The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-26
CHARTER

| for n period of ninety-nine (99) years
| from the date hereof with all the powers
7 by law now or hereafter conferred on
/ corporations, unless sooner dissolved as
provided by law.
Article 1.-THE purposes for which this
/ corporation IS organized are hereby de
Clared to be to engage in and carry ON, in
conformity to law, within or without the
United States, at one or more places, any
portion or all of the following businesses,
tO-wit:
(O To buy. sell, rent and lease railway
tank cars, and other cars, and vessels and
bargeS Of all kinds and the necessary
equipment therefor;
(b) To acquire. maintain and keep Stor-
age warehouses for the storage and de
post of goods and merchandise Of all
kinds and descriptions and conduct all
business appcrtaining thereto, including
the making of advances on goods stored
and deposited with it and to have and re-
cciye all the rights and cmolumentS there
TO belonging;
(cD To borrow or lend money rs prin-
cipal, or otherwise, securing or causing
the same or any portion thereof to he
secured by any instrument or act whatever
rs may be necessary, desirable or useful
in exercising any or all of the foregoing
powers;
(dD Exercising such incidental powers
as may be requisite and also such fur
Their and general powers as may be from
time to time conferred by the laws of the
State of Louisiana on corporations.
Article lII.-The capital stock of this
corporation is fixed ut the sum of fifty
thousand dollars (SJO,OOO), divided into
five hundred (500) shares of the par value
of one hundred dollars ($l00l each. The
capital stock OF this corporation may he
increased to the amount of one hundred
thousand dollars C$100,O00.O0). The cap
ital stock shall be paid for at par in cash,
property or good will.
Article IV.-The domicile of this cor
pOration is in the City of New Orleans,
State of Louisiana, but, with the written
cont Of oil no
ings of directors may be held outside of
the city or within the state elsewhere than
ut its domicile. Service of all legal pro-
cess shall be made upon the president, and
in his absence upon the vice president and
in the absence of both upon the secre-
tary.
Article VAN the corporate powers of
the corporation shall be vested in and
exercised by Board of Directors to be
composed of five stockholders having the
qualifications required by law who shall
be elected annually on the second day of
January, in each year at general meet
ing of the stockholders held for such pur-
pose after notice required by law. All
such elections of directors shall be by bal
lot and each stakeholder shall be entitled
to one vote cast in person or by written
proxy or by letter the signature OF which
shall have been acknowledged before a no.
tary public or other officer authorized to
make affidavitS, for each share of stock
standing in his name on the books of the
company. The majority of votes cast
shall be sufficient to elect. The Board of
Directors shall elect from their number n
president and one or more vice presidents
and shall also appoint secretary and
treasurer, who need not be a director
The Office of secretary-treasurer may be
held by one person. The following named
persons have been chosen as the first
Board of Directors of the corporation TO
serve until the second day of January.
1919, or until their successors are duly
elected and qualified. tO-wit:
]. Il. Bassich, 1923 Peters Ave, New Or
leans: John Marks, Napoleonville, La; J.
y. Bahan, 2635 Lapeyrouse ST., N. o.; T.
N. Hurt, 1I26 Prytania St, \; O.; II; G.
Hollander, 1918 Dryades ST., n. o. With
]. Il. Bassich as president and John Marks
as vice president and III. G. HOllander as
secretary treasurer.
Article VI.-The charter Of this corpor-
alton may be amended, its capital stock
increased or decreased or the corporation
dissolved in the manner now or hereafter
prescribed by law.
Article vIi-The incorporators have set
opposite their names respectively the num-
Der of shares subscribed to by each OF
them SO that this act of incorporation
will serve as the original subscription list
Thus done and passed at the City of
New Orleans, State of Louisiana, on the
day and date hereinabove written in the
presence of Messrs. Philip S. Gidiere and
Esmond Phelps, competent witnesses, who
have signed these presents with the said
appearers and me, Notary, after due read
ing of the whole.
(The original is signed).
j. b. Bassich, l share; Jno. Marks, by
J. Il. Bassich, 1 share: J. b: Bahan, 1
share; I. NJ. Hurt, l share; III. @. Hol-
lander, / share; G. X, Hollander, Cosmo-
politan Hotel, New Orleans, 1O5 shares;
Jno. A. Wogan, 2i25 Esplanade Ave, New
Orleans La, 40 shares.
Witnesses: Philip S. Gidiere, Esmond
Phelps.
Pierre ID. OLIVIER, Not. Pub.
l. the undersigned, Recorder of Mort
cages, in and for the Parish of Orleans,
State of Louisiana, do hereby certify that
the above and foregoing act of incOrpOr-
alton of the Cane Belt Car Line & Ware
house Co, Inc, was this day duly record
ed in my office in Book 1922, folio -.
New Orleans, La, August 18th, 1918.
(SeaD
(Signed) EMILE J. LEONARD, by. II.
i certify the above and foregoing to be
a true and correct copy of the original
charter of the Cane Belt Car Line & Ware
house Company, Inc, on file and of rec
ord in my office.
New Orleans, La, August 18th, 1918.
Pierre ID. OLIVIER, Not. Pub.
Aug. 22-ZSept. 5-l2-l9-26.