Year: 1868

city ol new OrleanS, personally came ana
| appe ared the several parties whose names
| are hereunto subscribed, who declared that,
| availing themselves of the provisions Of the
laws of the State of Louisiana in relation TO
| the organization of corporations, they have
| covenanted and agreed and by these pres
| ents do covenant and agree, and bind them.
selves and those whom they represent, TO
| establish an incorporated Company for the
| objects and purposes and under the obliga.
| tions, stipulations and regulations herein
| after set forth, to wit:


ARTICLE FIRST.


This corporation shall be domiciled and
have its principal Office in the city of New
Orleans, in the parish of 0rlean State ol
Louisiana, and the name and title of the
same shall be "THE NEW ORLEANS REPUBLI
CAN PRINTING COMPANY" Said corporation
shall have and enjoy corporate powers and
privileges for the full term of twenty-five
years from the date hereof, and the same
shall commence business as soon as the sum
of one hundred thousand dollars shall have
been subscribed to its capital stock. The
President of said Corporation shall be the
proper officer upon whom to serve citation
and all ether notices in case of any suit OF
suits for or against said corporation.
ARTICLE SECOND.


The objects and purposes of this Corpora
tion are declared to be the printing and pub
fishing of newspapers and the carrying on
of a general book and job printing business
in the State of Louisiana and all things
properly appertaining thereto.


ARTICLE THIRD.


The capital stock of this corporation is
hereby fixed at one hundred and ten thou
sand dollars, divided into eleven hundred
shares of one hundred dollars each, to be
paid at the time of subscription, and which
capital stock once subscribed and paid may
be increased at any regular meeting of the
stockholders, called fer that purpose, and by
majority of all of the stock of said COM
pany, to any amount not exceeding two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Pro-
vided, That each and every stockholder
shall have at least thirty days notice Of such
intention either in person or by notice of the
same published for said time in any of the
newspapers published in the city of New
Orleans,


ARTICLE FOURTH.


All the corporate powers of the Corpora.
tion shall be vested in and exercised by a
Board of Directors and such officers and
employees as they may appoint. The Board
of Directors shall consist of five members of
tion of the term of Office of the
present Board, hereinafter named,
shall be elected by ballot on the
second Tuesday of January of each year,
at the Office of said Corporation, of which
election the Board of Directors shall give at
least ten days notice in one of the newspa-
pers published in the city of New Orleans,
three stockholders to preside as in-
spectors at such election; and
should any of the inspectors decline
or fail to attend the President shall appoint
other persons to fill the vacancies. And any
failure from any cause whatever to elect
Directors on the day named for thatpur.
pose shall not dissolve this Corporation, but
the Directors then in Office, as we'll as the
President and Secretary, and all other
officers, shall hold over until their success
sors are elected. In the event of no elec.
tion taking place on the date aforesaid, the
President shall cause another election to be
held within thirty days thereafter and give
notice of the same as aforesaid.


ARTICLE FIFTH. ~,


The Board Of Directors thus elected shall
assume their duties on the Tuesday follow
ing their election, and shall hold their
offices until their successors are duly elected.
Those stockholders, receiving a majority
vote of the stock represented at an election,
shall be considered and declared duly elect.
ed. The Board of Directors shall elect from
among themselves and fix the compensa-
tion Of President, who shall be the general
manager and business agent of the Corpora
ton. The Board of Directors shall have
full authority to fill all vacacies in their
number from among the stockholders of the
Company. And the said Board is hereby
invested with full power to frame and
adopt such bylaws, rules and regulations
as they may deem requisite and necessary
for the company and the transaction of its
business; provided, the same do not conflict
with this act of incorporation or the laws
of this State. The said Board shall have
power, and are hereby authorized, to buy
real estate for the use and purposes of the
company. to sell the same, to make con-
tracts, leases, mortgages and compromises,
and to borrow money, and to do ali and sin.
gular such acts as may be necessary to carry
on the business and further the objects Of
this company.


ARTICLE SIXTH.


In all elections the vote shall be by ballot,
and each and every stockholder shall be en-
titled to vote, either in person or by proxy,
for each an1 every share which he, she or
they, respectively, may hold, and no person
or persons shall be entitled to vote on any
share or shares transferred to him or them
within ten days prior to such election.


ARTICLE SEVENTH.


No stockholder shall be held responsible
for the contracts, acts, faults, debts or obli-
cations of the said Company beyond the
amount Of their unpaid capital stock, and
no mere informality in organizing shall
have the effect of rendering this Charter
any liability beyond the extent Of their
stock.


ARTICLE EIGHTH.


The following named persons: A. L. Lee,
Jahn n n parkar Miahaal uah0 YaooH
Hawkins, Thomas G. Tracy, shall be and
they are hereby constituted the first Board
of Directors, and they shall hold their Office
until the first election under this charter, or
until their successors are duly elected and
shall have taken their seats.


This board shall assume control on and
after the. first Monday in January next, it
ent management of New Orleans REPUB-
LIGAN shall continue until that time; and the
said Directors are hereby invested with all
the rights, powers and privileges appertain-
ing to their Office.


ARTICLE NINTH.


This Act of Incorporation may be modified,
altered or amended and additions made to
the same, or the said Company dissolved at
a general meeting to be convened for the
purpose, after thirty days notice in one of
the newspapers published in the city Of New
Orleans, with the assent of three-fourths of
all Of the Stock Of said Company.


ARTICLE TENTH.


At the expiration of this Charter, or the
dissolution OF this Company prior thereto,
the liquidation Of the COMPANY shall be
conducted by q Board of not exceeding
three, who shall be appointed by the Board
Of Directors, and which Board Of Liduida-
tors shall Immediately proceed to wind up
the affairs Of the Company by selling of..the
assets, privileges and property of the Com
pany, collecting all amounts due the