The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-02-02
CHARTER.
ACT OF INCORPORATION OF ATLAS
MANIEACTURING co. NC.
By GENE BYRNES


United States or America, state of Lou
isiana, Parish Of Orleans, Be it known.
that on this 2lSt day of December, in
the year one thousand, nine hundred and
twenty one, before me, Daniel John Muir
ply, a notary public duly commissioned
and sworn in and for the Parish of Or
leans, and City of New Orleans, therein
residing, and in the presence of the wit
nesses hereinafter named and under
signed, personally came and appeared the
persons whose names are hereunto sub
scribed, all of the full age of majority
and residents of this city. and who sew
orally declared that availing themselves
of the provisions of the Act of the Legis-
lature of the State of Louisiana. and
known as Act 267 Of the Session of 1914,
do by these presents, covenant and agree
and bind themselves, as well as all such
other persons as may become hereinafter
associated with them, in order ito form
or constitute corporation or body poll
tic in law, for the object and purposes
and under the stipulations, as follows:
ARTICLE THE name and style OF
this corporation shall be Atlas Manufac-
turing Company, Incorporated, and under
that name IL shall have and enjoy all the
rights, privileges and advantages granted
by law to corporations; it shall exist for
a period of ninety-nine years from this
date; it shall have the power to contract,
to sue and be sued in its corporate name /:
to make and use corporate SEAL and
the same to break and alter at pleasure;
to hold, receive. purchase, convey, mort
gage, 'hypothecate or pledge property,
real personal or mixed, issue bonds. notes
or other obligations and negotiable in
struments; to engage in the business OF
wholesale or retail clothing manufactur-
ing business in all its various phases {;
and to have and employ such managers,
directors, officers, agents and other EN-.
ployees as the interest and convenience
of said corporation may require or de-
mand: to make and establish such rules
bylaws and regulations for the manage
ment and control of the affairs OF the
corporation as may be deemed necessary
and expedient.
ARTICLE 1.-THE domicile of the cor
poration shall be in the City of New Or
| leans, State of Louisiana, and all cita-
lions and other legal process shall be
served on the President. and in his alb
sence on the Vice President, and in the
absence of both, thereon the Secretary
Treasurer.
ARTICLE III-The objects and pur
poses for which this corporation is formed
are hereby declared to be: To engage
in and carry on the business of manu-
featuring, buying and selling of clothing
raw and finished materials. general cloth
ing, manufacturing and jobbing business,
and all such articles incidental or apper-
tanning to a general tailoring and manu-
featuring clothing business either as
principals or agents, and either at whole
sale or RETAIL and In furtherance thereof.
to lease, purchase, acquire real or per
sonal property, including trade marks
and copyrights as may be required or
necessary for the proper execution and
prosecution of said business. and to mort
gage or hypothecate the same; in the es-
Establishment and maintenance of factory
or factories. plants, warehouses or other
wise, and generally to do everything or
things as may be necessary in the pros
ecution of said business.
ARTICLE IV-The capital stock of this
corporation shall be and is fixed at the
sum of Twenty Thousand and no-1OO Dol
lars, divided into Two Hundred shares
of the par value of One Hundred Dollars
each. No transfer of stock shall be bind
| ing upon this corporation unless same
| appear on the books thereof
| No stakeholder shall have the right to
| assign or transfer any share or shares
! of stock held by him unless he shall first
| offer the same in writing to the Board OF
| Directors, which shall have the right to
purchase the same within ten days there