The herald., 1921-02-24
CHARTER OF AMERICAN SEA FOODS,
INC.

United States of America, State of Lou
isiana, Parish of Orleans. City of New Or
leans. Be Ii known. That on this Bird
day of the month of February, 1921. be-
fore me, Rudolph ]. Weinmann, notary
public, duly commissioned. sworn and
qualified in and for the Parish of Orleans.
State of Louisiana, and in the presence of
the witnesses hereinafter named and I'M
dersigned, personally came and appeared
the several persons hereinafter under
signed, all of full age, who declared that
availing themselves of the several laws of
the State of Louisiana on the subject of
the creation of corporations, they have
covenanted and agreed and do hereby COW
enant and agree and bind themselves and
such others as may hereafter become as
ISOLATED with them to form and constitute
corporation or body polite in law, for
the objects and purposes, and under the
stipulations and conditions hereinafter
written, which they do hereby adopt as
their articles of incorporation or charter,
to-wit:
ARTICLE 1.-The name, title and style
of this corporation shall be American Sea
Foods Inc, and under its said corporate
name it shall have and enjoy corporate ex-
istence and succession for q period and
term of ninety (9S) years from and
after date of this act unless sooner legally
dissolved. This corporation shall have all
powers, privileges and immunities ROW or
hereafter granted by law to corporations.
ARTICLE 1.-THE domicile of this cor
poration is hereby declared to be in the
City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana,
and citation and other legal process shall
be served upon the President and, in his
absence, upon the Vice President Of the
corporation.
ARTICLE III.-The objects and pur-
poses for which this corporation is organ
lied, and the nature of the business to be
carried on by Ii, are hereby declared to be !:
patent rights and property; to engage in
the business of gathering, fishing, buying
and selling and otherwise dealing in all
kinds of objects to be found in the sea,
rivers or other waters, which are or can
be used as food to manufacture and sell
and otherwise dispose of and deal in all
products possible to be made therefrom
and for that purpose to engage in buying
and selling and dealing generally in all
sea products, fresh or preserved; the own
ing, leasing and operating of boats, nets
and other fishing paraphernalia; the own
ing and operating of canning factories, de-
MIGRATING plants, ice refrigerating plants,
and other mercantile establishments; the
owning and operating of by-product plants
incident to the conduct of it's general bus
mess; and generally to do any and all
things necessary or incidental to said pur-
poses or their successful accomplishment.
as well as to exercise all powers conferred
upon corporations by the laws of Louis
lana.
ARTICLE IV.-The capital stock of this
corporation shall be and is hereby fixed at
| ($25, 100000, all of which shall be common
stock, represented by two hundred fifty
] (250) shares of par value of one hundred
dollars CS1OO.OO) per share, which shall be
paid for in cash or its equivalent as de-
| termined by the Board of Directors.
The subscription from Arthur Yancey for
one hundred twenty-five (125) shares of
stock in this corporation shall be paid for
with the following property: One gasoline
| boat, named "El Caro-" 1 boiler, stack
pump and connections at Westwego; ]
| crab trimmer (patent applied for); equity
| in / Dodge truck; centrifugal machine to
| by centrifugal force protected by letters
| patent number 1175037; machlhe covered by
| United States patent $4,000; process OF
| trimming crabs covered by patent applica'
| ton filed May 10, 1920, serial number
3S0102; which has been valued and is now
appraised by the Board of Directors at the
sum of twelve thousand five hundred dol.
lars S12.500O0).
No stock shall be transferred except in
| writing and upon the books of the CON-
pany, and no stakeholder shall have the
| right to dispose of his stock until he shall
have first offered the same In writing to the
Directors of this corporation, and the said
stockholders shall have the right for ten
| days dating from the time such written
| offer is received by the said Board of Di-
| rectors, to purchase such stock at its book
value as shown by the balance sheets last
made. This provision shall be printed
upon each share Of the capital stock of this
corporation.
| ARTICLE v.-The corporate powers OF
| this corporation shall be vested In and ex.
ercised by a Board Of Directors composed