The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1917-12-13
CHARTERS.

| corporation organized by an act passed be-
fore Francis P. Burns. notary public, on
| April 5th, 1917, recorded in NJ. o. B. 1906.
| folio $50, and amended by an act of
amendment before the same notary public
on October sth, 1917, recorded in NJ. o. b.
l2l2, folio 554, held at the Office of said
Mercantile Realty Company, Incorporated, on
November 18th, 1917, they were authorized
| as president and secretary, respectively, of
| said Mercantile Realty Company, Incorpor-
ated, 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 president and
secretary, respectively, of the said Mercan-
| tile Realty Company, Incorporated, and act
| ing in said capacities aforesaid and on be-
half of said corporation by virtue OF the
authority conferred upon them at the afore-
SAID 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-
porated, passed before me, notary, on April
| 5th, 1917, and as amended by an act Of
amendment passed before me, notary on Oc-
| tober Sth, 1917, has been changed, altered
and amended to read as follows, to-wit
Article IV.-"The capital stock of this cor
poration is hereby fixed at the sum of thirty
| thousand CS5O,0O000) dollars, divided into
| three hundred 5000 shares of the par value
| of hundred $4,000 dollars each, pro.
vided that the amount to which the capital
| stock OF this corporation may be increased
| shall be one hundred thousand ($lOO 10000
| 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 OF
| 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 shall any mere informaity 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 5th, 1917, and amended
| by an act of amendment passed before me-
changed, altered and amended as hereinabove
| set forth and written, and they do hereby
J direct and require that the stated change and
| 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 hereinabove set forth. as regards
| all persons that are now or may hereafter
| become stockholders of the aforesaid CON-
pany.
| Thus done and passed at my Office in the
| City of New Orleans, on the day, months
| and year herein first above written, in the
presence of St. Clair Adams and Guy Hop
kins, competent witnesses, who hereunto sign
| their names with the said appearers and me,
| Notary, after reading of the whole.
(Signed) E. NJ. REA, P. J. STOUSE.
Witnesses: St Clair Adams, Guy Hopkins.
| FRANCIS p. BURNS, Notary Public.
l, 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 Amendment of Incor-
poration of the Mercantile Realty Vo., Inc,
was this day duly recorded in my Office, in
| Book 1912 Folio -.
New Orleans, Nov. Goth, 1917
(Signed) EMILE J. LEONARD, by. R.
| true copy.
| FRANCIS P. BURNS, Notary Public.
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