The herald., 1917-08-16
ACT OF INCORPORATION
OF KELLER REALTY Co, INC.

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United States OF America, State Of Louisiana,
City OF New Orleans.
Be it known. that on this twenty-hfth
! t2oth) day Of the month of June. in the year
| OF our Lord, one thousand nine hunIred and
seventeen u9lO, and of the independence OF
. the United States of America, the one hun.
| dred and forty-irst; before me, Charles ].
! Riyet notary public, duly commissioned
| and qualified in and for the Parish of Or
leans, State OF Louisiana, and in the pres
ence OF the witnesses hereinafter named and
undersigned. personally came and appeared
| the persons whose names are hereunto sub.
! scrlbed, who declared:
| That awaiting themselves of the general
! laws OF the State OF Louisiana in such cases
made and provided and more particularly of
! Act No. POI of the General Assembly Of the
State of Louisiana for the year 1914 thew
have covenanted and agreed and have formed
and organized and do by these presents form
and organize themselves, as well as such
others as may become associated with them
into and constitute a corporation and body
polite IN law for the objects and purposes
and under the stipulations following, to-wit:
Article 1.-The name OF this corporation
shall be Keller Realty Company, Inc, its
domcile shall be in the City OF New Or
leans, It shall exist and enjoy succession for
the full term Of ninety-nine years from the
date hereof, unless sooner dissolved in &C
coIdaEce with law or the provisions of this
act of Incorporation.
NlllSIc Lille OOJeCtS ana purposes Tor
which this corporation is organized and the
nature OF the business to be carried on by
1t are hereby declared to be:
To buy, sell, lease, mortgage, exchange or
otherwise acquire and ALLEVIATE, and gener-
ally to deal in property both movable and
lmmovdble, IN this city and state or else
where, for its own account or as agents and
for account OF others, on commission or other
wise; TO improve and develop imnovable
property; and further to carry on, gener-
ally, a real estate and securities business,
and to do any and all things for the welfare
OF this business in all its branches.
Article lll.-The capital stock of this cor
poration shall be one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars (S150OO0OO, which NAV be in
creased to five hundred thousand dollars; but
no such increase shall be made without the
stock.
Article IV-The capital stock as presently
constituted shall consist of fifteen hundred
shares of the par value of one hundred dol
lars each. Said stock may be paid for in
money, in services duly rendered TO the cor
poratisn, or on property transferred 10 the
corporation.
Article V.-The service of all legal pro-
cess shall be made upon the vice president
or, IN his absence, upon the secretary.
Article Nl.-AH the corporate powers of
this corporation shall be exercised by and
hereby vested in its board of directors
which shall consist of not less than three nor
more than five directors who shall be elected
annually by and from the stockholders on
the first Tuesday of the month of June of
each year, at which time the stockholders
shall determine the Rumber of directors to
be elected.
The first board of directors shall be COM
posed OF the following named persons who
shall serve until the first Tuesday of June,
qualihed, to-wit Mrs. James C. Menefee,
whose post Office address is 1903 ST. Charles
Avenue, New Orleans, La, James c. Meme
Zee, whose post office address is 1909 St. |
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L: Goats, whose post office address is 1919
Pine Street, New Orleans, La; Ralston S. |
Cole whose post Office address is 1893 ST. |
Charles Avenue, New Orleans, La; and Mrs |
49D St: Charles Avenue, New Orleans, La. 4;
with Mrs. James {. Menefee as president: |
James Menefee, vice-president; William T. |
Coats secretary, and Ralston S. Cole, treas |
urer.
Article VII.-This corporation shall have |
all the powers enumerated and granted 10 |
corporations in Act No. 276 of the General |
Assembly OF the State of Louisiana for the
year 1914.
Article VIII-This act of INCORPORATION |
may be amended the corporation may be |
dissolved and its affairs liquidated in the |
manner directed by Act No. 267 of fthe Gen.
the year 1914.
Article IX.-The subscribers hereto have
written opposite their signatures their post |
office address and the amount of stock they |
for their subscriptions Mrs Leslie Fay Kel- |
Ter, wife of James c. Menefee; Mrs Ada |
Virginia Keller, wife of William T. Goats; |
and Mrs. Mary Chlotille Keller, wife of Raj. |
ston ). Cole, herein duly authorized by their
husbands, do by these presents grant, bar |
gam, sell, convey, transfer, assign, set over, |
abandon and deliver, with all legal warran, |
ties and subrogatiOn to all their rights and |
actions OF warranty which they NAV have
against all preceding owners or possessors,-I
all and singular their respective undivided |
rights, title and interest in and to the real |
estate an accurate detailed and itemized de- |
scTiption of which as to amount, location, |
extent character and state of Improvement, |
together with a statement of its value as /
appraised by the directors of this corpora
uon, is annexed hereto 10 be read as part
hereof: The said Mrs. Menefee, Mrs. Coats,
and Mrs. Cole being the sole owners in indi.
vision OF said described property as they
hereby declare.
Thus done and passed, at my Office in this |
city, the day, month and year first above |
written, in the presence of Annie Weisen-
berger and Charles A. Case, competent wit
nesses residing in this city, who have here
unto signed their names together with the
subscribers and me, notary, after due read
ing of the whole.
, Geo. Keller, Anna Weisenberger, Chas. A.
Case.