The Arizona sentinel., 1900-10-17
OF INCORPORATION
 of the
THE BONAIR OIL COMPANY.

or the
 THE BONAIR OIL COMPANY. The undersigned. STEPHEN ". DORSEY and JAMES Nj. PEARSON, citizens of the United States, have this day associated them selves together for the purpose of forming a CorporatiOnunder andby virtue of the laws of the Territory of Arizona. and hereby adopt the fol lowing Articles of Incorporation namely: ARTICLE FIRST.
 That the names of the corporators are Stephen w. Dorsey and James M. Pearson: That the name of the corporation shall 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 Direc- 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 aSDhaltum or other volatile hydro carbon substances; buying. selling, leasing, mortgaging, owning or holding mineral or other lands and personal property; and laying pipes and pipe lines for conducting oil or other substances. erecting tanks. Tctlneries, derrickS machinery or othrr works for boring, drilling, producing, handling, treating or dealing i'll said products or substances; building roads tram ways, railroads canals from the Company'S property to any river, railroad or highway; to build, operate, maintain, own conduct a gen eral mercantile business, or to deal in any kind of merchandise or personal property; and to do any and all other accS or things necessary or needful to conduct q 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 non as seSsabie and nc personal liability shall attach to the holders thereof.
 ARTICLE FOURTH.
 This Corporation shall commence business when it's Articles of Incorporation are filed 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 a Board of seven Directors. The first Board of Directors shall be-
 Stephen W. Dorsey,
 James M. Pearson,
 John P. JQarS
 William s. Allen,
 =. S. De Garmo,
 E. E. Powers and
 George QGigley, who shall hold their offices for a period of one year from the date these Articles are recorded or until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
 At the expiration of the year above stated or sooner if the stockholders elect, new Board Of Directors shall be elected by the stockholders of the said corporation at regular meeting thereof.
 ARTICLE SIXTH.
 The officers of the said Corporation shall con sis of @ President, Vice President Secretary, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer, and such other officers as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
 The PTeSidelG and Vice President shall be members of the Board Of Directors: and no Director shall hold office who Is not bone fde StockhOlGer of record in said Corporation. and a failure to own or hold stock in said Corpora tion shall work forfeiture of the o1Iice of Di- rectorS.
 In the event of the death, resignation, dis ability or disqualification of any director, the remaining members or the Board Of Directors may fill the vacancy by the election of some bona tde StCckhOlder.
 ARTICLE SEVENTH. The highest amount of indebtedness said Cor. poration shall at any time create shall not ex- ceed the sum of three hundred and thirty thou sands dollars.
 ARTICLE EIGHTH.
 That all private property of the stockholders of said Corporation shall be exempt from all debts of this Corporation.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands and seals this First day of Sep tember, A. D., Nineteen Hundred ,.
 STEPHEN W. DORSEY, (seaD
 JAMES M PEARSON, (Seal.)
 s'.-- Slate of California, ,.
  On this First day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred, before me. E. E. Powers a notary Public in and for said Los Angeles County, residing therein, duly cOmuiS- stoned and sworn personally appeared Stephen w Dorsey and James M. Pearson. known to me to be the persons described in and whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument. and they acknowledge to me that they executed the same for the purposes and cOnsidera tions there in expressed IN WTTN NESS 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. (SeaD E. E. POWERS, Notary Public in and for the County of Los An geleS State of California.
 Territory of Arizona ] ~
 County of Yuma ss L w. E. Marvin. County Recorder in and for said county, do hereby certify that I have con- | pared the within and foregoing instrument and | the same is full. true and correct copy of Arti- cles of Incorporation of ''The BCnair Oil Com | pGny'' as the same appears Of record in Book | of Bonds and Agreements, page 620 ct seq. in | records of Yuma County, Arizona. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my | hand and affixed my official seal this 5th day of September, A. D. 1900. (SeaD ". E MARVIN,
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