Arizona republican., 1901-05-15
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 of the NATIONAL OIL REFINING COM
 PANY.

Know All Men By These Presents
 That We. the undersigned, Wilbert s..
 Bartlett. Belmont. Massachusetts, and
 Fred W. Marshall, sharon, Massachu-
 setts. have this day associated our selves together for the purpose of form
 ing corporation, under the laws of the Territory of Arizona. And we do here
 by certify:
 1. That the name of the corporation
 shall be The National Oil Refining
 Company" and 1t. principal place of transacting business shall be Phoenix.
 Arizona Territory; and the places out
 slde of said Territory where 1t may
 keep its offices and transact it's busi- ness are Boston. Massachusetts, and
 elsewhere in the United States, Canada
 and Mexico. the same as if specifically
 set forth in these Articles of Incorpo- ration.
 g. That the general nature of the
 business proposed to he transacted is 5
 follows: The prospecting. drilling, pumping and maintaining of oil and
 gas wells. pipe lines and storage sye- tems in connection herewith; the con- ducting of a general merchandise bus
 iness: the mining, milling and smelting
 of zinc, lead, copper, Iron and other ores, metals and minerals: the refining of petroleum and the manufacturing of the various products thereof: the pur- chasing of ,he crude material and the sale of the manufactured pro- ducts thereof; the manufacture
 of barrels. boxes. cans and o;h-
 CT packages in which the manufac- tured product may be kept or trans
 ported: the manufacture and restora- | tion of acids and whatever other sub- stances may be used in the manufac- ture of the products of petroleum; at any locality within the United States of America, the British Provinces of 1 North America and the Republic of Mexico. and for the purposes and ob- jects of this corporation it shall have the right to do all things necessary and | convenient which are usually done by oil. trading, mining, manufacturing or refining corporations. and it may buy sell, lease. mortgage and hold such
 real estate and personal property as
 may be required for said purposes. 3. That the amount of capital stock | lS Olt tSl.-
 900. 00O), and the number of shares into
 which 1t is divided is one million of the par value of one dollar each, which
 amount Is to be paid in, in real and
 personal property, contracts, agree
 ments, machinery. labor. merchandise
 materials or cash upon the issue and
 delivery of said stock from time to time in the discretion of the Board of Di- rectors.
 4. That the time of the commences
 ment of said corporation is the twenty | fifth day of April, enc thousand nine
 hundred and one. and the time of its
 termination the twcnty-ffth day of April. one thousand nine hundred and | twenty-six.
 ,. That the officers of said corpora
 tion to conduct its affaiiS shall con- | sist of Board of Directors composed of not less than three nor more than nine members, to be elected at the gen. eral meeting of the stockholders upon the filing of this certificate of incor-
 poration. They shall hold office for one year or until their successors arc elect.
 ed. The Directors shall elect from
 among their number a President, Vice. President, Secretary and Treasurer,
 General Manager and such other ofh-
 cers or agents as they may require.
 who need not be directors
 6. That the highest amount of in-
 debtedness or liability to which the cor poration is at any time to subject itself is two hundred and fifty thousand dol lars H25o. o.000).
 '. That the private property of each officer and stockholder of sald corpo-
 ration Ia to be exempt from slI corpo- rate debts.