The herald., 1919-02-06
CHARTER
CHARTER OF EUREKA LAND COM
PANY, INCORPORATED.

United States OF America, State of Louis
lana. Parish OF Orleans, City of New Or
leans. Be il known, that on this 18th day
of the month OF January. in the year OF our
| Nineteen, and OF the Independence OF the
| United States of America, the One Hundred
and forty third; before me. Francis D'Assis-
ses Charbonnet, Notary Public, duly com
missioned and qualified, in and for this
| City and the Parish OF Orleans, therein re-
| siding, and in the presence of the witnesses
| hereinafter named and undersigned, person
ally came and appeared the several persons
whose names are hreunto SUBSCRIBED, who
| severally declared that availing themselves
of the laws OF the State OF Louisiana and
| especially the laws relative to the organl-
zation of corporations, they have covenanted
| and agree and do by these presents covenant
and agree and bind themselves, well as
| all such other persons may hereafter be-
come associated with them, to form cor.
poration for the objects and purposes and
| under the articles, agreements and stlpula-
| tions following, to-wit:
| ARTICLE 1.-The name and style OF this
corporation shall be, Eureka Land Company,
| incorporated, and by and under that name It
| shall have and enjoy all of the rights, privi-
leges, powers, authority and advantages
granted by law to corporations; 1t shall
| exist for period OF ninety nine years from
date hereof; to make and use a corporate
seal, to contract sue and be sued in its
corporate name; to have and employ such
! managers, directors, officers, agents and
| other employees as the board of directors
may deem necessary; to hold, receive, lease,
purchase, convey, mortgage. hypothecate or
| pledge property, real, personal or mixed;
| to issue bonds, notes or other obligations
and to secure the payment thereof by pledge
| or mortgage; and to make and establish such
| bylaws, rules and regulations for the cor
porate management and control OF its bust
ness and affairs as may be deemed neces-
sary, proper expedient.
ARTICLE 1.-THE domicile of this cor
poration shall be in the city of New Or
leans, State of louisiana and all citations
and other legal process shl be served upon
the President OF said corporation or in case
Of his absence inability to act, upon the
Vice President, and iu case Of the absence
or inability of both the President Vice
President TO act upon the Secretary Treas
urer of this corporation, and in his absence,
in the manner provided by Section "a OF
Act 267 OF the General Assembly, State OF
Louisiana for 1914.
ARTICLE uI-The objects and purposes
for which this corporation is formed and the
nature of the business to be carried on and
conducted by it hereby declared to be:
to deal in, buy, acquire and hold. movable
and mmoveable property of every descfip-
ton in the State of Louisiana, or elsewhere,
whether by purchase, lease donations, ex-
change otherwise, and the same to sell,
lease, mortgage, exchange. rent, or donate; To
reclaim and improve landed property; 10 lay
out town lots suburbs and farms; TO lay
streets construct sidewalks and alleys; TO
erect buildings and dwellings or other i'm.
provements deal in, buy, sell, borrow and
to lend money on personal property, bonds,
stocks mortgage notes and other securities,
to do any or all of the foregoing, either tor
its own account for account OF others.
And generally to do and perform or engage
in any kind of business or undertaking con-
nected with. growing out of, or pertinent to
the purposes hereinabove set forth and not
prohibited by law.
ARTICLE IV.-The capital stock of this
Il
Ninety Eight Thousand and no 100 $685..
OOO0O Dollars divided into and represented
| by Nine hundred and eighty (9SO) shares
of the par value of One Hundred (SlOO) Dol
lars each which said stock shall be paid for
and issued in the purchase by the company
of the following described real estate lying
and being in the Parish OF Jefferson and
State OF Louisiana to wit: A certain por-
ton of land together with all the rights
ways, privileges, etc, thereunto belonging
or appertaining, situated adjacent to Lake
Ponchartrain and extending south over an
area to contain one thousand acres, being the
entire north section of the Riparian Land
Company Inc, formerly Colonial Land Coz
tract situated in the Parish OF Jefferson,
Louisiana, and more fully described as fol-
lows:
Beginning at an iron pipe which marks
the intersection of the L. r. & y. right-of-
way line and the East property line OF the
Riparian Land Company formerly Colonial
Land Coz run y is 20 E for a distance
of 3,I1f, which is the beginning of the
thousand acre tract; thence n u, 30 E for
distance OF 1880 TO the west line of the
Riparian Land Company formerly Colonial
Land Coz tract; thence along said line \
10. 46 w. for distance of 5000 to the
edge of Lake Ponchartrain; thence S so, II
E along the shore Of Lake Ponchartrain for
distance of 5000; thence S IS, 30 E along
the East line of the Riparian Land Com
pany formerly Colonial Land Coz tract for
a distance OF 1888 to the point of closure
which is 3,l14' from the L. K. & \. Ry,
| on the East line OF the Riparian Land Com
pany formerly Colonial Land Coz tract.
| All of which Of the above contains One
| Thousand Acres The said value being th'
value as appraised by the directors in &C