The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-05-30
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER OF
PHOENIX DEVELOPMENT COMPANY,
INCORPORATED.

United States of America, State of Lou
isiana, Parish of Orleans, City of New
Orleans.
Be it known, that on this LIST day of
May, i'll the year of our Lord, one thou
sand. nine hundred and eighteen, before
me, Oscar Schneider, a Notary Public in
and for the Parish of Orleans, State of
Louisiana, duly commissioned and quail
fed, and in the presence of the witnesses
hereinafter named and undersigned, per
-SOnally came and appeared:
Marion j. Epley, and Clark y. WiSncr
to me personally known, in their capac-
tiles respectively as the President and
SecretaTy-Trcasurer of the Phoenix DE
velOpment Company, Incorporated. a legal
corporation of this Parish and State. or
ganiZed by act before me, the undersigned
Notary, on February :. 1918, and duly re-
corded in Mortgage Office of this Parish
in Book 1919, folio 800.
Which said appearerS declare that pur-
suant to 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 4 resolution
submitting TO the stockholders the ques-
ton of changing the name of the COrpOr-
Company, Incorporated" to PHOENIX
Mining Company, Incorporated for the
reason that the name of PrOeniN Develop
ment Company. Incorporated had already
been grauted 10y the State of Louisiana TO
a corporation organized previously and
doing business in this State, and dOmicil-
ed in this city, all as will be shown by
the correspondence annexed hereto and
the verihcatiOn 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 a thirtyday notice. to each of the
stockholders of this corporation. that
meeting of the stockholders would be held
mt the dOmicilc thereof on March 18th.
1918, at 2:3O p. m, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the Amendment
of Article | of the Charter as recommend
ed by the Resolution of the Board of Di-
rectOrS; and
Whereas, a meeting of the stockholders
of the said Phoenix Development Com
pany, Incorporated, was duly convened at
the Office of the said company, at No. 500
Hcnnen Building, in the City of New Or
leans, at the hour of 80 p. m, on March
10Th, 1918 in accordance with the reSOlu-
tion 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. II 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-cnacted 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 it shall have and enjoy succession
and existence for a period of ninety nine
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 ut
pleasure; to hold, to purchase. lease. sell,
mortgage hypOthecate, or pledge, proper
ty real. personal. or mixed, necessary, in
cidental 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
its objects and 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 y. 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
records.
Thus done and passed, in my office. in
the City of New Orleans on the day,
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. ]. Epley, President, c. n. Wisner,
Secy.-Treas.
Witnesses: Henry L. Hammett, Eliza
Pickett.
OSCAR SCHREIBER, Not. Pub. !
/, 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 !
flee Book l222, folio 500.
New Orleans, May LIST, 1918.
(Signed) 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
OSCAR SCHREIBER, Not. Pub.
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