The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1918-03-21
CHARTER OF
GOODMAN a BEER COMPANY. INC.


GOODMAN a BEER COMPANY. INC.
United States or America, State of Lou
isiana, Parish of Orleans, City of New
Orleans.
Be it known. that on this twenty sixth
day of the month of February. in the year
of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred
and Eighteen,
Before me, Philip Gensler, Jr., Notary
Public, duly commissioned and qualified,
in and for the above Parish and State.
therein residing, and in the presence of
the witnesses hereinafter named and un-
dersigned personally came and appeared :
The several persons whose names are
hereunto subscribed, who severally de-
laws of the State of Louisiana in such
cases made and provided, and more par
ticularly of Act 267 of the General Assem-
bly, of the State of Louisiana Of 1914, re
lating to the creation, organization, and
formation of corporations, they have COW
enanted and agreed, and by these presents
do hereby covenant, agree and bind them
selves, well all other persons as
may hereafter become associated with
them, to form corporation for the OBJ
jectS and purposes under the Articles and
stipulatiOns following, which they here
by adopt their Charter, tO-wit:
Article 1.-The name and title of this
corporation shall be Goodman & Beer
Company, Inc, and under its corporate
name it shall have power and authority
to have and enjoy corporate existence for
period of ninety-nine years from date
hereof, unless sooner dissolved by liquid
alton or otherwise. 1t shall have power
TO contract; to sue and be sued; to make
and use a corporate seal, and to alter and
break the same at pleasure. To hold,
receive, lease, purchase, transfer, assign,
mortgage, hypothecate, pledge. or other,
wise dispose of, property, real personal
or mixed, corporal and incOrpOreal; to
issue bonds and, if desired, to secure same
by mortgage; to hold stock in other COM
panies to name and elect officers and di-
En
amend. bylaws, rules, and regulations for
its proper government, as may be deemed
necessary and proper for the extension of
the business in which the corporation is
engaged.
Article 1.-THE objects and purposes
for which this corporation is organized
and created and the nature of the bust
ness to be carried on by it, are declared
to be as follows:
To conduct wholesale merchandise and
general export and importing business;
import such things, supplies, and mer-
chandiSe as are or may be traded in by
wholesale merchandise and exporting and
importing establishments; to export and
import to buy and SELL at wholesale, pro-
duce vegetables. truck, poultry, eggs, and
country produce of every nature and kind
to grow and produce the said articles and
produce. and for such purposes to own or
lease farms or plantations and operate
and maintain the same; to buy, SELL or
lease real estate for the purpose of car
rying on their business, or any part there
of to own and operate boats, vessels and
railroad cars, and other rolling stock, for
the purpose of carrying on said business;
to execute bonds or other acknowledge
ments in the fulfllment of contracts or in
The performance of its business, and, gen.
orally, to do any and all things incident
to or necessary to carry out any of the
objects and purposes hereinabove enum-
Grated.
Article III.-The capital stock of this
corporation is hereby fixed at the sum of
Two Hundred Thousand Dollars, $780,
OOOOO), and shall be divided into and rep
resented by Two Thousand Shares Of
common stock, of the par value of One
Hundred (S1OO.OO) Dollars each. Said
stock shall be paid for in cash, or by
property, or services actually rendered to
cash, as provided by law, and in such
manner and at such times and in such
installments as may be prescribed by the
Board of Directors.
This corporation shall become a going
and shall be authorized to COM
mence business as soon as Seventy five
Thousand Dollars (S75OOO.OO) of its cap
ital stock shall have been subscribed.
corporation may be increased to the sum
Of Three Hundred Thousand Dollars
t$3OOOOO.OO) by vote of two-thirds of all
stock at special meeting called for that
purpose or at a regular annual meeting
of the corporation.
Article V.-All certificates of stock is
sueu Dy TINS company shall be signed by
the President and one Vice President or
by two Vice Presidents. The stock of
this corporation can be transferred only
on the books of the corporation and sub
ject to such regulations and formalities
as may be by the Board of Directors from
time to time prescribed. No stakeholder
shall be permitted to sell or otherwise
dispose of his stock without first Offering
the same in writing to the other stock
holders, through the Board of Directors.
nc price not exceeding the book value
thereof; and said stockholders, in pro-
portion to their holdings, shall have an
option and first right to purchase all the
shares of stock to be thus disposed of by
sale or otherwise. of any of the stock
holders, and shall have a period of thirty
lays in which to accept or decline said
)fer. Should the stockholders decline to