The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-12-13
CHARTERS.


mails into merchantable products, and sell
the same. To cure and deal in hides, pelts
and skins. To manufacture, buy and sell
provisions and other articles of merchandise
commonly manufactured. bought or sold by
packing provision houses, and to slaugh-
ter cattle, swine, sheep and other animals
for food.
THIRD: To carry on a dairy business,
and to manufacture, buy and sell, and other
wise deal in, and 10 export and import pro-
duce of all kinds, butter, oleomlrgarine and
butterine; to establish, construct, maintain
and operate reirlgeratlng plants, and plants
for the manufacture OF ice; to equip, main
tain and operate refrigerator cars, and 10
do any and all things necessary and Incl
dental to the operation OF the Company in
the premises.
FOURTH: To carry on the business OF
cold storage and warehousing. and all the
business necessary or implicitly incidental
thereto; and to further carry on the business
Of general warchousing, in all its several
branches; to construct, hire, purchase, oper-
ate and maintain, all or any conveyances
for the transportation, in cold storage Or
otherwise, by land or by water, of any and
all products, goods, or manufactured arti-
cles; to issue certificates and warrants ne
gOtiable or otherwise, to persons warehouS-
ing goods with the Company, and to make
advances or loans upon the security of such
goods or otherwise; to manufacture, sell and
trade in, all goods usually dealt in by ware
housemen; to construct, purchase, take on
lease, or otherwise acquire any wharf, pier,
dock, works capable OF being advanta-
geouSly used in connection with the shipping
ard carrying or other business of the COM
pany.
FIFTH: To construct, purchase, lease OF
otherwise acquire, and own, maintain ana
operate, steamboats,, sailing vessels, barges
and other watercraft, piers, docks, wharves
or bridges, and such lines of tramway OF
railway, within the State OF Louisiana
elsewhere, as may be convenient, necessary
or incidental TO any business or enterprise
Of the Company, with all necessary side
tracks, locomotives, cars, depots, round
houses and other equipment necessary +
the operation Of said piers, docks, wharves
bridges, tramways and railways, and tn,
'trafhc thereon, provided that this corporation
SMITH: To hold, own, buy, sell, convey.
exchange, lease, rent or otherwise cucumber
dispose of and deal in real estate or other
property, personal or mixed, improved or un
impoved, and to mortgage, pledge Or ALLEVIATE
and cucumber the same; TO operate and Cul-
tivate lands, plantations and farms; grow
thereon all agricultural products, and carry
on general agricultural business; to Oper-
ate sugar rehneries, cotton gins, canning
factories and rice mills; TO operate stores,
comlnissares, merchandise establishments, and
carry on general mercantile business.
SEVENTH: To drain, reclaim and improve
submerged, Swampy other lands, whether
belonging to il or TO other PERSONS to dig,
construct, work, dredge, straighten, widen,
deepen. or otherwise work upon, natural or
other water courses, canals, drains, sewers.
bitches and bikes, under contract under
the direction of public officers courts; and
to do and carry on a general dredging and
drainage business, and for that purpose 10
own and operate construction, dredging and
draining plants, consisting of machinery,
tools. implements, dredge boats. ditching
scows, lighters, derricks, vessels, engines,
cars, wagons, and property OF every class
and description, convenient or necessary
thereto; to deal in, buy, sell, acquire, lease,
sublet farm, for its own account or for
the account of others, real estate, lands and
tenements; and to survey, subdivide and
plan such lands for the purpose of sale, and
to improve. and develop the same by the
and to do such other lawful acts may
be needful or desirable in and about the
said improvement or development thereof for
any purposes; and generally to purchase,
own, lease, convey, mortgage, pledge, trans
fer, otherwise acquire dispose of, lands,
water rights, mills, factories, buildings and
other structures and all other property, both
real and personal Of every class and descrip-
ton, or any interest therein necessary or
desirable for the carrying on of the afore-
said businesses, or either of them.
EIGHTH: To prospect, bore, drill for,
mine, quarry, and produce oil, gas or other
minerals or metal; to cut timber and deal
in timber and lumber; to operate sawmils,
mill business
NINTH: To encourage immigration into
the State of Louisiana, and to develop gen.
orally the agricultural and manufacturing
interests of the State, and to assist in the
advancement of the material prosperity and
progress thereof; TO organize, found, estab-
lish and encourage colonies in the State Of
Louisiana and elsewhere.
TENTH: To enter into, make, perform and
carry out contracts of every sort and kind,
with any person, firm, association, corpora
ton, private, public, or municipal, or body
polite, and with the Government of the
United States, any territory or colony there
of, or any foreign government
ELEVENTH.: Geneally to do all and ev-
erything necessary, suitable, convenient or
proper for the accomplishment of any of the
purposes of any one or more of the objects
herein enumerated or incidental to the pow
ers herein named, which shall at any
time appear conducive expedient to the
projection or benefit of the corporation, either
as holders Of or interested in any property OF
otherwise, with all the powers now or here
after conferred by the laws of the Stat. of
Louisiana upon corporations organized under
the act herein referred TO.
ARTICLE IV.-The authorized capital stock
of this corporation is hereby declared TO be
the sum of Two Million One Hundred Thou
| sand Dollars 2,l0o0O000). which is divided
into and represented by Twenty One Thou
! Hundred Dollars $4,000 per share. Said
capital stock shall be fully paid and nom
assessable when issued: shall be represented
by certificates, and shall be personal prop
erty. No transfer of said capital stock shall
be binding upon this corporation unless made
in accordance with the charter and bylaws,
and recorded on the books thereof.
Article V.-The business and affairs of this
corporation shall be managed. and all of the
corporate powers thereof shall be vested in
and exercised by Board of Directors
of not less than five 90 nor more
than twenty-five (29 directors, to be
elected from among the stockholders; and
FIVE 80 of the directors at any time in Office
either present in person or represented by
proxy, including the President and other of
hcers. shall constitute quorum. The said
Board of Directors shall elect from among
their number President, one or more Vice
Presidents-the number to be determined each
year by each Board Of Directors-a Treasurer
and Secretary. The Offices of Secretary
and Treasurer may be combined by the
Board. and filled by one and the same per
son. Neither the Treasurer nor the Secretary
need necessarily be members of the Board
of Directors.
The Board of Directors shall have the full
and complete control of the popety of this
corporation and they shall conduct, use and
manage the same as in their discretion they
may deem best, il not inconsistent with the
objects and purposes of the Company and
the welfare of the same. The said Board of
Directors shall have the further power to
make, alter and annul such bylaws and
regulations for the government of this cor
poration they may think proper; and shall
have the right to appoint an Executive Com
mittee, to be composed of such number Of
directors as they might determine; and shall
have the authority to delegate to and confer