The Arizona sentinel., 1895-12-14
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
Beauharnais Petroleum Steam 6an.
 orator Company.


 Know all men by th,se presents, Tn. we, the undersigned, Wm. II. Il. liar Eugene tie Beauharnais, John C. BeA :. Rene Woodward ald HerheTt T. De2tty , desiring to incorporate ourselves u..3C the laws of the Territory Of Ariz laa, for t:t . purpose Of engaging in the business here inafter specified, do make, sign adopt acknowledge and publish these Articles c Incorporation.
 The names Of the persons hereby ass2 ciating themselves together for the par pose aforesaid are Win. H. H. Hart Eugene de BeauhalnaiS. John C. Bea ty Rene Woodward. and Herbert T. Beatty The name Of the Corporation hereby fo '.G ed is the Beauharnais Petroleum Steau Generator Company. The principal piac' for the transaction of its business snail >, in Yuma, in the Territory of Arizona ! with an executive and branch office at SI' Francisco, California; and that the Boar of Directors may hold regular and Spcca meetings in said City of San Frauci~c' and with the further privilege of maintaiu ing its plants and tra nsacting it's buSincs in all parts of the United States, the basi ness mentioned in Article II to be con ducted solely and only in the Unite States.
 ! ARTICLE II.
 The general nature of the business pro | posed to be transacted by this Corporati0 1 Ill the United States is 10 purchase anG 1 secure United States letters patent. and {. acquire and secure by purchase or other ] Wise the right to use, and to give license for rights to use in the whole United i States, or any part there i, the patents and inventions of Eugene de Bauharnais, and 10 acquire United States letters patent, by 1 purchase or otherwise and to acquire ali ! real estate and personal property deemed l by tie Board of Directors necessary and requisite to carry on and maintain the 1 business of the Company, and the conStruc- ton and manufacture Of al machinery and appliances necessary 10 carry on said business within the United States and the Territories thereof.
 ARTICLE III. The amount of the capital stock of the Corporation shall be One Million (%I, COG. .0GO) dollars, divided into Ten Thousand (10- 00O) shares, of the par value of One Hun dred il0Ol dollars each, and shall be fully pald-up before issue and non-assessablp, and the several incOrporators hereof each do hereby subscribe 10 one share each of stock respectively.
 ARTICLE ". The time of the commencement of this Corporation shall be the date of the filing of these Articles of Incorporation in the office of the County Recorder Of the COunv of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter, with the power to renew the period of extension not greater than twenty-five years upon the vote of three tOurthS of the capital stock at any regular meeting called and held for that purpose.
 ARTICLE V.
 The affairs of this Corporation shall bc managed and conducted by, ard shall be vested in a Board of Directors consisting of five persons, to be elected by and from the stockholders of this Corporation 0n the first Monday of October, in each and every year at a meeting of this Corporation to be held. at Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona; provided the following named stockholders shal. serve as the Board of Directors until the re- gular election in October, 1896, and until their successors are elected and qualified viz: Wm. II. Ii. Hart Eugene de Beauhar- nals, John C Beatty, Rene Woodward, and Herbert I. Beatty; and, provided further. that ln the event of vacancy in the Board of Directors before any annual meeting. said vacancy may be filled by majority of the remaining members of the Board of Directors then in office. And it is further provided that three members of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and that any meeting of the Board of Directors at which three Directors, or more, shall be present shall be legal meeting either with or with out notice to themselves or the other mem bers.
 ARTICLE VI.
 The highest indebtedness, direct or in- direct, to which this Corporation shall at any time be subject shah lot exceed Twenty Thousand (20, ,0G0l Dollars
 ARTICLE VII.
 The private property of the stockholders shall be exempt from the debts of this Cor poration, and no individual liability of stockholders shall exist for corporate debts.
 ARTICLE VIII.
 The Board of Directors shall have power to establish By-LawS, name and designate the officers of the Company and make all necessary rules and regulations as may be by them deemed expedient for the manage ment of this Corporation, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and the laws of the Territory of Arizona.
 In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this nineteenth day of September, A. D. 1895.
 W. II. II. HART,
 EUGENE de BEAUHARNAIs,
 JOHN C. BEATTY,
 HERBERT T. BEATTY,
 RENE WOODWARD,
 State Of C1ifOrni1