The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-02
Charter of The Morgan
City Company Inc.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish of St. Mary.

Parish of St. Mary.
: Before me, Robt E. Brumby, :
Notary Public, duly commission
and qualified in and for the Parish
of St. Mary, State of Louisiana
personally came and appeared
Messrs
Albert F. Storm of Morgan City
La.
| Eugene A. Pharr of Morgan City
Lewis J. Bass of Morgan City,
Maurice E. Norman of Morgan
City, La.
Ashley W. Pettigrew, Morgan
Fred F. Chapman OF Morgan
Albert NJ Gotten of Morgan City,
La.
Herbert NJ Gotten of Morgan
City, La.
William Gotten of Morgan City,
La.
James F. Prohaska of Morgan
City La.
Warren B. Reed of Morgan City,
La.
C. E. King of Morgan City, La.
Bernard A. Storm of Morgan
City, La.
Sol Loeb of Morgan City, La.
K. S. Foster of Morgan City, La.
X. R. Hood Of Morgan City, La.
w. D. Roussel of Paterson, La.
Mrs. F. Bauer of Berwick, La.
S. Nye Bass of New Orleans, LIE
Lewis S. Clarke of New Or
leans, La.
who seve,ally 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 do
by these presents, covenant, agree,
bind and organize themselves. and
those who may hereafter become
associated with them, as a corpora
ton and body polite under the fol
lowing terms and conditions con-
stituting their charter.
ARTICLE |.
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 800 years from the date
hereof, unless sooner lawfully dis
solved.
ARTICLE Il.
The purpose for when 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 it's 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 en- 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 ueSlre IOr us private puTpose>.
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