St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-02

A RTICLES of Incorporation of Portland Stone
IA Company-Know all men by these presents
that we, the undersigned, Peter Berkey John A.
Berkey, w. P. Cockey and Lawrence Washington,
have agreed to and do hereby associate ourselves
together for the purpose of becoming corporated
under and pursuant to the laws of the state of
Minnesota and to that end do hereby adopt and
sign the following articles OF incorporation:
FIRST.
The name of the corporation shall be Portland
Stone Company" and the general nature of its
business shall be and is to build construct and lay
sidewalks and all other walks and passageways
of artificial stone. natural stone, wood or any
other material which may be used for that pur-
pose, to set curbing and to construct, grade and
pave streets and public thoroughfares, to build
and set up steps, to set up edging and building
stone, and generally to perform any and all con-
tracts for the building, construction grading paw
ing and improvement OF streets and public thor
oughfares and the laying and construction of side
walks, crosswalks and other passagewayS OF every
description, and to manufacture artificial stone
and such other materials as may be used for the
construction of sidewalks, streets and passage
ways, and to buy, sell and deal in cements of all
kinds, and to this end to acquire, hold and dis
pose of such real and personal property as may
be desirable, necessary convenient for its bust
ness aforesaid
The principal place of transacting the business
OF this corporation shall be St. Paul, in the state
of Minnesota.
SECOND.
The time of commencement of said corporation
shall be the 30th day of November, A d. 1855, and
the period of its continuance shall be the term of
thirty years.
THIRD.
The amount of the CAPITAL stock of said cor
poration shall be fifty thousand dollars $50, 000)
and shall be divided into i've hundred shares OF
the par value of one hundred dollars (s100) each,
and IA per centum thereof shall be paid in in cash
at the time the stock is issued, and the balance
thereof at such time and in such installments as
the board of directors of the corporation may by
resolution direct.
FOURTH.
The highest amount of Indebtedness or liability
to which said corporation shall at any time be
subject shall be twenty-five thousand dollars
(&25,000).
FIFTH.
The names and places Of residence of the per-
are:
Peter Berkey of st. Paul, Minnesota.
John A. Berkey of St. Paul, Minnesota.
w. P Cockey of st. Paul Minnesota.
Lawrence Washington of st. Paul. Minnesota.
SIXTH.
The government of said corporation and the
management of its affairs shall be vested in a
board of four directors, all of whom shall be elected
by and from the stockholders of said corporation
at the annual meeting of such stockholders to be
held on the first Monday in october of each year
at the Office Of said corporation in st. Paul. Mime
sofa.
Immediately after their election, organize and
elect from their number president, vice presi-
dent secretary and treasurer, who shall be the
officers Of said corporation and who shall hold
their offices for such time and perform such duties
by the bylaws of said corporation shall be pre-
scribed. and any two of such officers, except presi
dent and vice president, may be held by the same
person.
The names of the first board of directors of said
corporation are Peter Berkey, John A. Berkey, w.
P. Cockey and Lawrence Washington, of whom
Peter Berkey shall be president, John A. Bersey
vice president and treasurer and William P.
Cockey secretary, and shall hold their offices until
the next annual meeting of the stockholders of
said corporation unless sooner removed, and
until their successors are elected and qualified.
In witness whereof the above-named incorpor-
ators have hereunto set their hands and seals
this 31st day of October, A. D. 1885.
PETER BERKEY, TSeal I
JOHN A. BERKEY, [SeaL |
LAWRENCE G. WASHINGTON, fSeal. !
w. P. COCKEY, [Seal. ]
In presence of
A. c. ANDERSON,
NJ. s. STOKES.