The herald., 1917-12-06
Sis Cash and
SIS Per M onth
CHARTERS.
November 9th, 1917.
AMENDED CHARTER OF THE
NAZLND K MISSISSIPPI VALLEY KAIL-
ROAD COMPANY.

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 the
month of November, in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and seventeen,
and of the Independence of the United States
of America, the hundred and forty
second
Before me, Arthur A. Moreno, a Notary
Public, duly commissioned and qualified, in
and for this city and the Parish OF Orleans,
therein residing and in the presence OF the
witnesses hereinafter named and under
signed. personally came and appeared:
Hunter c. Leake, who declared that at
The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Company, corporation organized under the
laws of Louisiana and domiciled 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 call, 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, as will more fully
appear by certified copy of the minutes
of said meeting annexed hereto for greater
reference. That the said .appearer. as chair
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 & Tex
as Railroad Comp any and The Yazoo &
Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, has
been changed, altered and amended so that
Article 3 in its entirety will read as fol-
lows:
Article III.-"The capital stock of the said
consolidated Company shall be $2l,s53, 5000,
to be divided into two hundred fifteen thou
sand, five hundred and thirty-three (215,sU
shares of $4,000 each; but the said corpo-
ration may at any time increase or dimin-
ish the amount of its capital stock accord
ing to law" 8
And the said sppearer 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 hereinbefore sci
forth and written, and he does hereby direct
and require that the above state change
and amendment of Article II of the char
ter of The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail-
road Company be recorded and published in
the manRer 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 the day month and
year herein first above written in the pres
ence of Louise Wingerter and Robert E.
Bell, competent witnesses, who hereunto
sign their names with the said appearers
and me, Notary, after a reading of the
whole.
HUNTER C. LEAKE
Witnesses: Louise Wingerter, Robert E
A. A. MORENO. Notary Public.
CERTIFICATE.
1, the undersigned Recorder of Mortgage:
in and for the Parish of Orleans State oil
Louisiana, do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing amendment to Article III o.
the charter of The Yazoo & Mississippi Val
ley Railroad Company was this day filed AND
recorded in the mortgage Office for the Par
ish Of Orleans, in Book 1912. folio 693.
New Orleans, November 9th, 1917.
EMILE ]. LEONARD, by. r.
/ hereby certify the foregoing to be ;
true and correct copy of the original nov
A A. MORENO, Notary Public.