The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-12
Articles OF Incorporation OF the L..
r.. Martin Co

We. THE UNDERSIGNED, DO HERE
by associate ourselves together for the
purpose of forming a corporation in ac-
Chapter "a. General Statutes of Mime
sofa for 1884, and the amendments there-
to, and for that purpose have agreed
upon adopted and signed the following
articles OF Incorporation:
ART l.
90. Ihe name of the corporation shall be
L. r. Martin Co.
ART 2.
Inc general nature of the business of
improve, lease, sell and deal in lands
tenements and hereditaments real, mix
ed and personal estate and property, and
manufacture, get out, engage in lumber
ing and deal in logs and timber ami ali
other kinds of products both for itself as
well as for others
The principal place for the transaction
or the business of said corporation shall
be at Duluth, Minnesota.
The time of commencement of this cor
poration shall be the 17th day of April.
A. D. 1899, and the period of continuance
thereof shall be thirty years.
The amount of capital stock shall be
twenty thousand dollars $50 000) to be
paid in from time to time, upon the call
OF the board of directors a
The highest amount of indebtedness
or liability to which said corporation
shall at any, time be subject is twenty
thousand dollars.
The names and places of residences Of
the persons forming this corporation are:
Louis X. Martin, Duluth Minnesota
Thomas H. Martin, Duluth, Minnesota.
and
Lincoln A. Sukeforth, Carlton, Mime
sofa.
ART g.
The names of the first board of direct
ors Of this corporation are: Louis r. Mar
~ md 4 too
Sukeforth, who shall constitute the board
of directors of said corporation until tine
annual meeting of the stockholders there
Of to be held on the second Tuesday in
June, 1S99
ART 9:
The government of this corporation and
the management of it's affairs shall be
vested in a board of three directors TO
be elected by the stockholders at their
Tuesday of June of each year, who shall
hold their Office until their successors are
elected, as herein provided.
The board of directors, at their first
meeting after the annual meeting of the
stockholders, or thereafter at such time
as they may agree. upon, shall elect a
treasurer. whose terms of office shall
continue until the next annual meeting
thereafter, and until their successors are
elected and qualified The office of sec
retary and treasurer may be held by the
same person
to time, appoint such other officers as
they may deem necessary, who shall mold
their Office during the pleasure of the
board.
All vacancies in the membership of the
board of directors, or other officers shall
be filed by an election held by the bal
ance of the board of directors and such
directors, so elected, shall hold their of
flee for the unexpired term of such pre-
decessor.
The capital stock of this corporation
shall be divided into 200 shares of the
par value of one hundred dollars each.
In testimony whereof. we have here
unto placed our names and affixed our
seals this 9Th day of April A. D. 1890
LOUIS r. MARTIN, (SeaI)
THOMAS H. MARTIN, (Seal3
LINCOLN A. SUKEFORTH iSeaIl
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence
]. F. Whalen.
Jno. Jenswald Jr.
STATE OF MINNESOTA. COUNTY OF
st. Louis-ss.
On this 9Th day of April A. D. 1899, be-
fore me. a notary public within and for
the County of St. Louis, in the State of
Minnesota, personally came Louis R.
Martin, Thomas H. Martin and Lincoln
A. Sukeforth, to me known to be the per-
sons described in and who executed the
foregoing instrument, and they acknowl-
edged that they executed the same as
their free act and deed
JNO. JENSWAJ.D JR.,
(Notarial Seall Notary Public:
ST. Louis County. MINI.