Cochise review., 1900-06-05
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE Santa Paula Gravity Oil
 Company.

Company.
 Know all men by these presents that We Edward Dunham, G. W. Witherell, H. A 9raRR Hart, wlfiam %incSp phS Eeiif iHiffeRsP E Ban ley, all of the county of Los Angeles. State of California, hereby associate ourselves to- gether for the purpose of becoming incor- porated under the provisions of Chapter Title F. of the Revised Statutes of the Ter ritory of Arizona, and do hereby adopt the following articles of incorporation:
 ARTIcLRI.
 The name of this corporation shall be Santa Paula Gravity Oil Compony.'
 ARTICLE II.
 The names of the incorporators of this cor poration are Edward Dunham, G. W. With. Rebman, Frank J Hart. William Wincup. Neill k. Bailey, all of Los Angeles county, California.
 The principal place of business of this cor poration shall be in the city of Bisbee, in the county of Cochise and Territory of Ari- zona.
 ARTICLE W.
 The general nature of the business pro posed to be transacted by this corporation Is and shall be the buying. selling, leasing, owning, holding, possessing and operating of mines, mining claims. oil lands oil wells struction and operation of mills and works for refining crude petroleum and manufac- turing petroleum products, and the purchase ducts: to acquire, own hold, sell and deal in personal property and merchandise and generally own, hold, acquire and deal in any property, and to do or transact anything necessary for the carrying out and epRa9- ing in any of said foregoing lines of busi. ness.
 ARTIoLEv. The amount of capital stock authorized ! by said corporation is and shall be Three Hundred Thousand ,$300 OOO). Dollars to be divided into three hundred thousand (SO0 o0O). per share, and that the time whom and con- ditions upon which it is to be paid are as foi. lows; All stock issued must be fully paid for m cash or property upOa issuance and shall thereafter be non assessable for any purnosa whatever.
 ARTICLE VI.
 The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these Articles of incorporation for record in the office of the County Recorder of Co., chise county, Arizona cerritory, and the (25) years thereafter, unless the same be re. newed pursuant to the laws of Arizona be- fore the termination thereof. ARTICLE VII
 The affairs of this corporation are to be conducted by a board of (5) Ave Directors. to be elected annually on tho first Monday that as soon as practicable after the fiIinr of | these articles of incorporation the stoek. i5, holders shall elect board of directors, who April. lSvl, or until their successors are elected and qualified.
 Each stockholder of this corporation, in tions and on the consideration of all quSs- tions at stockholders' meetings, shall have the ris ht to vote in person or by proxy the number of shares owned by him, as given on the books of the company, each share of stock being entitled to one vote.
 The officers of the said corporation shall be President and Vice President, who shall be directors of said corporation: a General Manager. and a Secretary and Treasurer, and such subordinate officers
 All officers shall be elected by the board of directors after the annual elections of said directors, and shall hold office at the will and pleasure of said directors.
 Vacancies in the board of Directors shali be filled as may be provided in the by -laWs
 ARTICLE VIII,
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability for which the corporation is at any | time to subject itself is the sum of Five Thousand lS5,OOOl Dollars. ARTICLE TX.
 The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from 1 all corporate debts. and the stockholders of ! this corporation are hereby exempted from all liability for any debt of said Corporation.
 ARTICLE X. ' 0fnCG the transaction of its business in the state of California, at the city of Los Angeles there in and said board of directors may meet and transact the business of said corpora tion at said city, and tho annual and other meetings of the stockholders and the eiec. tions may be held thereat.
 ARTICLE xI
 Section l. The board of directors shall | have the power to make, adopt and amend by-laws for the government of the affairs of | the corporation.
 Section ?. The board of directors shall have the power to borrow money, execute | corporate notes or bonds of the corporation, | aud to secure the payment of the same by mortgage on property of the corporation, | or in any other manner designated by said | bylaws, not exceeding, however, said total indebtedness of 5000, as limited in Article | VIII hereof.
 ARTICLE XII.
 The corporate stock of this corporation | shall be forever non-asSessAble, and each | certificate thereof shall state upon it's face the number of shares represented thereby. and that the same is forever non n-assessable. | ARTICLE XIII 1 These articles of incorporation may be amended at any annual meeting of the | stock holders, or at any special meeting of | a two-thirds l2sl vote of the stock of the cor | poration then issued, in favor ofsuch amenoment, or by written assent to such l amendment signed by the holders of two- thirds l25l of the subscribed capital stock and recorded and published as required by law,
 In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this the 2Sd day of March, lQO0.
 E. DUNHAM, [Soan
 JoHN RRRMAN, tSeAll H. A. BINGHAM, (Seall J.. LoNER1AN, lSeall