The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-09-12
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER OF
MENGE MARINE HARDWARE &
SUPPLY Co INC

United States of America. state of Louisiana.
Parish Of Orleans, City OF New Orleans.
month of July, in the year of Lord, one
thousand nine hundred and eighteen. and of
the Independence Of United States of Ameri-
ca. the hundred and forty-thrd
Before me. Henry ?. Dart, Jr., 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 hereinafter subscribed who
declared that they 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 (S20,0O000).
That meeting of the stockholders of the
said corporation was duly held at the office
Of the. same in New Orleans, the 24th
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 will appear from a 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, Notary Public
duly commissioned 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 90.
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 purposes
for which this corporation is organized and
established and the nature of the business to
De carried on by 1t, are hereby declared to
be, to engage in a general furnishing and
supply business, principal and as agent,
in hardware, ship chandlery, paints, railways,
mill supplies, supplies of merchandise. food
refreshments and stimnlents for ships. to
engage in the business of selling goods,
wares, products and merchandise, as prin.
cipal or on commission, or both, and to act
as general selling agents; to import and ex-
port goods, wares, produce and merchandise
of every description and kind, and particu-
larly to act agent, agents and brokers
for the selling on commission or otherwise OF
said goods, wares and products; to engage in
general furnishing and supply business as
principal and as agent, in hardware, ship
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 and
all other things of similar character, and
carry on the business of the corporation in
Louisiana and in all of the states of the
United States, and foreign countries; and
generally to do and perform all things peril
nent and incident and which may be proper
and necessary to carr, out and execute the
objects and purposes of this corporation.
ARTICLE Ais to be amended to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 4.-The capital stock of this cor
poration is hereby fixed at the sum
divided int6 and represented by Six Hun
dred shares of the par value of One Hun
dred Dollars $4,000 each. The said stock
shall be paid for in cash or in such install
tice TO subscribers as the Board of Directors
may fix; or the same may be issued at no
less than par for labor done, or services per-
formed for Tire said corporation, or for the
property or rights actually received by the
said corporation, or the same may be issued
as dividend from the earnings of the cor
poration and may be accepted by the stock
holders after ratification at a meeting duly
assembled by a majority of them, in shares
of stock as full payment of the said divi-
dend. The capital stock may, after a meet
ing duly assembled. be increased to One
Hundred Thousand Dollars (slO0,0O0OO).
All transfers Of shares of the capital stock
of this corporation shall be made and enter
ed on the stock book of the corporation and
no transfers shall be in any manner binding
on this corporation, unless so entered
The capital stock of this corporation is is
sued and held under the irrevocable agree
ment, contract and condition, that the hold.
ers Of the majority of the stock now or here