Arizona republican., 1901-12-14
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE WILLIAM PENN OIL COMPANY.

WILLIAM PENN OIL COMPANY. The State C. Texas, County of Jef- 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 min- 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
  and franchises. buildings and struc- lures 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 its business. and it may have branch off, ces or other places of business in other eta faS d f., | carrying on of the same. The princi- pal office and domicile of said corpora tion 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.
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 The term for which said corporation is to exist shall be twenty-five years. The number of it's 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. I. D. Polk, Frank Cummins. James Furlong, H. F. Best, w. P. McFaddin and Eu- gene A. Wilson, all citizens of Jeffer-
 
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 The capital stock of said corporation shall be Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars (s2, ,5OO. .0O0)- divided into twenty-five million shares of ten cents each.
 Said corporation shall have all the rights and powers conferred by law on like corporations
 The highest amount of indebtedness and liability. direct or contingent. to which the said corporation is at any time to be subject shall be s1, ,666, ,666 co. Given under our hands st 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. Camersson and Flu 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 and considerations therein expressed. Witness my nand ana seal or Offce 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 I 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. 9 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 D. m-
 WILLIAM ENGLISH,
 Assistant Secretary of Arizona. First p,ihlica fiou Dec 12