The Arizona sentinel., 1896-02-08
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
-OF TIE Beauharnais Petroleum Steam Gen orator Company.
-OF TIE

Know all men by thase presents, Tha Eugene de Beauharnais, John c. Beatty, Rene Woodward, and Herbert T. Beatty, desiring to incorporate ourselves under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, for the purpose of engaging in the business here matter specified, do make, sign, adopt, acknowledge and publish these Articles of Incorporation.
 ARTICLE I.
 The names of the persons hereby asso- ciating themselves together for the pur-. pose aforesaid are Vim. H. H. Hart, Eugene de Beauharnais, John c. Beatty Rene Woodward, and Herbert T. Beatty. The name of the Corporation hereby form ed is the Beauharnais Petroleum Steam Generator Company. The principal place for the transaction of its business shall be in Yuma, ill the Territory of Arizona, with an executive and branch office at San Francisco, California; and that the Board of Directors may hold regular and special meetings in said City of San Francisco; and with the further privilege of maintain 'ng its plants and transacting its business in all parts of the United States, the busi- ness mentioned in Article II to be con- ducted solely and only in the United States.
 ARTICLE II.
 The general nature of the business pro- posed to be transacted by this Corporation ill the United States is to purchase and secure United States letters patent, and to acquire and secure by purchase or other wise the right to use, and to give licenses for rights 10 use in the whole United States, or any part thereof the patents and inventions of Eugene de Bauharnais. and to acquire United States letters patent, by purchase or otherwise. and to acquire all real estate and personal property deemed by the Board of Directors necessary and requisite to carry on and maintain the business of the Company, and the construc- | ton and manufacture of all machinery and appliances necessary to 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 (S1 OOO OOO dollars, divided into Ten Thousand QO.- 000) shares, of the par value of One Hun ] dTed (10O) dollars each, and shall be fully paid-up before issue and non-assessable, and the several incOrpOratOrs hereof each do hereby subscribe to 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 County | of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, and the ] termination thereof shall be twentv-fiye | the period of extension not greater than 1 twenty-five years upon the vote of three | fourths of the capital stock at any regular meeting called and held for that purpose. l ARTICLE V. | The affairs of this Corporation shall be managed and conducted by, and shall be vested in a Board of Directors consisting of l five persons. to be elected by and from the stockholders of this Corporation on the first l Monday ot 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 shall serve as the Board of Directors until the re- gular election in October, 1896, and until their successors are elected and qualified. viz: Wm. H. H. Hart. Eugene de Beauhar- nais, John c. Beatty, Rene Woodward, and Herbert T. Beatty; and, provided further. that III the event of a vacancy in the Board of Directors before any annual meeting, said vacancy may be filled by a 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 duorum 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.
 l The highest indebtedness. direct or in- direct, to which this Corporation shall at any time be subject shall not exceed Twenty Thousand 0,0OO) 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 e-iSt for corporate debts.
 ,-. ARTICLE VIII.
 The Board of Directors shall have power to establish Bylaws, 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 ot 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. H. H. HART,
 EUGENE de BEAUHARNAIs, | JOHN c. BEATTY,
 HERBERT T. BEATTY, l RENE WOODWARD,
 State of California, City and County of San Francisco. Ss'
 Before me F. c. Moseback Notary Pub | lie in and for the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, on this nine teenth day of September, 1895, personally appeared Vim. H. H. Hart, Eugene de | Beauharnals, John c. Beatty, Rene Wood ward, and Herbert T. Beatty, personally hnOWn 10 me 10 De the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged to me that they ex- ecuted the same for the purposes and con- sideratiOn therein expressed.
 | Given under my hand and seal of office, this 18th day of September, A. D. 1895.
 +. c, MosEBACK, | Notary Public in and for inc City and
 County of San Francesca State of Caii- l fOrnia.
 Recorded at the request fJOhn c. Beatty, September 23, at o'clock D. fn., in Book of Bonds and Agreements, pages 407. | M. l.. Pool, County Recorder.
 By D. E. BEATTY Deputy. Territory of Arizona,l ss
 1 County of Yuma. 's'
 | l, NJ. l.. Pool County Recorder in and for said County, and custodian of the records thereof, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is true copy of the Articles | of Incorporation of the Beauharnais Petro- leum Steam Generator Company as the same now appears of record in Book of | Bonds and Agreements, pages 407, records of una County, Arizona. In witness whereof, 1 have hereunto set | my hand and affixed my official seal, this B day of Sept. A. D. 1895.
 | SEAL NJ. l.. Pool, County Recorder. By D. k. BEATTY, Deputy.