St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-22
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
GERVAIS LAKE SYNDICATE.

WE, 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 thrty-four {34
OF 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 I.
The name of this corporation shall be the Ger
vais Lake Syndicate.
The general nature OF the business of this cor
poration shall be the buying. owning, leasing
plating. improving, selling, mortgaging and deal
ing in lands, teuements and Entertainments, 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-
ton hereby organized shall be the twenty-fourth
(24th) day of May, 1885, and the period of its con-
tinuance shall be thirty (SO) years from said date
ARTICLE III.
The amount of the capital stock of this CORPORA
b ion shall be twenty-five thousand two hundred
pdnlars( 200) and shall be paid in as called for
by the board of directors.
Said corporation may purchase and buy its own
stock, and the stock so purchased and bought it
may retire and extinguish, 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
(S25000).
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 T. Fifeld, Jacob L. 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 a
board of seven directors, who shall be sharehold-
ers in the corporation and who shall be elected at
the annual meeting of the stockholders, which
shall be held on the third (3d) Tuesday of May in
each year, and who shall hold Office until their
successors elected and qualified.
The executive officers of the corporation shall
and treasurer, who shall be elected by
the board of directors from their own num-
Der at its first meeting and at the first
meeting of the board after the annual meeting of
the stockholders in each year, and who shall hold
Office until their successors are elected and quail
fed.
The president and secretary shall sign all deeds
and all other instruments which may be necessary
for the business of the corporation for and in the
name of the corporation, and shall exercise such
other powers and duties as the bylaws shall pre-
scribe.
Vacancies in the board of directors or in the
said officers of the corporation shall be filed by
the board OF directors at any regular or special
meeting held in pursuance of the bylaws
persons forming thp first oord
of directors are, Ferdinand Knauft, Emanuel
Good, William F. Fifield, Andrew Schoch, John
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 capita1
stock of said corporation shall be two hundred and
ftytwo (252) shares of one hundred dollars (s1OO)
each.
In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our
hands and seals this 14th day of May, A. D. 1885,
FERDINAND KNAUFT, lsEAL1
WILLIAM F. FIFIELD, fsEALf
JACOB +. JAEGER, {SEAL.1
RUDOLPH MARTINI. SEAL
AARON HERR, sEAL.t
HENRY f. VESSEL. sEAL.1
g4c JOHN d. SCHURMEIER, fsEAL.1
EMANUEL GOOD, SEAL.
ADAM BEYER fsBAL1
ANDREW SCHOCH fsEAL1
JACOB v. WILSON, fsEAL.1
FREDERICK ALTHEN. fSEAL1
Signed and sealed in presence of E. R HoI.
CoMBE, w. s. HoLCoMBE.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
COUNTY OF RAMSEY. oSs
u, e. r. Holcombe, notary public within and
for said county do hereby certify that on this 14th
day of May, 1886, personally came before me An
drew Schoch, Aaron Rerz John II. Schumacher
Adam Boyer, Rudolph Martini. Frederick Anthem
Emanuel Good Jacob v. Wilson, Ferdinand
Knauft, William E. Fi6eld Jacob F. Jaeger and
Henry f, Vessel to well known to be the
same persons described in and who executed the
foregoing instrument, and severalIy acknowledged
that they executed the same their free act and
deed. e. r. HOLCOMBE,
[Seal] Notary Public, Ramsey County, Mimi.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, lss
COUNTY OF RAMSEY. o.
OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS
This is to certify that the within instrument was
filed for record in this Office, at st. Paul. on the
18th day of May, A. D. 1886, at 2:30 O'Clock D.
m, and that the same was duly recorded in book
e OF interpretations, pages 3, etc.
K. c. WILEY, Register of Deeds.
ByJ. 7. LEITNER, Deputy. [sEAL.1
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
hereby certify that the within instrument was
MED for record in this Office on the 18th day of
May A. d. 1886, at 2:40 O'Clock p. m. and was
duly recorded in book of interpretations, on
page =, etc.
FRED Won BAUMBACH, Secretary of State
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