The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-12-27
CHARTERS.


mails into meTchantable products, and sell
the same. To cure and deal in hides, pelts
and skins To manufacture, buy and sell
provisions and other articles OF merchandise
commonly manufactured, bought or sold by
packing or provision houses, and 10 slaugh-
ter cattle, swine, sheep and other animals
for food
THIRD: To carry on dairy business,
and 10 manufacture, buy and sell, and other
wise deal in, and 70 export and import pro.
duce OF all kinds, butter, oleomargarine and
butterine; to establish, construct, maintain
and operate refrigerating plants, and plants
for the manufacture OF ice; to equip, main
tain and operate refrigerator cars, and TO
do any and all things necessary and Incl
dental to the operation of the Company IN
the premises.
FOURTH: To carry on the business of
cold storage and warehousing, and all the
business necessary implicitly incidental
thereto, and to further carry on the business
Of general warehOusing, in all its several
branches; to construct, hire, purchase, oper-
ate and maintain, all or any conveyances
tor the transportation, in cold storage
otherwise, by land or by water, of any and
all products, goods, or manufactured arti-
cleS; to issue certificates and warrants, ne
gotiable or otherwise, TO persons warehcus-
ing goods with the Company, and to make
advances or loans upon the security of such
goods or otherwise; to manufacture, sell and
trade in, all goods usually dealt in by ware
hOusemen; to construct, purchase, take on
dock, works capable OF being advanta-
ge0usly used in connection with the shipping
and carrying or other business OF the COM
pany.
FIFTH: To construct, purchase, lease or
otherwise acquire, and own, maintain and
operate, steamboats,, sailing vessels, barges
and other watercraft, piers, docks, wharves
or bridges, and such lines Of tTamWay or
railway, within the State OF Louisiana
elsewhere, as may be convenient, necessary
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Of the Company, with all necessary side
tracks, locomotives, cars, depots, round
houses and other equipment necessary to
the operation of said piers, docks, wharves,
bridges, tramways and railways, and the
traffic thereon, provided that this corporation
shall not have the power of eminent do
main.
SMITH: To hold, own, buy, sell, convey,
exchange, lease, rent or otherwise cucumber,
dispose of and deal in real estate or other
property, personal or mixed, improved I'M
mpoved ana to mortgage, pledge or ALLEVIATE
and cucumber the same; to operate and cul-
tivate lands, plantations and farms; grow
thereon all agricultural products. and carry
on a general agricultural business; to oper-
ate sugar rehneries, cotton gins, canning
factories and rice mills; to operate stores,
commissaries, merchandise establishments, and
carry a general mercantile business.
SENENTH: To drain, reclaim and improve
submerged, swampy or other lands, whether
belonging to it or to other persons; TO dig,
construct, WORK, uTeuge, SlTalRnten, WIDEN,
deepen, or otherwise work upon, natural or
other water courses, canals, drains, sewers,
bitches and dikes, under contract or under
the direction of public officers or courts; and
to do and carry on general dredging and
drainage business, and for that purpose 10
own and operate construction, dredging and
draining plants, consisting of machinery,
tools, implements, dredge boats, ditching
scows, lighters, derricks, vessels, engines,
cars, wagons, and property Of every class
and description, convenient necessary
thereto; to deal in, buy, sell, acquire, lease,
sublet or farm, for its account or for
the account of others, real estate, lands and
tenements; and to survey, subdivide and
plan such lands for the purpose of sale, and
to improve and develop the same by the
erection of houses and buildings thereon,
and to do such other lawful acts as may
be needful or desirable in and about the
said improvement development thereof, for
any purposes; and generally to purchase,
own, lease, convey, mortgage, pledge, trans
fer, otherwise acquire or dispose of, lands,
water rights, mills, factories, buildings and
other structures and all other property, both
real and personal, of every class and descrip-
ton, or any interest therein necessary or
desirable for the carrying on of the afore-
said businesses, or either of them.
EIGHTH: To prospect, bore, drill for,
mine, quarry, and produce oil, gas or other
minerals metal; to cut timber and deal
in timber and lumber; to operate sawmills,
lumberyards, and carry on a general saw
mill business.
NINTH: To encourage immigration into
| the State of Louisiana, and TO develop gen.
| orally the agricultural and manufacturing
interests Of the State, and to assist in the
advancement of the material prosperity and
progress thereof; to organize, found, estab-
| lish and encourage colonies in the State of
Louisiana and elsewhere.
TENTH: To enter into, make, perform and
carry out contracts of every sort and kind,
with any person, firm, association, corpora
| ton, private, public, or municipal, body
polite, and with the Government of the
United States, any territory or colony there
OF, or any foreign government.
ELEVENTH: Geneally to do all and ev-
erything necessary, suitable, convenient or
proper for the accomplishment of any of the
purposes Of any one or more of the objects
herein enumerated or incidental to the pow
ers herein named, or which shall at any
time appear conducive or expedient to the
protection or benefit of the corporation, either
as holders Of or interested in any property or
otherwise, with all the powers now here
after conferred by the laws of the State of
Louisiana upon corporations organized under
the act herein referred to.
ARTICLE IV.-The authorized capital stock
OF this corporation is hereby declared TO be
the sum of Two Million One Hundred Thou.
sand Dollars (S2,l00,O0O0O), which is divided
into and represented by Twenty One Thou
sand (2l,0OO) shares of the par value of One
capital stock shall be fully paid and non
assessable when issued; shall be represented
by certificates, and shall be personal prop
erty. No transfer of said capital stock shall
be binding upon this corporation unless made
in accordance with the charter and bylaws,
and recorded on the books thereof.
Article V.-The business and affairs of this
corporation shall be managed, and all of the
corporate powers thereof shall be vested in
and exercised by a Board of Directors
| of not less than five 80 nor more
| than twenty-five 2s) directors, to be
elected from among the stockholders; and
FIVE CS) of the directors at any time in Office,
either present in person or represented by
proxy, including the President and other of
hcers, shall constitute a quorum. The said
Board of Directors shall elect from among
| their number President, one or more Vice
Presidents-the number to be determined each
year by each Board of Directors-a Treasurer
| and Secretary. The Offices Of Secretary
| and Treasurer may be combined by the
Board, and filled by one and the same per-
need necessarily be members of the Board
| of Directors.
| The Board of Directors shall have the full
and complete control of the popety of this
corporation and they shall conduct, use and
| manage the same as in their discretion they
| may deem best, if net inconsistent with the
| objects and purposes of the Company and
| the welfare of the same. The said Board of
| Directors shall have the further power to
| make, alter and annul such bylaws and
| regulations for the government of this cor
| poration as they may think proper; and shall
/ have the right to appoint an Executive Com
| mittee, TO be composed of such number of
directors as they might determine; and shall
on said Executive Committee such power
1 and authorifv thew the said directors