The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-06-13
CHARTERS
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER OF
PHOENIN DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
INCORPORATED.

United States of America, State of Lou
isiana, Parish of Orleans, City of New
Orleans.
BE it known, that on this 1st day o
| May, IN the year of our Lord, one thou
sand, nine hundred and eighteen befor,
me, Oscar Schneider, Notary Public il
and for the Parish of Orleans, State o.
| Louisiana, duly commissioned and quail
ned, and in the presence of the witneSse!
hereinafter named and undersigned, per
sonally came and appeared:
Marion j. Epley, and Clark n. Wisner
to me personally known, in their capac
tiles respectively as the President anC
secretary Treasurer of the Phoenix De
VelOpment Company, incorporated, lega
corporation of this Parish and State, or.
ganiZed by act before me, the undersigned
Notary, on February 8, 1918 and duly re.
| corded in Mortgage Office of this Parish
in Book 1919, folio 800.
! Which said appearers declare that, pur-
| Suant TO a meeting of the Board of Direc.
tors of this Company, held on the 18th
| day OF February, 1918, whereat the said
| Board of Directors passed resolution
submitting 10 the stockholders the ques-
| ton OF changing the name of the cOrpOr-
| alton from the Phoenix Development
Company, incorporated" to Phoenix
! Mining Company, Incorporated" for the
| reason that the name of PrOeniX Develop
ment Company, Incorporated had alread Y
| been granted by the State of Louisiana 10
| a corporation organized previously and
| doing business in this State, and dOmicil-
|
the correspondence annexed hereto and
| the yerifcation thereof by the Secretary
| of State. And in accordance with the
Charter of this Corporation Article VIII
thereof, and of Act 267 of 1914, there was
| sent thirty day notice, to each of the
stockholders of this corporation, that a
meeting of the stockholders would be held
| at the dOmicile thereof on March 18th.
| 1918, at $50 p. m, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the Amendment
of Article l of the Charter as recommend
ed by the Resolution of the Board of Di-
rectOrS; and
OF the said Phoenix Development Com
pany, Incorporated was duly convened at
the Office of the said company, at No 500
Hennen Building, in the City of New Or
leans, at the hour of 2:30 p. m, on March
10Th, 1918, in accordance with the resolu-
ton OF said Board of Directors and the
notices aforesaid; that at said meeting of
the stockholders there were present and
represented all of the capital stock here
tofore subscribed and being more than
three-fOurthS of the said stock both in
number and amount. WhereupOn, the
President as Chairman of said meeting of
stockholders, presented to the stockhold-
erS the situation as determined by the
Board OF Directors, and after full discus
SION 1t was thereupon moved and second
ed and unanimously carried by the stock
holders meeting convened, that Article |
of the said Charter shall be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows, to-
wit:
Article 1.-The name and title of the
corporation shall be phoenix Mining
Company, Incorporated" and under such
title 1t shall have and enjoy succession
years from date hereof. 1t shall have
the power and authority to contract, sue
and be sued, and make and use a corpor-
ate SEAL the same TO break and alter at
pleasure; to hold, to purchase, lease, sell,
mortgage, hypOthecate, or pledge proper
ty, real, personal, or mixed, necessary, in
cldental or proper for the carrying on of
its business and, to that end to further
mortgage all oil or mineral leases. grants
or contracts held by it, together with all
buildings, constructions and improvements
placed and erected on said lands, or to
be placed or erected thereon, as well as
TO issue bonds secured by such mort
cages, such bonds to be issued in such
amounts, at such rate of interest and to
run for such length of time, not exceeding
the term OF said leases, as said leases or
guarantees may determine, to buy and to
hold stock in any other company or com
panies that may assist this company in
It's OBJECTS ana purposes; to make and is
sue notes and certificates of Indebtedness;
to name, elect and appoint managers. di-
rectors and clerks or other employees to
properly conduct its corporate business,
and to make and establish such bylaws.
rules and regulations as may be found
necessary, or desirable, for the manage
ment of the business and affairs of the
corporation, and generally to do all and
sary for the complete and proper carry
ing out of said business"
And whereupon the said Marion J. Ep-
ley and Clark n. Wisner, President and
secretary Treasurer respectively, have ap-
peared before me, Notary, to perpetuate
In the public records the results of the
meeting of the stockholders aforesaid, and
did make by these presents authentic
proof Of the Amendment of said Article /
of the Charter of said Company to be
spread publicly upon the Parish and State
Thus done and passed, in my office in
the City of New Orleans, on the day. |
month and year first above written, i'm |
the presence of Henry l.. Hammett and |
Eliza Pickett, competent witnesses who |
hereuntO sign their names with the said |
appearers and me, Notary, after due read |
ing of the whole.
(Original signed):
=, NJ. J.. Epley, President, c. N. wisner, |
Secy.- Treas.
Witnesses: Henry l.. Hammett, Eliza
Pickett.
OSCAR SCHREIBER, 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 Amend
ment to the Charter of the phoenix De-
velopment Company, Incorporated" was
this day duly recorded in Mortgage Of /
New Orleans. May LIST, 1918.
(Slgned) EMILE j. LEONARD, d. r.
L hereby certify that the above and
foregoing is a true and correct copy of
The original on file in my current nOtarial
register.
-, OSCAR sCHREIBER, Not. Pub.
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