St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-19
ARCHITECTS.
DYE WORKS.
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
GERVAlS LAKE SYNDICATE
yTrE. TILE UNDERsIcNrn

uLhYAlD Lane NINUlUAIE.
"E, THE UNDERSIGNED, do hereby
w associate ourselves together for the pur-
pose OF becoming corporation under the pro-
VISIONS OF title two (2) Of chapter thirty-four (3)
or the General Statutes of the State of Minnesota
and the several acts of the legislature of said
state amendatory thereof, and for that purpose
do hereby adopt and sign these articles Of incor-
poration, as follows, to-wit:
ARTICLE l.
The name of this corporation shall be the Ger
vais Lake Syndicate
The general nature of the business of tbis cor-
poration shall be the buying, owning leasing
plating improving selling. mortgagng and deal
ing IN lands, tenements and hereditaments and
real personal and mixed estate in the state of
Minnesota.
The principal place for the transaction of the
business OF this corporation shall be in the city of
st Paul, Ramsey county, in said state of Mime
sofa.
ARTICLE II.
The time of the commencement of the CORPORA
tlon hereby organized shall be the twenty-fourth
l.4th) day OF May 1886, and the period of its con-
unuance shall be thirty 500 years from said date
OF commencement.
ARTICLE III.
The amount of the capital stock of this CORPORA
tlon shall be twenty-five thousand two hundred
dollars .200) and shall be paid in as called for
by the board of directors.
Said corporation may purchase and bry ifs own
stock, and the stock so purchased and bought il
may retire and extnguish, or it may hold the
same without merger or extingu1shment and re-
issue 1t IN the same manner and on the same
terms as other stock as the board of directors
may determine and elect.
ARTICLE ".
The highest amount of Indebtedness or liability
TO which said corporation shall at any time be
subject other than on stock account shall not ex-
coed the sum OF twenty-five thousand dollars
($25,000).
ARTICLE v.
The names and places of residence OF the per-
sons forming this corporation are as follows viz:
Andrew Schoch, Aaron Herr, John II. Schumacher
Adam Boyer Rudolph Martini Frederick Anthem,
Emanuel Good, Jacob V. Wilson, Ferdinand
Knauft, William F. Fiield, Jacob F. Jaeger. Henry
F. Vessel, all residing in the city of St Paul,
Ramsey county, Minnesota.
ARTICLE VI.
The government of this corporation and the
management of its affairs are hereby vested in
board Of seven directors, who shall be sharehold-
ers IN the corporation, and who shall be elected at
shall be held on the third (3d) Tuesday of NAV in
each year, and who shall hold office until their
successors are elected and qualified.
The executive officers of the corporation shall
be president, vice president, secretary.
and treasurer, who shall be elected by
the board of directors from their own num-
meeting of the board after the annual meeting of
the stockholders in each year, and who shall hold
once until their successors are elected and quali-
fed.
and all other instruments which may be necessary
Tor the business of the corporation for and in the
name OF the corporation, and shall exercise such
other powers and duties the bylaws shall pre-
scribe.
Vacancies in the board of directors or in the
sad ofhcers OF the corporation shall be filled by
the board OF directors at any regular or special
meeting held IN pursuance of the bylaws.
The names of the persons forming the first board
OF directors are, Ferdinand Knauft, Emanuel
Good, William F. Fifeld. Andrew Schoch, John
h Schumacher, Jacob V.Wilson and Frederick Al
then, who shall hold office until the first annual
meeting and until their successors are elected
and qualified.
ARTICLE VII
The number and amount of shares of the capital
stock OF said corporation shall be tw O hundred and
hfty-two 252) shares of hundred dollars (SIOO)
each. N'
In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our
hands and seals this 18th day of May, A. D. 1886.
FERDINAND KNAUFT, TsEAL1
WILLIAM f. FIFIELD, fsRAL.1
JACOB F. JAEGER, sEAL.1
RUDOLPH MARTINI fsEALf
AARON HERR. fsEAI1
HENRY F. VESSEL. fsEALf
JOHN II. SCHUMACHER, TsEAL.1
EMANUEL GOOD, sExLf
ADAM BE1 ER, SEAL.
ANDREW SCHOCH, SEAL
JACOB V. WILSON, SEAL
FREDERICK ANTHEM sEAL.1
Signed and sealed in presence of Z. R. HoL.
CoAIBE, W. S. HoLCoNIBE.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
COUNTY OF RAMSEY. ss'
l. E. II. Holcombe, notary public within and
Tor SAID county do hereby certify that on this 14th
day OF May, 1856, personally came before me An
drew Sehoch, Aaron Herr, John II. Schurmeier
Adam Boyer, Rudolph Martini Frederick Anthem
Emanuel Good, Jacob V. Wilson, Ferdinand
knauft. William F. Fi6eld, Jacob F. Jaeger and
Henry +. Vessel, to me well known TO he the
same persons described in and who executed tbe
foregoing instrument and severaliy Acknowledgement
that they executed the as their free act and
Deed f. R. HoLCOMBE,
tSeall Notary Public, Ramsey County, Mimi.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
COUNTY OF RAMSEY. 49,
OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS
This is to certify that the within instrument was
MED Tor record in this Office at ST. Paul, on the
18th day of May, A D. 1886, at $50 O'Clock n
M, and that the same was duly recorded in boot
E OF interpretations, pages 3, etc.
r. G. WILEY, Register of Deeds
By j. P. LEITNER, Deputy. GsEAr
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
hereby certify that the within instrument was
filed for record in this Office on the 18th dav of
May A. ID. 1885, at 2:40 O'Clock D. M, and was
duly recorded in book o of interpretations. on
page -, etc.
FRED Won BAUNBACH, Secretary of State.
1874