The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1919-03-06
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF
FEDERAL BAKING SYSTEM OF NEW
ORLEANS, INCORPORATED.

State of Louisiana, Parish OF Orleans.
lie It known, that this, the tve1:ieth
day of February, 1919, before me, Thos. T.
Furlow a duly commits stoned, qualified and
acting Notary Public in and for the Par<
ish Of Orleans, State of Louisiana, and in
the presence of the hereinafter named and
undersigned witnesses, personally came and
appeared the several persons whose names
are hereunto subscribed, and severally de-
clared that, availing themselves of the gen
eral laws of the State of Louisiana in such
cases made and provided, they have formed
and organized, and do by these presents form
themselves and such others as may hereafter
become associated with them into a corpora
ton and body polite in law, for the OBJ
jects and purposes in the following articles
Sc. forth and expressed, which they adopt
as their Charter.
l. The name and title OF this corporation
shall be, Federal Baking System OF New
Orleans, incorporated, and it shall exist and
enjoy succession by its corporate name Tor
period of ninety-nine years from date
hereof, with all the rights and powers now
or hereafter conferred by law upon similar
corporations. Its domicile shall be in the
City of New Orleans, Louisiana, and all CT,
tations and other legal process shall be served
upon the President, and in the event OF his
absence, upon the Vice President, or Secre-
tary, in the order named.
II The capital stock of this cor
poration is hereby fixed at One Hun
dred Thousand (sl0OOOO.OO Dollars, and said
stock shall be divided into and represented
by One Thousand Q0O0 shares of the par
value of One Hundred $4,000 Dollars each.
III The purposes of this corpora
pal or mandatory, in; buying, leasing or
otherwise acquiring patent rights or the use
thereof in whole or in part or within fixed
territorial limitations to bakery ovens and
all sorts of machinery and equipment for
bakeries and confectioneries and selling,
leasing or otherwise dsposing of the same,
in whole or IN part or within fixed terri
torfal limitations; buying and selling. at
wholesale and retail, bakery ovens and all
sorts of machinery and equipment for bakeries
and onfectioneries; conducting bakeries, con-
dictionaries and manufactures generally for
the manufacture, conversion or preparation
for market or consumption of all sorts of
food products; and buying and selling at
wholesale and retail, and generally dealing in
all sorts Of agricultural products and food
stuffs and all other personal property; and
It shall have authority generally to do all
things necessary or incident to the proper
conduct of its affairs, whether specifically
enumerated herein or not.
w. The corporate powers of this cor
poration shall be vested in a Board Of
Directors of not less than three or more than
seven, majority of whom shall constitute
quorum for the. transaction of business;
and the officers of this corporation shall be
President, a VicePresident a Secretary
and Treasurer with the option of one per
son for Secretary-Treasurer.
The first Board OF Directors shall be
composed of John H. Bontjes and Paul "
Stoltz residents of the City of Peoria, Illi-
nois, and Willard c. Baker, resident of
the City of New Orleans with John II.
Bontjes President Willard c. Baker as
Vice-President, and Paul V. Stoltz as Sec
rotary Treasurer; and all of said directors
and officers shall serve until their success
sors re elected and qualified
Meetings of stockholders for the election
Of directors shall be held on the second
Tuesday in January of each year.
Thus done and signed in the presence of
Warren V. Miller and Miss Frances thinner
man Competent witnesses, who have signed
their names hereto together with said ap-
bearers and me Notary on the date first
above written.
(Names of subscribers and amounts of sub
scriptions omitted)
Witnesses: Warren V. Miller Frances
Zimmerman.
A true copy Of the original
THOS. E. FURLOw,
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
Federal Baking System Of New Orleans In.
corporated, was this day duly recorded in
my. office, in Book 1928, Folio -.
New Orleans, February "a. 1919
(Signed) EMILE J. LEONARD. by. R.
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