The herald., 1919-10-30
CHARTER.

mentS ana cooperative relations not in
contravention of law, with any person or
tionS, governmental, municipal or other
wise, in and about the carrying on and
accomplishment of all or any of the
purposes pm Sc OF f., the company to carry out
hereinafter set out; to name and
appoint such managers and directors.
officers and agents as the interest and
convenience of said corportiaOn may re-
quire; and to make and establish, as well
as alter and amend at pleasure, such by
laws, rules and regulations for the man.
agement and regulation of the affairs of
the corporation as may be necessary,
proper or convenient.
ARTICLE 1.-THE domicile of this cor
poratiOn shall be in the Parish of Or
leans, State of Louisiana, and all cita-
lions or other legal process shall be
served upon any of the officers of the
corporation.
ARTICLE III.-The purposes for which
the corporation is formed are As prin-
cipal, agent, broker or otherwise in this
| State, in any other States, territories and
possessions of the United States and in
foreign countries, both directly or in
directly.
To acquire by purchase, lease, Ii
cense, mortgage, franchise, concession,
appropriation, discovery, location, grant,
bond, option, device, conveyance, agree
| facture. produce, prepare, work, mine,
bore, prospect, pump, raise, separate, re-
| fine, centrate, reduce, distill convert,
| treat, exploit, patent develop, operate,
and to hold, own, possess, enjoy, sell,
distribute, export or otherwise dispose
of and generally to handle and deal in
any and every form of petroleum, gasses
and other hydro carbOns, minerals, btu
men, coal deposits and mines, Oil wells,
| gas wells, and mining, oil anu gas lands,
rights and properties of every description
whatsoever, together with any and all
by-products thereof, and any and every
| material and thing in the manufacture,
preparation or use of which any of the
| foregoing is used.
For its own purposes, but not as a
public service corporation, to acquire,
| own, lease, erect, construct charter build,
occupy, enlarge, sink, improve, establish,
| maintain and operate or otherwise pro-
mote and control factories. mills and re-
| fineries, rigs, drilling machines and plants,
well castings, bitches, fumes, pipes pipe
| lines, tanks, tank lines, reservoirs, ware
houses, storage plants, pumping stations,
water works, electric plants, power plants,
railway and tramway lines, steamships,
tankers, barges, lighters and other yes
sells of any and every class, dry docks,
wharves, docks, elevators terminal prop
critics and facilities, harbors, ferries,
bridges, waterways and rights and canals,
and all other structures and improve
|
production, manufacture, storage, sale
and distribution of products, and Of any
| goods, wares and merchandise or COM
modities dealt in by the Corporation, and
| to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire
and to hold own, improve, exploit, mort
| gage, sell, exchange, convey or otherwise
dispose of Nthe full property or other
rights, whether real, personal or mixed,
whatsoever and wheresoever located, nee
essary or convenient in connection with
its business in the State of Louisiana or
in any other States, territories or Federal
districts of the United States of America
and in foreign countries.
| To issue stocks, bonds and other OBJ
legations in payment for property pur-
chased or acquired by it for any other
object in and about its business; to pur-
| chase or otherwise acquire. to guarantee,
endorse, become surety for, hold, sell
thecate or otherwise dispose of shares of
| the capital stock, bonds and all other
evidences of indebtedness and securities
Of any other corporation or corporations
any other State, country, nation or
| government, and to issue in exchange
therefor its stocks, bonds or other obi
cations, and while the owner of such
| stock and tori securities, to exercise all
the rights, powers and privileges of own
| ership, including the right to vote there
| on as provided by law, and to aid in any
lawful manner, and to subscribe, con-
| TO, SuDS101Ze or OTHERWISE become
| interested in any corporation or corpora
| lions, projects, works, plants, properties
| structures and tori operations necessary
| useful or convenient, in connection with
| its purposes, wheresOever located in any
and all parts of the world; and to aid in
any lawful manner any corporation or
association of which any shares of stock
bonds or other evidences of Indebtedness
or securities are held by this Corpora
| tion and to do such further lawful acts
1 things IN
preserve. improve or enhance the value
of any of such shares of stock, bonds or
other evidence of indebtedness and Sc
curities; and to purchase, hold, sell and
| transfer and deal in generally shares OF
its own capital stock in every lawful
manner.
| To sell, convey and otherwise lawfully
| transfer and dispose of it's entire prop
| erty, both real. personal and mixed. and
rights, privileges, concessions and fran
| chises or any interest therein or any part
thereof, to other corporations firms, as
sociations or individuals whatsoever and
wheresoever existing and tori residing.
1t is the intent that the foregoing enum-
Grafton of specific powers shall not be
held to limit or impair in any manner the
general powers of the Corporation and
the enjoyment thereof as conferred BY
the laws of the State of Louisiana upon
corporations organized Hereunder, and
that each of the objects, purposes and
powers specified shall be regarded as in
dependent objects, purposes and powers
and be in no manner and to any extent
limited or restricted by reference to OF
inference from the terms of any other
clause of this or any other paragraph con-
tanned in these Articles of Incorporation
ARTICLE Iv.-The capital stock OF
this corporation Is hereby fixed at the
sum Of Sixty Thousand $60.000.O0) Dol
lars, divided into sixty thousand (6O0O0)
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