The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1919-06-19
CHARTER OF MOSS & COMPANY, INC

United States of America, state Oh Lo1 ns
lana, Parish of Orleans, City . o! oo.S S.v
| leans Be it known, that on this ZStn Gay
Of the month of March, in the year OF our
! Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred ano
| Nineteen, and of the Independence OF inc
| I-nited States of America, the One Hundred
IA Eortv-third: before me, Alfred Charles
| hammer, a Notary Public, duly commission
ed sworn and qualified in and tor the far
ish of Orleans State OF LOUISIANA theIell
| residing and in the presence OF the witnesses witnesses
| hereinafter named and undersigned; person
arlly came and appeared the several per,
sons whose names are hereunto subscribed
who severaly declared that awaiting mem,
selves of the provisions OF the laws OF tns
| State of Louisiana in such cases made ana
provided and particularly of the provisions
Of Act No. 267 of the Acts Of the General
| Assembly of the State of louisiana Tor tne
| year 1914, they have covenanted ana agreeu
| and do, by these presents, covenant, agree
anil bind themselves as well as such persons
| as NAV hereafter join or become associated
with them. to form and constitute COT
| poration and body polite IN law tor the %,
| iects and purposes and under the articles and
stipulations hereinafter set forth and ex-
| pressed which they adopt as the charter OF
| this corporation to-wit
ARTICLE 1.-The name and style OF
| this corporation shall be Moss Company ,
| Inc, and under its said corporate name It
shall have and enjoy corporate existence and
succession for the full term and period OF
| ninety. nine (o9) years from and alter the
!
10 make and corporate seal, and the
| same - alter and break at pleasure; to hold,
| receive, lease, purchase and convey, as wei
as mortgage and hypothecate property, real,
| personal or nj xed, corporeal and incorporeal ;
II ewr and hold stocks and bonds of other
| corporations; to and appoint such man
ayers, agents, directors and officers as Its
business OF convenience may require, lnd to
| make and establish, well as alter and
amend, from time to time, such bylaws,
rules and regulations for the proper govern
ment of the affairs of said corporation as
may be necessary and proper:
| ARTICLE 1.-THE domicile of said cor
poraton shall be in the City of New Or
leans, State of Louisiana, and all citation
and other leagl process shall be served upon
the President of said corporation, or in his
absence upon any one of the Vice-Presidents
thereof, or in the absence OF said officers
upon the Secretary of said corporation
ARTICLE III.-The objects and purposes
for which this corporation is organized and
| established and the nature of the business
, to be carried on by it are declared to be
To conduct a general insurance agency bust
ness, TO solicit insurance of all kinds, either
on a salary or commission; to act as in
surance engineers; to act as agent and man
ager for resident and nonresident insurance
companies, associations or combinations Of
| persons of all kinds; to inspect insurance
| risks, to adjust insurance losses and genera
average; TO do general stock brokerage anc
| commission business; to buy and otherwise
dispose of, own and deal in stocks, bonds
mortgages, debentures, trust receipts, com
mercial papers, consols, and government Sc
curities, either for itself or as the agent
factor representative of any person, firm
or corporation, and upon commission or other
wise TO transact general real estate agency
and brokerage business, including the man
agement of estates; to buy, sell, let, lease
hire, or demise or generally deal and
trade in real estate, whether improved OF
unimproved, either principal 'or agent, fol-
its account or for account of others. and
upon commission or otherwise; to borrow
money and grant mortgages, bond mortgages
or notes therefor; to lend money and to re-
ceive therefor mortgages, bonds, any
other evidence of indebtedness; to carry on
any other businests which under the law il
may be entitled to carry on which may
seem to the corporation to be calculated d.
recty indirectly to effectuate the afore-
I said objects, or either of them, or to facili-
tate it in the transaction of its aforesaid
business, or businesses, or any part thereof
or in the TRANSACTION of any other lawful
business that may be calculated directly or
indirectly to enhance the value of or to
render profitable any of the company's prop
critics and rights and generally to have and
exercise all such powers and privileges as
are incidental or relate to the objects and
purposes hereinabove set FORTH or as may be
necessary, useful or convenient for effectine
said objects and purposes.
ARTICLE 1V.-The Capital Stock of this
corporation is hereby fixed at the sum oil
Five Thousand Dollars ($5.OOOOO), divided
into and represented by One Thousand Q,0O0)
shares of stock of the par value of Five
Dollars $500 each. Said stock shall be
, paid for in cash at such time in such
amounts and after such notice to the sub
scribers as may be fixed by the Board Of
Directors and the same may be issued at moi
J less than par for labor done or property &C
tuaily received by the corporation.
This corporation shall become going con
Germ and be authorized to do business a.
, soon as Three Thousand Dollars ($3;OO0OO) O.
, its capital stock shall have been subscribed
and paid for. The amount to which the capi
, tai stock of this corporation may be increased
shall be the sum of One Hundred Thousand
} Dollars (s1O0,0OOOO)
No stakeholder shall have the right to sci
or otherwise dispose of any stock of thi
corporation without first offering the same II
writing to the Board of Directors of this cor
Poration, through its President, which boare
shall have ten (i0 days within which /,
: accept or refuse the offer, but said BoarC
! OF Directors shall have the right to purchas,
any stock so offered or any part thereof a
ITS book value irrespective of what pric,
| may have been offered for said stock h,
anyone. Should said Board of Directrs IA;
70 avail itsef of said privilege within sale
period of time, the said stock may be offer
. ed and sold to any other person or persons
ARTICLE YAH of the corporate Dove
OF this corporation shall be vested in AND
| exercised by Board of D;-e-tors ,..--..-I