The herald., 1921-02-03
AMENDMENT TO THE CHAkIEh VI
r. ALCUS 4 COMPANY, LIMITED

- T. ALCUS COMPANf'
I-,itad States of America, State of Lou
iSinuu. Parish OF orleans, City OF New VI
leans BE il known, That on TINS -ilh ia!
of december i'll the year OF our Loru' one
thousand nine hundred ana tWents' p,'iGi,'
me. Herman l.. Barnett, Notary fupllo,
duIy commissioned and quallned IN anu
for the Parish of Orleans, State OF LOUIS
lana therein residing and i'll the presence
of the witnesses hereinafter h"im oS an
undersigned, personally came ana APP
peared Samuel Il. Alcus, OF the 1ull age ol
majority, and a resident OF New dreams
Louisiana the President of ). L. Alcus q
Company, Limited, who declared that saiu
). T. Alcus Il Company, Limited, Is duly
organized Louisiana corporation, created
by act before Felix j. Dreyfous, Notary
Public in this city, dated September ISL
1897 The charter of the corporation Is re-
corded in the mortgage office for the Par
ish of Orleans, in Book 600, Folio w,
which charter was amended Marcn -hu,
1905 as per certificate filed in the ONCE OF
the Secretary of State of Louisiana, March
10Th 1908, recorded in his Office, in record
of charters book No. %, which charter was
again amended by act before Phlllp Gems
Ter, Jr., Notary Public, dated December
18th, 1917 recorded in the mortgage office
for the Parish of Orleans, in book 12l9
folio 60, which charter was further amend
ed by act before Philip Gensler, Jr., NO
tary Public, dated May 23rd, 1918, record
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Orleans, in book 1919, folio 1S3. Said APP
pearer further declared that a meeting OF
the stockholders of the said ). L. Alcus
X Company, Limited, was duly held at the
office of the corporation, on the IND day
of December, 1920, the same being regu-
larly called stockholders meeting, and at
which meeting all the holders of all or
the capital stock of the said corporation,
issued and outstanding, were present or
represented. And the said appearer fur-
Their declared that at the said stockholders
| meeting the said stockholders unanimously
adopted resolutions providing for the
| change alteration, amendment and re-en-
actment of the charter of the corporation,
| in the words and figures hereinafter set
| out, and that at the said meeting, the said
appearer herein was duly authorized TO
appear before a Notary Public for this
| Parish and State, for the purpose of put
| ting in authentic form the said resOlu-
lions, all as will fully appear from GER
| titled copy of extract from said resOlu-
| tons, hereto attached for reference. The
| said appearer further declared that he does
| now appear before me, Notary, for the pur-
pose of amending and re-enacting the said
| charter, in the manner and form follow
| ing, tO-wit:
| ARTICLE /. The name and title of this
| corporation shall be s. I. Alcus & Com
| pany Limited, and under its corporate
| name it shall have power and authority
| to have and enjoy corporate existence for
| a period of ninety nine years from date
hereof, unless sooner dissolved by liquida-
| ton or otherwise. 1t shall have power to
| contract, to sue and be sued; to make
and use corporate seal, and to alter and
| break same at pleasure; to hold, receive
| lease, purchase, transfer, assign, convey
| mortgage, hypothecate, pledge or other
| wise receive or dispose of property, real
personal and mixed, corporeal and incor-
pOreal; to issue bonds, and, If desired, to
| secure the same by mortgage; to buy and
| hold stock in other companies, incident
to the objects and purposes, or to the ex-
| pansiOn of the business interests of the
| corporation; to appoint such managers
| agents, directors or officers as its business
| interests may require, and to make, alter
| establish and amend its bylaws, rules and
may be deemed necessary and proper; and
| generally, to do any and all things Incl
| dent to or necessary and proper for the
| extension of the business in which the cor
poratiOn is engaged.
ARTICLE II.-This corporation shall bt
| domiciled in the City of New Orleans, Par.
ish of Orleans, in the State of Louisiana
and all citation or other legal process shall
be served upon the President of the cor
| poration, and, in the event of his absence
upon the Vice President.
| ARTICLE III.-The objects and pur
| poses for which this corporation is organ
lied and the nature of the business to b,
carried on by it are declared to be as fol
lows: To buy, sell. deal in and handle, ex
port and import lumber of all sorts an,
ing timber, cut timber, logs. manufac
tured lumber, and any and all article
manufactured from wood. To buy, sell
hold, lease and operate saw mills. planin,
mills and other lumber mills, factories
| logging machinery, logging railroads sloco
motives, cars and machinery of all kinds
To buy. sell, manufacture, deal in an,
handle boxes, cases, containers, crates
shocks, made of wood or any other ma
terial; and generally to engage in an,
carry on the business of acquiring, own
ing, buying, selling, leasing, mortgaging
exchanging, manufacturing, distributing
and marketing of lumber and the variou
products thereof, and, in addition thereto
| to carry on general mercantile merchan
disc and manufacturing business. 10 en-
gage in foreign as well as in domestic com
merce, and to carry on any of the bust
ness aforesaid. in the United States o
America and its territories and dependen
cies and In foreign countries.
ARTICLE Iv.-The capital stock Of thi
| corporation is hereby fixed at the sum O
$780, 10000, divided into and representa-,
| by 1900 shares of the par value of $1,000
each; five thousand of the said shares o
capital stock, representing 100000 shall
be preferred stock, and 10000 shares o
said capital stock. representing 81 900,
10000 shall be common stock. The hold
| ers of preferred stock shall be entitled L
receive. in preference and priority owe
the holders of the common stock, cumu
lative dividend, limited to 10 per annum
payable out of the profits of the company
The holders of common stock shall receiv
no dividend, unless and until the holder
of preferred stock shall have been paid tn
dividend and any cumulations thereon due
In the event Of the dissolution or hquida
ton of the corporation, the preferre'
stockholders shall be entitled to- receiv
out Of the assets Of the corporation. be