The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1919-03-13
CHARTER OF WEST PEARL RIVER
LUMBER COMPANY, INCoR-
PORATED

United States of America. State of Louis
iana Parish OF Orleans, City of New Or
leans. Be it known, that on this Fourteenth
day of February, A. d., one thousand nine
hundred and nineteen, and of the lndepen-
dence OF the United States of America the
one hundred and forty third, before me, Oscar
Schneider, a Notary Public, duly commits
stoned and qualified within and for the
Parish aforesaid, and in the presence of
the witnesses hereinafter named and under
signed: Personally came and appeared, the
several persons whose names are hereuntO
subscribed. who severally declared, that
availing themselves of the benefits and pro-
visions of the Constitution of this State, and
the laws relative to the organization of cor
porations, and particularly of the provisions
of Act 267 of the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana for the year 1914, they
have contracted and agreed and united to
form and do, by these presents, contract and
agree and bind and oblgate themselves to
form and organize themselves, well as
such other persons who may hereafter join
or become associated with them or their sue
cessors into a stock corporation and body
polite in law, for the ouJecrs and purposes
and under the conditions, covenants, stipu-
lations, and agreements OF the articles fol-
lowing to-wit:
ARTICLE 1.-The name and title of this
corporation s1all be: West Pearl River
Lumber Company, Incorporated, and under
and by said name, unless sooner dissolved
in accordance with law and this charter, il
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, ac-
quire by grant, gift or purchase devise or
bequest, sell, ALLEVIATE, dispose of, convey
lease. pledge, pawn, hypothecate, cucumber
or mortgage property of every kind, whether
real, personal mixed, corporal incor-
poreal, movable or immovable, all subject tO
such limitations may be prescribed by
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or notes and other evidences Of debt. II
| may accept mortgages, pledges or other forms
| of security for money loaned or other debts
| 1t may contract, sue and be sued, plead oil
| be implicated by its corporate name in any
Court of competent jurisdiction. II may
| make, adopt and use a common seal and altei
| the same at pleasure. 1t may hold stock II
| other corporations, and its capital stock may
4 be issued for capital stock in other corpora
| TONS 1t may name, appoint and employ
| such managers, directors, officers, agents anC
| other employees as its business and con
venence may require, and may fix thei
| compensation, giving due regard to the ma
| ture, character and value of their services
It may make and establish bylaws, rules anC
| regulations not inconsistent with its charte
| or any existing law, fixing altering tn,
management of its property, the regulation
| and government of its affairs, and the man
ner Of the certification and registration o
| its stock 1t may wind up and dissolve it
| self in the manner prescribed by law. /
may conduct business in this State, othe
| States, the Federal Districts and Territorie
| and Possessions of the United States, or am
| foreign country. 1t shall have the power o.
| invest its Board of Directors with all of IL
| corporate powers, subject to such restric
tons as may be named in this Charter AnC
| it generally shall possess all the powers
rights, privileges and immunites which
| corporations are and may hereafter be au
| thorized to possess under the constitution
/ and laws of this State, and particularly un
| der Act No. 267 of the General Assembl,
of the State of Louisiana for the year 1914
| ARTICLE 1.-THE doucile of this cor
poration shall be the City of New Orleans
| Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, viii
| the privilege of having an office at Alton
| Louisiana, and all citations or other lega
| process shall be served upon the Presiden
| of this Corporation, at its domicile, and il
| case of his absence, on the Vice-Presiden
| and in case of the absence of both of thes
officers, upon the Secretary of this cor
| ARTICLE III.-The objects and purpose
| for which this corporation is formed and tn
nature of the business to be carried on b,
| it, are hereby declared to be:
Sec. I. To buy and sell, either at whole
| sale or retail, owners thereof or on com
mission, and to export and import lumber
| logs and building materials; to buy and sci
timber lands, and generally to do all thing
necessary and proper pertaining or inciden
| to such business; to construct maintain
sell or purchase mills, and all necessar
machinery therefore to operate the same. an
generally to acquire and dispose of all ma