The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-03-14
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER OF
THE PEOPLES SUGAR COMPANY.

AMENDMENT TO CHARTER OF
THE PEOPLES SUGAR COMPANY.
United States of America, State of Lou
isiana, Parish of Orleans, City of New
| Orleans.
| BE il known. That on this 2Sth day OF
the month of February, in the year of our
| Lord one thousand, nine hundred and
| eighteen, and of the Independence of the
| United States of America, the one hun
dred and forty second; before me. Charles
+. Fletchinger, Notary Public, duly COM
| miSSiOned and qualified, in and for this
| City and the Parish of Orleans, therein
| residing, and in the presence of the wit
| neSSeS hereinafter named and undersigned,
personally came and appeared:
| Messrs. Herbert WadswOrth and Joe Z.
Chafe. herein appearing and acting in
1 their respective capacities as. President
| and Secretary of THE Peoples Sugar
Company, corporation organized under
! the laws of the State of Louisiana. with
| its dOmicile in the Town of Abbeville in
said State. created by act before w. sum-
mers, Notary Public, of Nermillion Par
| ish, under date of April IS, 1912, and re-
corded in the Office of the Clerk of Court
| and EX-Officio Recorder of the Parish of
NermilliOn. in Book of Mortgages SO, FO-
lilo 554, No. 1880, on the 10Th of April,
l9l2, which said appearers declared that
In pursuance to a resolution adopted at
special meeting of the shareholders of
| said Company, held in the City of New
Orleans. at the Office of the Company, No.
300 Hibernia Bank Building, on the 25th
day of February, 1918, after written waiv-
er of notice of said special meeting signed
by each and every shareholder of the
Company, will appear from a certified
copy of the minutes of said meeting here
unto annexed and made part her6sf. Ar
ttcles i, III, ~, and V, of said (Ef2, f. 81
Company were, by unanimous vote of all
the shareholders, present or represented
constituting all the shareholders of the
Company amended so as to read as fol-
lows:
Article One.-The name of this CORPORA
ton shall be "Rose Hill Company, Inc.
and, under its said corporate name, it
shall have power and authority to have
cessiOn for the full term of ninety nine
years from and after the date hereof; to
contract sue and be sued: to make and
Use a corporate seal, and the same to al
ter and break at pleasure; to hold, re-
cCive, lease. purchase and convey. as well
as mortgage and hypothecate, property,
real personal and mixed, corporal and
incOrporeal; to loan money and accept
mortgages, pledges and other security; TO
acquire and own the stocks and bonds of
other corporations; to name and appoint
such managers, agents, directors and Of
ficers as its business interests may re-
quIre. and to make and establish, as well
as alter and amend, from time to time,
such bylaws, rules and regulations FOR
the proper government of the affairs of
| said corporation as may be necessary and
proper.
Article Two.-The domicile of this ,or-
pOration shall be in the City of New Or
| leans, State of Louisiana, and all citation
| or other legal process shall be served up
| on the President of said corporation, or,
| in his absence, upon the Vice-President,
and, in the absence of both, upon the
Secretary of the corporation.
Meetings of the Board of Directors or
stockholders shall be held at the domicile
OF the corporation or elsewhere in the
State, in accordance with law.
Article FOur.-The capital stock of this
corporation is hereby fixed at the sum of
Two Hundred and Fifty Thousond Dollars
S2oOOOO.OO), to be divided into twenty
five hundred (25oOl shares of the par
each, of which fifteen hundred Q,5OO)
shares shall he Preferred Stock and One
thousand Q.0O0) shares Common Stock.
The Preferred Stock shall be entitled to
preferred dividends at the rate of eight
per cents. per annum on the par value
thereof. to be payable out of the net pro-
fits which may be realized by the said
corporation and the said dividends shall
be cumulative.
No dividend shall be declared on the
Common Stock of the corporation unless
and until all the cumulative dividends on
the Preferred Stock shall have been paid
The holders of Preferred and Common
Stock shall be vested with the same vot-
ing power.
In event of liquidation, for any reason,
OF the assets of this corporation, the hold
ers OF Preferred Stock shall be entitled
to be paid in full to the extent of all
unpaid accumulated dividends thereon. to-
gether with the par value of their stock,
before any holders of Common Stock shall
receive any payment on the same from the
assets in liquidation.
'ihe amount to which the capital stock
OF this corporation may be increased is
hereby hxed at the amount of Four Hun
dred Thousand Dollars (sAO0,0OO.OO).
Article Five.-The BUSINESS and affairs
Of the Company shall be managed and
conducted by a Board of Directors con,
sisting of five stockholders. Immediately
upon the signing of this charter. the sub
scribers shall convene in stockholders
among themselves and others to whom
portions of the capital stock may be trans
ferred, and the directors so elected shall
hold office until the third Monday in Feb
ruary, 1913, or until their successors are
duly elected and qualified. On the third
Monday Of February, and annually there
after, an election of directors shall be
held at the office of the corporation. no
mail to each stakeholder at least ten days
prior thereto. At all elections a stock
holder shall be allowed one vote for each
share of stock standing in his name on
prior to such meeting In case Of va
cancy occurring for any cause in either
the Board of Directors or among the Of
fcers, the vacancy shall be filed by the
remaining directors by the election of a
stakeholder to I'LL said vacancy, who shall
hold Office until his successor is elected at
the next annual meeting.
Said appearers further declared that, in
their above respective capacities and in
pursuance Of said resolution, they now
execute this act for the purpose Of COM
pleting the amendments to Articles One
Two. Four and Five Of the charter of said
Company, which articles as amended read
as hereinbefore set forth.
Thus done and passed, in my office. at
the City of New Orleans, on the day
month and year herein first above written.
In the presence Of Messrs. Burt W. Henry
have hereunto affixed their signatures. to-
gether with those OF said appearers and
me. Notary. after due reading Of the