The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-11-22
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SIS Per M onth
CHARTERS.
November 9th, 1917
AMENDED CHARTER OF THE
YAZOO & MISSISSIPPI VALLEY RAIL


a
ROAD COMPANY.
United States of America. State of Lousi.
ana. Parish of Orleans, City of New
Orleans.
Be it known, That on this 9th day of the
month OF November, in the year of our Lord
thousand nine hundred and seventeen
and Of the Independence OF the United State,
of America, the. one hundred and forty
second.
Before me, Arthur A. Moreno, a Notary
Public, duly commissioned and qualified, in
and for this city and the Parish of Orleans,
therein residing and in the presence of the
witnesses hereinafter named and under
signed, personally came and appeared:
Hunter C. Leake, who declared that at
a general meeting of the stockholders of
The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Company, corporation organized under the
laws of louisiana and domiciled in the city
of New Orleans, which said meeting was
duly held at the office of the Company in
Union Station, New Orleans, La, on Octo-
Der 10th, 1917, after proper call, for the
purpose Of amending the charter of the said
The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Company and increasing the capital stock
thereof, he was elected chairman of said
stockholders meeting, will fully
appeal by a certified copy of the minutes
of said meeting annexed hereto for greater
reference. That the said appearer, chair
of said stockholders melting, was au-
thorizd and empowered to take such steps
as may be necessary and proper to have
sissippi Valley Railroad Company amended
in accordance with the resolutions passed at
said stockholders meeting, held for the pur-
pose of amending the charter and increasing
the capital stock of the said The Yazoo &
Mississippi Valley Railroad Company pur-
pursuant to the laws of Louisiana. And the
said appearer, as chairman of said stock
holders meeting and acting in his repre-
sentative capacity and on behalf of said
corporation and the stockholders thereof BY
virtue of the authority conferred upon him
at the general meeting of said stockhold-
ers, declared that the charter of the said
The fazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Company. as constituted by the articles OF
consolidation dated October a. 1892, by and
between the Louisville, New Orleans & Tex
as Railroad Company and The Yazoo &
Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, has
been. changed, altered and amended so that
Article in its entirety will read as fol-
lows:
,. Article III.-"The capital stock of the said
consolidated Company shall be $2l,ss3, 10000
To be divided into two hundred fifteen thou.
+ sand, five hundred and thirty three (2l5,S35)
shares Of $4,000 each; but the said corpo-
ration may at any time increase or dimin
ish' the amount of its capital stock accord
ing to law"
that in consequence of the foregoing and
pursuant to the authority in him vested by
the stockholders of said The Yazoo & Mis-.
sissippi Valley Railroad Company, he does
neiepy forInaliy declare puOlicly and make
known that in the manner prescribed by law
and agreesbly to the provisions of the char
ter OF the said The Yazoo & Mississippi
, Valley Railroad Company, Article III of
! the charter of The Yazoo & Mississippi VAL
ley Railroad Company has been changed,
altered and amended as hereinbefore set
forth and written, and he does hereby direct
and require that the above state change
and amendment of Article II of the char
ter of The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail-
road Company be recorded and published in
the manner prescribed by law, to the end
that the said change and amendment here
after and at all times be as hereinabove set
or may hereafter become stockholders of the
aforesaid Company.
Thus done and passed. at my Office in the
city of New Orleans on the day month and
year herein first above written in the pres
ence of Louise Wingerter and Robert E.
sign their names with the said appearer,
and me, Notary, after a reading of the
whole.
HUNTER c. LEAKE
Witnesses: Louise Wingerter, Robert E
Bell.
A. A. MORENO. Notary Public
CERTIFICATE.
l, the undersigned Recorder of Mortgages
in and for the Parish of Orleans, State Of
louisiana, do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing amendment to Article III OF
the charter of The Yazoo & Mississippi Val
ley Railroad Company was this day filed ant
recorded IN the mortgage Office for the Par
ish of Orleans, in Book 1912, folio 6o3.
New Orleans, November 9th, 1917
EMILE ]. LEONARD, DIV. R,
1 hereby certify the foregoing to be a
true and correct copy of the original now
4. <. MORENO, Notary Public
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