The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-08
Charter Of the Avoca Hold
ings Company Inc.
United States of America,
State of Louisiana.
Parish of St. Mary,
City OF Morgan City.

BE IT KNOWN, That on this, the
31st day of the month of December
in the year of Our Lord, one thous
and, nine hundred and seventeen
and of the independence of the Uni
ted States of America, the one hun
dred and forty-second, before me, l
w. Paddock, Notary Public, duly
commissioned and qualified within
and for the Parish of St. Mary, State
of Louisiana, therein residing, and in
the presence of the witnesses here.
matter named and undersigned, per
sonally came and appeared the sew
eral persons whose names are here
unto subscribed, who severally de-
clared that, availing themselves of
the benefits and provisions of the
Constitution Of the State Of Louis
lana and to the laws of said State
relative to the organization of corpo-
rations, particularly of the provi-
sions of Act Number 267 of the
General Assembly Of the State of
Louisiana for the year 1914, they
have united to form and do, by these
presents, form and organize them
selves, as we'll as all such other per-
sons who may hereafter join or be-
come associated with them or their
successors, into a stock corporation
for the ScDjects and purposes and
under the covenants, stipulatiops and
agreements following, towit:
ARTICLE /.
The name and title Of this corpo-
ration shall be:
"AVOCA HOLDINGS COMPANY,
INCORPORATED
and under and by SAID name, unless
sooner dissolved in accordance with
law and this charter, it shall exist and
continue, and shall have and enjoy
corporate existence and succession
for a period Of ninety-nine years
from and after the date of this act.
1t may have. hold, receive, borrow,
loan, exchange, acquire by grant, gift
or purchase, devise or bequest, sell,
ALLEVIATE, dispose Of, convey, lease,
pledge, pawn, hypothecate, cucumber
Or mortgage property of any kind,
real, personal or mixed, cor
poreal or incorporeal, movable or i'm
all subject to such limita-
lions as may be prescribed by law.
It may make, issue and endorse
bonds or notes and other evidences
Of debt. It may accept mortgages,
pledges or other forms of security
FOR money loaned or other debts. It
may contract, sue and be sued, plead
Dr. be implicated by its corporate
name in any court of competent ju-
It may make, adopt and
use a common seal and alter the
,ame at pleasure. It may hold stock
in other corporations, and its cap
tai stock may be issued for capital
stock in other corporations. It may
name, appoint and employ such
managers, directors, officers, agents
md other employees % it, said bus
ness and convenience may require,
Ind may fix their compensation, hav-
ng due regard to the nature, char
lcter and value Of their services. It
nay make, and establish bylaws,
'ules and regulations not inconsist-
mt with this charter or any existing
aw, fixing or altering the manake-
nent Of its property, the regulation
md government Of its affairs, and
he manner of the certification and
Of its stock. It NAV
vind up and dissolve itself, or be
wound up and dissolved in the man
er prescribed by law. It may con-
uct business in this State. other |
'tates, the Federal Districts, the
'erritories and possessions Of the
United States, and any foreign coun-
~. It shall have the power to in
est its Board Of Directors with all
t its corporate powers, subject to
ach restrictions as may be named
this charter. And it generally