The herald., 1918-06-13
CHARTER.
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Article The name of this corporation
shall be ALLEN Mehle Company, Inc. and
under said corporate name il shall have
succession for ninety-ni years unless
sooner dissolved, and shall have power
and authority to contract, sue and be
sued; to make and use a corporate seal
the same TO alter or break at pleasure: TO
make all necessary rules and regulations
Tor It's corporate management and control:
and it shall have and enjoy an the rights
privileges and immunities which are now
conferred upon or may hereafter be grant
ed TO corporations of the same kind and
character.
Article 1.-THE domicile of said cor
pOratlon Is hereby fixed in the City Of
New Orleans, State of Louisiana, and all
citation and other legal process shall he
served upon the President of said corpor-
alton, and, in case of his absence, upon
the Nlce-President; and in case of the alb
Sehce OF both upon the Secretary Treas
urer.
Article III-The objects and PURPOSES
Tor which said corporation is organized
are declared to be: To act as agent for
insurance companies in soliciting and re-
ctlNlng applications for fire. casualty
plate glass, boiler, elevator, accident work
mems compensation, tornado health bur-
gary rent marine, credit and life in
Surance, and all other kinds of insurance,
the collection of premiums and doing such
Other business as may be delegated to
agents by such companies, and to con
duct a general insurance agency and in
Surance brokerage business; to act as
agents for bonding companies soliciting
and receiving applications for bonds of
all Kinds and character, to purchase, lease
or otherwise acquire real estate and to
! mold, improve, mortgage and dispose of
the same to own stock in any other cor
poratiOnS and vote the same. and general
~ to do any and all things incidental or
germane to any Of the objects and pur-
poses above specified.
Article IN.-The capital stock of said
corporation is hereby iXed at the sum of
D hD .lNl1 = :. IgA
ed into one hundred and nifty (lJO) shares
OF the par value of one hundred dollars
tSlOOOO) each, all of which shall be com
mon stock, and the same may he issued
Tor cash or in payment of property or
services actually received by or rendered
to the corporation.
The parties hereto declare that they
have subscribed for the number of shares
of the capital stock of the corporation set
opposite their respective names, so that
this act of incorporation shall serve as an
original subscription.
Allen Mehle, subscriber to one hun
dred, forty eight Q4SD shares of the cap
ital stock of the said corporation has
transferred, conveyed and delivered to the
corporation, in full payment and liQuida-
ton of his said subscription, all the eX-
listing business of Allen Mehle. Agent No
IO9-Il0 Hennen Building, New Orleans
Louisiana, including agency contracts, of
nee furniture, lease, eNpirations, good will
etc, as shown on the statement filed here
with, giving detailed and itemized deS-
criptiOn, together with the value thereof,
as appraised by the directors of this cor
pOratiOn.
No transfer of stock Shall he binding
upon this corporation unless made and
recorded upon its books.
The amount to which the capital stock
of said corporation may be increased is
hereby fixed at the sum of one hundred
thousand dollars ($lO0OOOOO.
Article N.-All the powers of said cor
poration shall be vested in and exercised
by Board of Directors composed of not
less than three 49, shareholders, and a
majority shall constitute a quorum for
the transaction of all business.
\ majority of the Board of Directors
voting, in person, shall be required TO
pass any resolution or adopt any bylaw,
which, when so passed or adopted shall
become valid corporate acts.
The Board of Directors shall be elected
annually at general meeting of the
shareholders to be held on the second
Tuesday in June, 1919, and on the same
day and month in each succeeding year
after ten days written notice mailed to
each shareholder at his last known ad-
dress appearing upon the books of the
corporation, unless such notice be waived
in writing by all the stockholders appear
ing as such upon the books.
The failure, however, from any cause
to hold the annual meeting of the stock
holders, or the failure to elect directors
thereat, shall not operate the forfeiture of
this charter nor impair the corporate
management but the directors and Off
successors have been duly elected, quail
fed and installed. Any vacancy in the
Board of Directors shall be filled for the
unexpired term by the remaining direc
tors.
The officers of the corporation shall
consist of a President. one or more Vice
Presidents, a Secretary and a Treasurer.
The office of Secretary and Treasurer
may be held by one and the same person,
under the name of Secretary Treasurer:
the offices of President and Treasurer
and Vice President and Treasurer may
likewise be combined under the names
of President and Treasurer and Vice Pres
ident and Treasurer.
Article VI.-The first Board of Direc-
tors, who shall serve until the annual
meeting to be held on the second Tues
day in June, 1919, shall consist of Allen
Mehle, 3222 Prytania Street, New Orleans
La, who shall be President; John f. Ian
La, who shall be Vice President; Oscar
l.. Chambers, 6161 Milne street. New Or.
leans, La, who shall be Secretary Treas
urer.
Article VII.-This act of incorporation
may be changed. altered or amended, or
this corporation may be dissolved by and
with the consent of the holders of two
thirds in amount of its then outstanding
stock at a general meeting convened for
that purpose, after thirty days notice in
writing mailed to each stockholders last
publication in one of the daily newspa-
pers published in the City of New Or
leans, as prescribed by law.
If this corporation should be dissolved
by limitation otherwise, its affairs shall
be liquidated under the supervision of
three commissioners to be elected at a
general meeting of shareholders convened
for that purpose, after notice above
provided in this Article and they shall
remain in office until the affairs of the
corporation shall have been fully liquidated :;
and in the case of the death or disability
to act of one or more of the said liquida-
tors, the survivor or survivors shall con-
tinue to act under the. provisions and in
accordance with the terms of Section 80
of Act 267 of 1914.
Article VIII-No shareholder of this
corporation shall ever be held liable or
responsible for the contracts or faults of
this corporation in any further sum than
the unpaid balance due upon the shares
of stock owned by him :, nor shall any
mere infOrmality in the organization have
the effect of rendering this charter null
or of exposing any shareholder to any
liability beyond the unpaid balance due
upon his stock; nor shall any informally
or irregularity in the organization have
the effect of rendering any shareholder Ii
able as partner.
Thus done and passed, in my office, in
the City of New Orleans, on the day,
ten, in the presence of MesSieurs. Burt
W. Henry and Frances Eiser, competent
witnesses, who hereunto sign their names
with the said appearers and me- Notary,
after reading of the whole, and the said
appearers have hereuntO signed opposite
their names the number of shares of
stock Of this cornoratiou SuhScrihad for