The herald., 1919-03-20
CHARTER.

Hdhteu ana agreed, and by these presents do
covenant and agree for themselves, their
successors and assigns, 10 form themselves
into a corporation and body polite for the
directs and purposes and under the stipu-
lations following:
ARTICLE 1.-The name and title of this
corporation shall be Lehde-ing Tea Store
OF the South Inc.
ARTICLE 1.-THE purposes and objects
tor which this corporation is organized and
the nature OF the business to be carried on
by 1t are declared TO be as follows: To
conduct and carry on the business of manu-
featuring buying, selling, and dealing at
wholesale and retail in coffee tea. choco-
late, spices, china and glassware, hardware,
household goods and merchandise generally,
and roasting and grinding of coffee and
blending teas and coffees.
ARTICLE III.-The capital stock of this
corporation shall be Five Thousand Dollars
(S5,0O0.0O), divided into one hundred QOO
shares OF Fifty Dollars each, 10 be paid Tor
IN cash, or in property, its equivalent. and
II not in cash, then the Board OF Directors
OF the Company shall determine the value
OF such equivalent offered The Corpora
ton by vote OF the majority OF the entire
Board OF Directors may authorize an in
crease OF the capital stock up to total #
Twenty thousand dollars (S2OOOOOW. This
company shall be 4 going concern and shall
nave the right TO carry on business as soon
as three thousand dollars tS4DUtD of IT.,
IL
All Sa.eS and other transfers of any OF the
stock u this Corporation shall be void IN
less said stock shall have been previously
offered TO the then existing stockholders
through the Board Of Directors At a stipu-
lated price, and if the Board for said stock
holders, does not see fit 10 purchase said
stock. then It shall not be sold at Il less
price, or upon more favorable terms. without
likewise offering II - the Board AT such
price and upon said terms. In case of sale or
transfer he of
capital Stock the then holders of stock of the
Company shall have the right to purchase
sad stock IN the ratio of their holdings of
stock OF the Company. This provision shall
De written printed or stamped on each GER
tlficate Of stock.
ARTICLE IV.-The domicile Of the Cor.
poTatlon shall be the City OF New Orleans.
State Of Louisiana, where all citation or
other legal process shall he served on the
President or. in his absence, on the Secre-
tarq-Treasurer.
ARTICLE V.-This corporation shall have
ana ENJOY succession and duration for the
period Of ninety nine (29) years from the
date hereof
ARTICLE VI-An the corporate powers
of this Corporation shall be vested in and
exercised by a Board Of Directors which
snail be composed Of not less than three
90 directors, nor more than five 80, of
whom the majority shall constitute a quo
rum tor the transaction of business. The
following named persons shall constitute the
first Board of Directors, to-wit: Ewing
Harper. Queen Crescent Building New
Orleans; Guillermo Revilla, Queen & Cres-
cent Building, New Orleans: Pendleton
Lehde, 7O4 Whitney Central Bank Building.
They shall hold office until the second
Monday in January, 1920 or until their
successors are elected and qualified. There
after the Board OF Directors shall be COR,
posed of stockholders who shall be elected
annually by the stockholders at a meeting
on the second Monday in January. 1920, and
annually thereafter, the second Monday
OF each year. If the second Monday in
January be legal holiday. the meeting shall
be held on the next business day. At all
meetings of the stockholders the voting shall
be by ballot.
ARTICLE NII.-The officers of this Cor
poratiOn shall be a President, and Vice
President. Secretary-Treasurer. each of
whom must be a stakeholder. The officers
shall be chosen by the Board of Directors
Any two offices may be filled by one per
ARTICLE VIII.-No notes or other nego-
table instruments and no orders for the
payment of money, and no contracts shall
be valid unless the same shall be au.
thorized by the signatures of two officers
of the company.
ARTICLE IX.-No stakeholder shall ever
be held liable or responsible for the con-
tract or faults of this Corporation in any
further than any unpaid balance due on
the shares of stock owned by him; nor shall
any intormal1ty in organization have the
effect OF rendering this Charter null or of
exposing stakeholder to any liability be-
yond any amount due on his stock.
ARTICLE N.-This charter may be altered
or amended, in any manner including the
increase or decrease of its capital stock
and the affairs of the Corporation wound
up, and the Corporation itself dissolved in
the manner and on complying with the exist
ing laws. The incorporators hereof have
placed opposite their respective signatures
the number of shares of the capital stock for
which each have subscribed, which is to be
taken and considered the original sub
scripton list OF this Corporation, and to be
recorded as such.
Thus done and passed, at my Office at the
City of New Orleans, on the day. month
and year first above written. in the presence
OF George Verret, Jr., and Wynne G. Rogers,
who, together with said appearers and me,
Notary, have signed their names after due
reading of the whole.
- Original Signed Ewing Harper (2 l-2)
TWENTY-FIVE and one-half shares; Pendeton
E. Lehde Q9 Fifteen shares; Ouillermo
Reviiia t22 1-9 Twenty-Five and one-half
shares, per Ewing Harper
Witnesses: Wynne G. Rogers, George L.
Verret, Jr.
BERNARD TITCHE,
Notary Public
I, the undersigned, Recorder of Mortgages,
in and for the parish of Orleans, State of
louisiana, do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing Act of Incorporation of the
Lehde-ing Tea Store of the South, Inc, was
thsi day duly recorded in my office in Book
1928. Folio l24.
New Orleans. March 10. 1919.
(SigneD EMILE J. LEONARD, by. R.
| hereby certify the above and foregoing
is a true and correct copy of the original
Charter of the .Lehde-ing Tea Store of the
South Inc, executed before me, together
with certificate of the Deputy Recorder of
record in my office.
BERNARD TITCHE,
Notary Public.
A true copy.
BERNARD TITCHE,
Notary Public.
Mch. l3-Apr. II.