The herald., 1922-03-23

Mcn Zo-Apr "a.
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER OF NEW
ORLEANS FURNITURE MANI
FEATURING COMPANY.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans.
City of New Orleans. Be it knowL, that
on this seventeenth day of the month of
March in the year of our Lord, Nineteen
Hundred and Twenty-Five and of the In
dependence of the United States of Amer
lea. the One Hundred and FOrty-sixth.
Before me. J. Henry FOrcelle. Jr.,
Notary Public, IN and for the Parish of
Orleans, State of Louisiana. aforesaid.
duly commissioned, sworn and qualified
and in the presence of the witnesses here
matter named and undersigned;
Personally came and appeared: Mr..
Junius w. c. Wright and Mr. Howard c.
George. both residents of this City and
of legal age. hereto appearing in their
respective capacities as the Chairman and
Secretary of a meeting of the stockholders
of the New Orleans Furniture Manufac-
turing Company, corporation Organized
under the Laws of the state OF Louisiana
Notary Public of this City on April 6.
1896, recorded in the Mortgage office of
this Parish in book 565, folio $50 and
amended by the stockholders of said
Company at a meeting held by them July
Q. 1904 per certificate of Assistant
Sc, rotary of State. of date July 16. 1904
and also amended by act passed before
the undersigned Notary June "a, 1920.
Parish in book 1912, folio $40.
Which said appearers severally de-
clared that meeting of the stockholders
of the New Orleans Furniture Manufac-
held at the office of the Company, 500
Leake Avenue. in this City, on March Is.
1922 pursuant to notice to each of the
stockholders and after compliance with
all the legal requisites, at which meeting
there were present, in person or by
proxy, the holders of more than three
fOurths of all the issued and outstanding
stock of the Company, and that npon mo-
ton duly made and seconded it was unan-
imOusly resolved that Article Fifth Of the
charter of the Company, as then consti-
tpted, he changed. altered and amended
so as to read as follows:
ARTICLE FIFTH.-The business and
affairs of this corporation shall be man.
aged and conducted by Board of Seven
ca Directors, each of whom shall be a
stakeholder in this corporation.
On the First Tuesday after the First
Monday in April 1922 and annually there
after. an election for Directors shall be
held at the office of the corporation. after
ten days prior notice thereof published
in one of the newspapers of this Parish.
All elections of Directors shall be by
ballot and shall be conducted under the
superintendent of two Commissioners APP
pointed by the Boord of Directors, and
each share of stock shall be entitled to
one vote. to be cast by it's owner in per-
son or by proxy and majority of the
votes cast shall elect or decide all ques-
tons voted upon not otherwise provided
for.
The Directors then elected shall take
their seats Immediately upon election and
shall proceed without delay to elect from
among their number a President, Vice.
President and Secretary and Treasurer.
The failure to elect on the day specified
shall not dissolve this Corporation, but
the Board of Directors then in office to-
gether with the officers of this Corpora
ton. shall hold over, and as soon as
possible thereafter another election shall
be held in accordance with the above pro-
visions and failure then to elect shall
retain the incumbent Board of Directors
and Officers in office until the next reg
ular meeting. Four az of said Directors
shall constitute a quorum for the trans
action of all business of said Corpora
ton; they shall enact and change at will
such bylaws, rules and regulations for
the proper conduct of this business as
they may deem proper; they shall fill
all vacancies occurring amongst their
number for the unexpired term. They
shall appoint and discharge at pleasure
all clerks. agents and employees and fix
their salaries or compensation. and do
such other matters and things as they
may deem best for the best interest of
this corporation. No employe shall be
considered as employed by the year I'M
less so specially contracted with in writ
ing.
said appearers further declared that in
addition to the passage of the resolution
authorizing the amendment to the char
ter hereinbefore enumerated, they were
also authorized, directed and empowered
to appear before a Notary Public for the
purpose of carrying out and giving effect
to said amendment to the charter and
having the same placed in proper form
and thereafter recorded and published in
conformity with existing provisions of
the law relating thereto. all as will more
fully and at large appear from the reso-
1 cd Qf sold ota hnlA
ing, a copy whereof. duly attested, is
hereto attached for reference.
Said appearers further declared that in
conformity with the authority conferred
upon them as aforesaid, they have ap-
peared before me, said Notary, for the
purpose Of having the amendment to the
charter of the said Company placed in
authentic form, and do hereby declare
that the charter Of the New Orleans Fur
niture Manufacturing Company, was, at
said meeting of the stockholders amended,
changed and altered in the particulars
hereinbefore set forth, and that they now
desire me Notary to receive and make
said amendment according to law, to
serve and avail as the future shall or may
require; said Notary do by these pres
snts. receive said amendment in the form
amendment may be recorded and promul-
gated and thus be read into the afore-
said charter of said Company.
Thus done and passed, In my office,
at the City of New Orleans, on the day,
month and year herein first above writ
| ten. in presence of Louis Lion and Ray
mond Miller, competent witnesses, who
have hereunto signed their names with
the said appearers and me, said Notary.
after due reading of the whole.
(ORIGINAL SIGNED):
J. w. c. Wright, II. c. George, L. Lion,
r. Mollere.
J. II. FORCELLE, Jr-
Notary Public.
/, the undersigned Recorder of Mort
cages I'm and for the Parish of Orleans.
State Of Louisiana, do hereby certify that
the above Act of Amendment to the char