The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-01-03
CHARTER
OF INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING COM
INCORPORATED.

United States of America, State of. Louisi-
ana, Parish OF Orleans, City OF New
Orleans.
Be it known, That on this twenty second
day OF the month of December, in the year
of Our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred
and seventeen, and of the Independence of
the United States of America, the one hun
dred and forty-second, before me, Oscar
Schneider, a notary public, duly commits
stoned and qualified, within and for the
Parish of Orleans, State of louisiana, and
in the presence of the witnesses hereinafter
named and undersigned, personally came and
appeared: the several persons whose names
are hereunto subscribed, who severally de-
clared that availing themselves of the ben
ehts and provisions of the Constitution of
the State of Louisiana and of the laws of
said State relative to the organization Of
corporations, and particularly of the provi-
sions of Act No. 267 of the General Assembly
of the State of Louisiana for the year 1914,
they have contracted and agreed and united
to form and do, by these presents, contract
and agree and bind and obligate themselves
to form and organize themselves, as we'll as
all such other persons who may hereafter
join or become associated with them their
successors, into stock corporation and body
polite In law, for the objects and purposes
and under the conditions, covenants, stipu-
lations and agreements of the articles fol-
| lowing, to-wlt:
Article 1.-The name and title of this cor
poration shall be Industrial Manufacturing
| Company, incorporated" and under and by
| said name, unless sooner dissolved in accord
ance with law and this charter, it shall exist
| and continue, and shall have and enjoy cor
porate existence and succession for a period
| OF ninety nine C99) years from and after the
| date OF this act. 1t may have, hold, receive,
| borrow, loan, exchange, acquire by grant
| gilt or purchase, devise or bequest, sell,
| ALLEVIATE, dispose of, convey, lease, pledge
| pawn, hypothecate, cucumber, or mortgage
L l.. -.
| or mixed corporeal or incorporeal, movable
| or immoyable, all subject to such limitations
as may be prescribed by law.
| 1t may make, issue and endorse bonds OF
| notes and other evidences of debt. 1t may
accept mortgages, pledges or other forms Of
| security for money loaned or other debts
| 1t may contract sue and be sued, plead OF
be impleaded by its corporate name in any
| court OF competent jurisdiction. 1t may
| make, adopt and a common seal and al
| ter the same at pleasure. 1t may hold STOCK
| in other corporations, and its capital stock
| may be issued for capital stock in other cor
| porations. 1t may name, appoint and employ
such managers, directors, officers, agents anC
other employees as its business and conve
| nience may require, and may FIX their com
| pensation, having due regard to The nature
| character, and value of their services. Il
| may make and establish bylaws, rules anC
| regulations not inconsistent with this char
| ter or any existing law, fixing altering
/ the management of its property, the regula
| ton and government of its affairs, and the
| manner of the certihcation and registration
| Of its stock. 1t may wind up and dissolve
| itself, or be wound up and dissolved in the
| manner prescribed by law. 1t may conduct
business in this State, other States, the Fed
| eral District, the Territories and possession:
of the United States, and any foreign eoun
| try. 1t shall have the power to invest it:
| Board of Directors with all of its corporate
| powers, subject to such restrictions as may
| be named in this charter. And it generally
| shall possess all the powers, rights, priv
| leges and imfnunities which corporations arr
/ and may hereafter be authorized to possess
under the Constitution and laws of thi!
State, and particularly under Act No. %
| of the Acts of the General Assembly of thu
| State of Louisiana for the year 1914
Article 1.-THE domicile of this corpora
ton shall be at the City of New Orleans
| Parish of Orleans, State of louisiana, and
! all citations or other legal process shall b,
served upon the President of this corpora
1 ton, or in case of his absence, upon thu
| Vice President, or in the absence OF both o
these officers, upon the Secretary OF thi
| corporation.
Article III.-The objects and purposes f,
which this corporation is formed and tn,
| nature of the business to be carried on b.
| it are hereby declared to be:
| Section l. To manufacture, produce, adapt
buy, sell, import, export, and generally dea
| and trade, either at wholesale or retail, II
real and personal property of every kind an
description, and particularly all vegetable
and other products, compounds and deriva
| lions carrying high percentages OF sugars
starches and oils, including refiners waste
and by-produc.s and manufacture therefror
denatured alcohol and other spirits and oils
together with foods, fertilizers and other by
products incident to and arising from sue
manufacture, and by-products and any. an
all ingredients, products and compounds o
any Of the foregoing substances, and an,