Arizona republican., 1901-10-18
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 of the UNITED RAILWAY & LIGHT COM
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cd. have thls lay voluntarily asst ciated ourselves together for the pur- rose of forming a Corporation under the laws of rhe Territory of Arizona. and do hereby certify as follows. to- wit:
 ARTICLE I. The name of said Cor DOT ration shall be United Railway & Light Company" and its principal place of transacting business shall .,e at Phoenix, Maricopa County Arizona. with a branch office at the City Of Philadelphia. State of Pennsylvania. and at such other places as may be de- termined by the Board of Directors.
 The names of the incorporators of said Corporation are:
 H. D. Long. Philadelphia, Pa.
 c. F. Lent. Philadelphia. Pa.
 Vim. D. Marks. Philadelphia, Pa.
 ARTICLE II. The general nature of the different kinds of business propose,i to be transacted by this Corporation Is as follows. to-wit:
 To purchase. lease, bond, or otherwise acquire. own. exchange, sell, or othef- wise dispose of. pledge. mortgage, hy- pothecate and deal in, mines. mining claims, oil lands. mineral lands, oli. gas. asphaltum. petroleum, water and water rights, and to work, mine, ex- plore and develop the same,
 To do d general real estate and mer- cantile business.
 To- own, handle and control letters patent and inventions.
 To borrow money and execute mort gases or deeds of trust to secure the same. and in general do all things nec- essary to the proper conduct of the business of this Corporation, not in consistent wi.h the laws or the United nd II nf rf
 ARTICLE III. Among the powers of this body corporate shall be: To have perpetual succession; to sue and be sued by it's corporate name: to have Il common seal and alter the same at pleasure; to prescribe ths mode of mak- ing transfers of stock or interest of i1s stockholders: to make contracts; 10 acquire and transfer property of every kind and description, both real and personal and to possess the same pow CTS in such respects as private inGivtI- uals now enjoy: to establish bylaws and make all rules ana regulations deemed expedient for the management of s uffairs. not inconsiste nt with the laws and Constitution of the United States and the avs of the Territory of Arizona.
 ARTICLE ". The amount of the capital stock of the Corporation shall be One Million dollars (s1. 900. .0O0) divid- cd into One hundred thousand 100000 shares of the par value of Ten dollars Cs10) each, fully paid up and forever on-assessable.
 ARTICLE V. The time of the com mencement of this Corporation shall be the date of the filing Of these Articles of Incorporation in the office of the Secretary of Arizona, and the terminal tion thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 ARTICLE VT The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by a Board of Three (3) Directors. who shaL be elected annually by the Stockhold- CTS of the Corporation.
 ARTICLE VII. The highest amoun- L. of indebtedness or liability. direct rt contingent, to which this Corporation shall subject itself at any time Is Six hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars (s666. GOOD
 ARTICLE VIII. The private proper ty of the stockholders of this Corpora ton sHall be exempt from all corpor- ate debts.
 In Witness Whereof We have here unto set our hands and seals this ninth day of October. 1901.
 H. D. LONG, (SeaD.
 C. F. LENT. tSeaD. VIM. D. MARKS. (SeaD. STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. County of Philadelphia. SS: On this ninth day of October. in the year 19Gi before me. FRANCIS C. ADLER. No tary Public in and for the State and County aforesaid. residing therein. duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared H. D. Long, C. F. Lent. and wm. D. Marks, known to me to be the persons described in, whose names are subscribed to. and who executed tho ar.exei instrument and they acknow ledg=d to me that they executed the same for the purposes and considera~ tions therein expressed. --- In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Oficia! Seal at my office in the said State ana County the day and year last above written. tseaD. FRANCIS C. ADLER. Notary Public. My commission expires March (. 1905.
 TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, County ! of Maricopa, SS: I, B. F. McFALL, County Recorder in and for the County : and Ter ritory aforesaid. hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy with the original Articles of In- corporation of The United Railway & Light Company filed and recorded in my office on the 14th day of October 1 1901, in Book No. of Articles of h. corporation at Page - and that the same is a full, true and correct copy of such original and of the whole ! thereof
 | WITNESS my hand and seal of office this 14th day of October, 1901. | (SeaD B. F. McFALL. l County Recorder. l By A. s. ARTHUR, | Deputy. | Filed in the office of the Secretary oi the Territory of Arizona this 14th day | of October A. D.. 1901. at D. m.
 ISAAC T. STODDARD. Secretary of Arizona.
 First publication Oct. 17.