The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-12-27
CHARTERS.

corporation organized by an act passed be-
fore Francis P Burns; notary public, on
folio $50, and as amended by an act OF
amendment before the same notary public
on October Sth, 1917, recorded in NJ. o. b
1872, folio 554, held at the office of said
Mercantile Realty Company, incorporated, on
November 10Th, 1917, they were authorized
as president and secretary, respectively oi
said Mercantile Realty Company, Incorpor-
ated, as appears by certified copy of the
minutes of the stockholders meeting hereto
attached and made part hereof, to appear
before me, notary, for the purpose of amend
ing the said charter of the Mercantile Realty
Company, Incorporated
And the said appearers. as president and
secretary, respectively, of the said Mercan.
tile Realty Company, Incorporated, and act
ing in said capacities aforesaid and on be.
authority conferred upon them at the afore.
said special meeting Of the stockholders OF
| the Mercantile Realty Company, Incorporate
ed, declared that Article Four of the charter
| Of said Mercantile Realty Company, Incor.
porated, passed before me, notary, on Apri
5th, 1917, and as amended by an act o.
amendment passed before me, notary, on DC
| tober 9Th, 1917, has been changed, altered
| and amended to read as follows, to.wit:
Article IV.-"The capital stock of this cor
poratiOn is hereby fixed at the sum of thirty
| thousand ($50OO0.OO dollars, divided into
| three hundred 600 shares of the par value
of one hundred $4,000 dollars each, pro
vded that the amount to which the capita
| stock of this corporation may be increased
| shall be one hundred thousand (SlOO,OOOOO
| dollars
Fifty per cent of the capital stock of thi.
| corporation must be subscribed for before tht
| filing of the articles of Incorporation. The
| subscribed capital stock of this corporation
| shall be payable in cash.
| No stakeholder shall ever be held liable
L ar for ha -,
/ debts of this corporation in any further sun
| than the unpaid balance due the corporation
| on the shares of stock subscribed for by him
| nor shall any mere informality in the or
| ganization have the effect of rendering thi:
| charter null of exposing any shareholder
| to any liability whatsoever"
And the said appearers moreover declared
| that in consequence of the foregoing and pur
| suant to the authority in them vested by the
stockholders of said Mercantile Realty Com.
| pany, Incorporated, they do hereby formally
declare publicly and make known that In
| the manner prescribed by law and agreeable
| to the provisions of the charter of said
Mercantile Realty Company, Incorporated
Article Four of said charter, passed before
| me, notary on April Sth, 1917, and amended
| by act of amendment passed before me
| notary, on October sth, 1917, has been
changed, altered and amended as hereinabove
set forth and written, and they do hereby
direct and require that the stated change and
amendment OF Article Four of the charter
of Mercantile Realty Company, incorporated
be recorded and published in the manner
prescribed by law, to the end that the said
change and amendment hereafter and at all
| times be as hereinabove set forth, as regards
all persons that are now or may hereafter
| become stockholders OF the aforesaid com
pany.
Thus done and passed at my Office in the
| City of New Orleans, on the day, months
and year herein first above written, in the
presence of ST. Clair Adams and Guy Hop
kins, Competent witnesses, who hereunto sign
| their names with the said appearers and me
| Notary, after a reading of the whole.
(Signed) E. NJ. REA, P. J. STOUSE.
| Witnesses: St Clair Adams, Guy Hopkins
| FRANCIS p. BURNS, Notary Public
| 1, the undersigned Recorder of Mortgages
| in and for the Parish of Orleans, State Oh
| Louisiana, do hereby certify that the above
| and foregoing Act Of Amendment of Incor
poration of the Mercantile Realty Vo., Inc.
was this day duly recorded in my Office, il
| New Orleans, Nov. 20th, 1917.
(SigneD EMILE ]. LEONARD, by. R
| true copy.
| FRANCIS P. BURNS, Notary Public
| Nov p g Dec Is 20 q