The Arizona sentinel., 1896-01-25
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION -OF THE
  Beauharnais Petroleum Steam Gen orator Company

Know all men by these. presents, Ina we, the undersigned. Win. H. H. Hart, 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- 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, in 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 l ing 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 IT.
 The general nature of the business pro- 1 posed to be transacted by this Corporation | in 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 construe- 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 ($1, ,0OO, ,OOO) dollars, divided into Ten Thousand (10,- O00) shares, of the par value of One Hun dred Q0O) dollars each, and shall be fully paid-up before issue and -assessable, and the several incorpOrators hereof each do hereby subscribe to one share each of stock respectively.
 ARTICLE w.. : 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 1 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 fourths of the capital stock at any regular meeting called and held for that purpose.
 ARTICLE V.
 The affairs of this Corporation shall be managed and conducted by, and shall be vested in a Board of Directors consisting of five persons, to be elected by and from the stockholders of this Corporation on the first Monday of October; in each and everysyear 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 vacancy in the Board of Directors before any annual meeting said vacancy may be filled by a majority Oi ' the remaining members of the Board of | Directors then i'll office. And it is further : provided that three members of the Board | of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of busiiiess, 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 ir- direct, to which this Corporation shall al any time be subject shall not exceed Twenty Thousand (20,0OO) Dollars.
 ARTICLE VII. The private property of the stockholders shall be exempt from the debts of this Cor poration, and no individual liability o1 stockholders shall exist for corporate debts
 ARTICLE VIII.
 The Board of Directors shall have power | V-I aVrS ar1H 1ac1r fr 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. H. H. HART,
 EUGENE de BEAUHARNAIs,