The herald., 1917-12-06
AMENDED CHARTER OF
MERCANTILE REALTY COMPANY IN.
CORPORATED.

MERCANTILE REALTY COMPANY, IN.
CORPORATED.
United States Of America, State of Louisi.
Orleans VI Ne"
BE 1t known. That on this nineteenth dav
Oh the month OF November, in the wear Of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and
seventeen, and OF the independence of the
United States of America the one bundled
and foriy-hrst, before me, Francis p Burns
notary public, tily commissioned and
qGahhed IN and for this city and the Par
! Ish OF orleans therein residing and in the
presence OF the witnesses hereinafter named
ana undersigned, personally came and an
Peared Edgar NJ. Rea, President, and Peter
y SIouse' secretary, who declared that at
Mercantile Realty Company, Incorporatrd a
| corporation organized by an act passed he
tore Francis p. Burns, notary public on
| Hprll Sth' IVY, recorded in NJ. o. b. 400,
iolio So, and as amended by an act of
| amendment before the same notary n,bIic
! on October 9Th, 1917, recorded in NJ u r.
~, folio SS4 held at the Office of said
MMercantiIe Realty Company, incorporated, on
november 18th, 1917, they were authorized
as president and secretary, respectively. Of
SAID Mercantile Realty Company, Incorpor-
area, as appears by a certified COPY of the
minutes OF the stockholders meeting hereto
attached and made part hereof, TO appear
before me-. notary, for the purpose of amend
ing the said charter of the Mercantile Realty
Company, Incorporated.
And the said appearers, as presiden, and
secretary, respectively, of the said Mercan-
tile Realty Company, Incorporated and act
ing in said capacities aforesaid and on he.
halt OF said corporation by virtue of the
authority conferred upon them at the afore-
sdld special meeting of the stockholders of
the Mercantile Realty Company, Incorporat.
ed declared that Article Four of the charter
OF said Mercantile Realty Company. Incor-
PTra'ed, passed before me, notary, on April
otn, iSl|' and as amended by an act of
amendment passed before me, notary, on Dc
tober Sth. 1917, has been changed altered
and amended to read follows, to-wit:
Article lV.-"The capital stock of this cor.
poratIon is hereby fixed at the sum of thirty
thousand t$50'O0o.0O dollars, divided into
OF one hundred $4,000 dollars each. pro-
vided that the amount to which the capital
stock OF this corporation may be increased
shaH be one hundred thousand (S1O0,OOOOO
dollars.
Fifty per cent of the capital stock of this
corporation must be subscribed for before the
filing of the articles of Incorporation The
subscribed capital stock of this corporation
shall be payable in cash.
No stakeholder shall ever be held liable
or responsible for the faults, contracts or
debts OF this corporation in any further sum
than the unpaid balance due the corporation
on the shares of stock subscribed for by him.
nor snail any mere informality in the or
ganization have the effect of rendering this
charter null or of exposing any Shareholder
TO any liability whatsoever"
And the said appearers moreover declared
that in consequence of the foregoing and pur-
suant to the authority in them vested by the
stockholders of said Mercantile Realty Com
pany, incorporated, they do hereby formally
declare publicly and make known that in
the manner prescribed by law and agreeable
TO the provisions of the charter of said
Mercantile Realty Company, incorporated,
Article -Four OF said charter, passed before
me, notary, on April Sth, 1917, and amended
by an act of amendment passed before me,
notary, on October 9Th, 1917 has been
changed, altered and amended as hereinabove
set forth and written, and they do hereby
amendment of Article Four of the charter
OF Mercantile Realty Company, incorporated,
be recorded and published in the manner
prescribed by law, to the end that the said
change and amendment hereafter and at all
times be as hereinabove set forth, as regards
all persons that are now or may hereafter
become stockholders of the aforesaid COM
pany.
City of New Orleans, on the day, months
and year herein first above written, in the
presence of St. Clair Adams and Guy Hop
<ins, competent witnesses, who hereunto sign
heir names with the said appearers and me,
Notary, after a reading of the whole.
(SigneO E. NJ. REA, P. ]. STOUSE.
witnesses; St Clair Adams, Guy Hopkins.
FRANCIS P; BURNS, Notary Public.
/, the undersigned Recorder Of Mortgages,
N and for the Parish of Orleans, State of
Louisiana, do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing Act of Amendment of Incor-
poration of the Mercantile Realty Vo., Inc,
vas this day duly recorded in my Office, in
New Orleans, Nov. 10th, 1917.
(signed) EMILE J. LEONARD, by. R.
A true copy
. FRANCIS P. BURNS, Notary Public.
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