Arizona republican., 1902-04-27
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
FOCUSING CAMERA
COMPANY.

Know All Men by These Presents:
Territory OF Arizona, made and pro
That we, the undersigned. have this
day voluntarily associated ourselves
together for the purpose of forming
and becoming a corporation under the
laws of the Territory of Arizona. and
in that behalf and to that end we do
hereby adopt and duly execute the fol-
lowing Articles of Incorporation, and
do thereby and herein declare and GER
tify as follows, to-Wit:
I. That the name of this corporation
shall be the Automatic Focusing Cam
era Company, and that its principal
place of transacting business shall be,
and is in the City and County of San
Francisco, State of California, and that
it shall have branch offices at Phoenix,
Maricopa County. Territory of Arizona,
and such other places as the Board Of
Directors of this corporation may from
time to time determine; and that the
names of its incorporators are: Her
man Slender, G. Dillman. John n.
Christianson, George L. Barrows, Will
liam A. Lyman, Frank L. Van Meter
and Henry H. Davis, of the City and
County of San Francisco, State Of CAL
ifornia, and F. D. Lane and H. NJ.
Dawes of Phoenix, Maricopa County,
Territory OF Arizona.
II. The general nature of the bust
ness proposed to be transacted by this
corporation is to manufacture, intro
duce buy and sell and hypothecate
Photographic cameras. Photographic
papers and general Photographic ac-
cessories 20 the Photographic business:
10 have. establish, conduct and carry
on agencies for that purpose. and to
engage in the business of Photographic
engagements; to secure and acquire
by purchase, gift, demise or otherwise.
the ownership, possession and right,
title and interest of and to all photo
graphic patents and inventions, and TO
buy and sell and cucumber such real
and personal property as may be nee
essary to carry on said business: to buy
and sell the capital stock of other cor
porationS in connection with said bust
ness. and every other thing necessary
TO the proper conduct of the business
of this corporation; to appoint such
subordinate agents and officers as the
business of this corporation may re-
quire; to hold and own. manufacture
and operate and improve patents
owned by this corporation, or the own
ership of which it may hereafter ac-
quire: the buying and selling of mer-
chandise, goods and wares necessary
to carry on the business of this cor
poration, and to do and perform such
other acts or business that may be in
cident to or auxiliary to. or that may
be deemed necessary and convenient to
the business of this corporation, as its
Board of Directors may from time to
time determine; to operate. establis
and carry on agencies and offices ir
various DartS of the United States of
America and in foreign countries, for
the purpose of selling, disposing Of
buying or encumbering such property.
real, personal or mixed, as may be nee
essary for the purpose of carrying on
the business of this corporation, and
also all articles that may be produced,
or of the products manufactured by
this or other corporations, persons or
firms; to own and control letters pat
ent and inventions. and the doing and
performing of any and all other acts
not inconsistent with the laws of the
vided for the government of corpora
tiOns.
III. The amount of the capital stock
of this corporation shall be Five Hun
bred Thousand Dollars (S500, 000) divid-
ed into Five Hundred Thousand
$500. 0OOl shares of the par value of One
(s1.OO) Dollar each; each fully paid up
and forever non-assessable: and that
there shall be issued Immediately after
this incorporation is formed and Gre
ated, One % share of the said capital
stock of said corporation, to each of the
individuals named above as incorpo-
rators of this company; said stock so
issued to these individuals being fully