Arizona republican., 1902-06-16
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF RUBY MANUFACTURERS CON-
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are hereunto affixed. do hereby associ- ate ourselves together for the purpose | of forming a corporation under the i laws Of the Territory of Arizona. and | to that end make the following state ment:
 FIRST: The names of the corpora tors are: Stephen F. Ramsdell, St. Louis, Mo-: William P. Gurr. St. Louis. | Mo-: Charles l.. Nandewater. St Louis, ! Mo. and the name of the corporatio shall be Ruby Manufacturing Com pany. The principal place in which the | business of said corporation within the | Territory of Arizona is to be trans l acted is Phoenix, Maricopa County, | Arizona. and the principal place of business of said corporation outside the 1 Territory of Arizona, shall be the City | of St. Louis. in the State of Missouri. | at which meetings of the Board of Di- rectors may be held. and the corpora | tion may have such branch offices | either within or without the Territory of Arizona as may be established by l the Board of Directors. And we here | by appoint the Secretary of State of the | Territory of Arizona our agent. upon whom all notices and processes, includ- | ing service of summons may be served. | second: The general nature of the | business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as follows. to-wit:
 To purchase. lease, bond. locate or otherwise acquire, own. exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of. pledge. mort 1 gage. hypOthecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of per- sonal property. mines, mining claims, oil lands, mineral lands, oil. gas, as phaltum. petroleum, water and water rights and machinery and to work, | mine, explore, operate and develop the same: to do a general real estate. man. | ufacturing and mercantile business, to | own. handle and control letters patent i and inventions and shares of capital stock of other corporations: to borrow money and execute notes, bonds. mort gages. or deeds of trust to secure the same. and to exercise in respect of all | such bonds, mortgages, notes, shares of capital stock and other securities and obligations, and any and all rights. powers and privileges of individual owners thereof, including the right to vote upon any shares of stock held by ! it to the same extent that a natural person might or could do; and in gen. eral to do all things necessary to the | proper conduct of the business of this corporation in the Territory and else where, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and the Territory of Arizona.
 | THIRD: The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be Five Hundred Thousand Dollars $500 .000.00) divided into Five Thousand shares (5O00) shares of the par value of One Hundred dollars Cs10O.O0) each. At such time as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct. said capital stock shall be paid into this corpora ton either in cash or by the sale and | transfer to it of real or personal prop erty, for the uses and purposes of said corpora tion. in payment for which 1 shares of the capital stock ct said cor pora ton may be issued, and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid up and non-assessable. and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of the Directors as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 FOURTH: The time of the com mencement of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these Articles ] of Incorporate in the office of the Secretary of Arizona, and the termina- ton thereof shall be twenty-five years
  thereafter.
 FIFTH: The affairs of this corpora ton shall be conducted by Board of | three (3) Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board of ! Directors until their successors are elected: Stephen F. Ramsdell St. Louis. Mo: William P. Gurr St. Louis, Mo; Charles L. Vandewater, St. Louis, Mo. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stock holders of as the bylaws of the cor poration may provide.
 SIXTH: The highest amount of in- debtedness or liability, direct or con- tingent. to which this corporation is at any time subject shall be Fifty Thou sand Dollars s50.00U.00).
 SEVENTH: The private property of the stockholders of this corporatio shall be exempt from corporate debts of any kind whatsoever.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. We have hereunto set our hands and seals this 23rd day of May. 1902.
 STEPHEN F. RAMSDELL. (SeaD WILLIAM P. GURR. (SeaD CHARLES L. VANDEWATER. (SeaD State of Missouri.
 County of St. Louis. ss.
 N'u IllIS u udN OI Mdy. III lIlt year 1909, before me, Norwood Fitch. a No- tary Public in and for the State and City aforesaid, residing therein. duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Stephen F. Ramsdell William P. Gurr and Charles l.. NandewateT known tn me to be the persons de- scribed in. whose names are subscribed to- ard who executed the annexed in- strument. and they acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and considerations therein expressed
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal. at my office in the said State and City. the day and year last above written.
 (NotariaI Seal)
 NORWOOD FITCH, l Notary Public. City of s. Louis. Mo
 My commission expires March p 1904
 Territory of Arizona.
 County of Mariccpa. ss.