Arizona republican., 1902-12-23

pose or or OtnerWlSe enjoy the same. 3. To construct roads, pipe lines for water. oil or gas. and such other works as may be necessary for tn purpose of carrying on such business as the cor poration may desire to become en- gagged in.
 4. To purchase. use, sell CT otherwise deal in oil gas or other minerals or machinery, buildings and works inci- dental to the use of the purposes herein indicated.
 To do any and all lawful acts that may be necessary or convenient in or der to carry out the general purposes herein indicated.
 ARTICLE ".
 The capital stock of the corporation shall be the sum of five hundred thou saud (s5OO.OOO) dollars. which shall be divided into five hundred thousand (500,OO shares of the par value of one dollar Cs1OO each, of which twenty five thousand (25,OOO) shares have been subscribed, which stock was paid for at the time of subscription.
 ARTICLE V.
 The time of commencement of this corporation shall be when these articles are filed with the county recorder oi the county of Maricopa, Territory Of Arizona, and the termination of the corporation shall be twenty-five (25) years.
 ARTICLE VI.
 The corporate power of this corpora tion shall be vested in a board of f1ve (5) directors, who shall be stockholders and who shall be elected annually as may be provided in the bylaws of said corporation, and shall continue to serve as such directors until such times as their successors shall have been elected and qualified to act. The directors of this corporation shall have full power to substitute and adopt bylaws in lieu of those now in force. and to revoke, amend or substitute the same from time to time upon a vote representing a majority of the board of directors. and shall have power to designate an1 appoint such officers and agents of the company as they may deem necessary, and to remove the same at pleasure, and to fix the salaries or compensa- tions of such officers or agents. The directors shall have and exercise all the powers of the corporation, together
  them by law.
 ARTICLE VII.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which the corporation is at any time to subject Itself shall be the sum of fifty thousand (SbO, ,OOO) dol lars.
 ARTICLE VIII.
 Private property shall be exempt from corporation debts.
 ARTICLE Tx.
 These articles of incorporation may be amended at any regular or special meeting of the stockholders by the af- firmative vote of the ajority of the stockholders. Such amendment shall be signed and acknowledged by the president and attested by the secre- tary of said corporation, and published as required by law.
 In witness whereof. we have here unto set our hands this 2Sth day of January, 1901.
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 J. O. DAVIDSON.
 CHAS. R. McLAIN,
 A. O. McLAIN.
 LEON PHIPPS.
 GEO. EASTON.
 The articles of incorporation are signed and acknowledged by the presI- dent and attested by the assistant sec retary of the corporation as amended articles of incorporation by the affirma- tive vote of a majority of the stock holders. the articles amended being Articles II, " and TX.
 (Seal) J. O. DAVIDSON. Attest: President T. G. FITCH. Secretary. State of Kansas.
 County of Sedgwick, ss. 1902, before me. A. J. Russell. a notary public in and for said county and state, residing therein. duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared J. O. Davidson, who is personally known to me to be the president of the Wichita oil Company. who acknowledged to me that he signed the above and forego- ing amended articles of incorporation as president of said company by proper authority of a majority of the stock holders in said company, and that Ar ticles II, VI and TX of said amended articles of incorporation were amended as herein above set out; and that this instrument is to be the incorpora tion of said company from and after the publication of these amended articles, as required by statute; and that said amendments are hereby signed and ac- knowledged by him as such president and for the company as his free and voluntary act and deed; that these ar ticles are signed and acknowledged by the president and attested by the as- sistant secretary of the corporation in my presence
 My commission expires January 9th. 1905.
 A. J. RUSSELL, Notary Public in and for the County of Sedgwick, State of Kansas.
 First Publication December 19.