Arizona republican., 1901-05-13
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 of the BELVEDERE OIL COMPANY.

Know All Men By These Presents: That we, the undersigned. E. 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 ritory of Arizona.
 And we do hereby certify:
 Art I. That the name of the said corporation shall be the Belvedere Ofl Company. and it's principal place of traneacting 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. g. 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 CT 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 soma river. rail- road or highway, owning, conducting and operating a general merchandise l.. n .l .t ar thing necessary or needful to con- duet a 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 snail be $500,000. and the number of shares into which 1t Is divided Is 500.0Jo shares. of the par value of Sl l.00 each, said stock upon issuance to be paid for in full, In cash or an equivalent in property con- veyed to said company, and that when SO issued shall be forever non-aseess- able. That the amount of said stock which has been actually subscribed is seventy shares. and seventy dollars ts70.00) paid therefor to-wit:
 F.. w Potter. ten shares. ....... sl0 00 F. A. Bancroft. 10 shares. ....... .0O T. w. Aisbitt. 10 shares. ......... 0.00 C. II. Hoge, 10 shares. s............. 1000 P. J. Keeler. 10 shares. 1000 l.. s. Potter, 10 shares. 0.00 NJ. L. Crawford. 10 shares. ....... 1000
 Art. 1. 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.
 Art. 6. The affairs of this corpora tion shall be conducted by Board of Directors, composed of seven members who are stockholders and who shall be elected annually on the fourth Tuesday of April of each year, and until so elected F. w. Potter, r. A. Bancroft. T. w. Aisbitt, c. H. Hoge. P. J. Keeler. l.. s. Potter, and M.I. Crawford shall act as such Directors.
 Art. 6. The highest amount of In- debtedness or liabilities to which this Company shall subject itself shall be the amount of s150,0O0.
 Art [. The private properties of the stockholders of this Corporation shall be exempt from the debts of this cor poration.
 In witness whereof we have hereun- to set our hands and seals this 30th day of April, A. D. nineteen hundred and one.
 F. w. POTTER. (Seal)
 T. w. AfSBITT. (Seal) State of California. County of Los An-
 geles. ss.
 On this 2d day of May, in the year one thousand nine hundred and one. be- fore me, Elmer l.. Kincaid, a Notary Public in and for said County of Los Angeles. State of California, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared E. w. Potter and T w. Alsbitt, known to me to be the persons whose names arc subscribed to the within instrument, and they &C., knowledged that they executed the same
 Tn wltnens whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
 (Seal.) ELMER l.. K1NCA1D. Notary Public in and for said County
 of Los Angeles. State of California.
 Ten ct. l. R. Stp. Cncld.
 Filed and recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Maricopa County, Arizona, the 9th day of May, 1901.
 Filed in the office of th. secretary of the Territory of Arizona. this 9th day of May, A. D.. 1901. at D. m.
 c. H. AXE
 Secretary of Arizona.
 (First Publication May 13)