare that they do
hereby authorize and require the said
changes and amendments to be duly incor-
porated into notsrial shape and to be re.
corded and published according TO law, TO
the end that the same may be operative and
binding on all persons whomsoever.
Thus done and passed at my Office at New
Orleans. on the day, month and year herein
and w. X. Dart, competent witnesses, who
have hereunto signed their names, together
with the said appearers and me, notary.
(Signed: John X Wegmann, Charles A.
Gordon. Henry P. Dart, William Herman
HENRY p. DART, JR, Notary Public.
I, the undersigned recorder of mortgages
in and for the parish OF Orleans, State oil
louisiana, do hereby certify that the act Of
amendment to the charter Of the Lafayette
Fire Insurance Company, was this day duly
recorded in my Office in book 1901, folio -
New Orleans. October. 1916
(Signed) EMILE J. LEONARD. Dy. R.
HENRY P. DART. JR., Notary Public
Oct II nov l6 q 70