The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-08-08
CHARTER OF
BUSINESS LETTER SERVICE COMPANY
INCORPORATED
United States of America, State of Louis
lana. Parish OF Orleans. City OF New
Orleans.

| Orleans.
lie it known that on this the 3rd day Of
July. 1918. before me, EUlla \. Tlchuuor
| duly commissioned, quaIifcd and acting
notary public in and for the Parish OF
IOrlcanS, State of Louisiana, and in the
| presence OF the hereinafter named and un-
IderSigncd witnesses, personally came and
Iappedrcd the several persons, whose names
are hcrcuntO subscribed, ana severally de-
lclarcd that, ayalliug themselves OF the
( general laws of the State of Louisiana. in
such eases made and provided, they have
formed and organized, and do by these
presents form and organize themselves and
such others as may hereafter become AS
sOCIated with them into corporation and
J body polite in law, for the objects and
purposes in the following articles set forth
aud expressed, which they adopt as their
charter:
! Article THE name and title OF this
corporation shall be business Letter Ser
vice Company, Incorporated" and it shall
IeAiSt anu enjoy succession for period
OF ninety nine years from date hereof, with
| all the rights and powers now or here
after conferred upon similar corporations.
| 1t shall have the power and authority TO
contract, sue and be sued, to make and
use corporate seal, the same to break
land alter at pleasure; to have, hold, buy,
sell, lease, mortgage, hypOtheCate or
pledge property, real, personal or mixed,
necessary, proper or incidental for the
carrying on OF its business, well to
| issue bonds secured by such mortgages +;
TO make and issue notes and other Ger
| titiCatcS of Indebtedness; to buy the cap
ital stock and securities OF other corpora
lions and TO give i'll payment therefor the
IcapitJl stock Of this corporation, cash,
property, merchandise or services, to
name, elect and appoint directors, man
layers, clerks or other employees 10 prop
Ierly conduct its corporate business, and
Ito make such bylaws, rules and rcgula-
| tons as may be necessary or found de
SiraDle for the management of the bust
ness and affairs of this corporation, and
the same to alter and amend ut pleasure
and generally to do every other act, mat
| ter or thing necessary or desirable for
the complete carry ing out OF said bust
ness.
| Article 1.-THE dOmicile of this cOrpOr-
alton shall be at New Orleans, i'll the Par
| iSh of Orleans, State Of Louisiana, where
all citations or other legal process shall
be served upon the PRESIDENT, or III his
IaDscHcc on the Vice President, or in the
absence OF both, upon the secretary.
Article lII.-The objects and purposes
flor which this corporation is organized
land the nature of the business to be car
ried on by it are hereby declared to be-
no engage in the advertising and print
ing business, to conduct letter shop for
the production of circular, form and sales
letters by various processes of dupliCa-
| ton; to do printing, enclosing, engrav-
ling, multigraphing and mimeOgraphing !;
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; 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, Il general line OF stationery, pa
lper, carbon paper, typewriter ribbons, ink
land similar merchandise, as well as office
devices and appliances, office furniture and
Equipment or to act as manufacturer 5
la n hn Of IL
struct and train operators i'll 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 IN.-The capital stock of this
corporation is hereby fixed at ten thou
Island (SlO,0OO) dollars, and said stock shall
be divided into and represented by ten
Thousand 100000 shares OF the par value
IOf one ($I.OOl dollar each. Stock may
Ibe paid for i'll money, in services rendered
good will regularly transferred to the
corporation. The capital stock of this cor
lpOration may be increased or decreased
lby a majority vote of all of the outstand-
ling stock ut meeting of the stockholders
called for that purpose i'll the same man
ner as provided for the meeting to elect
| directors.
| Article V-The corporate powers of this
Incorporation shall be vested in Board of
| Directors of not less than three nor more
than five stockholders, a majority of whom
shall constitute quorum for the trans
faction of business. At all meetings of the
Board of Directors each Director shall
have the right to appoint 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 IA NicePresident, a Secretary and a
Treasurer. The Secretary may or may
not be IL member of the Board of Direc-
tors. The Board of Directors shall have
ipOwer 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.
lat "A general stockholders meeting, except
the first board, appointed in this charter,
lwhO shall hold their offices until the third
Monday in January, 1919, or until their
successors are elected ana quallned. STOCK
holders shall have the right of cumulative
lvOting in the election of directors and Of
ficers. Any vacancy occurring among the
directors by death, resignation or other
IwiSe, shall be filled by election for the
Iunexpired term by the remaining direc-
ltors. The first Board of Directors shall
be composed of Thaddeus z. Bell, Edward
\. Adey, Jr., j. Edward Salathe, Aubrey
the City of New Orleans, with Thaddeus
IL. Bell as President and Treasurer, Ed
ward A. Adey, Jr., as Nice-President, and
David V. Johnston as Secretary; and all
until their successors are elected and quail
lifted.
| Article Vino stakeholder shall be held
liable or responsible for the contracts OF
faults of this cOrpOrtion in any further
sum than the unpaid balance due to the
corporation on the shares of stock owned
lby 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-
Icription and character of the property tC
lbe given in exchange for the subscriptions
Ito 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
All the property, assets and good Will
lof the non-incOrporated concern now
known as the Business Letter Service
company, and owned by Thaddeus L: Bell
and now doing business at SIG Audubon
Building, New Orleans, Louisiana, more
particularly, two multigraph printing ma
lture attachments, ten multigraph sege-
mental drums, five Neutrality-suspicious., four
teen equipments of type, miscellaneous
equipment and accessories, one Edison
lmimeOgraph, one duplicator, one Stand
ard envelope sealer, three typewriters, one
half gross of typewriter ribbons, three
gross of multigraph ribbons, one hundred
land fifty boxes of carbon paper, sixty
Thousand sheets of letterhead paper, mis-
lcellaneous office supplies, twenty-five gross
lof EsterbrOok pens, one Office desk, six
tables twelve chairs, stationery cabinets,
lilies, shelving, office furniture and fixtures