Arizona republican., 1902-05-20
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE INTERNATIONAL SERUM TOXIN COMPANY.

nefGuntO H1lNetl, tlO llt-'F''N SNNNNNl.IIt ! ourselves together for the purpose of forming q corporation under the laws !, of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end make the following statement:
 First: The names of the coTpora tors | are: Frank H. Cooper. Peter M. Brum- gardner Chas. A. Cooper, Francis \. | Sieber. and the name Of the corporation shall be The International Serum Toxin Company. 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 of the Territory of Arizona shall be the city of Chicago, Cook County, in the State Of Illinois, at which meetings of the Board of Directors may be held, and the corporation may have such branch offices. either within or WithCut the Territory of Arizona. as may be es- tablished by the Board of Directors. Second: The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as follows. tG-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-
 
 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, manufacturing and mercantile busi- ness; to own handle and control letters patent and inventions and shares of capital stock of other corporations: to | borrow money and execute notes, l bonds, mortgages or deeds of trust to secure the same, and to exercise in re- spcct of all such bonds. mortgages, notes. shares of capital stock and othe. securities and obligations any and all rights, powers and privileges of indi- ViGual owners thereof, including the right to vote upon any shares of stock held by it to the same extent that a ma tural person might or could do; and in general to do all things necessary to the proper conduct of the business of this corporation in the territory and elsewhere not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and the Ter litory of Arizona: and to manufacture. buy. sell. administer and deal in in any manner whatsoever a. certain medicine or specific known as pr. Sieber's Serum Toxin. or any of the ingredients there Of or any other medicine or specific. Third: The authorized amount Of capital stock of this corporation shall be One Million Dollars (Sl G00,000), di Vided into one million shares Of the par value of One Dollar ($100) each. Al such time as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this corporation either in cash or by the sale and trans fer to it of real CT personal property for the uses and purposes of said corpora ton, in payment for which shares of the capital stock of said corporation 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 commence ment of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these articles Of incorporation in the office of the Secre- tary of Arizona. and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 Fifth. The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by board Of five directors and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected: Frank H. Cooper. Peter M. Baumgardner, Fran cis A. S'ieber. C. A. Carey and Chas. A. Cooper. Thereafter the Board of di- rectors shall be elected from among the stockholders 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 One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.o
 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 cur hands and seals this 18th day of April. 1902.
 FRANK H. COOPER. (ScaD
 PETER Nj BAUMGARDNER. (SeaD FRANCIS A. SHEER. (SeaD
 CHAS. A. COOPER. (SeaD
 State of Illinois, County of Cook, sS.
 On this 18th day of April. in the year 1902. before me. F. L. Klein. Notary Public in and for the state and county aforesaid. residing therein, duly ccm- missoncd and sworn, personally aP-
  Baumgardner, Frank A. Sieber and Chas. A. Cooper. known to me to be the persons described in. whose names , are subscribed to. and who executed the annexed instrument. and they , acknowledged to me that they eXe2ut- :, ed the same for the purposes and con alterations therein expressed.
 In witness whereof l have hereuntC set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in the said state and cCun- ty. the day and year last above written
 (Notary SeaD r. L. KLEIN. Notary Public.
 My commission expires
 Territory of Arizona. County of Mari cOpa, ss.
 l. B. F. McFaH. County Recorder ir and for the county and territory afore- said, hereby certify that l have com . pared the foregoing copy with the orig l. nal articles of incorporation of the In ternation:l serum Toxin Company, tile( and recorded in my office on the 23rd !