The herald., 1922-02-16

ACT OF INCORPORATION OF atlas
| MANUFACTURlNG CO, INC.
United States OF America, state of Lou
iSiana, Parish of Orleans, BE il known
that on this 2lst day of December, il
the year one thousand, nine hundred anu
| twenty-O 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 VIII
| 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 26I 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 to 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
1 that name IL shall have and enjoy all the
| rights, privileges and advantages granted
by law to corporations; il shall exist for
| a period of ninety nine years from this
date it shall have the power to contract
y .
to make and use a 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
or 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.
tions 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.
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 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, includ ding 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-
tablishment 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 1V-The capital stock Of this
corporation shall be and is fixed at the
sum of Ten Thousand and no-1O0 Dol
lars, divided into One 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 stockholder shall have the right to
assign or transfer any share or shares
or stock held by him unless he shall first
oner the same in writing to the Board Of
Directors, which shall have the right to
purchase the same within ten days there
after, at the valuation to be determined
by the board; and in case of dissatisfac-
ton as to the price the matter shall be
arbitrated, one arbitrator with the power
or amicable compounder to be appointed
by each side and an umpire to be Sc
lected by those two who shall take oath
and whose decision shall be final and
no recourse to the courts to be thereafter
allowed And all shares of stock when
SO purchased may be reissued at not less
ARTICLE V-First. All the corporate
powers of the corporation not reserved
by law to the stockholders shall be vested
In ard exercised by Board of Directors
to be composed of not less than three
stockholders, majority of which shall
constitute quorum to transact business
Said Board Of Directors shall be elected
annually at meeting of the stockholders
or this corporation to be held on the Bird
day Of January, 1928, and annually there
after.
Second. The Board of Directors shall
have power to make bylaws, rules and
regulations necessary for rhe conduct of
the business affairs of said corporation.
and they shall elect from their number
President, vice-President, Secretary and
Treasurer, which officers may be CONSOLE
dated as the Board Of Directors see fit
and to the best interests of the corpora.
ton. The position of Secretary may be
hlied by a person other than a stock.
holder IL the Board of Directors SO deem
it necessary and expedient to the interest
OF this corporation.
All officers shall be stockholders. of
this corporation, except the Secretary.
who may be hired to- perform the duties
Of that Office.
Third. Until the election to be held as
hereinabove provided, the following shall
constitute the first Board of Directors,
viz:
5. j. Coogan, President and Treasurer
NO S31 Royal Street. New Orleans, La.
Il. Soniat Dufossat, Jr., Vice President
and Secretary, No. 2SO7 Bell Street, New
Orleans, La, both residents of New Or.
leans, Louisiana.
g. Soniat du Fossat, No COS Tchoupi-
toulas Street, New Orleans, La.
ARTICLE VI-This charter NAV be
fha ffal II
corporation may be increased or de-
creased, or this corporation may be dis
solved and Its Affairs liquidated in the
method and manner provided by law, as
now or hereafter in force.
ARTICLE Vino stakeholder of this
corporation shall be liable or responsible
for the contracts or faults of this cor
poration in any further sum than the un-
paid balance Of the stock for which he
mas subscribed, nor shall any mere in
formality In organization have the effect
or rendering this charter null or of ex-
posing stakeholder to any liability
other than as above provided.
Thus done and passed in my Office, on
the day, month and year first above men,
TONED, in the presence of Stanley Nc
Dermott and Leah Simerick, competent
witnesses, who have signed these pres
ents with the said appearers and me
notary, after due reading of the whole
ORIGINAL SIGNED):
L. Soniat du Fossat, Jr., 2S07 Bell St.
New Orleans. La, "a shares
G. Soniat du Fossat, COS Tchoupitoulas
ST., New Orleans, La, / share