The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-07-25
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER OF
LANE COTTON MILLS COMPANY.
United States of America. State of Loui>i
ANA. Parish of Orleans, City of New
Orleans.

United States of America. State of Loui>i-
| ana, Parish of Orleans, City of New
! Orleans.
| BE il known that on this twrnty-siNth
Iday of the month of June in the year of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred and
leight"on and OF the Independence of the
lnlttd states of America, the one hundred
and forty third, before me. Henry l.. Dart,
Jr.. a Notary Public duly commissioned
land qualified, in and for this city and the
| Parish Of Orleans. therein residing. and
| in the presence of the witnesses herein
after and undersigned, personally came
and appeared:
Sigmund Odenhcimer and Harry T.
! Howard, both of age and residents of the
| city of New Orleans. here appearing in
| their capacity as President and Secretary
Treasurer respectively of Lane Cotton
Mills Company, corporation organized
under the laws of the State of Louisiana,
and dOmiciled in the city of New Orleans.
Who declared that as VIII appear by
the certificate hereto annexed, meeting
of stockholders of Lane Cotton Mills Com
Ipany was held in the directors room of
the whitney Central National Bank, at
New Orleans Louisiana. on Wednesday
June 18th, 1913 lat the hour of = o'clock
,. IN. That there were present and rep
resented mt said meeting l3,275 shares of
the capital stock of said corporation, out
of Il total of 1850 shares issued and out
standing. That the said meeting of stock
holders was held after due notice given in
accordance with law and with the charter
of this corporation TO each and every
StOckhOlder.
That said meeting was called for the
purpose of considering certain proposed
amendment to the charter of the said cor
pOratiOn, which amendment was in due
course unanimously adopted by the said
meeting. That at said meeting the appear
erS were appointed committee for the
purpose of causing to be embodied i'll due,
formal and legal shape the amendment to
the charter of Lane Cotton Mills Company
adopted at the said meeting.
And the said appearers declare that by
virtue of the authority in them vested by
said stockholders at said meeting held
on Wednesday, June 20, 1918, and for and
in behalf of said corporation, and in order
to carry out the purposes of said meet
ing and TO give the alterations, changes
and amendment adopted at said meeting
full legal force and effect.
They do now declare, publish and give
notice to the world that Article " of the
charter of Lane Cotton Mills Company,
executed before Henry L. Dart Jr., No
tary Public. on December End 1916, was
amended and the same is hereby amended
and re- enacted so as to read as follows:
to-wit:
Article IV-"The capital stock of this
corporation is fixed at the sum of two
million two hundred fifty thousand dol
lars OOO) divided into and repre-
scented by twenty-five thousand five hun
dred (22,JOOJ shares of the par value of
one hundred dollars. four thousand five
Stitutc the preferred stock, and the re
manning eighteen thousand shares shall he
and constitute the common stock of this
corporation.
said stock shall he paid for in cash
and at such time and in such installments
as the Board of Directors may determine,
or same may be issued for property or
rights actually received by this corpora
ton. The common stock may also be is
sued by this corporation in payment OF
dividends declared and to be declared by
it. The preferred stock shall be entitled
to preference and priority over the com
mon stock in the distribution of dividends
and i'll liquidation and the dividend on
said preferred stock is hereby fixed and
limited to seven per cent per annum and
shall be cumulative.
"All transfers Of shares in the capital
stock of this corporation shall be entered
on the stock book, and no transfer of stock
shall be in any manner binding on this
corporation until registered in said stock
book.
This corporation shall become a going
concern, and may commence business when
one hundred thousand dollars (Sl00,000D of
its capital stock shall have been subscribed
for"
Appcarers further declare that they do
hereby authorize and require the said
changes and amendments to be duly in
OrpOrated into nOtarial shape and to be
recorded and published according to law,
the end that the same may be operative
and binding on all persons whOmsOeyer.
Thus done and passed in my office at
New Orleans, one the day, month and
year herein first above written, and in
the presence of William Herman Dart and
Louis J. Gelpi, competent witnesses, who
have hereuntO signed their names, togeth
er with said appearers, and me, Notary.
Sigmund 0denheimer, III. L. Howard.
Witnesses: William Herman Dart, Louis
j. Gelpi.
HENRY L. DART, JR., Not. Pub.
i the undersigned. Recorder of Mort
cages in and for the Parish of Orleans,
State of Louisiana, do hereby certify that
he above and foregoing act or incOrpOr-
alton of the amendment of Lane Cotton Mills
Company was this day duly recorded in
my office in book 1222, folio 1914,
New Orleans, June %, 1918.
Signed) EMILE J. LEONARD, by. II.
seaD A true copy.
HENRY L. DART, JR., Not. Pub.
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