The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-23

who Severally declared unto me-
Notary, that availing themselves OF
the laws of the State Of Louisiana
and particularly of the provisions of
Act 267 of the General Assembly
for the year 1914, they had and dc
by these presents, covenant, agree
bind and organize themselves, and
those who may hereafter become
associated with them, as corpora
ton and body polite under the fol
lowing terms and conditions con-
shutting their charter
ARTICLE l.
The name of this corporation shall
be THE MORGAN CITY COM
PANY, INC, under which name it
shall have corporate existence and
succession for the period of nine
ty-nine (99) years from the date
hereof, unless sooner lawfully dis
solved.
ARTICLE II.
The purpose for which this cor
poration is formed are:
To purchase, buy, hold, lease or
otherwise acquire, and to sell or
otherwise dispose of, lands, tene-
ments or other property, movable
or immovable, or both; to pur-
chase, or otherwise acquire, and to
hold, reclaim, improve and develop
swamp and marsh land, or both; as
we'll as all other lands or property !;
to farm and cultivate lands and
property, either by or for itself, or
others, and to engage in agricultu-
raj pursuits generally, and to OPP
crate any mandatory for the pur-
pose Of disposing of its agricultural
products; to engage in the buying,
raising, improving, breeding and
selling, either alive, slaughtered, or
packed, of live stock Of all kinds !;
to own and operate warehouse,
granaries, sugar refineries, or such
other manufactures as it may see
fit; to buy and sell timber and lum-
Der and all kindred products, and
to operate sawmills or other wood
manufactures, and buy and sell, or
otherwise handle the products of the
same; to own and operate commits
saries and to carry On a general
mercantile business, either whole
sale or retail, or both; to conduct a
general real estate business, and to
lay out towns, or town sites, sell
and dispose of lots, and to construct
all desirable improvements, drain
age, sewerage, or all other kinds in
connection Herewith; to lay out
and construct, or acquire roads of
all kinds, ferries, bridges, canals
and all appurtenances, install pump
ing plants, electric lights, gas or
water works, on lands owned or
held by it; or bought or reclaimed,
and to operate any or all of such
Improvements, to buy, acquire, hold,
own and operate such steamboats,,
barges, or other water craft, as it
may desire for its private purposes,
or may find expedient; to erect all
dwellings or other buildings on its
property, or elsewhere, as it may see
fit or find necessary; to buy and sell
all property, real, personal, or mix
ed, necessary or incidental to the
carrying out of the above described
purposes, or to loan money on prop
erty, or to borrow money on its
lands or real estate, tenements, or
other property, to mortgage and hy-
pothecate the same, and to issue
bonds, notes, or other evidences of
indebtedness; and, generally, to have
such powers and to do and perform
all such other and further acts,
whether directly enumerated above
or not, and as may be permitted by
law, to be embraced within the pur-
view of one corporation holding the
powers set out above, as well as to
do, have and perform all acts nee
essary or incidental to the enumer-
ated powers.
ARTICLE III.
This company shall have power in
its corporate name to contract, sue
and be sued; to make and use a cor
porate seal and the same to break or
alter at pleasure; to acquire proper
ty of all kinds by any means whatso-
ever; or to hire or lease the same,
to hold, use, sell or otherwise dis
pose of same, as it may elect, as
well as to mortgage, pledge or n.y.
pothecate the same, subject only to
such limitations as may be prescrib-
ed by law; and, in general, to do,
have power to or perform, any and
all acts of whatsoever kind, inciden-
tai or usual to a corporation.
In all matters not specifically pro-
vided for herein, this corporation
shall be deemed to have, possess,
and exercise any and all other and