The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1916-11-23
AMENDMENT TO
CHARTER
OF LAFAYETTE FIRE INSURANCE COM
PANY.

OF LAFAYETTE FIRE INSURANCE CON-
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 our
| Lord one thousand nine hundred and six
| teen, and of the independence of the United
forty-frst. before me. Henry P. Dart, Jr.,
| notary public, duly commissiohed and
qualified, in and for this city and the Parish
/ of Orleans, therein residing, and in the
| and undersigned, personally came and ap-
peared: l. John y. Wegmann; and 2. Charles
| A. Gordon, both of age and residents of the
City of New Orleans, here appearing in their
! 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 will appear by the certificate hereto
annexed, a meeting of the stockholders of
the Lafayette Fire Insurance Company was
held at the Office of the corporation, No.
2l33 Magazine street, on Wednesday, Octo-
| Der IL, 1916, at the hour of eleven o'clock
a. That there were present and repre-
scented fourteen hundred and twenty nine
O429) shares of the capital stock of said
corporation out of fifteen hundred shares
was called 70. the purpose of considering
certain proposed amendments to the charter
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
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 IL, 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 to the world that
Article ii of the Charter of the Lafayette
Fire Insurance Company, executed before
John J. Ward, notary public, on the 2lsi
the same is hereby amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows, to-wit:
ARTICLE H.-This corporation is created
of insurance against loss or damage to prop
erty by fire, lightning, windstorm or lorna
does, and to do any and all things necessary
to accomplish and sustain the said objects
and purposes.
1.-The corporation may cause itself to be
reinsured against any risk upon which 1t
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 ]. Ward. notary public, on the
2st day OF November. 1894, was amended,
and the SAME is hereby amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows, to-wt:
ARTICLE III.-The capital stock of this cor
poration shall be two hundred thousand dol.
lars (S2O0,OO0OO), 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.
'No fractional shares shall hereafter be
issued.
"The fractional parts of shares now exist
tro hall he cd -
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 all persons whomsoever.
Thus done and passed at my Office at New
Orleans, on the day, month and year herein
| first written, in the presence of II. P. Dart
and w. X. Dart, competent witnesses, who
have hereunto signed their names, together
(Signed): John X. Wegmann, Charles A.
Gordon. Henry P. Dart, William Herman
| Dart.
| HENRY P. DART, JR, Notary Public.
| !, the undersigned recorder of mortgages,
in and for the parish of Orleans, State Of
! Louisiana, do hereby certify that the act Of
amendment to the charter of the Lafayette
I recorded in my Office in book l20l, folio =.
New Orleans, October, 1916
(Signed) EMILE J. LEONARD, by. R.
HENRY P. DART, JR., Notary Public
Oct 26 nov 2 Is q 30