The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-11-29
Sis Cash and
SIS Per M onth
November 9th, 1917
AMENDED CHARTER OF THE
YAZOO & MISSISSIPPI VALLEY RAIL

CHARTERS.

ROAD COMPANY.
United States of America, State of Louisi
ana, Parish OF Orleans, City of New
Be it known, That on this 9th day of tn
month of November, in the year of our Lort
thousand nine hundred and seventeen
of America, the one hundred and forty
second.
Before me, Arthur A. Moreno, "a Notar,
Public, duly commissioned and qualified, il
and for this city and the Parish of Orleans
therein residing and in the presence of tn,
witnesses hereinafter named and under
signed, personally came and appeared:
Hunter c. Leake, who declared that a
a general meeting of the stockholders o.
The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Company, corporation organized under the
laws of Louisiana and domicied in the city
of New Orleans, which said meeting was
duly held at the Office of the Company in
Union Station, New Orleans, La, on Octo-
Der 10th. 1917, after proper cali, for the
purpose Of amending the charter of the said
The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Company and increasing the capital stock
thereof, he was elected chairman of said
stockholders meeting, will more fully
appear by certified copy of the minutes
of said meeting annexed hereto for greater
reference. That the said appearer, as chair.
man of said stockholders melting, was au-
thorizd and empowered to take such steps
as may be necessary and proper to have
the charter of the said The Yazoo & Mis-
sissippi Valley Railroad Company amended
IN accordance with the resolutions passed at
SAID stockholders meeting, held for the pur-
pose of amending the charter and increasing
the capital stock of the said The Yazoo &
Mississippi Valley Railroad Company pur.
pursuant to the laws of Louisiana. And the
said appearer, as chairman of said stock
holders meeting and acting in his repre-
sentative capacity and on behalf of said
corporation and the stockholders thereof by
virtue OF the authority conferred upon him
at the general meeting of said stockhold-
ers, declared that the charter of the said
The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Company, as constituted by the articles of
consolidation dated October "a, 1892, by and
between the louisville, New Orleans G. Tex.
as Railroad Company and The Yazoo &
Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, has
been changed, altered and amended so that
lows:
Article III-"The capital stock of the said
consolidated Company shall be 81, 553 10000,
to be divided into two hundred fifteen thou.
sand, five hundred and thirty-three (2ls,s3O
shares of $4,000 each; but the said corpo-
raten may at any time increase or dimin-
ing to law"
And the said appearer moreover declared
that in consequence of the foregoing and
pursuant to the authority in him vested by
the stockholders of said The Yazoo & Mis-
sissippi Valley Railroad Company, he does
hereby formally declare publicly and make
known that in the manner prescribed by law
and agreeably to the provisions of the char
ter, of the said The Yazoo & Mississippi
Valley Railroad Company, Article III Of
the charter of The Yazoo & Mississippi Val
ley Railroad Company has been changed,
altered and amended as herenbefore set
forth and written. and he does hereby direct
and require that the above state change
and amendment of Article III of the char
ter of The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail-
road Company be recorded and published in
the manHer prescribed by law, to the end
that the said change and amendment here.
after and at all times be as hereinabove set
forth, as regards all persons that are now
or may hereafter become stockholders of the
aforesaid Company.
Thus done and passed, at my Office. in the
city OF New Orleans on the day month and
snce of Louise Wingerter and Robert E.
Bell, competent witnesses, who hereunto
sign their names with the said appearers
and me, Notary, after reading of the
whole.
NV. HUNTER c. LEAKE.
ny witnesses; Louise Wingerter, Robert E.
A. A: MORENO Notary Public.
CERTIFICATE
l, the undersigned Recorder of Mortgages
IN and for the Parish of Orleans STATE of
louisiana, do hereby certify that the above
ana foregoing amendment to Article III of
the charter of The Yazoo & Mississippi Val.
ley Railroad Company was this day 6Ied and
recorded in the mortgage Office for the Par
ish Of Orleans, in Book 1912, folio sos.
New Orleans, November 9th, 1917.
EMILE J. LEONARD. DIV. R.
hereby certify the foregoing to be a
true 81, and correct copy of the original now
4. 4. MORENO, Notary Public
Nov q o Dec 6 Is 20 III