The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1920-03-04
CHARTERS.
OF CHARTER OF THE
BIENVILLE WAREHOUSES; COR
PORATION

BOkAI1ON.
United states Of America. State of Louis
lana, Parish of Orleans City of New Or
leans. BE il known. that on this twelfth
12th) day OF the month of February, in
the year of our Lord, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty, and of the lndepen
dence OF the United states of America,
the one hundred and forty fourth % efOyc
me Folk Joseph Puig. q Notary Public.
duly commissioned and qualified, in ana
tor the Parish Of Orleans, State OF Louis
lana, therein residing, and in the pres.
Cnce of the witnesses. hereinafter named
and undersigned, personally came and ap-
pearcd, Guy Hopkins, of the fun age OF
majority and q resident of this city, and
ST. Denis j. Eillere, Of the full age Of
majority and a resident OF this city, said
appearcrs acting herein respectively as
President and Secretary Trcasurer OF the
Eicnyile Warehouses Corporation, a cor
pOratiOH dOmiciled in this city, incOrpo-
rated by an act passed before Felix j.
nreyfous, Notary Public, on July 3lst,
1911, and recorded in the Mortgage office
of this city in Book ISL, folio l1j, and
amended by act passed before Charles r.
Fletcbinger, Notary Public, on June 2otn,
1913, and recorded in the Mortgage office
of this city in Book Joss. folio $50, acting
herein under and by virtue of a resolution
of the Stockholders Of said Bienville Ware
houses Corporation, adopted at meeting
held at its dOmiCile, in this city. on FEB
ruary 18th, 1920; a duly certified copy
10 annexed for reference.
Who mutually and scvcrally declared
that at said special meeting of the stock
holders of said corporation, which was
convened and held as aforesaid, on Febru-
ary 18th 1920, according TO law, the fol
lowing Amendment TO Article " of the
Charter of said Corporation was adopted
by a unanimous vote of the stockholders
Of said corporation, present in person and
hy prONv at said meeting, being all of the
HI ,Igl .r.1 - col
Article " Of said Charter was reCast
and amended. so as TO read as follows,
tO-Wit:
ARTICLE IV.-The capital stock of
this corporation is fixed at the sum OF
Forty Thousand Dollars, divided into
four hundred shares of the kar value or
one Hundred Dollars each. &hiCh shall
be paid for in cash, or by transfer or
surplus to capital. on the call of tnr
Board Of Directors, given in payment o.
property purchased, or for services rem,
dcred. All shares Of stock shall be full
paid and n-asSesSable. No transfer or
stock shall be binding upon this Company
unless recorded upon its books.
No stakeholder shall sell his shares IN
this company, without having first offer
ed the same TO the Board of Directors.
And said Board shall have the right to
purchase the same for the benefit OF the
other stockholders within ten days there
after. at the book value as shown by the
last annual statement.
There shall be written or printed
across each certificate or stock, these
shares shall not he transferred. except in
the manner required by the Charter and
Bylaws of this Company"
The whole as will more fully appear
by the annexed certified copy of the
Minutes of said stockholders meeting.
And said appcarers having requested
me. Notary Public, to put said Amend
ment in authentic form, | do by these
presents, receive said Amendment in the
said Amendment may be recorded and
promulgated, and thus be read, into the
aforesaid Original Charter.
Thus done and passed, in my office. in
the city of New Orleans, on the day and
in the month and year first above written,
in the presence of Walter q. Wedig, ana
Jeanne Hatrel, competent witnesses, who
hereunto sign their names with the said
appearers and me, Notary, after due read
ing Of the whole.
witnesses: Walter G. Wedig, J. Hat
rel.
Original Signed Guy Hopkins. Presi- !
dent; st. Denis j. Villere, Secretary Treas !
1rer.
Notary Public.
/, the undersigned, Recorder of Mort
cages, in and for the Parish of Orleans,
state of Louisiana, do hereby certify that
he above and foregoing act of incorpora-
ion of the Amendment of the Bienyille
Corporation, was this day
July recorded in my office, in Book 1888,
Folio 500
New Orleans. February 10Th, 1920.
(Signed) EMILE J. LEONARD, by. X.
FELIX J. PUG.
Notary Public.
Anr