The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-01-03
CHARTER
OF LAKESIDE LIVE STOCK COMPANY,
INCORPORATED.

OF LAKESIDE LIVE STOCK COMPANY,
INCORPORATED.
United States of America, State of Louisi-
ana, Parish Of Orleans, City of New
Orleans.
BE it known, That on this the twenty
sixth day Of the month OF November, in the
\ ear OF Our Lord one thousand nine hun
bred and seventeen, and OF the independence
Of the United States Of America, the one
hundred and forty-hrst, before me, Percy
Sommer Benedict, a Notary Public, duly
commissioned and qualified, within and for
the Parish Of Orleans, State of Louisiana,
therein residing. and IN the presence OF the
witnesses hereinafter named and under
signed, personally came and appeared: the
subscribed, who severally declared that,
avallIng themselves of the benefits and pro-
visions Of the Constitution Of the State OF
Louisiana, and of the laws of said State
relative to the organiztIon of corporations
and particularly Of the provisions of Act
No 267 Of the General Assembly OF the State
d LOUISIANA tor the year 1914, they have
united 10 form, and do, by these presents
form and organize themselves, as we'll as
an such other persons who may hereafter
JON or become associated with them or their
successors, into a stock corporation for the
| objects and purposes and under the cove
nantS, supulatlons and agreements following,
| tO:wIt:
Article 1.-The name and title of this cor.
| poratlOn shall be Lakeside Live Stock Conn
| pany, Incorporated and under and by said
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-nlne C99l years from and after the
| date OF this act. 1t may have, hold, receive,
| ooTrow lend, exchange, acquire by grant
| gtt 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, corpOrcal incorporeal, movable
or immovabe,, all subject to such limita-
! tons as may be prescribed by law Ii NAV
| make, issue and endorse bonds or notes and
| other evidences OF debt. 1t may accept mort
| cages, pledges, or other forms Of security for
! money loaned or other debts. 1t NAV con-
| tract, sue and be sued, plead or be impleaded
| oy 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
| poratlons, 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 max fix 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 regr-
| 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
eral Districts, the Territories and posses.
sions of the United States, and any for.
elgn country. 1t generally shall possess all
the powers, rights, privileges and immuni
mes which corporations are and may here
| after be authorized to possess under the
Il Of a
tlcularly under Act No. 267 of the Acts o.
the General Assembly of the State of Lou
isiana for the year 1914; and it shall have
the power to invest its Board of Director:
with all OF its coporate powers, subject 4
such restrictions as may be named in thu
charter.
Article 1.-THE domcile of this CORPORA
ton shall be the City Of New Orleans, Par
ish OF Orleans, State of Louisiana, and al
citations or other legal process shall b.
| served upon its President, or, in the even
Of his absence, upon the FIRST Vice-P President
or; IN the the event of the absence s both o
Article lll.-This corporation is organized
principally for the purpose of carrying OF
and doing general livestock business, an
shall have the power to conduct its bushes
IN all Its branches in all of the States, Ter
| ritorles and possessions of the United States
as well as IN foreign countries, and ma
, nave one or more Offices outside of tn
stare OF LOUISIANA. In the carrying on o
I /
, fairs, it is especially empowered and au
, thorized to do and perform the following acts
al FIRST: 10 acquire by purchase, lease O
, otherwise, cattle, sheep and hog farms o
; | ranches, and TO operate the same, either in
! | dividually or through agents. To buy, sell
grow, breed, raise, import and export, an
generally deal in, cattle, horses, mule.
hogs sheep live stock and poultry of a
> raising, livestock and agricultural bushes.
SECOND: To erect and build abbattoir.
i Goid-storage warehouses, sheds and othe
! buildings necessary or expedient for the pui
! poses OF the Company; and to slaughter ca
! tie, sheep, hogs and poultry: To pack an
! preserve meats. To buy and sell at whole
= sale or retail in the United States or els,
: where, all kinds of meat, and generally
! | carry on the trade and business of mes
= dealer. in all of its branches. To manufa,
| ture and deal in tallow, lard, and kindre
|. products. 10 manufacture the offal of an
!, mails into merchantable products, and Sc
n the same. To cure and deal in hides. pei
! | and skins. To manufacture, buy and Sc
: provisions and other articles of merchandi:
. commonly manufactured, bought or sold b
3 packing or provision houses, and to slaug
g ter cattle, swine, sheep and other ANNA
u for food
n THIRD: To carry on a dairy bushes
" and to manufacture, buy and SELL and othe
4 | wise deal in, andS to export and import DIT
n duce of all kinds, butter, oleomargarine ar
,e 0utterine; TO establish, construct, mainta
for the manufacture of ice; to equip, mai
e tain and operate refrigerator cars, and
S. do any and all things necessary and inc
,r dental to the operation of the Company
a the premises.
lie | FOURTH: To carry on the business
to cold storage and warehousing, and all Il
c. business necessary or implicitly incident
lie | thereto; and to further carry on the busine
y OF general warehousing, in all its sever
d, branches; to construct, hire, purchase, ope
Id ate and maintain, all or any conveyanc
e, tor the transportation, in cold storage
IN | otherwise, by land or by water, of any al
Is all products, goods, or manufactured ar
n, cies; to issue certificates and warrants, n
DR. gotiable or otherwise, to persons warehou
r ing goods with the Company, and to ma
Or advances or loans upon the security of su
I'd goods or otherwise; to manufacture, sell al
is tradefin, all goods usually dealt in by wal
E. housemen; to construct, purchase, take
lease, or otherwise acquire any wharf, pi,
ID dock, works capable of being advant
IN geously used in connection with the shppi
ID and carrying or other business of the Co
le pany.
FIFTH: To construct, purchase, lease
- otherwise acquire, and own, maintain al
" operate, steamboats,, sailing vessels, barg
70 and other watercraft, piers, docks, wharv
= or bridges, and such lines of tramway
- railway, within the State of Louisiana
elsewhere, as may be convenient, necessa
4 | or incidental to any business or enterpri
=, Of the Company, with all necessary sid
!, tracks, locomotives, cars, depots, roun
a houses and other equipment necessary
~ the operation of said piers, docks, wharv,
=. bridges, tramways and railways, and t
=. shall not have the power of eminent
:, main.