The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-06-06
CHARTERS
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER OF
PHOENIX DEVELOPMENT COMPANY,
INCORPORATED.
United States of America, State of Lou
isiana, Parish of Orleans, City of New
Orleans

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, in 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
fed, and in the presence of the witnesses
hereinafter named and undersigned, per
! SOnally came and appeared:
Marion j. Epley, and Clark n, Wisner,
! to me personally known, in their capac-
tiles respectively as the President and
| Secretary Treasurer of the Phoenix De
VelOpment Company, Incorporated. legal
corporation of this Parish and State, or
ganiZed by act before me. the undersigned
| Notary, on February s. 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 Il resolution
submitting to the stockholders the ques-
/ ton of changing the name of the cOrpOr-
alton from the Phoenix Development
| Company, Incorporated" to phoenix
Mining Company, Incorporated" for the
| reason that the name of PrOeniX Develop
ment Company, Incorporated, had already
| been granted by the State of Louisiana to
! a corporation organized previously and
/
| ed in this city, all as Will be shown by
! the correspondence annexed hereto and
| the vcriicatiOn thereof by the Secretary
| of State. And in accordance with the
| Charter of this Corporation. Article VIII
| thereof, and of Act 261 of 1914, there was
sent thirty-day notice. to each of the
| stockholders of this corporation, that n
meeting of the stockholders would be held
at the dOmicile thereof on March 18TH
! 1918, at : 30 p. m, for the purpose OF
| taking into consideration the Amendment
Inf Nrfif 10 I Of fIa tbar na.r,1
ed by the Resolution of the Board of hi
| 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, ut No. 500
| HCnhen Building, in the City of New Or
| leans, at the hour of . 80 p. m, on March
| 10Th, 19lS, in accordance with the resOlu-
| ton of said Board of Directors and the
| notices aforesaid; that ut said meeting of
| the stockholders there We're 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, it 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-enacted 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 at
pleasure; to hold, to purchase, lease, sell,
mortgage, hypOthecate, or pledge proper
| ty, real. personal, or mixed, necessary, in
| cidental 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 said lands, 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 I
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.
month and year first above written, in
| 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. J. Epley, President, c. n. Wisner,
Secy. Treas.
Witnesses: Henry T.. Hammett, Eliza
| Pickett.
| OSCAR SCHREIBER, Not. Pub.
| i, 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
this day duly recorded in Mortgage Of
flee Book 1922, folio 500
New Orleans, May LIST, 1918.
| (Signed) EMILE J. LEONARD, ID. 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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