The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-05
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER OF
MENGE MARINE HARDWARE &
SIIppIY co INC

United States of America. state of Louisiana,
Parish of Orleans. City of New Orleans.
Be it known, that this Path day of the
month of July, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand nine hundred and eighteen. and of
the Independence of United States of Ameri-
ca, the one hundred and forty third;
Before me, Henry Z. Dart, Jr, a Notary
Public, duly commissioned and qualified. in
and for this City and the Parish of Orleans,
therein residing, and in the presence of the
witnesses hereinafter and undersigned,
Personally came and appeared, the persons
whose names are hereinafter subscribed who
declared that they are all of age and resi-
dents of the City of New Orleans, and stock
holders of the Menge Marine Hardware &
Supply Company, Inc, and as such stock
holders, own and possess between them the
entire capital stock of the said corporation
issued and outstanding, viz: Two Hundred
shares of the par value Of One Hundred Dol
lars $4,000 each, amounting to a total of
Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,0O0O0).
That meeting of the stockholders of the
said corporation was duly held at the office
Of the same in New Orleans, the oath
day of July, 1918.
That at the said meeting, the said stock
holders added amendments to the charter
thereof making certain changes and altera-
tions in the same.
That appearers have come before me. No.
tary Public, to preserve and embody in due
legal shape the said action Of the stockhold-
ers as will appear from certified copy of
the resolutions adopted at the said meeting
annexed to this act
That the said corporation was organized
under the laws Of the State Of Louisiana, by
act before George Janvier, a Notary Public,
duly commi ssioned and qualified in and for
the City of New Orleans and Parish of
Orleans. on December 10TH 1914, recorded in
the Mortgage Office of the Parish of Orleans,
in book ll27, folio GO
And the said appearers accordingly declare
that they have appeared before me, Notary
Public, under the authorization aforesaid, for
the purpose of embodying in proper and au
thentic shape the action of the said meeting
of the stockholders of the Menge Marine
Hardware & Supply Company, Inc.
And the said appearers say and declare that
at the meeting of the stockholders aforesaid
the charter of the Menge Marine Hardware
& Supply Company, Inc, was changed, al
| tered, amended and modified so as to read
as hereinafter set out.
That the following articles are to be
amended to read as follows:
ARTICLE III.-The object and purpose.
for which this corporation is organized anC
established and the nature of the business tC
be carried on by it, are hereby declared t.
| be, TO engage in a general furnishing anC
| in hardware, ship chandlery, paints, railways
mill supplies, supplies of merchandise. food
| refreshments and stinnlents for ships. 4
engage in the business of selling goods
wares, products and merchandise, as prin
| cipal or commission, both, and to &C
as general selling agents; to import and ex
port goods, wares, produce and merchandise
OF every description and kind, and particu
larly to act as agent, agents and brokers
for the selling commission or otherwise Of
| said goods, wares and products; to engage il
a general furnishing and supply business a:
principal and as agent, in hardware, shiI
chandlery, paint, railways, mill supplies
ship supplies and in connection Herewith
TO engage in general businesses at wholesale
and retail in all lines of hardware and sup
plies for painters, mills. railways, ships ant
all other things Of similar character, anC
carry on the business of the corporation ir
Louisiana and in all of the states Of tn,
United States, and foreign countries; anC
generally to do and perform all things peril
nent and incident and which may be proper
and necessary to carry out and execute thu
objects and purposes of this corporation.
ARTICLE 4.-Is to be amended to read a.
| follows:
ARTICLE 1.-THE capital stock of this cor
porstion is hereby fixed at the sun
of Sixty Thousand Dollars (s60,OO0OO
divided into and represented by Six Hun
bred shares of the par value Of One Hun
bred Dollars $4,000 each. The said stool
shall be paid for in cash or in such install
ments and in such time and after such no
| tice TO subscribers as the Board Of Director,
nay fix; or the same may be issued at NJ
| less than par for labor done, or services per
formed for the said corporation. or for tn,
| property or rights actually received by tn,