Arizona republican., 1901-05-18
ARTICLES OF INCoRPoRATIoN
 of the BELvEDERE OIL COMPANY.

Know All Men By These Presents: That we. the undersigned. F.. w. Pot ter and T. W. Aisbitt, residents of the State of California. have this day vol untarily associated ourselves together. and execute these articles of incorpo- ration, for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the Ter rltory of Arizona.
 And We do hereby certify.
 Art. l. That the name of the said corporation shall be the Belvedere Oil Company. and it's principal place of transacting business shall be Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, with a branch office In the City of Los Angeles. Los Angeles County, State Of California.
 Art. ?. The general nature of the
 business of the said Company shall be
 mining. drilling. boring for, and de- veloping crude or other oil, petroleum, gas. asphaltum or other voluble or hydro-carbon substances;, buying. sell ing. leasing. mortgaging. owning or holding mineral or other lands or per
 sonal property laying pipes and pipe
 lines to conduct oil. water or other sub
 stances, erecting tanks. refineries. der
 ricks. machinery, or other works for
 producing. handling or treating said
 products. building roads. tramways. railroads or canals from the said com
 pany's properties to some river, rail-
 road or highway. owning. conducting
 and operating a general merchandise
 business, and to do any and every act
 or thing necessary or needful to con- duct general oil business either in Arizona. or any state or territory of the United States.
 3. That the amount of the capital
 stock of the said corporation shall be
 s500.000. and the number of shares into
 which 1t is divided is 500.Ooo shares, of
 the par value of s1.00 each, said stock
 upon issuance to be paid for in fuM, in
 cash or an equivalent in property con-
 veyed to said company, an1 that when
 so issued shall be forever non-assess-
 able. That the amount of said stock
 which has been actually subscribed is
 seventy shares. and seventy dollars t$700O paid therefor to-wit: F.. W. Potter. ten shares. ... SIG. .00 F. A. Bancroft, 10 shares. econ. 10. .00
 T. w. Aisbitt. 10 shares. ........ 10. .00 . c. H. Hoge. 10 shares. ........ 1000 P. J. Keeler. 10 shares. 10. .00 : l.. $. Potter, 10 shares. 10. .00
 NJ. l.. Crawford. 10 shares. ....... 10. .O0 Art. 4. This Corporation shall com mence business when these articles of
 incorporation are filed with the County !. Recorder of Phoenix. Territory of Ari-
 zona. and it shall continue for twenty five years thereafter.
 r Art B. The affairs of this corpora
 ton shall be conducted by a Board of T Directors. composed of seven members l who are stockholders and who shall be :. elected annually on the fourth Tuesday of April of each year. and until SO | elected E. w. Potter, F. A. Bancroft. f T. w. Aisbitt, c. H. Hoge, P. J. Keeler. . l.. s. Potter. and M. L. Crawford shall h act as such Directors.
 T Art. 6. The highest amount of in- y debtedness or liabilities to which this t Company shall subject itself shall be c the amount of sl50.000.
 = Art [. The private properties of the stockholders of this Corporation shall . be exempt from the debts of this cor l. poration.
 z In witness whereof we have hereun- , to set our hands and seals this 3Oth day r of April. A. D. nineteen hundred and '' one.
 e F.. w POTTER. (seal) $ T. w. AISBTTT Seal e State of California, County of Los An e geles. ss.
 '- On this 2d day of May, in the year r. one thousand nine hundred and one. be l. fore me. Elmer l.. Kincaid. a Notary r. Public in and for said County of To. 0 Angeles. State of California. residing d therein, duly commissioned and sworn 1t personally appeared F.. W. Potter ant ,f T. w. Aisbitt. known to me to be tn, d. persons whose names are subscribed i'd to the within instrument, and they ac Is knowledged that they executed thu d same.
 g. Tn witness whereof I have hereuntt re set my hand and affixed my official sea l. the day and year in this certificate frs 1t above written.
 Id (Seal) ELMER L. KINCAID. of Notary Public in and for said Count!
 of Los Angeles. State of California. of Ten ct. I. R. Stp. Cncld. ty Filed and recorded in the office of tn of County Recorder of Maricopa County
 Arizona. the 9th day of May. 1901.
 Filed in the office of the secretary D k. the Territory of Arizona. this 9th da!
 of May, A. D.. 1901. at p. m. of c. H. AKERS, pa Secretary of Arizona y, (First Publication May 13.)