Arizona republican., 1901-12-16
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE WILLIAM PENN OIL COMPANY

OF THE WILLIAM PENN OIL COMPANY. The State C; Texas, County of Jeff ferson.
 BE IT REMEMBERED THAT WE, J. F. Lanier. John D. Cameron and Eugene A. Wilson. citizens of Jefferson County. Texas. have. ana do hereby voluntarily associate ourselves to- gether for the purpose of forming a corporation under the following char ter:
 The name of the corporation is and shall be WILLIAM PENN OIL COM PANY.
 The purposes for which said corpora tion is formed are to store and trans port oil and gas, brine and other nlin- eral solutions, and to make reasonable charges therefor, to buy, sell and fur nish oil and gas for light. heat and other purposes; to lay down, construct, maintain and operate pipe lines, tubes. tanks. pump stations, connections. fixtures, storage houses, and such machinery, apparatus devices and ar engagements as may be necessary to op- crate such pipes and pipe lines be- tween different points in the State of Texas: to own, hold. use and occupy such lands. rights of way, easements and franchises. buildings and struc- lures as may be necessary to the pur- poses of such corporation.
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 The place where the business Of such corporation is to be transacted shall be Arizona and Texas, and such other places as it may desire to carry on it's business. and it may have branch offi- ces or other places of business in other states as it may deem necessary for the carrying on of the same. The princi- pal office and domicile of said corpora ton shall be in the city of Phoenix. in the County of Maricopa, Territory of Arizona, but it may maintain auxiliary offices in the cities of Beaumont. Texas; New York, N Y.; St. Louis. Mo-, and such other places as the Board of Directors may determine. The term. for which said corporation is to exist shall be twenty-five years
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 The number of its directors shall be eleven, and those appointed to serve for the first year are as follows: John B. Goodhue, R. L. Cox. O. B. Greeves. c. A. Hageman. W. H. Lucas, T. D. Polk, Frank Cummins. James Furlong. H. r. Best. w. P. McFaddin and Eu- gene A. Wilson. all citizens of Jeffer- son county, Texas.
 The capital stock of said corporation shall be Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars (s2, 800 OOO) divided into twenty-five million shares of ten cents each. Said corporation shall have all the rights and powers conferred by law n ka
 The highest amount of indebtedness and liability, direct or contingent, to which the said corporation is at any time to be subject shall be $1, ,666. .666.O .OO. Given under our hands at Beaumont, Texas, on this the 9th day of Decem- Der, 1901.
 J. F. LANIER,
 JOHN D. CAMERON.
 EUGENE A. WILSON. The. State of Texas, -
 County of Jefferson. Before me, the undersigned author ity, on this day personally appeared J. F. Lanier. John D. Camerson and Ei- gene A. Wilson, known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument and ack- nowledged to me that they had sever- ally signed the same for the purposes
 
 Witness my hand and seal of office this the 9th day of December. 1901. (Notarial Seal) JAS. v. POLK. Notary Public in and for Jefferson County. Texas.
 Territory of Arizona,
 County of Maricopa, ss. ~ I, B. F. McFall, County Recorder in and for the County and Territory aforesaid. hereby certify that have compared the foregoing copy with the original Articles of Incorporation of WILLIAM PENN OIL co. filed and recorded in my office on the 10 day of Dec, 1901, in Book No. of Incorp. at Page - and that the same is full. true and correct copy of such original and of the whole thereof.
 Witness my hand and seal of office this 10th day of December. 1901.
 (Seal) B. F. M'FALL,
 County Recorder. By A. s. ARTHUR. Deputy.
 Filed in the office of the Secretary of the Territory of Arizona this 10th day of December, A. D., 1901, at 2:30 p. m-
 WILLIAM ENGLISH.
 Assistant Secretary of Arizona. First publication Dec. F.