The herald., 1918-01-31
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER

OF SOUTHERN COOPERAGE COMPANY.
United States of America, State of Louisi-
ana, Parish of Orleans, City of New
Orleans.
Be it known. That on this fifteenth day
of the month of January in the year of our
Lord nineteen hundred and eighteen, and OF
the Independence of the United States OF
America the one hundred and fOrty-second
Before ME, J. Henry Forcelle, Jr., notary
public in and for the Parish of Orleans
State of Louisiana, aforesaid, duly commits
stoned, sworn and qualified and in the pres
ence of the witnesses hereinafter named and
undersigned; personally came and appeared
Chris. Reuter-, President, and Raoul d.
ViOsca, Secretary of the Southern Cooperage
Company, OF this city, a corporation organ
lied under the laws of this State by act
passed before Charles Schneidau, Notary
Public of this City, on June Is, 1907, re-
corded in the mortgage Office of this parish
| in book SSl folio Al, who severally declared
that:
Whereas. the Board of Directors of the said
Southern Cooperage Company did, at a ses
sion of said Board held November 30, 1917
at the office of the Company, Nos 5l34-6
Chartres street in this city, authorize the
calling and did call a special and general
meeting of the stockholders of said Company
to be held on the End day of January, 1918
! at 10 o'clock A. NJ, for the purpose Of
submitting to them for their consideration
and vote certain amendments TO Article
Three" to enlarge the objects and purposes
increase the capital stock from $4,000 to
100000, as authorized by its Charter and
by the laws of this State, notice of which
was given by due publication in the Daily
States of this City and also by letter to each
stakeholder
And whereas said stockholders meeting
was duly held. as aforesaid, on January End,
1918, at 10 o'clock A. NJ at its office in this
City, after compliance with all of the forms
and requirements of law; that at said meet
there all the SfOck-
holders of record of said Company, who,
unanimously voted in favor of amending,
and did amend. said Articles of Incorporation
of said Southern Cooperage Company, passed
before Charles Schneidau. Notary Public,
June Il, 1907, recorded in the mortgage office
Of this Parish in book SSl folio IL, and
authorized said appearers to appear before
me. Notary, for the purpose of putting the
said amendments into effect by Notarial act,
as appears by certified copy of the min
utes of said stockholders meeting hereto at
tached and made a part hereof, and which
amendments to Articles Three and Four of
the charter of the said Southern Cooperage
Company, so voted and adopted by said
stockholders meeting, in the words and
figures following, to-wit
Article Three.-The objects and purposes
for which this corporation is established and
the nature of the business to be carried on
by 1t are hereby declared to be: to manu-
afcture, buy and sell barrels and boxes, or
any part thereof, or any material used in the
construction of the same, to carry on
general cooperage business; to buy or lease
timber lands, to buy, lease or build cooper
age mills or railroads for the purpose of
handling the products of said business; and
in furtherance of the above objects and pur-
poses to purchase, acquire, hold, own and
dispose of stocks, bonds and other evidence
of Indebtedness in corporations of a like ma
ture and purpose and in respect to any and
all such stocks, to possess and exercise all
the powers of individual owners thereof lex
cept the business of stock jobbing, which is
hereby expressly excluded; and generally
to hold and exercise all such incident pow
ers and privileges as relate to the objects
and purposes hereinbefore set forth or. that
may be hereafter conferred by law upon this
corporation or corporations of a similar char
acter.
Article Four.-The Capital stock of this
Corporation shall be fixed at the sum of
One Hundred Thousand Dollars (slO0O0OOO)
divided into and represented by 1000 shares
of the par value of Fifty Dollars (s500O)
each, which must be paid for in cash or its
equivalent or issued at par in payment of
property purchased by said corporation or for
services actually rendered to the corporation
which said stock shall be full paid and non-
assessable. All certificates of stock shall be
signed by the President and Secretary, and
no transfer of stock shall be binding upon
this Corporation unless made upon its books.
Any stakeholder may sell, assign or trans
fer his stock in this Corporation, provided
20 days previous notice of such intention to
sell, assign or transfer same be given the
Corporation. and the other stockholders
thereof shall have the first privilege of pur-
chasing same, at its book value after which
20 days notice the said stock may be sold
in open market"
And the said appearers, moreover declared
that in consequence of the foregoing and
in pursuance of the authority in them vested
by the stockholders of the said Southern
Cooperage Company, they do hereby for
mally and publicly declare and make known
that in the manner prescribed by law and
agreeabiy to the provisions of the charter
Of said Southern Coopersge Company, Arti-
cles Three" and -Four of said charter,
passed before Charles Schneidau. Notary
Public, june 18th. 1907. recorded in the mort
gage Office in book ssl, folio Il, has been