The herald., 1918-08-01
CHARTER OF
BUSINESS LETTER SERVICE COMPANY
INCORPORATED
United States of America, State of Louis
lana, Parish of Orleans, city of New
Orleans

lana, Parish of Orleans, city of New
Orleans
he it known that on this the 3rd day o
july, IBIS before me, Rolla y. 1ich,mOr
la uuly commissioned, qualified AMI actin.
notary public i'll and for the Parish o
lOrlean>. State of Louisiana. and in IN,
presence OF the hereinafter named and un
IderSlgncd witnesses, personally came aut
Iappearrd the several persons, whose name
ARE hrrcuntO subscribed, and seyerally de
iclarcd that, availing themselves OF IN,
general laws of the state OF Louisiana, il
EsuCh cases made aud provided, they hay,
formed and organized, and do by thcs,
presents form and organize themselves ant
Nuch others as may hereafter become as
lSOclated with them into corporation an,
body polite in law, for the objects an,
purposes in the following articles set fortl
land expressed, which they adopt as thei
Ichartcr:
Article The name and title of thi
corporation shall be business Letter Ser
Vice Company, incorporated" ana it shall
IeNiSt ana enjoy succession for a periO,
lOt ninety nine years from udte hereof, witt
lall the rights ANA powers now or here
latter conferred upon similar corporations
II shall have the power and authority I,
contract, sue and be sued, to make AM
lu>e corporate seal, the same to breaL
ana alter ut pleasure; to have, hold, buy
sell, lease, mortgage, hypOtheCatc oil
pledge property, real, personal or mixed
necessary, proper or Incidental for tn,
carrying on Of its business, well as e
ISSUE bOHuS SECURED Ds SuCh mortgages
TO make and issue notes and other Ger.
tltCatcs OF Indebtedness; to buy the cap.
litdl stock ana securities OF other corpora,
tons and TO give i'll payment therefor the
lcapltal stock OF this corporation, cash
property, merchandise or services. u
name elect and appoint directors, man
layers, clerks or other employees 10 prop
Ierly conduct its corporate business, and
TO make such bylaws, rules and rcgula-
tons as may be necessary or found de-
Sirable for the management of the bust
ness and affairs of this corporation, and
the same to alter and amend at pleasure
and generally to do every other act mat
ter or thing necessary or desirable Tor
the complete carrying out OF said bust
ness.
| Article 1.-THE domicile of this corpOr-
alton shall be ut New Orleans, III the Par
ish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, where
all citations or other legal process shall
| be served upon the President, or in his
IabSence on the Vice President or in the
absence OF both, upon the secretary.
Article III.-The objects and purposes
for which this corporation is organized
and the nature of the business to be car
ried on by it are hereby declared TO be
| To engage i'll the advertising and print
ing business, to conduct Il letter shop for
the production of circular, form and sales
letters by various processes of dupllca-
Inon; to do printing, enclosing, engray-
ing, mulugraphlng and mlmeOgrapning
and to write, prepare or edit copy Tor
booklets folders pamphlets, circular, form
and sales letters and advertising matter,
and to print, multigraph or mimeOgraph
| the same and TO act as principal or agent
i'll the publication and circulation of the
same; 10 copy manuscript, lists OF names,
address envelopes, to do public steno-
graphic work, and to conduct mailing and
publicity campaigns; also to engage III the
sale, either at whole sale or retail, of office
supplies, general line of stationery, pa
per, carbon paper, typewriter ribbons, ink
and similar merchandise, as well as office
devices and appliances, office furniture and
equipment, or to act as manufacturer :
agent i'll the sale of the same; also to in
struct and train operators ill the opera
ton, uses and mechanism of various kinds
| OF Office machinery and appliances, and To
furnish the services of such operators to
interested persons or firms.
| Article lE.-Ihe capital stock of this
corporation is hereby fixed at ten thou
sand (SlO,OOO) dollars, and said stock shall
be divided into and represented by ten
thousand 100000 shares of the par value
of one (SlOO) dollar each. Stock may
be paid for in money, i'll services rendered
| to the corporation or in property and
good will regularly transferred to the
corporation. The capital stock of this cor
| pOration may be increased or decreased
by majority vote of all of the outstand-
| ing stock at meeting of the stOckhOl ders
called for that purpose in the same man
ner as provided for the meeting TO elect
Directors.
Article V.-The corporate powers of this
corporation shall be vested in a Board of
Directors of not less than three nor more
than fiye stockholders, d majority of whom
shall constitute a quorum for the trans
action of business. At all meetings of the
Board of Directors each Director shall
have the right to appoint a proxy to act
in his place and stead. Any action of the
Board of Directors agreed to in writing
and signed by all the members or their
proxies, though done separately and with
out converting, shall have the same effect
as if done in formal meeting. The Off
GERS of this corporation shall be Presi-
dent, a Vice-President, a Secretary and a
Treasurer. The Secretary may or may
not be a member of the Board of Direc
tors. The Board of Directors shall have
power to unite two or more offices, and
the same to confer upon one person. Said
Directors shall be elected annually on the
third Monday of January, in each year.
at general stockholders meeting, except
the first board appointed in this charter,
who shall hold their offices until the third
Monday in January, 1919, or until their
holders shall have the right of cumulative
voting in the election of directors and Of
ticers. Any vacancy occurring among the
directors by death, resignation or other
wise, shall be filled by election for the
unexpired term by the remaining direc-
tors. The first Board of Directors shall
be composed of Thaddeus p. Bell, Edward
\. Adey, Jr., j.. Edward Salathe, Aubrey
+. Murray and David V. Johnston, all Of
the City of New Orleans, with Thaddeus
p. Bell as President and Treasurer, Ed
ward A. Adey, Jr, as Vice-President, and
David V. Johnston as Secretary; and all
of said directors and officers shall serve
until their successors are elected and quail
flied.
Article VINO stakeholder shall be held
liable or responsible for the contracts or
faults of this cOrportiOn in any further
sum than the unpaid balance due to the
corporation on the shares of stock owned
| by him, nor shall any mere infOrmality In
Organization have the effect of rendering
this charter null or of exposing a stock
holder to liability beyond the amount of
his unpaid stock, If any.
Article VII.-The location, value, des-
criptiOn and character of the property to
be given in exchange for the subscriptions
to the capital stock of this corporation,
otherwise than cash, or for services rend-
cred or performed, is hereby set forth,
described and itemized, as follows, to-wit
of the non-incorpOrated concern now
known as the Business Letter Service
Company, and owned by Thaddeus p. Bell
and now doing business at Sl6 Audubon
Building, New Orleans, Louisiana, more
particularly, two multigraph printing ma
chimes, with special printing and sigma
ture attachments, ten multigraph sege-
mental drums, five fiexo-typesetters, four
teen equipments of type, miscellaneous
mimeOgraph, one duplicator, one Stand
ard envelope sealer, three typewriters, one
half gross of typewriter ribbons, three
gross of multigraph ribbons, one hundred
and fifty boxes of carbon paper, sixty
thousand sheets of letterhead paper, mis-
cellaneous office supplies. twenty five gross
of EsterbrOok pens, one office desk, six
files, shelving, Office furniture and fixtures
and all othpr Dronprtv now l0patod at SIG