New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1916-10-14
ACT OF incorporation
OF THE
A1geLS ( MeS!QIeL ([edQlnQ Co. Ile.

United States of America, State of Lou
isiana, Parish of Iberia.
Be 1t Known by these presents that
on this 23rd day of September, A. D.,
1916, before me, the undersigned Notary,
duly commissioned and qualified within
and for the Parish of Iberia, State Of
Louisiana, and in the presence of the
witnesses hereinafter named and under
signed, personally came and appeared the
three natural persons of full age, whose
names are hereunto subscribed, who de-
clared, that availing themselves of the
provisions of Act No. 267 of the Acts of
he General Assembly of the State OF
Louisiana, Of the year 1914, they have
formed and organized and by these
presents do form and organize them
selves as we'll as such other persons as
may hereafter join with them or their
successors, into a corporation, for the
objects and purposes and under the COW
enants, stipulations and agreements fol-
lowing, to-wit:
ARTICLE l.
The name, style and title of this cor
poration shall be The Anglers & Mestayer
Dredging Company, Inc, and under said
name it shall enjoy a corporate existence
and succession for full term and period
Of ninety-nine 1917 years.
It shall have power to contract, sue
and be sued, to make and use a corp
orate seal and the same to alter and
break at pleasure, to have, hold and re-
:eive, purchase, sell, convey, lease, pledge,
bond, hypothecate and mortgage property
If any and all kinds, real personal OF
mixed, corporal or incorporeal, to have
Ind appoint such managers, directors.
officers and agents as the business may
equire, and to make and establish as
veil as to alter and amend from time to
ime such bylaws, rules and regulations
nent of the affairs of said corporation as
nay be nee ssary and proper, and gen.
rally to possess all the powers herein |
fter mentioned and that are now or may |
'e hereafter conferred by law or neces-
ary to promote its objects and interests.
ARTICLE II.
The domicile of this corporation shall
e at the City of New Iberia, Parish of
IBERIA. State Of Louisiana. where service
citation or other legal process shall be
lade up the President of said corpora
on or in his absence upon the Secre
ry-Treasurer of said corporation and
any other manner provided for by
".
ARTICLE III.
The object and purposes for which this
'rporation is organized and founded,
ID the nature of the business to be car t
ed on by it, are declared to be. To en-
lge, by contract or otherwise, in works '
land dredging, drainage and land 2
to own and operate dredges $
d to traffic in the same; to buy and
Il municipal, drainage and land devel-
cement and reclamation bonds and 20
'ffic in the same; to buy and sell lands;
reclaim and develop lands; to own
d operate = machine shop or shops
d foundry; to manufacture dredges o,
Ter drainage appliances; and in gen
i to do and perform any and all
nRs necessary or germane to the ac-
mplishment Of the objects and puE-
Re herein set forth.
ARTICLE ". 4,
The capital stock Of this corporation II,
hereby declared TO Be the sum Of Fifty ID,
ousand Dollars ($50.000.Oo), divided
Five thousand shares Of the par value