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name, unless sooner dissolved in accordance
with law and this charter, it shall exist and
continue, and shall have and enjoy corpor-
are existence and succession for period
of ninety nine (99) years from and after the
date of this act. 1t may have, hold, receive,
borrow, lend, exchange, acquire by grant,
gift or purchase, devise or bequest, sail,
ALLEVIATE, dispose of, convey, lease, pledge,
pawn, hypothecate, cucumber or mortgage
property OF any kind, whether real, personal
or mixed, corporeal incorporeal, movable
tons as may be prescribed by law. 1t may
make, issue and endorse bonds or notes and
other evidences of debt. 1t may accept mort
cages, pledges or other forms of security for
tract, sue and be sued plead or be implicated
| by its corporate name IN any court OF com:
petent jurisdiction. 1t may make, adopt and
use a corporate seal and alter the same at
| pleasure. 1t may hold stock in other cor
porations, and its capital stock may be is
! sued for capital stock in other corporations.
/ 1t may name, appoint and employ such man.
| ayers, directors, officers, agents and other
| employees as its said business and conven-
/ fence may require, and may nix their COM
| pensation, having due regard to the nature,
| character and value of their services. 1t
may make and establish bylaws, rules and
| regulations not inconsistent with this char
| ter or any existing law, fixing or altering
| the management OF its property, the regu-
lation 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
sions of the United States, and any for.
eign country. 1t generally shall possess all
the powers, rights, privileges and immunl-
! ties which corporations are and may here
after be authorized to possess under the
| Constitution and laws of this State, and par
ticularly under Act No. 267 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of the State of Lou
isiana for the year 1914; and it shall have
the power to invest its Board of Directors
| with all Of its coporate powers, subject to
such restrictions as may be named IN the
charter.
ton shall be the City of New Orleans, Par
ish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, and all
citations or other legal process shall be
served upon its President, or, in the event
of his absence, upon the First Vice-President,
or, in the event of the absence of both OF
said officers, upon the Secretary.
Article III.-This corporation is organized
principally for the purpose of carrying on
and doing a general livestock business, and
shall have the power to conduct its business
in all its branches in all of the States, Ter
ritories and possessions of the United States,
| as we'll as in foreign countries, and may
State of louisiana In the carrying on OF
its business and the conducting of its at
fairs, it is especially empowered and au-
thorized to do and perform the following acts:
FIRST: To acquire by purchase, lease or
otherwise, cattle, sheep and hog farms or
ranches, and to operate the same, either in
dividually or through agents. To buy, sell,
grow, breed, raise, import and export, and
generally deal in, cattle, horses, mules,
hogs, sheep, live stock and poultry of all
kinds, and to carry on general cattle
raising. livestock and agricultural business
SECOND: To erect and build abbattoirs,
cod-storage warehouses, sheds and other
buildings necessary or expedient for the pur-
poses of the Company; and to slaughter cat;
tie, sheep, hogs and poultry; To pack and
sale or retail in the United States or else
where, all kinds of meat and generally to
carry on the trade and business of meat
dealer. in all OF its branches; 10 manufac,
ture and deal in tallow, lard, and kindred
products. To manufacture the offal of ami.
mails into merchantable products, and sell
the same. To and deal in hides, pelts
and skins To manufacture, buy and sell
provisions and other articles Of merchandis sc
commonly manufactured, bought or sold by
packing provision houses, and to slaugh-
ter cattle, swine, sheep and other animals
for food.
THIRD: To carry on a dairy business,
and to manufacture, buy and sell, and other
wise deal in, and TO export and import pro.
duce of all kinds, butter, oleomargarine and
butterine; to establish, construct, maintain
and operate refrigerating plants, and plants
for the manufacture of ice; to equip, main
tain and operate refrigerator cars, and to
do any and all things necessary and Incl
dental to the operation OF the company In
the premises.
cold storage and warehousing, and all the
business necessary or implicitly incidental
thereto; and to further carry on the business
of general warehousing, in all its several
ate and maintain, all or any conveyances
: for the transportation, in cold storage OF
otherwise, by land or by water, OF any anc
all products, goods, or manufactured arti
= Lii ,ec,, I'D nd una n
: gotiable or otherwise, to persons warehous
ing goods with the Company, and to make
advances or loans upon the security Of sucf
goods or otherwise; to manufacture, sell ant
: trade in, all goods usually dealt in by ware
? housemen; to construct, purchase, take OF
: lease, or otherwise acquire any wharf, pier
dock, or works capable of beins advanta
: geously used in connection with the shipping
and carrying or other business of the Com
pany.
FIFTH: To construct, purchase, lease o.
otherwise acquire, and own, maintain ant
operate, steamboats,, sailing vessels, barge
and other watercraft, piers, docks, whaIve
railway, within the State of louisiana o.
elsewhere, as may be convenient, necessar!
or incidental to any business or enterprise
of the Company, with all necessary side
tracks, locomotives, cars, depots, round
houses and other equipment necessary Z
{ the operation of said piers, docks, wharves
: bridges, tramways and railways, and IN
| trafnc thereon, provided tndt THIS COrpordtlOi
I shall not have the power of eminent do
main.
. SIXTH: To hold, own, buy, sell, convey
exchange, lease, rent or otherwise cucumber
dispose of and deal in real estate or othe
, property, personal or mixed, improved or un
impoved. and to mortgage, pledge or alienat'
: and cucumber the same; to operate and cul
8 tivate lands, plantations and farms; grow
. thereon all agricultural products, and carr,
on a general agricultural business; to oper
ate
|. factories and rice mills; to operate stores
. commits merchandise establishments, anC
carry on a general mercantile business.
5 SEVENTH: To drain, reclaim and improve
r submerged, swampy other lands, whethe
r belonging to it or to other persons; to dig
. construct, work, dredge, straighten, widen
deepen, or otherwise work upon, natural o
other water courses, canals, drains, sewers
bitches and dikes, under contract or undo
the direction of public officers or courts; ant
: to do and carry on general dredging an'