The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1916-12-21

INC
State Of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans, City
Of New Orleans.
BE it known, that on this sixth day of the
month of December in the wear of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and
OF the Independence of the United States
, VI America, the hundred and forty-first,
before me- Andrew NJ. buchanan, a notary
public duly commissioned and qualified in
| and for the parish of Orleans, therein resd-
ing, and III the presence of the witnesses
herein after named and undersigned, person.
ally came and appeared:
Mr. Edwin NJ Tele of full age and a
resident of this city, herein appearing in
his capacity as secretary of the Pelican Oil
Refining Company, Inc, and secretary
corporation held August 81, 1916, herein
after referred to, who declared that as will
appear by a certified copy of the proceed
| ings thereof, annexed hereto, meeting of
ing Company, Inc, was held at the Office
] Of the said corporation, No. ll0j Hennen
/ Building, in this city, on August 81 1915,
/ at which meeting there were present and
| stock Of said corporation; that said meeting
was called for the purpose Of considering
amendment to the charter of the said
| poratIOn, particularly Article III thereof rel
alive to the capital stock of said corpora.
ton, and at which meeting, after motion
| duly made and seconded, the following res.
/ Olullous NtIt uHdulHouslt duppltu, VIZ
! Resolved: That Article III of the Char
/ ter of this corporation, being an act passed
before Lewis ROssner Graham notary pub
lie for the parish of Orleans, on the 18th
! day OF July, 1915, be amended and Teadopted
so TO read follows:
Article III-The capital stock of this cor
poration shall be one hundred thousand dol.
lars (SlOOOD0O),, divided into one thousand
shares Of the par value of one hundred dol
| lars $4,000 each. Fifty thousand dollars
! (SS0OOOO thereof shall be preferred stock
and the same shall be entitled 10 receive
ten per cent annual dividends out of the
earnings and profits Of the corporation before
any dividends shall be paid the common
stock, which said dividends said pre-
ferred stock shall be cumulative The
mainder of said stock shall be common stock.
| and said stock shall share equally with the
preferred stock, all dividends that may be
earned and declared in excess Of the ten
per cent dividend on preferred stock.
BE it further resolved that the chairman
and secretary OF this meeting, either OF
them, be and they are hereby authorized
and directed to appear before a notary pub
lie to publish and authenticate and place
Of record the foregoing amendment Of the
charter Of this corporation
And the said appearers further declared
that by virtue OF the authority in him vested
by said stockholders at said meeting held
on the 5lst day Of August, 1916, and for and
to carry out the purposes of said meeting
and to give the alienation, change and
amendment adopted at said meeting full
legal force and effect, he does now declare
publish and give notice 20 the world that
Article III Of the charter Of the Pelican Oil
Refining Company, Inc, executed before
! Lewis Rossner Graham, notary public, on
the 18th day Of July, 1915, was amended and
the same IS hereby amended so as TO read
i as follows, to-wit:
Article III-The capital stock Of this cor
poration shall be hundred thousand dol
lars CSlOOOOUD, divided into one thousand
Z shares az the value of hundred dol
lars (SlOOO0D each. Fifty thousand dollars
C$sOOO.OO thereof shall be preferred stock
, and the same shall be entitled TO receive
ten per cent annual dividends out Of the
- earnings and profits Of the corporation be-
fore any dividends shall be paid on the com.
mon stock, which said dividends on said
preferred stock shall be cumulative. The
remainder Of said stock shall be common
stock, and said stock shall share equally
, with the preferred stock, all dividends that
: may be earned and declared in excess Of the
ten per cent dividend on preferred stock.
The said appearer further declared that he
, does hereby authorize and require the said
r alteration, change and amendment 70 be
, duly incorporated into notarial form and 10
: be recorded and published according 20 law
- the end that the same may be operative
and binding upon all persons whomsoeyer;
Thus done and signed at my Ottc" m the
Z city Of New Orleans, State Of Louisiana, in
the presence Of May A. Kerr and Joseph L.
: Mott, Jr, competent witnesses, residents Of
/ the City OF New Orleans, who have here
, unto affixed their signatures together with
, the said appearers and me, notary, after due
4 reading Of the whole
r (Signed) F.. VI. TELLE, Secty.
{ Witnesses: May A. Keir. JOS. L. Mott, Jr
ANDREW NJ BUCHANAN, Not. Pub
II /. the undersigned recorder of mortgages
S in and for the parish Of Orleans, State Of
n louisiana, do hereby certify that the aci
n Of Incorporation Of the Pelican Oil RehninG
u Co, Inc, was this day duly recorded II
re my Office, in book l9l, folio 81.
'r New Orleans, December 2, 1916.
,e (Signed) EMILE J. LEONARD, by. X
A true copy.
\. ANDREW VI. BUCHANAN Not. Pu
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