The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-08-24
CHARTER.

officer or officers, or any other rep
resentative of the corporation by APP
propriate resolution to that effect:
The first Board of Directors OF this
corporation shall be composed of the
following: Jake +. Goldsmith, sam
kessler, Jr, Charles Levy, win the
following as officers: Jake +. Gold
smith. President; Sam kessler' Jr;
Secretary Treasurer; and they snail
serve until the second Wednesday OF
August, 1928, or until their successors
are elected and qualified.
The directors shall be elected annu-
ally at a meeting held on the second
Wednesday Of August in each yea
after such date. Notice of SAID meet
ing shall be given fifteen days prior
to the date of said meeting, In writing,
sent by mail to each StOckholder. AT
his last known place OF residence. ne
date of said annual meeting To any
other date by written notice to that
effect, sent at least fifteen days prior
to the date To when sald annual meet
ing shall be changed directed by mail
to each stakeholder at his last known
place of residence.
Each stakeholder shall at such an
nual meeting or other meeting, general
or special. be entitled, in person or by
proxy. written or Geographic, TO one
vote for each share Of stock owned by
him. The election shall be held under
such rules ana regulations as may
the Board Of Directors.
The directors, when elected, shall
hold office for one year, or until their
successors shall have been elected and
qualified. and failure to hold the an
nual meeting of stockholders or to elect
annually directors shall not operate
the forfeiture of this charter or any
rights hereunder.
Any vacancy occurring in the Board
of Directors may he filled by the direc-
tors for the uneXpired term.
ARTICLE VIII. This charter and
act OF Incorporation may be changed
modified. altered or amended by and
with the consent of three-fOurthS Of
all the stock present or represented at
a meeting, general or special, held for
that purpose. and such amendments
may be material or immaterial, sub
ject only to Limitation as may be by
law provided. and this corporation
shall have the right and power to in
crease its capital stock as hereinbefore
set out. and any increase of the capital
stock i'll excess of the amount named
herein as the amount to which the
capital stock may be increased may be
made by three-fourths vote of all
outstanding stock.
ARTICLE TX. Notice of any and all
meetings referred TO in this charter
or required by law shall be given in
the manner provided for giving notice
in the case of election of directors,
or by publication of such notice for
fifteen days previous to such meeting
IN any daily newspaper IN the Guy OF
New Orleans, unless the notice of such
meeting shall have been waived; the
stockholders and directors having the
right by this charter to waive notices
at any time and for any meeting.
ARTICLE y. In case of the disSo-
luton, liquidation or termination of
this charter. by limitation or other
wise. the affairs of the corporation
shall be liquidated by one or more
liquidators elected by two-thirds vote
ct the stockholders. who may provide
the number of said liquidators and
vest them with such power and author
ity as may be by law permitted. fixing
the terms and conditions upon which
they shall serve. and their compenSa-
ton. and provide that in case of death
or disability of any one of said liqul-
dators the remaining liquidatOrs may
fill the vacancy or continue to act on
behalf of the corporation.
ARTICLE Nj No stakeholder of
this corporation shall be liable or re-
debts or faults of this company or any
of its officers, nor shall any mere In
formality in organization have the er
feet Of rendering this charter null and
any liability beyond the unpaid balance
due on the stock held by him.
ARTICLE MI. The subscribers here
to have written opposite their names
the number of shares subscribed to by
each of them. and their postoffice adj
dresses. so that this charter may serve
as a subscription list: all of which
subscriptions are payable in the man.
ner and form set out herein, and as
provided for in Act 267 of the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana of
1914
Thus done and passed at my office
in the city of New Orleans, on the
day and in the month and year herein
first above written, and in the presence
of Paul +. ChascZ and |. De Villeneuve,
competent witnesses, who have here
unto signed their names, together with
said appearers and me. Notary, after
due reading of the whole.
Witnesses:
PAUL +. CHASE'Z,
/. DE VILLENEUVE.
(Original signed)
WILLIAM J. GUSTE.
Notary Public.
A true copy:
WILLIAM J. GUSTE.
Notary Public.
State of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans.
/. Recorder of Mortgages for the Parish
of Orleans, do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing charter of the Gold
smith Coffee and Rice Co. Inc. has
been duly recorded in NJ. o. 3. 1868,
folio 1856
New Orleans. La. July 10. 1922
(Signed) ]. NJ SEEMAN,
Asst. by. r.
July 27-Aug. 81