The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1920-06-10
CHARTER HOUMA LATH HEADING
COMPANY. INCORPORATED.

State of LOuisiant. Parish of Terre-
bonnie. lie il known, That on this 18th
day of the month of May, III the year of
our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty.
before me, Henry VI. BOurg, a notary pub
lie, duly commissioned and qualified in
and for the parish of TerrebOnne, state
aforesaid, and in the presence of the wit
nesses hereinafter named ana undersigned
personally came and appeared the sew
eral persons whose names are hereuntO
subscribed who declared that availing
themselves of the laws Of the state of
Louisiana relative to the formation of
corporations, and especially of Act 267 of
1914. they do hereby form themselves,
their associates and successors into a cor
pOratiOn under the following conditions
which they hereby adopt as their articles
of incorporation or charter, to-wit:
ARTICLE 1.-The name and style Of
this corporation shall be "Houma Lath
N Heading Company, Incorporated" and
under said name il shall have corporate
existence for ninety nine years from and
after this date, unless sooner dissolved (;
its dOmicile shall be in the city of New
Orleans, La; citation and all legal process
shall be served upon the president, or in
his absence upon the secretary treasurer
of this corporation.
ARTICLE 1.-THE object and purposes
for which this corporation is formed and
the nature of the business to be carried
on by ii are hereby declared to be: The
manufacturing, marketing and selling of
laths, headings, and other articles and
commodities from cypress and other tim
Der; the buying and selling of lands.
swamps, and other property; the opera
ton of one or more stores. commiSsaries
and other mercantile establishments the
operating of tramways and narrow gauge
railroads, bOat-lines, and other transpOr-
tatiOn devices; the owning and operating
OF factories, plants and mercantile estab-
llShmentS; and to exercise all powers con-
ferred upon corporations by Act No. 267
of 1914 of the Legislature of Louisiana
and the amendments thereto.
ARTICLE III.-The capital stock of this
corporation is hereby fixed ut ten thou
sand ($10,0O0OO dollars, All or which shall
be common stock; said stock shall be rep
resented by one hundred shares of the par
value of one hundred dollars each. Ne
stakeholder shall have the right to dispose
or his stock until he shall have first of
fered the same to the other stockholders
or this corporation, and the said stock
holders shall have the right for ten days
from the date of such offer, through the
board OF directors, to purchase said shares
at their book value as shown by the bal
ance sheets last made. This corporation
snail be authorized to begin business and
become a going concern as soon as five
thousand dollars of its capital stock shall
nave been subscribed and paid in; but the
capital stock shall not be increased he
yond ten thousand dollars without the
consent of two-thirds of all of the out
standing stock.
ARTICLE IV.-All of the corporate pow
ers of this corporation shall be vested in
and exercised by board of directors.
composed of three stockholders. who shall
De elected at meeting of the stockholders
held for that purpose, at the domicile of
the corporation on the second Tuesday i'm
January each year, beginning with the
second Tuesday of January, 1921, notice
of which meeting shall be given to each
stOckholder at least fifteen days prior to
such meeting, either personally or by de-
posting said notices in the Postoffice
properly addressed to the fast known ad-
dress Of each stakeholder as shown by
the books Of the corporation, at least
flfteen days before such meeting The