Arizona republican., 1902-06-11
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF RUBY MANUFACTURING COM
 PANY.

ate ourselves together TOT the purpOSe of forming a corporation under the 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 IIo.; Charles L. Vandewater. St. Louis, Mo-, and the name of the corporation 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 acted is Phoenix Maricopa County, Arizona, and the principal place of business of said corporation outside the | 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 without the Territory of Arizona as may be established by 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 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, m i1a +a nd same; to do general real estate, man. ufacturing and mercantile business, to own, handle and control letters patent 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. l powers and privileges of individual owners thereof, including the right to vote upon any shares of stock held by 1 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 1 of Arizona.
 1 THIRD: The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall l be Five Hundred Thousand Dollars 1 (S500, ,00000) divided into Five Thousand shares (5GC0) shares of the par value of One Hundred dollars ($1OO.OO each. At
 such time as the Board of Directors
 may by resolution direct said capital tr-rx. rI,..
 ticn either in cash or by the safe and 1 transfer to it of real or personal prop
 erty, for the uses and purposes of said
 corporation, in payment for which
 shares of the capital stock of said cor poratfon may be issued, and the capital
 stock so issued shall thereupon and | thereby become and be fully paid up
 and non-assessa and in the absence
 of actual fraud in the transaction the 1 judgment of the Directors as to the
 value of the property purchased shall | be conclusive
 1 FOURTH: The time of the com mencement of this corporation shall be 1 the date of the filing of these Articles l of Incorporation in the office of the 1 Secretary of Arizona, and the termina- tion thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 FIFTH: The affairs of this corpora
 tion shall be conducted by a Board of three (S) Directors and the following
 named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected Stephen F. Ramsdell. St
 Louis, Mo; Willia m P. Gurr, St. Louis.
 Mo-; Charles L. Vandewater. St. Louis. l 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 (s500O0.00).
 SEVENTH: The private property
 of the stockholders of this corporation
 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. CSeaD
 CHARLES L. VANDEWATER. (SeaD
 State of Missouri,
 County of St. Louis. ss
 On this 23rd day of May. in the year
 1902, 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 r. Ramsden. William P. Gurr and Charles L. Vandewater
 known to me to be the persons de scribed in. whose names are subscribed l to, and who executed the annexed in 7 strument. and they acknowledged tC l 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, a my office in the sait . State and City, the day and year las above written.
 (Notarial Seal)
 NORWOOD FITCH, 9 Notary Public, City of s. Louis. Mo My commission expires March p 1904.
 Territory of Arizona.
 < County of Mariccpa. ss. I l IT n i,