The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-12-13
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER
GULF & VALLEY COTTON OIL COM.
PANY, LTD.

PANY, LTD.
United States of America, State of Iouis;.
ana, Parish of Orleans
BE 1t known, That on this 9th day of the
n mUn'n tb OF Noyember' in the year of our Lord
ll9H), and of the Independence of the limited
Saates OF America the one hundred and
forty second; before me, Watts K. Leverich.
Notary. Public, duly commissioned and
State, therein residing, and in the presence
OF the witnesses hereinafter named and un.
deIsigned; personally came and appeared:
ALBERT T. Sanchez and ]. Blanc Monroe,
herein appearing in their respective capaci,
ties as the duly authorized chairman and
Of the Gulf Valley Cotton rne oil i'O comnasT
Lid; held at the Office of the Company at
us domic,le IN the City of New Orleans, on
the 9th day of November. 1917, here in ap-
Pearing by virtue of resolutions adopted at
the SAID meeting, certified copy of which
is hereunto annexed in the margin for ref.
erence;
Who declared, That meeting of the stock.
holders of the Gulf & Valley Cotton Oil
Company, Ltd, regularly held at the Office
OF the Company in the City of New Orleans
IT'S domcile, on the 9th day of November,
holders was present or represented, it was
resolved, by vote of the entire body of
stockholders of the company, to amend Arti.
Gle ~ of the charter of the Company so that
1t Will hereafter read and be as follows,
to-wit:
Article ". The capital stock of this
corporation shall be One Hundred Thousand
(SlOo,ooo00 Dollars, divided into One Thou
sand sand Q9o) shares OF the par value of One
Hundred $4,000 Dollars per share. The
certificates representing said stock shall be
signed by the President or Vice-President
and Treasurer, or in case of the inability
OF said officers, or either of them, to sign
the certificates, the said certificates shall
be signed by such officers as the Board of
Directors shall designate.
"The certificates shall be transferable only
on the stock transfer book of this corpora
ton, on surrender or proof of loss of the Ger.
tihcafes; and no transfer of stock shall be
valid and binding this corporation unless
the same shall have been entered on its
books
This corporation shall have a lien and
pledge on all shares of stock to secure any
indebtedness due to the corporation by the
owner thereof.
"Any shareholder wishing to sell his share
or shares Of stock in this corporation, shall
poration, in proportion to their respective
holdings. the privilege of purchasing the
shares, at such prices as shall be bona hde
offered therefor by any outsider; which of
fer shall be in writing, and shall be accepted
or rejected within three days by the other
shareholders"
And the said appearers declared that they
appeared before me, in accordance with the
said amendment might be properly declared
and recorded in accordance with law.
Thus done and passed in my Office in the
City of New Orleans, 6n the day, month and
year herein first above written. in the pres
ence Of Messrs. Isaac S. Heller and VIM.
Nugent, competent witnesses, who have here
unto signed their names together with me,
notary, and said appearers, after due reading
of the whole.
A. p. SANCHEZ.
]. BLANC MONROE.
Witnesses: Isaac S. Heller, VIM. Nugent.
WATTS K LEVERICH, Notary Public.
I, the undersigned Recorder of Mortgages.
in and for the Parish of Orleans, State of
Louisiana, do hereby certify that the above
and foregoins act Of amendment to the char
ter of Gulf & Valley Cotton Oil Company,
Ltd, was this day duly recorded in my Of
fee in Book 1912, folio -.
New Orleans, November. 1917.
EMILE J. LEONARD. d. R.
WATTS k. LEvERIcH, Notary Public
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