The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-01-25
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER

OF PELICAN OIL REFINING COMPANY,
INC.
State of Louisiana. Parish of Orleans, City
Of New Orleans.
Be it known, that on this sixth day of the
month OF December, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and
Of the independence of the United States
Of America, the one hundred and forty-frst,
before me, Andrew NJ. Buchanan, a notary
public duly commissioned and qualified in
and for the parish Of Orleans, therein resid-
ing. and III the presence of the witnesses
herein after named and undersigned, person
ally came and appeared:
Mr. Edwin NJ. Telle, of full age and a
resident OF this city, herein appearing in
his capacity as secretary of the Pelican Oil
Refining Company, Inc, and as secretary
of a meeting of the stockholders of the said
after referred to. who declared that as will
appear by a certified copy OF the proceed
ings thereof annexed hereto, a meeting Of
the stockholders of the Pelican Oil Rein
Of the said corporation, No. ll03 Hennen
Building, in this city, on August 81, 1916,
at which meeting there were present and
represented all OF the shares of the capital
stock OF said corporation; that said meeting
was called for the purpose OF considering an
! anne ndment to the charter of the said cor
pOratiOn, particularly Article III thereof rel
alive to the capital stock of said corpora
duly made and seconded, the following res
olutions were unanimously adopted, viz:
Resolved; That Article III of the Char
ter OF this corporation, being an act passed
before Lewis Rossner Graham, notary pub
lie for the parish of Orleans, the 18th
day of July, 1915, be amended and readopted
so as to read as follows:
Article 1lI.-The capital stock of this cor
poration shall be one hundred thousand dol
lars (SlOO,OO divided into one thousand
shares Of the par. value of one hundred dol
lars g $1,000 each. Fifty thousand dollars
and the same shall be entitled to receive
ten per cent annual dividends out of the
earnings and profits of the corporation before
stock, which said dividends on said pre-
ferred stock shall be cumulative. The re-
mainder of said stock shall be common stock,
and said stock shall share equally with the
per cent dividend on preferred stock
BE it further resolved that the chairman
and secretary of this meeting, or either Of
and directed to appear before notary pub
lie to. publish and authenticate and place
Of record the foregoing amendment of the
charter of this corporation"
And the said appearers further declared
that by. virtue of the authority in him vested
by said stockholders at said meeting held
on the 3lst day of August, 1916, and for and
IN behalf OF said corporation. and in order
to carry out the purposes of said meeting
and to give the alteration, change and
amendment adopted at said meeting full
legal force and effect, he does now declare
publish and give notice to the world that
Article III of the charter of the Pelican Oil
Refining Company, Inc, executed before
Lewis Rossner Graham, notary public, on
the 18th day Of July, 1915, was amended and
the same is hereby amended so as to read
as follows, to-wit:
Article III.-The capital stock of this cor
Poration shall be one hundred thousand dol.
lars SlO0,0oo0O), divided into one thousand
lars $4,000 each. Fifty thousand dollars
(SS0OO0.OO thereof shall be preferred stock
and the same shall be entitled to receive
ten per cent annual dividends out of the
earnings and profits of the corporation be-
fore any dividends shall be paid on the COM
mon stock, which said dividends on said
preferred stock shall be cumulative. The
remainder OF said stock shall be common
stock, and said stock shall share equally
with the preferred stock, all dividends that
may be earned and declared in excess of the
ten per cent dividend on preferred stock.
The said appearer further declared that he
does hereby authorize and require the said
alteration, change and amendment to be
duly incorporated into notarial form and to
be recorded and published according to law
to the end that the same may be operative
and binding upon all persons whomsoever.
Thus done and signed at my Office in the
city of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, in
TIE presence of May A. Keir and Joseph L.
JA'' SoiLPCbCHt WlbHCSscSt RESIDENTS
the City of New Orleans, who have here
unto affixed their signatures together with
the said apPearers and me, notary, after due
reading of the whole.
(Signed) E. NJ. TELLE, secty.
Witnesses, May A. Keir, Jos. L. Mott, Jr.
ANDREW NJ. BUCHANAN, Not. Pub.
l, the Undersigned recorder of mortgages,
in and for The parish of Orleans, State Of
Louisiana, do hereby certify that the act
Of Incorporation of the Pelican Oil Refining
Co, Inc, was this day duly recorded in
my Office, in book 1901, folio 59l.
New Orleans, December 2 1916
(Signe0 EMILE J. LEONARD, by. R.
A true copy.
ANDREW NJ. BUCHANAN, Not. Pub.
Dec 81 % jan II Is Is
ACT OF INCORPORATION
OF RIVER FRONT FARMS INC