The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-10-18
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CHARTER
CHARTER
OF CENTURY OIL AND REFINING o.,

OF len ONl oI[ AND NIL A-''->N w.
United States of America, State OF Loulsi-
ana. Parish OF Orleans, City OF Ne"
Orleans.
Re it known, that on this 9th day of the
month of July, i'll the year OF our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and seventeen U9lD
before ne, Watts X. Leverich, a notary
public in and for the Parish of Orleans, State
Of Louisiana duly commissioned and quail
fed and in the presence of the witnesses
hereinafter named and undersigned, person
ally came and appeared the several persons
whose names are hereuntO subscribed, all OF
the age OF majority, who declared tina
availing themselves of the provisions OF the
laws of this State relative to the organiza
ton of corporations, they hereby form them.
selves into and constitute corporation, ioi
the objects and purposes and under the slip
ulations hereinafter set forth.
Article 1.-The name and title OF this cor
poration shall be Century Oil and Refining
Co., Inc, and under its corporate name /,
shall enjoy succession for the term and
period of ninety nine (99) years from and
after the date hereof; and shall have power
and authority to contract, sue and be sued;
to accept and receive mortgages, pledges, or
sther hypothecations; TO make and use a
corporate seal and the same to break and
alter at pleasure; to purchase, receive, lease,
hold, or otherwise acquire and convey, as
well as mortgage and hypothecate, under its
corporate name, property, both real, personal
and mixed: to borrow money, and make and
issue bonds and other evidences of debt,
and to secure the same by mortgages or
otherwise; to name and appoint such man
ayers and directors, officers and agents as
the interest and the convenience of said cor
poration may require, and to make and estab-
lish, as well to alter and amend at
pleasure, such bylaws, rules and regulations
for the management and regulation of the
affairs of the corporation as may be neces-
sa-l, proper or convenient
Article 1.-THE domicle of this corpora
ton shall be in the City of New Orleans,
and all citations other legal process shall
ton, or in his absence, upon the vice
president.
Article III-The objects and purposes for
which this corporation is established, and
the nature Of the business to be carried on
by it, are declared and specified TO be: to
mine. dig and drill for, or otherwise obtain
from the earth, otherwise, oil, gas, sui
phur, salt and other minerals; to manufac-
ture. refine, prepare for market, buy and sell
and transport the same in a crude or refined
condition; 10 acquire for these purposes oil,
gas, sulphur, salt. coal and other mineral
lands and leaseholds, and other interests or
rights in real estate minerals; TO con-
Struct and maintain conduits and lines of
tubing and piping for the transportation of
natural gas and oil; TO buy, sell. hold,
lease, mortgage, ALLEVIATE and deal in real
estate of all sorts; to drain, reclaim, colo
nize, develop and improve lands. TO erect
buildings and other structures, and to oper-
ate, lease otherwise handle them and TO
deal therein; to construct, acquire, maintain
and operate all railroads, tramways, tele-
graph and telephone lines, canals, water
ways, boats and other means of transporta-
ton necessary or convenient in prosecuting
the business OF the corporation; TO construct
and operate hotels, warehouses and general
stores; TO issue bonds, mortgages and hypoth-
ecatlons TO the extent necessary or proper
tor IT'S business; to acquire and hold, SELL
cucumber or dispose of stocks and bonds of
other companies to the extent permitted by
law; to exchange its entire capital stock. or
any part thereof, for proerty which il is
authorized OF acquire, or to exchange its
entire assets and business, or any part
thereof, tor property stock or bends or
other obligations of other companies; 10 hold
stock IN other corporations; to perfect and
acquire patents, rights. improvements or
processes; to do and transact all business
properly connected with, incidental or con-
venient to any of the said objects and pur-
poses.
Article IV.-The capital stock of this cor.
poratlon IS hereby fixed at two hundred
thousand dollars $4,000 10000, to be divided
into and represented by twenty thousand
tD.UoO) shares of par value of ten dollars
lSlO) each. which capital stock shall be paid
tor IN cash, may be issued for property
actually received by the corporation or for
services rendered. The capital stock may
be increased up TO the sum of one million
dollars Isl .GO00000M.
ration shall be vested in and exercised by
a board of not less than three nor more than
nine directors, the number to be fixed by
the stockholders at their annual meeting
The board shall elect from their number
a President, two Vice Presidents, Secretary