The Arizona sentinel., 1900-10-10
OF INCORr
 OftEe
THE BONAIR OIL COMPANY

THE BONAlR OIL COMPANY. The undersigned, STEPHEN w. DORSEY and JAMES N. PEARSON, citizens of the United States, have this day associated them selves together for the purpose of forming a CoEporationundcr andby virtue Of the laws of the Territory of Arizona, 2ntI hereby adopt the fol lowing Articles Of Incorporation. namely:
 ARTICLE FIRST.
 That the names of the corporators are Stephen w. Dorsey and James M. Pear;on:
 That the name of the corporation shali be
 THE BONAIR OIL COMPANY That the principal place for the transaction of the business Of the said corporation is and shall be the TOWN OF YUMA. in YUMA COUNTY, TERRITORY OF ARIZONA with branch of fees at such other places as the Board of Di-ec- tors may from time to time designate.
 ARTICLE SECOND.
 That the general nature of the business pro posed to be transacted by the said corporation shall be: mining. drilling and boring for crude and other oil, petroleum gas GSphaltu1y3 CT other volatile hydro carbon substances; buying selling, leasing, n nortgaginE, owning or holding mineral or other lands and personal property; and laying pipes and pipe lines for conducting oil or other substances, erecting tanks, reGnerieS, derricks machinery or other works for boring, drilling, producing, handling, treating or dealing in said products or substances; building roads, tram ways, railroads or canals from the Company'S property to any river, railroad or highway; to bul!d operate, maintain, own or conduct gen. eral mercantile business, or to deal in any kind of merchandise or personal property; and to do any and all other acts or things necessary or needful to conduct general oil, mining or other business, either In Arizona or any other State or Territory of the United States.
 ARTICLE THIRD
 That the amount of the Capital Stock of the said Corporation shall consist of One Million Shares of the par value Of One Dollar each and that the said stock shall not be issued by the Board of Directors except the same shall be fully paid up; and when So issued by said board of directors said stock shall be forever ron as SeSsable and no personal liability shall attach to the holders thereof.
 ARTICLE FOURTH. This Corporation shall commence business when it's Articles of Incorporation are flied with the County Recorder Of Yuma County, Territory of Arizona and shall continue for twenty-five years thereafter
 ARTICLE FIFTH.
 The affairs of the said Corporation shall be managed by Board Of seven Directors The first Board of Directors shall be-
 stephen W. Dorsey,
 James M. Pearson,
 John P. Jones,
 William :. Allen,
 G. g. De GarmO
 E. E. Powers and
 George Quigley who shall hold their offices for period of one year from the date these Articles are recorded or until their successors are duly elected and qualined
 At the expiration of the year above stated, or sooner if the stocIholders elect. a new Board of Directors shall be elected by the stoc1nolders of the s2id corporation, at regular meeting thereof.
 The officers or the seid Cooperation shall con- SiSt of ! President, Vice Prc;idaG1. Secretary. Assistant Secretary and Treasurer and sach other officers aS the Board Of Directors may from time to tiu1o decerriae
 The President and Vice President shall be TGerbcrS Of the Beard Of Directors; and no Director Shali hold office who Is not kone GGe stocilholder Of record in said Corporation end failure to own or hold stock in said Corpora ton shall work forfeiture of the office Of pf- recto"S.
 In the event of the death, resignation, dis ability or disqualification Of any director. the remaining menOerS of the Board of Directors nay fiil the vacancy by the election oi some bona tide Stockholder.
 ARTICLE SEVENTH. The highest amount of indebtedness said Cor poration shall at any time create shall net eS- c5ed the sum of three hundred and thirty thou sands dollars.
 ARTICLE EIGHTH. That all private property of the stockholders ot said Corporation suau be exempt from all debts of this Corporation.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hercunto set our hands and seals this First day of Sep tcmber, A. D. Nineteen Hundred.
 STEPHEN w. DORSEY, (SeaD
 JAMES M. PEARSON, (Seal)
 Sqate of California, .o
 County of JOS Ang,t.S. "S On this First day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred, before me, E.. F. Powers, Q notary Pubic in and for s,.iG Los Angeles County, residing therein, duly conrnis- stoned and sworn, personally appeared Stephen ". Dorsey and James N. Pearson. known to Ire to be the persons described il and whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledge to me that they executed the same for the purposes and considerations there ia expressed.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in the County of Los Angeles the day and year in this certificate first above written.
 (Seal) E. E. POWERS, Notary Public in and for the County of Los An geleS, State of California.
 Territory of Arizona, l
 County of Yuma. SS I, ". F. Marvin, County Recorder In and for said county, do hereby certify that have con- pared the within ard foregoing instrument and She same is full true and correct copy of Arti- cleS of Incorporation of '"The Bonair Oil Com pany'' aS the same appears of record in Book of Bonds and Agreements, page 62O ct seq. in records of Yuma County, Arizona. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand ard affixed my oaacial seal this 5th day of September, A. D. 1860. (SeaD w. E. MARVIN,
 County Recorder.