The herald., 1917-01-25


United States of America, State of Louisi-
ana, Parish of Orleans, City of New
Orleans.
Be it known, that on this 10Th day of the
month of December 1916, before Ernest Touro
Florance, notary public, duly commissioned
and qualified within and TO- the parish of
presence OF the witnesses hereinafter named
and undersigned, personally came and ap-
peared A. Franklin Pugh and ]. c. Lyons
of New Orleans, La, herein appearing in
their respective capacities as chairman and
secretary respectively of a stockholders
meeting of H. w. Sloan Company, Limited,
lied by act passed before Ernest Touro
Florance, notary public, on the 18th day Of
February, 1906, and under and by virtue of
a resolution passed at the stockholders
meeting hereinafter mentioned, a certified
copy of the minutes of which meeting is
hereto annexed and made part hereof; who
declared that special meeting of the stock
holders OF said corporation, held on the 4th
/ day Of November, 1916, which had been duly
convened for that special purpose according
to law, the following amendments 10 the
| charter of said corporation were adopted by
a unanimous vote of the holders of all
stock OF said company, present or repre-
scented at said meeGng, to-wit:
That Article / of said charter of said CON-
pany be and was amended so as to read as
follows, tO-wit:
Article 1.-The name and title of the cor
poration hereby formed is declared to be the
II. w. Sloan Company incorporated, under
which name it shall have and enjoy cor
porate succession for the period of ninety
nine years, and shall have and exercise for
the purposes of the business to be carried
on by it, all the powers conferred by law
upon corporations.
That Article " of said charter was amend
ed as to read as follows:
Article IV.-The capital stock of this cor
poration is hereby fixed at $4,000, divided
into 200 shares Of the par value of 500
in cash, or its equivalent in real estate,
merchandise, or property, at the time that
the same is issued All transfers of stock
shall be made on the books of the company
on the surrender of outstanding certificates
pursuant to such rules as shall be prescribed
by the directors. This company shall have
the right to commence business when the
| total capital stock of the corporation, twen-
ty thousand dollars $4,000 shall have been
paid in.
The whole as more fully appears by the
annexed certified copy of the minutes of
said stockholders meeting
And the said appearers having requested
me, notary, to put said amendment in au-
thentc form, 1 do by these presents receive
said amendment in the form of this public
act, to the end that this amendment may
read into the original charter passed before
Ernest T. Florance, on the 18th day of Feb
ruary, 1906.
Thus done and passed at my Office in the
city Of New Orleans, on the day and date
herein first above written in the presence of
L. Ennemoser and Lyle Saxon, competent
witnesses, and me, said notary, after due
reading of these presents.
Original signed: A. F. Pugh, chairman,
J. c. Lyons, secretary. Witnesses: L. Enne-
moser, Lyle Saxon.
ERNEST T. FLORANCE, Not. Pub.
I, the undersigned recorder of mortgages,
in and for the parish of Orleans, State of
Louisiana, do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing act of incorporation of the
Fl; w. Sloan Company, incorporated, was
this day duly recorded in my Office in book
1901, folio ia.
New Orleans, Jan. 2, 1917.
(Signe6 EMILE J. LEONARD, by. R.
hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true and correct copy of the original act of
Incorporation of the II. W.. Sloan Co., to-
gether with the certificate of the recorder
of mortgages
Witness my hand and official seal this 4th
January, 1917.
ERNEST T. FLoRANcE, Not Pub.
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