The herald., 1918-08-15
CHARTER OF
BUSINESS LETTER SERVICE COMPANY
INCOKPORATED.
United States Of America. State " LOui
lana, Parish OF Orleans, City OF Ne
Orleans.

United States OF America. State " Louis
lana, Parish OF Orleans, City OF New
Orleans.
lie it known that on thi, the sd day OF
July. 1913, before me, Eolla \. IichcHOr
la duly commissioned, QualIHed aTd acting
notary PuUHc Ia and Tor the Parish OF
lOTledn>. State OF Louisiana, and in the
presence OF the hereinafter named and I'M
derSIgncd witnesses, personally came and
Iapp-aT,d the several persons, whose names
lare hvrcuntO subscribed. anu Severally de
iclarrd that, availins themselves OF the
general laws OF the State OF Louisiana in
formed and organized, ana do 10y these
presents form ana organize themselves and
such others as may hereafter become as
SOCIuted with them into corporation and
J body polite in law, Tor the objects and
purposes in the following articles. set forth
and expressed, which they adopt is their
charter.
Article 1.-The name and title Of thi,
corporation shall be "EuSIHcss Letter Ser
vice Company, Incorporated, anu 1t snail
exist ANA ENJOY succession for period
| Of uInvt! nine years from uJte hereof, with
/ all tHt rights and powers now or here
latter conferred upon similar corporations
II snail nave the power aud authority ~
contract, sue and be sued, 10 MAKE and
Use a corporate seal, the same to break
and alter At pleasure; To have, hold, Duy
SELL, Lease. mortgage, hlpUJueCdtc or
pledge property, real, personal or mixed
necessary, proper or incidental for Jnt
carr! ing on OF its business, is well as IL
issue bonds secured by such mortgages
| TO make and issue notes and other GER
IIiiydtcs OF indebtedness, To buy the cap
lItal stock ana securities OF other corpora
lions and TO give III payment therefor the
capital stock OF this corporation, cash,
property, merchandise or services, 10
name, elect and appoint directors, man
layers, clerks or other employees 10 prop
Ieriy conduct its corporate business, and
to make such bylaws, rules and rcguld-
he a o.
>lraDle for the mana cement of the bust
ness ana affairs OF this corporation, and
the same TO alter ana amend ut pleasure,
and generally to do every other act, mat
the complete carrying out of said bust
ness.
Article 1.-THE domicile OF this corpOr-
alton shall be at 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
absence on the Vice President, or III the
absence of both, upon the secretary.
Article IlI.-The objects and purposes
for which this corporation is Organized
ri,d on by it are hereby declared TO be:
TO engage i'll the advertising and print
ing business, to conduct 4 letter shop for
the production OF circular, form and sales
letters by various processes of duplIca-
ton; to do printing, enclosing, enSraN-
ing, multlgraphing and mlmCOsrapnlnS
land To write, prepare or edit copy Tor
booklets, folders, pamphlets, circular, form
and sales letters ANA advertising matter,
and to print, multlgraph or nIlmeOgraph
the same and 10 act as principal or agent
i'll the publication and circulation OF the
same, TO 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 OillCt
devices and appliances, office furniture and
equipment, or TO act as manufacturer
agent i'll the sale of the same, also 10 III
struCt and train operators in the opera
tiOn, uses and mechanism of various kinds
OF Office machinery and appliances, and tC
furnish the services OF such operators Il
Interested persons or firms.
| Article lN.-The capital stock OF this
corporation is hereby fiXed at ten thou
sand (SlO,OOO) dollars, and said stock shall
thousand 10000 shares of the par valu,
| of one (SlOO) dollar each. Stock may
be paid tor ill money, i'll services rendered
| to the corporation or i'll property and
| good will regularly transferred to the
corporation. Inc capital stock of this cor
IpOratiOn may be increased or decreased
! by a majority vote of ali OF the Outstand
ing stock at Il meeting OF the stockholders
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 i'll Il Board OF
! Directors of not less than three nor more
than hve stockholders, a majority of whom
shall constitute Il quorum for the trans
action OF business. At all meetings of the
Board of Directors each Director shall
have the right to appoint Il proxy TO ACT
in his place and stead. Any action of the
Board of Directors agreed to i'll writing
and signed by all the members or their
proxies, though done separately and with
l,,,t .tp,r han hay hn off
as if done in formal meeting. The OIL
GERS of this corporation shall be Presi-
dent, a Vice President, Secretary and q
Treasurer. The Secretary may or may
not be 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, i'll each year
at "A general stockholders meeting, except
the first board, appointed i'll this charter
IWhO shall hold their Offices until the third
| Monday in January, 1919, or until theil
holders snail have the right of cumulatiy,
voting in the election of directors and OF
hcers. Any vacancy occurring among the
directors by death, resignation or other
IuueX pired term by the remaining direc
tors. The first Board of Directors shall
be composed of Thaddeus L. Bell, Edward
\. Adey, Jr., j. Edward Salathe, Aubre!
+. Murray and David V. Johnston, all o
the City of New Orleans, with Thaddeu
L. Bell as President and Treasurer, Ed
Ward \. Adey, Jr., as Vice President, an'
David V. Johnston as Secretary, and al
of said directors and officers shall serv
until their successors are elected and quail
lifted.
Article Who stakeholder shall be hell
liable or responsible for the contracts o
faults of this corportion in any furthe
sum than the unpaid balance due to tn
lcOrpOratiOn on the shares of stock Owne'
Iby him, nor shall any mere infOrmality Il
organization have the effect of rendering
this charter null or of exposing stock
holder TO liability beyond the amount
his unpaid stock, If any.
| Article NII.-The location, value, des
lcriptiOn and character of the property Z
be given in exchange for the subscription
Ito the capital stock of this corporation
lOtherwise than cash, or for services rend
cred or performed, is hereby set forth
described and itemiZed, as follows, to-wit
| All the property, assets and good VIII
of the nOn-incOrpOrated concern nov
known as the Business Letter Serylc
company, and owned by Thaddeus Z. Bel
land now doing business at SIG Audubon
Building, New Orleans, Louisiana, NOR
particularly, two multigraph printing ma
lchines, with special printing and sigma
lture attachments, ten multigraph sege
teen equipments of type, miscellaneou
equipment and accessories, one Ediso
lmimeograph, one duplicator, one stand
ard envelope sealer, three typewriters, one
half gross of typewriter ribbons, thre
gross of multigraph ribbons, one hundre
land fifty boxes Of carbon paper, siXt
thousand sheets of letterhead paper, mis-
of EsterbroOk pens, one Office desk, 81
ltahleS twelve chairs. stationery cabinets