The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1919-07-10
CHARTER OF PAN-AMERICAN TRANS
PORTATI0N & TRADING COM
PANY, INC.

United States of America, State of Louis.
lana, Parish of Orleans, City of New Or.
leans. Be it known, That on this eleventh
day of the month of June, in the year OF
our Lord, One Thousand, Nine Hundred and
Nineteen, and of the Independence of the
United States of America, the One Hundred
and Forty third; before me, Herman L. Bar
nett, Notary Public, duly commissioned and
qualified, in and for the Parish of Orleans,
State of Louisiana, therein residing and in
the presence of the witnesses hereinafter
named and undersigned, personally came and
appeared, the several persons whose names
are hereunto subscribed, all of the full age
OF majority, who severally declared to me,
Notary, that availing themselves of the laws
of the State of Louisiana, in such cases
made and provided, and more particularly
of Act 267, of the General ssembly of the
State of Louisiana of 1914, relating to the
the creation, organization and formation of
corporations, they have covenanted and
agreed, and by these presents do covenant
and agree and bind themselves, as we'll as
all such other persons as may hereafter be-
come associated with Them TO form a corpo-
ration for the objects and purposes and under
the articles and stpulations following, to-.
wit:
ARTICLE 1.-The name and title of this
corporation shall be Pan-American Transpor-
tation & Trading Company, Inc, and under
authority to have and to enjoy corporate ex-
istence for a period of ninety nine years
from date hereof, unless sooner dissolved
by liquidation otherwise; it shall have
power to contract, to sue and be sued, to
make and use corporate seal and to alter
and break same at pleasure; to hold, receive
lease, purchase, transfer, assign, convey
mortgage, hypothecate, pledge or, otherwise
receive or dispose of property, real, personal
and mixed, corporeal and incorporeal; to is
sue bonds and if desired to secure the same
by mortgage; to buy and hold stock in other
companies incident to the objects and pur-
poses or to the expansion of the business
interests of the corporation; to name, elect
and appoint such Managers, agents, Direc-
tors or officers as its business interests
may require, and to make and establish
alter and amend its bylaws, rules and regu.
lations for its proper government, as may be
deemed necessary and proper and generally
to do any and all things incident to or neces-
sary and proper for the extension of the
business in which the corporation is engaged
ARTICLE 1I.-This corporation shall be
domiciled in the City of New Orleans, in
the State of louisiana; and all citation or
other legal process shall be served upon the
President of the corporation, and in the event
OF his absence upon the Vice-Presdent
ARTICLE III.-The objects and purposes
for which this corporation is organized and
created, and the nature of the business to
be carried on by it, are declared to be as
follows: To own. build, repair buy and
sell, operate, charter. rent and lease. or other
wise acquire, vessels, barges tugs. motor
trucks, autos. wagons, railroad cars; trac-
tors, vehicles, water-craft or sir-craft, Of