Arizona republican., 1903-04-25
LEGHL EASEMENTS. ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE LACLEDE INVESTMENT COMPANY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we whose hands are hereunto affixed. dc hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming corporation under the jaws of the Territory of Arizona and 10 that end make the following statement:
 First: The names of the corporators are: Bruce B. Oyler. Charles Schoen- beck. ana Joseph P Walsh. and the name of the corporation shall Le the LACLEDE INVESTMENT co NJ 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, State Of Missouri, at which meetings of the Board of Direct CTS may be held and the corporation may have such branch offices either within or without the Territory of Ari- Zona as may be established by the Board of Directors.
 Second: The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by
 
 To make contracts; to purchase. lease, bond, locate CT otherwise acquire. own, exchange. sell CT otherwise dis pose, pledge. mortgage, hypothecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property, mines, mining claims. Gil lands, mineral lands. oil, gas, asphaltum. petroleum. asbes tos, salt, 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 business; to own. handle and control letters patent and inven- tions and shares of capital stock oi ether corporations; to borrow money and execute notes, bonds. mortgag ages. or deeds of trust to secure the same, and tc exercise in resrect 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 il to the same extent that a natural person might or could do: and in general to do all things necessary to the proper conduct of this corporation in the Ter ritory and elsewhere. not inconsistent 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 Hundre3 Thousand ($1O0 0GO.OO) Dollars, divided into Ten Thousand shares GG.c0O O; the par value of Ten (S1O) dollars each. At 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 transfer to it of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said corporation in pay ment for which shares of the capital stock of said corporation may be is sued, ard the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid up and non-assess- able, and in the absence CT actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of the directors as to the value of the prop crty purchased shall be conclusive.
 Fourth: The time Of the commence nent Of this corporation shall De the date of the filing Of these articles of incorporation in the office of the See retary of Arizona. and the termina ticn thereof shall be twenty-five years the-eafter
 Fifth: The affairs of this corpora ton shall be conducted by q Board of three Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected: Bruce B. Oyler. Charles Schoenbeck. and Joseph P Walsh. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders as the bylaws of the corporation may provide. The officers Of said corpora tiOn until their successors are elected shall be: Bruce B. Oyler. President: Charles Schoenbeck, Vice President; Joseph P Walsh. Secretary and Treas urer
 Sixth: The highest amount of in- debtedness or liability. direct or >on- tingent. to which this corporation is at any time subject shall be Sixty Thou sand (secOO0.O0) Dollars. which amount does not exceed two-thirds the amount of the c2 2pital stock
 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 hereuntC set our hands and seals this bln OrA OL Y GDI 1Sto-
 BRUCE B. OYLER. (SeaD
 JOS. P. WALSH. (SeaD
 CHARLES SCHOENBECK. (SeaD State of Missouri,
 City of St. Louis, ss.
 On this 9th day of February, in the year 1863, before me. w. D. Becker, a Notary Public in and for the State and City aforesaid, personally appeared Bruce B. Oyler. Charles Schoenbeck. and Joseph P. Walsh, known to nle to be the persons described in. whose names are subscribed to. and who exc cuted the annexed instrument, and they acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and considerations therein expressed. | IN WITNESS WHEREOF. 1 have | hercUnto set my hand and affixed my | official seal. at my office in the said State and City. the day and year last above written
 i (Notarial SaaD
 w L. BECKER. Notary Public My commission expires June 10th, 1905 1 Territory of Arizona