The herald., 1918-01-10

eral Districts, the Territories and posses
sions OF the United States, and any for.
eign country. 1t generally shall possess all
the powers, rights, privileges and lmmunl-
ties which corporations are and may here
after be authorized 20 possess under the
Constitution and laws of this State, and par.
tcularly under Act No. 267 of the Acts OF
the General Assembly of the State OF Lou
isiana for the year 1914; and il shall have
the power to invest its Board OF Directors
with all of its coporate powers, subject to
such restrictions may be named in the
Article 1.-THE domicile of this corpora
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 lII.-Ths corporation IS organized
principally for the purpose OF carrying on
and doing a general livestock business, and
shall have the power to conduct IT'S business
in all its branches in all of the states, Ter
rtories and possessions Of the United States,
as we'll as in foreign countries, and may
have one or more offices outside OF the
State of Louisiana. In the carrying on OF
its business and the conducting of its al
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
diVldually or through agents. 10 Duy, SCH,
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 a general cattle
raising. livestock and agricultural business.
SECOND: To erect and build abbattoirs,
cold storage warehouses, sheds and other
buildings necessary Or expedient for the pur-
poses of the Company; and to slaughter cat
lie, sheep. hogs and poultry. To pack and
preserve meats To buy and sell at whole
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where, all kinds of meat, and generally to
! carry on the trade and business of a meat
dealer, in all of its branches. To 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 cure and deal in hides, pelts
! and skins. To manufacture, buy and sell
provisions and other articles of merchandls sc
commonly manufactured. bought or sold by
| packing or provision houses, and to slaugh-
ter cattle, swine, sheep and other animals
for food
THIRD: To carry on 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.
FOURTH: To carry on the business Of
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
branches; to construct, hire, purchase. oper-
late and maintain, all or any conveyances
for the transportation, IN cold storage O,
otherwise, by land or by water, of any and
all products, goods, or manufactured arti-
Giles; to issue certificates and warrants, ne
gotiable or otherwise, to persons warehous-
| ing goods with the Company, and to make
advances or loans upon the security of such
goods or otherwise; to manufacture, sell and
| trade in, all goods usually dealt in by. ware
housemen; to construct, purchase, take on
lease, or otherwise acquire any wharf, pier,
dock, or works capable of being advanta-
| geously used in connection with the shipping
| and carrying or other business of the Com
pany.
FIFTH: To construct purchase, lease or
| otherwise acquire, and own, maintain and
| operate, steamboats,, sailing vessels, barges
! and other watercraft, piers, docks, wharves
| or bridges, and such lines of tramway or
| railway, within the State of louisiana or
elsewhere, as may be convenient, necessary
| or incidental to any business enterprise
of the Company, with all necessary side
| tracks, locomotives, cars, depots, round
houses and other equipment necessary to
the operation of said piers, docks, wharves,
| bridges, tramways and railways, and the
traffic thereon, provided that this corporation
shall not have the power Of eminent do
main.
SIXTH: To hold, own, buy, sell, convey,
| exchange, lease, rent otherwise cucumber,
| dispose of and deal in real estate or other
property, personal or mixed, improved or un-
| impoved, and to mortgage, pledge or ALLEVIATE
| and cucumber the same; to operate and Gull
| tivate lands, plantations and farms; grow
| thereon all agricultural products, and carry
| ate sugar rehneries, cotton gins, canning
factories and rice mills; to operate stores
commissaries, merchandise establishments, and
carry on a general mercantile business.
| SEVENTH: To drain, reclaim and improve
! submerged, swampy or other lands, whether
| belonging to il to other persons; to dig
construct, work, dredge, straighten, widen
deepen, otherwise work upon, natural OF
other water courses, canals, drains, sewers
| bitches and dikes, under contract or under
the direction of public officers courts; and
to do and carry on a general dredging and
drainage business, and for that purpose tc
own and operate construction, dredging and
draining plants, consisting of machinery
tools, implements, dredge boats, ditchine
scows, lighters, derricks, vessels, engines
cars, wagons, and property OF every class
and description, convenient or necessary
thereto; to deal in, buy, sell, acquire, lease
! the account Of others, real estate, lands anc
| tenements; and to survey, subdivide anc
plan such lands for the purpose of sale, anC
to improve and develop the same by the
and to do such other lawful acts may
be needful or desirable in and about the
said improvement or development thereof, fol
any purposes; and generally to purchase
| own, lease, convey, mortgage, pledge, trans
fer, otherwise acquire or dispose of, lands
water rights, mills, factories, buildings anC
other structures and all other property, bott
| real and personal, of every class and descrip
ton, or any interest therein necessary OF
desirable for the carrying on of the afore
said businesses, or either of them.
EIGHTH: To prospect, bore, drill for
mine, quarry, and produce oil, gas or othe
minerals or metal; to cut timber and dea
in timber and lumber; to operate sawmills
lumberyards, and carry on a general saw
mill business.
NINTH: To encourage immigration int
the State of Louisiana, and to develop gen
orally the agricultural and manufacturing
interests Of the State, and to assist in til,
advancement of the material prosperity ant
progress thereof; to organize, found, estab
lish and encourage colonies in the State o
Louisiana and elsewhere.
TENTH: To enter into, make, perform ant
carry out contracts of every sort and kind
with any person, firm, association, corpora
ton, private, public, or municipal, er bod!
polite, and with the Government of tn
United States, any territory or colony there
of, or any foreign government
ELEVENTH: Geneally to do all and ev
erything necessary, suitable, convenient o
proper for the accomplishment of any of tn
purposes of any one or more of the object
herein enumerated incidental to the pow
ers herein named, or which shall at an,
time appear conducive or expedient to tn
protection or benefit of the corporation, eithe
as holders of or interested in any property o
otherwise, with all the powers now or here
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