The herald., 1918-01-24
CHARTER
OF INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING CON-
INCORPORATED

ana, Parish of Orleans, City Of New
Orleans.
Be it known, That on this twenty second
day of the month of December, in the year
Of Our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred
and seventeen, and of the Independence Of
the United States of America. the one hun
dred and forty-second, before me, Oscar
Schneider, a notary public, duly commits
stoned and qualified, within and for the
Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, and
! in the presence of the witnesses hereinafter
named and undersigned, personally came and
appeared: the several persons whose names
are hereunto subscribed, who severally de-
clared that, availing themselves of the ben
ehts and provisions of the Constitution of
the State of Louisiana and of the laws of
said State relative to the organization of
| corporations, and particularly of the provi-
| sions of Act No. 2o7 of the General Assembly
! OF the State of Louisiana for the year 1914,
they have contracted and agreed and united
to form and do, by these presents, contract
and agree and bind and obligate themselves
to form and organize themselves, as well as
all such other persons who may hereafter
join or become associated with them or their
successors, into a stock corporation and body
polite in law, for the objects and purposes
and under the conditions, covenants, stipu-
lations and agreements of the articles fol-
lowing, to-wit:
Article 1.-The name and title of this cor.
poration shall be Industrial Manufacturing
Company, Incorporated and under and by
said name, unless sooner dissolved in accord
Win law ana THIS Cnarter, II shall exist
and continue, and shall have and enjoy cor
porate existence and succession for a period
of ninety whine (o9) years from and after the
date OF this act. 1t may have, hold, receive,
borrow, loan, exchange, acquire by grant,
git or purchase, devise bequest, sell,
ALLEVIATE, dispose of, convey, lease, pledge,
pawn, hypothecate, cucumber, or mortgage
property of any kind, whether real, personal
Or mixed, eorporeal or incorporeal, movable
or immovable, all subject to such limitations
as may be prescribed by law.
1t may make, issue and endorse bonds or
notes and other evidences of debt. 1t may
accept mortgages, pledges or other forms of
security for money loaned or other debts
1t may contract, sue and be sued, plead or
be implicated by its corporate name in any
court of competent jurisdiction. 1t may
make, adopt and use a common seal and al.
ter the same at pleasure. 1t may hold stock
in other corporations, and its capital stock
may be issued for capital stock in other cor
porations. 1t may name, appoint and employ
such managers, directors, officers, agents and
other employees as its business and conve-
nience may require, and may 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 regula-
| ton 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 II NAV conduct
business in this State, other States, the Fed
eral District, the Territories and possessions
OF the United States, and any foreign eoun-
try. 1t shall have the power to invest its
Board of Directors with all of its corporate
powers, subject to such restrictions as may
be named in this charter. And it generally
shall possess all the powers, rights oriyi-
leges and immunities which corporations are
and may hereafter be authorized to possess
under the Constitution and laws of this
State, and particularly under Act No. 267
| Of the Acts of the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana for the year 1914.
Article 1.-THE domicile of this corpora.
ton shall be at the City of New Orleans,
Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, and
| all citations or other legal process shall he
ton, or in case of his absence, upon the
| Nice-President, or in the absence of both of
these officers, upon the Secretary of this
| corporation
Article III.-The objects and purposes fer
which this corporation is formed and the
nature of the business to be carried on by
it are hereby declared to be:
Section j: To manufacture, produce, adapt,
| buy, SELL import, export, and generally deal
and trade. either at wholesale or retail. in
| real and personal property of every kind and
description, and particularly all vegetables
| and other products, compounds and deriva-
tons carrying high percentages of sugars,
starches and oils. including refners wastes
| and by-pFoducts and manufacture therefrom
denatured alcohol and other spirits and oils,
together with foods, fertilizers and other by
products incident to and arising from such
manufacture, and by-products and any and
all ingredients, products and compounds of
any of the foregoing substances, and any
and all machinery, materials and articles
that may be now or hereafter used or re-
CURED in or in connection with the manu-
facture or handling thereof
Section 2 To store, transport and sell all
and any of the said products above specified
and for the convenient conduct of the same,
to MAINTAIN such central and branch Offices
as may be found necessary and desirable.
Section 3.-To apply for, purchase or other
wise acquire and use, operate, sell, assign,
transfer and otherwise dispose of, processes,
formulas, patents, licenses and other rights
in any and all inventions or improvements,
whether secured not, under letters patent
domestic or foreign.
Section T.. To survey, subdivide, and plat
lands for the purpose of lease or sale, and
to improve and develop the same by the
erection of houses buildings thereon and
to do such other lawful acts may be need
full or desirable in and about the improve
ment and development thereof for any pur-
OF fruits, plants and vegetables; to raise,
buy, sell and deal in horses, mules, cattle,
live stock and poultry of all kinds, and
generally to engage in the business Of a
planter.
Section 5. To carry on all allied and asso-
ciated lines of business which may be d.
-rectly connected with or may further and
assist the conduct of its main business as
above specified
Section g. To construct, purchase, lease
or otherwise acquire and own, maintain and
operate, steamboats,, sailing vessels, barges
and other water craft, piers, docks, wharves
and such lines of tramway or railway as
may be convenient, necessary or incidental
to any business enterprise Of the corpo-
! ration, with all necessary side-tracks. loco
motives, cars, depots, round houses and other
equipment, necessary to the operation of said
vessels, piers, docks, wharves, tramways or
railways and the traffic thereon; provided
that this corporation shall not, without an
amendment of this charter, be a common
| carrier or have the right TO exercise the
power of eminent domain.
Section =. To enter into, make perform
and carry out contracts of every kind not
contrary to law, with any person, firm, asso-
citation or corporation, and to carry on any
other business which under the law il may
be entitled to carry on, which may seem
to the corporation to be calculated, directly
indirectly. to effect the aforesaid objects
or either of them, or to facilitate il in the
transaction of its aforesaid business or bus
inesses or any part thereof. or in the trans
action Of any other lawful business that
may be calculated. directly or indirectly. to
enhance the value of or TO render profitable,
any of the corporations property and rights.
and Oenerallv "a hofd anH exerr;se al snrh