St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-10-06
St. Ta11lmany Farmer

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name said corporation shall have
power and authority to contract, suit
and be sued; to make and use cor
porate seal, and the same to break
and alter at pleasure; to hold, re-
ceive, have, purchase, improve, alien
ate, convey, sell, borrow, pledge,
mortgage and hypothecate under
said corporate name, property, real,
personal and mixed; to establish
and operate branch Offices and ware
houses in this and other States OF
the United States; to name and APP
point such managers, agents, direct
ors and employees as its business, in
terests and convenience may re-
qufre; and to make, establish, as
we'll as amend from time to time
such bylaws, rules and regulations
for the proper government of the
affairs of said corporation as may be
deemed necessary and porper; and
the same to change and alter at
pleasure, and to do all other acts
and things permitted by law, or that
shall or may be necessary and prop
er to carry out the objects and pur-
poses of said corporation.
Said corporation, unless sooner
dissolved, in accordance with its
charter, shall have succession and
enjoy existence for period o.
ninety-nine years from date of its
original act of Incorporation, name
ly, July 9Th, 1901.
The President, or in his absen Il
the Vice President, shah be ti:e
proper person upon whom citation
or other legal process Shall Sc
served.
ARTICLE w.
The corporate powers of this com
pany shall be vested in, and exeTc.s
ed by, a Board Of seven Directors
consisting of the President (who
may also be the Treasurer of said
corporation), Vice President, Secre-
tary and four stockholders, four of
which Board shall constitute quo
rum for the transaction of business,
and their decisions shall be valid,
corporate acts.
The following persons shall con-
stitute the first Board of Directors:
e. ]. Domergue,
j. s. Waterman,
Jno. T. Gibbons,
Fritz Samen,
Max Schwabacher,
Chas. W. Schmidt,
J. A. BosQuet.
With E. J. Domergue as President
and Treasurer, J. T. Gibbons as Vice
President, and j. S. Waterman as
Secretary.
No person shall be elected as Dr.
rector or as officer who is not a
stakeholder Of this company.
During the absence of the Presi-
dent, the Vice President shall act
and preside.
Said Board shall continue in Office
until the third Tuesday in January,
1918, on which date, and thereafter
annually, a Board of Directors shall
be elected, unless the same shall tbe
a holiday, when the election shall he
held on the next legal day there
after.
Notice OF which election shall be
given at least ten days continuous
publication preceding each election
in a newspaper published in the town
of Covington; and the Board OF Di-
rectors shall appoint one or more
stockholders to preside at such cleo
ton as commissioners. In the event
of the failure of any commissioner
or commissioners to attend, the Pres
ident shall, by appointment, fill the
vacancy. Any failure from any
cause whatsoever, to elect Directors
the day named for that purpose shall
not dissolve the corporation, but,
the Directors then in office, as we'll
as officers of said company, shall
hold over until their successors are
chosen.
In which event the President shall
cause another election to be held
within thirty days, and shall give
notice thereof as hereinabove pro-
vided. At each election and meet
ing, each stockholder shall he en-
titled to vote for each share Of stock
registered in his name, and may vote
by proxy.
The election of Directors shall be
by ballot, and the majority in
amount Of votes cast, each share of
stock voted upon to be counted for
one vote, shall elect the person or
persons for whom they have been
cast.
After each election the Board of
Directors shall elect from their own
number the officers of said company.
Thus done and signed at my office
at Covington, Louisiana, in the pres
ence Of Louis NJ. Bourgeois and John
Lambert, competent witnesses, who
sign the same with the said appear
ers, and me, Notary Public, after due
reading of the whole.
E. J. DOMERGUE.
]. S. WATER NAN.
Witnesses:
LOUIS NJ. BOURGEOIS.
JOHN LAMBERT.
LEWIS L. MORGAN,
oc6-6t Notary Public.
DIED-At Sun, La, September 81.
1917, Dist Pierce, son Of Warren
Pierce and Emma Mizsl' ef~rd N
years. Funeral took place on Sept.
%, and interment Yves made Il tn
family burial grounds, near Sun.
MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.