The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-12-20
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER
GULF & VALLEY COTTON OIL COM
PANY, LTD.


United States of America, Stat. of Louisi-
ana, Parish of Orleans.
IL known, That on this 9th day Of the
nonth OF November, in the year of our Lord
one one thousand nine hundred and seventeen
Synl, and OF the Independence of the United
toTty second; before me, Watts X Leverich,
Notary Public, duly commissioned and
9ualihed, IN and for the aforesaid Parish and
otate, therein residing and in the presence
OF the witnesses hereinafter named and I'M
detSigned; personally came and appeared:
ALBERT +. Sanchez and ]. Blanc Monroe,
herein appearing in their respective capaci-
ties as the duly authorized chairman and
Of the Gulf & Valley Cotton Oil C orrTnI.
La, held at the Office of the Company al
us domcile in the City of New Orleans. on
the yin day of November, 1917, here in ap-
pearlhg by virtue OF resolutions adopted at
the SAID meeting, a certified copy of which
IS hereunto annexed in the margin for ref
erence;
Who declared, That a meeting of the stock
HHolaers OF the Gulf & Valley Cotton Oil
company, Ltd, regularly held at the Office
OF the Company in the City of New Orleans
rs domcile, on the 9th day of November
iSH, at which the entire body of stock.
hoIuers was present or represented, it was
resolved, by vote of the entire body of
stockholders of the company, to amend Arti-
Gle ~ OF the charter of the Company so that
It Will hereafter read and be as follows,
to-wit:
Article ". The capital stock of this
corporation shall be One Hundred Thousand
($lOo,O0oO0) Dollars, divided into One Thou
Sand QOOO) shares Of the par value of One
Hundred $4,000 Dollars per share. The
certificates representing said stock shall be
signed by the President or Vice-President
and Treasurer, or in case of the inability
OF SAID othcers, or either of them, to sign
the certlhcates, the said certificates shall
De signed by such officers as the Board of
The certificates shall be transferable only
on the stock transfer book of this corpora
ton, on surrender or proof of loss of the GER
tihcates; and no transfer Of stock shall be
valid and binding on this corporation unless
the same shall have been entered on its
books.
This corporation shall have lien and
pledge on all shares of stock to secure any
owner thereof.
"Any shareholder wishing to sell his share
or shares OF stock in this corporation, shall
give the remaining shareholders in the cor
holdings, the privilege of purchasing the
shares, at such prices as shall be bona 6de
offered therefor by any outsider; which Of
fer shall be in writing, and shall be accepted
shareholders"
And the said sppearers declared that they
appeared before me, in accordance with the
authority reposed in them, in order that the
Sdlu amendment might De properly declared
and recorded in accordance with law.
Thus done and passed in my Office in the
City of New Orleans, on the day, month and
year herein first above written, in the pres
ence Of Messrs. Isaac S. Heller and VIM.
Nugent, competent witnesses, who have here
unto signed their names together with me,
notary, and said appearers, after due reading
Of the whole.
4. P. SANCHEZ,
J. BLANC MONROE.
Witnesses: Isaac S. Heller, VIM. Nugent.
WATTS K. LEVERICH, Notary Public.
/, the undersigned Recorder of Mortgages,
in and for the Parish of Orleans, State of
Louisiana, do hereby certify that the above
and foregoins act of amendment to the char
ter of Gulf & Valley Cotton Oil Company,
Ltd, was this day duly recorded in my Of
fee in Book 1912, folio -.
New Orleans, November, 1917.
EMILE ]. LEONARD, D. r.
A true copy.
WATTS K. LEvERICH, Notary Public.
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