Arizona republican., 1902-08-20
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE THE AMERICAN GRANULE AND TABLET COMPANY.

Know All Men by These Presents: That we, whose hands are hereunto affixed. do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the Ter ritory of Arizona. and to that end make the following statement:
 First: The names of the incorpora- tors are:
 D. Robert Rogue and Samuel A. Ste vens, and the name of this corporation shall be The American Granule and Tablet Company. The principal place in which the business of said corpora tion within the Territory of Arizona is to be transacted is Phoenix, Maricopa county, Arizona. and the principal place of business of said corporation outside of the Territory of Arizona shall be the City of Cincinnati, in the State of Ohio, at which meetings of the board of directors may be held. and the corporation may have such branch offices either within or without the Ter ritory of Arizona as may be established by the board of directors.
 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 eS- tate and any and all kinds of personal property, mines, mining claims, oil lands, mineral lands. oil gas, asphalt um. petroleum. water and water rights and machinery, and to work, mine. eX- plore, operate and develop the same; to do a general real estate, manufac- turing 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, mortgages or deeds of trust to secure the same, and to exercise in respect of all such bonds, mortgages, notes, shares of cap ital stock and other securities and ob- { legations 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 H. general to do all things necessary to the proper conduct of the l business of this corporation in the territory and elsewhere, n t inconsist- ent with the laws of the United States and the Territory of Arizona.
 Third: The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be one hundred thousand dollars (Si00.- O00.OC). divided into ten thousand shares | of the par value of ten dollars CS1O.0O) each. At such time as the board of di- rectors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this corporation either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it of real or per sonal property for the uses and pur- poses of said corporation, in payment for which shares of the capital stock of said corporation may be issued and the capitol stock so issued shall there upon and thereby become and be fully paid up and non-assessaDie, and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of the di- rictors as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 Fourth: The time of the commence ment of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these articles of incorporate in the office of the Secre- tary of Arizona. and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 Fifth: The affairs of this corpora ton shall be conducted by. board ol four directors. and the following namei shall constitute the board of directors until their successors are elected; D Robert Rogue. Samuel A. Stevens. M L. Bogue J. A. Kellogg. Thereafter the board of directors shall be elected from among the stockholders as the Bylaws of the corporation may pro- vide.
 Sixth: The highest amount of in- debtedness or liability direct or con- tingent. to which this corporation is al any time subject shall be five thousand dollars ($5,OOO.00).