The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1917-03-24
CHI A r T E r
The CENTREVILLE COMPANY.
STATE OF LOUISIANA, J
PARISH OF ST. MARY. {

Before me, Wilbur H. Kramer, Clerk
of the 23rd Judicial District Court. st.
Mary Parish, Louisiana, Ex-Otficio
Notary Public, duly commissioned and
qualified within and for said Parish and
State, and 10 the presence of the wit
pesses hereinafter named and under
signed. personally came and appeared
John C. Clausen and Isaac :. Wooster,
residents of the Parish of st. Mary,
State of Louisiana, herein appearing
in their capacities as President and
Secretary. respectively, of "rhe Gem
treville Company, Incorporated'', cor
poration duly organized under the laws
OF this State, by an Act of 1ncorpora.
ton, executed before Isaac $. Wooster,
Notary Public, St. Mary Parish, La,
June %, 1914, duly recorded in the Re-
corder's Office of said Parish in the
Records of Interpretations, Book No. l,
page ia, ct seq, entry No. 81, of date
July 18th, 1914;
Who declared that, at meeting Of
the stockholders Of The CeDtreville
Company, held at it's domicile 10 the
Town Of Centreville, La. on the sth
day Of March. 1917, for the purpose of
considering the amendment of the
charter of the corporation, held after
due compliance with all the provisions
of law and the charter Of the said cor
poration, the charter Of the corporation
was amended by the vote Of zach and
every stakeholder present or repre-
sented at said meeting;
And the said John C. C)ausen and
Ieaac S. Wooster ful Their declared that,
anti
and directed to appear before some
competent Notary Public, duly COM
missioned and qualified within and for
the Parish of St. Mary, La, to execute
the proposed notarial act and declara-
ton of the amendment of said charter,
as required by law. for the purpose OF
affording authentic evidence and per-
manent record thereof;
Wherefore. the said appearers de-
clared, in pursuance of the authority
thus conferred upon them they do here
by declare that, at the said meeting
held March 9th, 1917, the charter of
1.-THE Centreville Company" was amend
ed 40 as TO hereafter read and be as fol-
lows:
ARTICLE I.
Exercise Of Corporate Powers.
The name of this corporation shall be
1.-THE CENTREVILLE COMPANY,
INCORPOKATED', and under its said
corporate name it shall have power and
authority to have and enjoy corporate
existence and succession for the full
term of ninety-nine years from and af-
ter the date hereof; to contract, sue and
be sued; to make aud use corporate
seal. and the same to alter and break
at piea.ur.: 10 hold, to receive. lease,
purchase and convey, as well as mort
gage and hyp",hecate property, real
personal and mixed, corporal and IN
cOrporeal; to name and appoint such
managers, agents, directors and officers
as it's business, interest and con-
venience may require; and to make and
establish, as we'll as alter and amend,
from time to time such bylaws, rules
and regulations for the proper govern
mont Of the affairs of said corporation,
% may be necessary and proper.
ARTICLE II.
DOmicile and Citation.
The domicie of this corporation shall
he in the Town Of Centrevillc, Parish
of st Mary. State of Louisiana, and all
citations or other legal process shall be
served upon the President of said cor
pOrati0n, or in the event of his absence
upon the Vice-President thereof. and
in the absence of both of said officers,
upon the Secretary of the corporation.
ARTICLE III.
Objects and Purposes.
The objects Of this corporation shall
be:
To foster, develop, promote and ad-
vance the community welfare Of that
portion of the Parish of St. Mary,
adjacent to and comprising the Town
Of Centreville, and embraced within
what is kuOwn as the Fourth Police
Jury Ward of said Parish. along edu-
cational, agricultural and industrial
lines, to the advantage Of said CON-
munity and to the profit of the corpO.
ration
To carry cut these objects the corpo-
ration will have full power and author
ity to buy and sell real estate. land and
tn ments. whether high. low. swamp,
er.dowed or marsh; to purchase, re-
claim, develop aud improve lands; to
loan and borrow money on lands, real
estate and tenements, and to mortgage
and hypOthecato same; and to issue
dobtedness; to farm and cultivate lands,
either for itself or for others. and to en-
gage in agricultural pursuits generally:
70 buy and sell agricultural products; to
Craze lands, and to buy and sell cattle,
horses, sheep and other. animals; to
own and operate warehouses, granaries,
sugar factories and refiDeries and to
market the products thereof; and own
and operate in connection Herewith
commissaries. and carry on genera
mercantile business, both retail and
Wholesale; to construct, own, operate
and maintain canals, bridges. ferries.
ron; .. I'll, r"ds. toll gates, railroads.
{ wm roads. and to dispose of same at
its pleasure: to build and maintain
iev~es and canals, and to construct and
maintain drainage and irrigation plants
for ifself and for hire and to establish