The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-12-13
CHARTER
OF LAKESIDE LIVE STOCK COMPANY,
INCORPORATED.

United States of America, State of Lousi-
ana, Parish of Orleans, City of New
Orleans.
Be it known, That, on this the twenty
sixth day of the month of November, in the
Year of Our Lord one thousand nine hun
bred and seventeen, and of the Independence
of the United States of America, the one
hundred and forty first, before me, Percy
Sommer Benedict, Notary Public, duly
commissioned and qualified, within and for
the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana,
witnesses hereinafter named and under
signed. personally came and appeared: the
several persons whose names are hereunto
subscribed, who severally declared that,
availing themselves of the benefits and pro-
visions of the Constitution of the State of
Louisiana, and of the laws of said State
relative to the organiztion of corporations,
and particularly of the provisions of Act
No 267 of the General Assembly of the State
of Louisiana for the year 1914, they have
united to form, and do, by these presents,
form and organize themselves, as we'll as
all such other persons who may hereafter
join Or become associated with them or their
successors, into stock corporation for the
objects and purposes and under the cove
nants, stipulatons and agreements following,
to:wit:
Article 1.-The name and title of this cor
poration shall be Lakeside Live Stock Com
name, unless sooner dissolved in accordance
with lazy and this charter, it shall exist and
continue, and shall have and enjoy corpor-
are existence and succession for period
of ninety-nine (99) years from and after the
date of this act. 1t may have, hold, receive,
borrow, lend, exchange, acquire by grant,
gift or purchase, devise or bequest. sail,
ALLEVIATE, dispose of, convey, lease, pledge,
property Of any kind. whether real, personal
or mixed, corporal or incorporeal, movable
or immovable, all subject to such limita-
tions as may be prescribed by law. 1t may
make, issue and endorse bonds or notes and
other evidences of debt. 1t may accept mort
cages, pledges, or other forms of security for
money loaned other debts. 1t may con-
tract, sue and be sued, plead or be impleaded
by its corporate name in any court of COM
petent jurisdiction. 1t may make, adopt and
use corporate seal and alter the same at
pleasure. 1t may hold stock in other cor
porations, and its capital stock may be is
sued for capital stock in other corporations.
1t may name, appoint and employ such man.
ayers, directors, officers, agents and other
employees as its said business and conven-
fence may require, and may fix their COM
pensation, having due regard to the nature,
character and value of their services. II
may make and establish bylaws, rules and
regulations not inconsistent with this char
ter or any existing law, fixing or altering
the management OF its property, the regu-
lation and government of its affairs, and the
manner OF the CerttnCdtiOn ana registration
Of its stock. 1t may wind up and dissolve
itself, or be wound up and dissolved, in the
manner prescribed by law. 1t may conduct
business in this State. other States, the Fed
eral Districts, the Territories and posses
sions of the United States, and any for
eign country. 1t generally shall possess all
the powers, rights, privileges and immuni-
ties which corporations are and may here
after be authorized to possess under the
Constitution and laws of this State, and par.
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the General Assembly Of the State of Lou
isiana for the year 1914; and it shall have
the power to invest its Board Of Directors
with all of its coporate powers. subject to
such restrictions as may be named in the
charter.
Article 1.-THE domicile Of this corpora
ton shall be the City of New Orleans. Par.
ish of Orleans, State of louisiana, and all
citations or Other legal process 81, shall LIB. b.
of his absence, upon the First Vice-President:
or, in the event of the absence of both of
said officers. upon the Secretary.
Article III.-This corporation is organized
principally for the purpose of carrying on
and doing a general livestock business, and
shall have the power to conduct its business
in all its branches in all of the States. Ter
ritories and possessions of the United States,
as we'll as in foreign countries, and may
have one or more Offices outside OF the
State of Louisiana. In the carrying on Of
its business and the conducting of its af-
fairs. ii is especially empowered and au-
thorized to do and perform the following acts:
FIRST: To acquire by purchase, lease or
otherwise, cattle, sheep and hog farms or
ranches, and to operate the same, either in
dividually or through agents. To buy, sell,
grow. breed. raise, import and export, and
generally deal in, cattle, horses, mules.
hogs, sheep, live stock and poultry of all
kinds, and to carry on a general cattle
raising livestock and agricultural business.
SECOND: To erect and build abbattoirs,
cold-storage warehouses, sheds and other
buildings necessary or expedient for the pur-
poses Of the Company; and to slaughter cat:
tie. sheep. hogs and poultry: To pack and
preserve meats To buy and sell at whole
sale or retail in the United States or else
where, all kinds of meat, and generally to
carry on the trade and business Of meat
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