The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-01-27
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER OF
II. L. GOTHAM a CO, INC.

AMENDMENT TO CHARTER OF
II. L. GOTHAM CO, INC.
United States of America, State of Lou
isiana Parish OF Orleans, City OF New Or
| leans lie ii known, mat on TINS twenty
| FOURTH day Ot the month OF December III
| the year of our Lord, one thousand niue
| nuuured and twenty, and OF the lhuepch-
| dence OF the United States of America, the
| one hundred and fOrty-ntth, before me
| Henry 4. Dart, Jr., Il Notary iubilc, du4S
| commissioned ana quHllneu, III ana LOT
| TINS city and the Parish OF orleans, therein
| resulting, and Ill the presence OIL the VII
| nesscs hereinafter named ana uhurrsiSh'u'
| personally came and appeared IL. lhVuh
| GOTHAM and Cornelius i. Everett, Oh age
| anu residents Of the city OF New orleans
| herein appearing i'll their respective ca
| pacitlrS oI President ANA Secretary Ol H.
| A. Gotham N Co., Inc, corporation doih
| IcIled III the Parish Ot Orleans, created uh-
| DER the laws OF Louisiana, by charter eA-
| ecuted before the late Il. +. thOatt, No
larry Public Aug H. 1892, ana amended
| Dy act passed before Henry 4. Dart, Jf.'
| Notary FuDlic, July i, 1918, recorded re
| spectlSely i'll Mortgage once, farlsn Vi
| orleans, III book HI, folio SSO ana Ill Door
| H., tOlio 2l3, VINO declared that AT
| meeting of the stockholders OF SAID cor
| pOratIon, duly held ut the ONCE OF the
| SAME, in this city, on Dec. - l9ZO, ana
| at "A meeting OF the Board OF Directors
| thereof duly held ON the same day, the
| capital stock of said corporation was IN
creased from one million dollars 10 one
million, eight hundred thousand DOLLARS
and that they, the appeareTs, were author
lied, empowered and directed To cause 10
be executed all the acts, deeds ana lhslru-
| mputs necessary to perpetudte, enforce
and TO carry into effect the SAID action oi
the said corporation and of the stockhold.
ers ana Board of Directors of the same, as
Will appear from II certified copy ui the
| minutes of several meetings aforesaid,
| hereuntO annexed as part oil inns act
| And thereupOn, and III accordance WIN
| said authorization and for the purposes
| aforesaid, the appearers declare thil lnes
!, | nave appeared before me, Notary, LOT III"
purpose OF further amending the sara IhaF.
ter, and to put in due ana iorIhal shape
| the action OF said corporation At inc htct
| Ings aforesaid, and the appearers accoru-
ingly declare that at meeting Oh the
stockholders of ii. Il. Gotham x CO., ms
3 | neId at the office of the corporation, IN Inc
: City of New Orleans, La, on Dec. =, l9-o
, | there were presented and represented zen
E thousand shares of the capital STOCK OF salu
= corporation, being the entire capital stOch
5 authorized to be issued and actually Is,
!, sued and outstanding at that time. lha'
ut said meeting it was unanimously re
solved to amend the charter OF salu cor
f puration so as to increase the capita
= stock of the same from one million dolldF'
q TO one million, eight hundred THOUSAND
Il dollars, of which increase hve hundred an'
n ufty Thousand dollars shall be Issued u
: the present stockholders OF said corpora
r ton as q stock dividend, full palu ah'
II non assessable, and two hundre4 anu MT!
Il | thousand dollars shall De lsSueu LOT mon
q ey paid at the time of the issuance there
: of That at q meeting OF the boaru U
It Directors of said corporation, held on IN
l. said 22nd of December, 192O, the SAT-
" Board of Directors approved ana cOnnrlhe'
" | the said action of the said stockholder
y and authorized the increase OF said capl
10 tai stock and declared a stock dividend o
% five thousand, five hundred shares or IN
> mar value of one hundred dollars each, o
a a total of five hundred, fifty thousand DOL
d lars, TO be issued and delivered to STOCK
J. hokers of record at that date IN iul
y parl and worcestershire shares OF capita
d stock of the par value of one hundred dol
IS lars EACH in the proportion or hfty-hN
10 hundredths of a share for each one shar
)f of the capital stock of said corporate
Y, heretofore issued and outstanding. Tina
T. said Board also authorized the issuance
Or two thousand. five hundred shares OF IN
e par value of one hundred dollars eaci
10 said two hundred and fifty thousand do
u lars to be sold for cash at par value aior'
i said.
<-I Now, therefore said appearers declaI
Of that Article Ill of the charter OF ii.
IN Gotham 4 Co., Inc, as amended aforesaid
~ be and Ii is hereby amended SO as 10 rea
IS, as follows, to-wit;
~ ARTICLE III-The capital stock of II
r. corporation is hereby fixed at one millio
x eight hundred thousand dollars, divide
or into eighteen thousand shares of the pr
r. value OF one hundred dollars each, where
n of ten thousand shares have been heret
of fore issued and paid for under suDscrll
he tons to the original charter OF TINS co
Nv poration, and under the several amend
H. ments thereof, and five thousand hve hui
ii dred shares shall be issued under Tn
a amendment of said charter as a stoC
". dividend to stockholders of record at tn
he date, and two thousand five hundred shar'
D. shall be issued at par for money paid
IN the time of the issuance thereof.
ay That save as herein amended, the
u mainder of said Article III Of said chart
Is and amendments thereof shall remain u
ne affected and unchanged by this act
~. And said appearers further declare tn
n | save and except as herein amended, .
a. said original charter of said corporate
on and the amendments thereof shall rema
mt In full force and effect, and they nave !
a uuired me- Notary, to cause this amen
pe ment to said instruments, to be duiy
e. | corded published and filed as required
20 | law, to the end that the same may
av operative and binding on all persons WI
,rr | now are or may hereafter become stoc
et holders of said corporation, or be otht
pr | wise interested therein or affected hereb
to Thus done and signed at my office,
ok New Orleans, on the day, month and We
* herein first above written in the prese1
by of John Dart and Benjamin w. Dart, col
,te petent witnesses, who have hereunto sig
ed ed their names with the said appeart
III and me, Notary, after reading Of I
On, whole.
tai Original signed) H. Thorn Gotham.
In. j. Everett.
or. Witnesses: John Dart, Benjamin
he Dart. ann I'D
ice HENRY r. DAhI, ~,
ali Notary Public
ire /, the undersigned, Recorder of Mo-
* cages in and for the Parish of Orleal
&c State of Louisiana, do hereby certify II
of the Act of Amendment of the ii. 4. Il
ny tam & Co., Inc, was this day duly
i- corded In my office in book l2i6, 1oho .
V New Orleans, Dec. q. 1920.
nc Original signed
,hs ROBT. SCOTT, Deputy
so / hereby certify that the foregoing co
lay Of Act of Amendment to Charter of Ill.
ard Gotham 4 Co, Inc, is a true copy OF
di- original passed before me and on hle
,et- my n0tarial office.
HENRY 7. DART, JR.,
no (Seal) Notary Public
18th Jan. 20-Feb. "a.
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