The herald., 1916-11-02
AMENDMENT TO
CHARTER
OF LAFAYETTE FIRE INSURANCE COM
PA\Y.

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 our
! Lord one thousand nine hundred and six
tteen. and OF the independence of the United
| States of America, the one hundred and
| forty-first, before me, Henry p. Dart, Jr.,
! notary public, duly commissioned 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
| capacity 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
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. Rl. That there were present and repre-
| scented fourteen hundred and twenty nine
u429) 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
certain proposed amendments to the charter
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 to the world that
| Article III OF the Charter of the Lafayette
Fire Insurance Company, executed before
day of November, 1894, was amended. and
the same is hereby amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows, to-wit:
Article H.-Ihs 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
to accomplish and sustain the said objects
and purposes.
THE corporation may cause itself to be
reinsured against any risk upon which it
may have made 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 fore John Ward; notary. public on the
and the same is hereby amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows, to-wit:
Article lll.-1he capital stock of this cor
poration shall be two hundred thousand dol
lars (SaO.OO000), 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.
ing shall not be entitled 10 a 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-
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
hrst 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
Louis ANA, 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.
(Signe0 EMILE J. LEONARD, by. R.
HENRY p. DART, JR., Notary Public.
Oct % nov 2 9 Is % 30