The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-12-27
CHARTER
OF LAKESIDE LIVE STOCK COMPANY,
INCORPORATED.

INCORPORATED.
United States of America, State of Louisi-
ana, Parish of Orleans, City of New
Orleans.
Be it known, That, on this the twenty
sixth day of the month of November, in the
Year of Our Lord thousand nine hun
dred and seventeen, and Of the Independence
of the United States of America, the one
hundred and forty-first, before me, Percy
Sommer Benedict, a Notary Public, duly
commissioned and qualified, within and for
the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana,
therein residing, and in the presence of the
signed, personally came and appeared: the
several persons whose names hereunto
subscribed, who severally declared that,
availing themselves of the benefits and pro-
visions of the Constitution Of the State of
Louisiana, and of the laws of said State
relative to the organization of corporations,
and particularly of the provisions of Act
No 267 of the General Assembly of the State
of Louisiana for the year 1914, they have
united to form, and do, by these presents,
all such other persons who may hereafter
join or become associated with them or their
successors, into a stock corporation for the
objects and purposes and under the cove
nants, stipulations and agreements following,
to:wit:
Article 1.-The name and title of this cor
poration shall be Lakeside Live Stock Com
pany, Incorporated and under and by said
name, unless sooner dissolved in accordance
with law and this charter, it shall exist and
continue, and shall have and enjoy corpor-
are existence and succession for a period
of ninety nine (99) years from and after the
date of this act. 1t may have, hold, receive,
borrow, lend, exchange, acquire by grant,
gift or purchase, devise or bequest, sail,
ALLEVIATE, dispose of, convey, lease, pledge,
pawn, hypothecate, cucumber or mortgage
property of any kind, whether real, personal
or mixed, corporal or incorporeal, movable
or immovable, all subject to such limita-
tions as may be prescribed by law. 1t may
make, issue and endorse bonds or notes and
other evidences of debt. 1t may accept mort
cages, pledges or other forms of security for
money loaned or other debts. 1t may con-
tract, sue and be sued, plead or be implicated
by its corporate name in any court of COM
petent jurisdiction. 1t may make, adopt and
use corporate seal and alter the same at
pleasure. II may hold stock in other cor
porstions, and its capital stock may be is
sued for capital stock in other corporations.
1t may name, appoint and employ such man.
ayers, directors, officers, agents and other
employees as its said business and eonven'
fence may require, and may fix their COM
pensation, having due regard to the nature,
character and value of their services. II
may make and establish bylaws, rules and
regulations not inconsistent with this char
ter or any existing law, fixing or altering
lation and government of its affairs, and the
manner of the certihcation and registration
of its stock. II may wind up and dissolve
itself, or be wound up and dissolved, in the
manner prescribed by law. 1t may conduct
business in this State, other States, the Fed.
eral Districts, the Territories and posses.
sions of the United States, and any for
eign country. 1t generally shall possess all
ties which corporations are and may here
after be authorized to possess under the
Constitution and laws of this State, and par
ticularly under Act No. 267 of the Acts Of
the General Assembly of the State Of Lou
isiana for the year 1914; and it shall have
the power to invest its Board of Directors
with all of its coporate powers, subject 70
such restrictions as may be named In the
charter.
Article 1.-The domicile of this corpora.
ton shall be the City of New Orleans, Par
ISL of Orleans, State of Louisiana, and all
citations or other legal process shall be
served upon its President, or, in the event
of his absence, upon the First Vice-President,
or, in the event of the absence of both OF
said officers. upon the Secretary:
Article III.-This corporation is organized
principally for the purpose of carrying on
and doing a general livestock business, and
in all its branches in all of the States, Ter
ritories and possessions of the United States
as well as in foreign countries, and may
have one or more Offices outside of the
State of Louisiana. In the carrying on OF
its business and the conducting of its af-
fairs. it is especially empowered and au.
thorized to do and perform the following acts;
FIRST: To acquire by purchase, lease OF
otherwise, cattle, sheep and hog farms OF
ranches, and to operate the same, either in.
dividually or through agents. To buy, sell
grow, breed, raise, import and export, and
generally deal in, cattle. horses, mules
hogs, sheep, live stock and poultry of all
kinds, and to carry, on a general cattle
raising, livestock and agricultural business
SECOND: To erect and build abbattoirs
cold-storage warehouses, sheds and Other
buildings necessary or expedient for the pur
poses Of the Company; and to slaughter cat
tie. sheep, hogs and poultry: To pack ant
preserve meats. To buy and sell at whole
sale or retail in the United States or else
where, all kinds of meat, and generally e
carry on the trade and business Of mea
dealer, in all of its branches. To manufac