The Donaldsonville chief., 1919-04-05
HARsTER
!. OF
ASCENSION MERCANTILE COMPANY,
INCORPORATED.

United States of America-State of Louisi-
ana-Parish of Ascension.
TIE TT KNOWN. that on this 9Th day of
I'D March, in the year one thousand nine
hundred and nineteen, before fe Caleb
G. Weber, notary public, duly commis-
stoned. sworn and qualified, within and for
the parish of Ascension, state of Louisiana,
and in the presence of witnesses hereinafter
named and undersigned, personally came and
appeared the persons, all of the full age of
majority, who have subscribed their names
hereto, who declared that availing them
selves of the provisions of the laws of the
state of Louisiana, relative to the organiza-
tion and formation Of corporations, and es-
pecially of Act No. 267 of the general as
sernbly of the state of Louisiana of 1911,
they do hereby form a corporation for them
selves and the persons who may hereafter
join with them for period of twenty-five
years from this date; they shall have power
to contract, sue and be sued in their corpo-
rate name: to make and use corporate seal;
to hold, receive, purchase and convey under
their corporate name property, both real and
personal; to name and appoint managers,
directors and officers as their interest and
convenience may require, and to dismiss
them at pleasure; to make and establish such
bylaws for the proper management of reg
ulation of the corporation as may be neces-
sary and proper.
ARTICLE ].
The name of this corporation shall he
ascension MERCANTILE COMPANY.
INCORPORATED and the dor,icil of the
corporation shall be at the town Of Donald
ana. and all citation and eslief legal process
shall be served on the president of the cor
poration, and in the event of his absence on
the secretary treasurer.
ARTICLE II.
The objects and purposes for which this
corporation is organized and the nature of
the business to be carried on by it at its
domicil orr elsewhere, are hereby declared to
be: To engage in the wholesale buying and
selling of hay, corn, feeds of all kinds. flour
and other cereals, oils of all kinds, Italian
products of every kind and nature, and a
general wholesale business of groceries and
produce of all kinds. and generally to do
and perform all things as are necessary and
incidental to the purposes for which this
corporation is organized.
ARTICLE III.
shall be the sum of SIX THOUSAND DOL
LARS {s6OO0.00), divided into one hun
dred and twenty t120) shares of the par
value of fifty dollars t$50.00) each.
which shall be paid for in cash, and said
corporation shall begin business as soon as
Three Thousand Dollars Of the stock has
been subscribed and paid for. The amount
to which the capital stock OF this corpora
tion may be increased is hereby fixed at the
sum of fifteen thousand dollars ISLE, 5,o00.00).
af sr ARTICLE IV.
This corporation shall be managed and
controlled by board of directors consisting
of three stockholders, two of whom shall
constitute quorum for the transaction of
iii business. Said directors shall be elected
annually on the first Thursday of March of
each year, but the failure to elect shall not
cause a. forfeiture of this charter, but the
directors then in office shall serve until their
successors shall be elected. Said board shall
elect from their number a president, vice
and secretary treasurer, the lat
ter named officers hereby being combined in
one person. The following named persons
shall constitute the first board of directors
to serve for the first year and until their
successors have been elected and qualified:
Nick Falsetta. Tony Falsetta and John San
some, the postoffiee address of each of said
directors being Donaldsonville, La. Of the