The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1919-08-21
CHARTER
MOTION PICTURE ADVERTISING, Inc
United States of America, State of Lou
isiana, Parish of Orleans, City of
New Orleans.

United States of America, State of Lou
isiana, Parish of Orleans, City of
New Orleans.
Be it known, that on this the Goth day
of the month of July. one thousand, nine
hundred and nineteen G919), before me,
Ethelred Macaulay Stafford a notary
public. duly commissioned and qualified
in and for the Parish and State afore-
said. personally came and appeared the
persons whose names are hereuntO sub
scribed. all above the age of majority,
who severally declared that, availing
themselves of the provisions of the laws
of the State of Louisiana relative to the
organization and formation of corpora
tions, and particularly of Act No. 267 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of
the State of Louisiana for the year 1914,
they have cOvenanted and agreed, and
do by these presents, covenant and agree
and bind themselves, as well as such 9TH
er persons who may hereafter become as
to form and constitute a corporation in
law, under the name, for the objects and
purposes and under the agreements and
stipulatiOns following to-wit:
Article 1.-The name and title of this
corporation shall be Motion Picture Ad
vertising, Inc. and under its said cor
pOrate name it shall have the right,
power and authority to have and enjoy
corporate existence and succession for
the full period of ninety nine years
from and after the date hereof: to con-
tract, sue and be sued; to make and
use a corporate seal, if desired, and the
same to change, break or alter at pleas
ure; to hold, receive. lease, purchase,
acquire and convey, as well as to mort
gage and hypOthecate, property, real,
personal and mixed, corporal or incOr-
pOreal, and to pledge or receive in pledge,
property, notes and chooses in action of
every character; to name and appoint
such managers, agents, directors and Of
ticerS as its business interests and con-
yenience may require and to make and
establish, as well as to alter and amend,
from time to time, such bylaws, rules
and regulations for the government of
the affairs of this corporation as may be
needful and proper.
Article 1.-THE domicile of this cor
poration shall be in the City of New
Orleans, La, and all citation or other le-
gal process shall be served upon the
president or in his absence or in the
event of vacancy of said office. or in
ability to serve, upon the vice president
ana in the absence of both of said Off
GERS, as the law directs.
Article III-The objects and purposes
Tor which this corporation is formed, and
the nature of the business to be carried
on and transacted by it, are hereby de-
clared to be: To manufacture, construct
and assemble, to buy, rent, lease or 9TH
erwlse acquire, and to use, own, oper-
ate, license, sell, mortgage or otherwise
dispose of, machines and mechanical de-
vices and appliances of whatsoever ma
ture and kind, and particularly what is
commonly known as moving picture ma
chimes, talking picture machines and
talking machines, of whatsoever nature
and kind, and all other devices and ap-
pllances for the purpose of producing
theatrical plays, operas, balIets or other
dramatic and musical productions or the
stimulation thereof by mechanical or 9th
er means and methods, and all kinds of
advertisements.
To acquire, by purchase, lease, or 9th
erW1se, exclusive, or partly exclusive
privileges, in theatres, moving picture
houses or elsewhere, for displaying adj
vertisements of whatsoever nature and