The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-04-04
CHARTER OF
THE ALLAN LAND COMPANY, INC.

| I.
United States of America. State of Lou
lSlana, Parish of Orleans, City OF
| New Orleans.
| BE it known that on this the eighth
| day of March, in the year Of our Lord
! one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.
| ana of the Independence of the United
states OF America, the one hundred and
forty second, before me. Arthur H. Leo
| pold, Notary Public duly commissioned
ana quallhed within and for the Parish Of
Orleans, State OF Louisiana, and in the
presence of the witnesses hereinafter
named and undersigned, personally came
ana appeared the several persons whose
names are hereuntO subscribed who Sev-
orally declared that, availing themselves
of the benefits and provisions of the Con-
StitutiOn of the State of Louisiana and of
the laws of the said State, relative to the
organization of corporations, and partic-
ularly of the provisions of Act No. 267
of the Acts of the General Assembly of
the State of Louisiana for the year 1914
they have united TO FORM and do by these
presents form and organize themselves, as
wei as all such other persons who may
hereafter join or become associated with
them or their successors, into a stock cor
poration for the objects and purposes and
under the covenants, stipulatiOns and
agreements following, tO-wit:
Article 1.-The name and title of this
corporation shall be "Allan Land Com
pany, Incorporated and under and by
Sdlu name. unless sooner dissolved in
cOrdance with law and this charter, it
shall exist and continue. and shall have
ana enjoy corporate existence and sue
ceSSion for period Of ninety nine 900
years from and after the date of this act
Ii may have, hold, receive, borrow, loan,
exchange, acquire by grant, gift or pur-
chase, devise or bequest, sell, ALLEVIATE,
dispose OF, convey, lease, pledge, pawn,
erty of any kind, whether real, personal
or mixed, corporal or incorporeal NOV
able or immovable, all subject to such
limitations as may be prescribed by law.
1t may make, issue and endorse bonds or
notes and other evidences of debt. 1t
may accept mortgages, pledges or other
forms OF security for money loaned for
other debts. 1t may contract sue and
be sued, plead or be implicated by its cor.
porate name in any court of competent
jurisdiction. 1t may make, adopt and
use common seal and alter the same at
pleasure. 1t may hold stock in other
corporations, and its capital stock may be
issued for capital stock in other corpora
tons. 1t may name, appoint and en-
ploy such managers, directors officers,
agents and other employees as its said
business and convenience may require, and
may fix their compensation, having due
regard to the nature. character and value
or their services. 1t may make and es-
tablish bylaws, rules and regulations not
inconsistent with this charter or any ex-
listing law, fixing or altering the manage
ment OF its property, the regulation and
of the certiticatiOn and registration of its
stock. 1t may wind up and dissolve it.
self, or be wound up and dissolved in the
manner sIP; prescribed by law It may con
the Federal Districts, the Territories and
possessions of the United States and any
foreign countries. 1t generally shall pos
sess all the powers, rights, privileges and
immunities which corporations are and
may hereafter be authorized to possess I'M
der the Constitution and laws of this
state, and particularly under Act. No. 267
of the Acts of the General Assembly of
the State Of Louisiana for the year 1914
And it shall have the power to invest its
board of directors with all of its cOrpor-
ate powers, subject to such restrictions
as may be named in this charter.
Article 1.-THE domicile of this corpor-
alton shall be at the City of New Orleans,
Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, and
all citations and other legal process shall
be served upon its President, or in the
event OF his absence, upon its Vice. resi-
dent, or in the event of the absence of
both of said officers, upon its Secretary
treasurer.
Article III.-The purpose or purposes
for which this corporation Is formed and
the nature Of the business to be carried
on by it, are hereby declared to be:
vate all kinds of fruits, plants and vege-
tables. To raise, buy, sell, and deal in
horses, mules, cattle, live stock and pOul-
try of all kinds; and generally to engage
To build, buy, establish, maintain. oper-
ate and conduct hotels, stores, canning
factories, packing houses, warehouses, de-
pots, cold storage plants, ice factories.
sawmills; and to buy, sell, import, ex-
port and generally deal and trade in.
store, carry, transport, and manufacture
the products of any or all of the above
operations and any and all kinds of goods,
wares, merchandise, machinery, tools i'm
plements and supplies.
Section III. To conduct the business of
q real estate agent and to deal in, buy,
sell. acquire, lease, sublet or farm for it's
own account or for the account of others,
real estate, lands and tenements and to
survey, subdivide, and plat lands for the
purpose of sale and to improve and de-
yelop the same by the erection of houses
or buildings thereon, and to do such 9TH
er lawful acts as may be needful or de-
sirable in and about the said improve
ment or development thereof for any pur-
pose; and generally to contract, purchase,
own, hold, lease, convey, mortgage,
pledge, transfer or otherwise acquire or
dispose of lands, water rights, mills, fac
tories, buildings and other structures, and
all other property, both real and personal,
OF every class and description, or any in
terest therein necessary or desirable for
the carrying on of the aforesaid business
Section III. To purchase, acquire, hold,
own, pledge. sell, lease and dispose of,
and generally deal in, the stocks, bonds
ObneE OF evidence OF ln0eDt-
edness. property, rights, business, good
will, franchise and assets of every kind
of any firm. association, individual or
corporation, foreign, domestic or munich
pal, or of any State, parish, county, ward.
road district, drainage or subdrainage
district, or any political subdivision in
the State of Louisiana or elsewhere. And
to pay for any property, rights, business,
good Will. franchises and assets so ac-
CURED in the stock, bonds, or other secur-
tiles of this corporation or otherwise.
Section Nv. To carry on a general con-
tracing and construction business and op-
erations, consisting of entering into and
executing contracts with persons, firms
and public or private corporations, and
particularly to make all contracts and do
all things incident to the construction I'M
der contract of railroads, bridges roads
highways and turnpikes. To drain, re-
claim and improve submerged, swampy or
other lands, and to do and carry on a
general dredging and draining business,
and for that nurnnse To own and onerate