The herald., 1922-12-07
CHARTER
CHARTER OF GUEST MAYO SHEET
METAL WORKS. INC.

month Of october. in the year OF our
Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and
twenty-five, and of the Independence of
the United States of America. the one
hundred and forty before me,
Eugene ID. Saunders, a notary public
duly commissioned and qualified within
and for the Parish of Orleans State Of
Louisiana, therein residing, and in the
presence of the witnesses hereinafter
named and undersigned, personally
came and appeared the several persons
whose names are hereunlo subscribed
who severally declared that awaiting
themselves of the benefits and provis-
ions of the Constitution of the State
of Louisiana, and of the laws of said
State relative to the organization Of
corporations, and particularly of the
provisions of Act No. 267 OF the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana for
the year 1914, and the amendments
thereto, they have contracted and
agreed and united to form, and do by
these presents. contract and agree and
bind and obligate themselves TO FORM
organize and constitute themselves, as
well as all such other persons who may
hereafter join or become associated
with them or their successors, into a
stock corporation and body polite in
law. for the objects and purposes and
under the conditions. covenants, stipu-
lations and agreements OF the articles
following, tO-wit:
ARTICLE 1.-The name and title OF
this corporation shall be GUEST &
MAYO SHEET METAL WORKS, INC,
and under and by said name, unless
sooner dissolved in accordance with
law and this charter, IL shall exist and
continue, and shall have and enjoy cor
porate existence and succession for
period of ninety-nine (99) years from
and after the date of this act 1t may
have. hold. receive, borrow, loan. ex-
change, acquire by grant, gift or pur-
chase, devise or bequest, sell, ALLEVIATE
dispose of, convey, lease, pledge, pawn
hypothecate. cucumber or mortgage
property Of any kind, whether real
personal or mixed, corporal or incor-
poreal, movable or immovable. all sub
ject to such limitations as may be pre-
scribed by law. II may make. issue and
endorse bonds or notes and other evil
denceS of debt. 1t may accent mort
cages, pledges or other forms of secu-
rity for money loaned or other debts
II may contract, sue and be sued, plead
or be implicated by its corporate name
in any court of competent Jurisdiction
II may make, adopt and use a corporate
seal and alter or break the same at
pleasure. 1t may hold stock in other
corporations, and its capital stock may
be issued for capital stock of other cor
employ such managers, directors
officers. agents and other employees as
its interests, business and convenience
may require. and may fix their compen-
satfon. having due regard to the nature
character and value of their services
1t may make and establish bylaws,
rules and regulations not inconsistent
with this charter or any existing law
fixing or altering the management Of
its property, the regulation and govern
ment of its affairs. and the manner Of
the certification or registration of it's
stock. 1t may wind up and dissolve
itself. or be wound up and dissolved in
the manner prescribed by law. 1t may
States. the Federal Districts, the Terri
tories and possessions OF the United
States. and any foreign country. 1t
snail have the power to invest its Board
of directors with all its corporate pow
ers. subject to such restrictions Is may
be named in this charter. And it gen.
orally shall have and possess ali the
powers. rights, privileges and immuni-
ties which corporations are and may here
after be authorized to have and possess
under the Constitution and the laws or
this State. and particularly under Act
No. 267 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana for
the year 1914, and the amendments
thereto.
ARTICLE 1.-THE domicile of this
corporation shall be the City of New
Orleans. Parish of Orleans. State of
Louisiana. and all citations or other
legal process shall be served upon the
President Of this corporation, or, in case
of his absence, upon the VicePresident,
or. in the absence of both of these
OF this corporation.
ARTICLE III.-The objects and pur-
poses for which this corporation is
formed and the nature of the business
to be carried on by il, are hereby de-
clared to be: To manufacture, buy.
and deal in or with. either for it's own
account or as agents of others. all
kinds of architectural and ornamental
sheet metal fronts. cornices, gutter
ings. ceilings, windows, sky-lights, and
generally all portions of buildings or
other articles made of metal; all kinds
of apparatus for heating, cooking or
and all appurtenances used
in connection Herewith; all and any
kind of roofing materials and supplies,
whether of wood, tile, slate. metal,
paper. asbestos or other material, and
to lay, erect. construct or repair any or
all of the foregoing articles or things:
and generally to carry on any business
which under the law IL may be entitled
TO carry on which may seem to the
corporation to be calculated. directly or
indirectly. to effect the aforesaid OBJ
jects and purposes, or either of them.
or to facilitate the corporation in the
transaction of any other lawful bust
ness that might be calculated, directly
or indirectly, to enhance the value of
or to render profitable any of the cor
porationS property and rights; and gen.
orally to hold and exercise all such in
powers and privileges and to
do and perform all things as relate to
the objects and purposes hereinabove
set forth, or as may be needful, neces-
sary. proper, useful or convenient for
effecting such objects and purposes, or
either Of them.
ARTICLE IV.-The authorized capt.
tai stock Of this corporation is hereby
fixed at and declared TO be the sum of
five thousand (s5,000.00) dollars, which
capital stock may be increased in the
manner provided by law to the sum
Of twenty-five thousand (s25,000.0O
dollars.
The presently authorized capital
stock of this corporation shall consist
Of fifty (50) shares, of the par value
Of one hundred (s10000) dollars each:
it shall be represented by certificates
either for whole or fractional shares.
shall be full paid and worcestershire
when issued. shall be issued only for
labor done or for property actually re-
ceived, or for cash TO be paid at such
times and in such amounts and AFTER
such notice as may be determined by
the Board of Directors. and shall be
property. No transfer OF SAID
capital stock shall be binding upon this
unless made in accordance
with its charter and bylaws and re-
corded on the books thereof.
ARTICLE v-Ar the corporate pow
in and exercised by a board of three
t3) directors, each of whom shall hold
in his own name at least one share OF
the stock of this corporation. SAID
Board of Directors shall be elected an
nuaily on the first legal day in NovenI-