Arizona republican., 1903-02-14

hereunto affixed. do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose or forming a corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end make the following statement: | FIRST: The names of the corpora tors are: John T. Knox. Andrew A. Boswell George Cox w. Westmorelani, William A. Cox, Henry C. Dooley, and the name of the corporation shall be THE BUCK HORN OIL AND MINING 1 COMPANY. The principal place in
 which the business of said corporation
 within the Territory of Arizona is to be
 transacted is Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. and the principal
 place of business of said corporation
 outside the Territory of Arizona shall
 be the City of Bartlesville, Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory. at which meetings of the Board of Direc- | tors 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
 this corporation is as follows, to-wit:
 To make contracts: to purchase,
 lease, bond. locate or otherwise acquire,
 own, exchange. sell or otherwise dis pose Of, pledge, mortgage, hypotehcate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property, mines, min ing claims, oil 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 of other corpora tiOns; 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. mortgag ges, notes. shares of capital
 stock and other securities and obliga-
 lions 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 q natural 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 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 Million dollars ($l l,OOO OOO.O0) di-
 vided into 100000 shares of the par
 value of one dollar ($1.OO) 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 trans
 cir to it of real or personal property fo,
 the uses and purposes of said corpora . tion. in payment for which shares of I the capital stock of said corporation /, may be issued, and the capital stock SC issued shall thereupon and thereby be- - come and be fully paid up and non- ] assessable. and in the absence of actua fraud in the transaction the judgment s of the Directors as to the value of the n property purchased shall be conclusive s FOURTH: The time of the com
 memo ement of this corporation shall br
 the date of the filing of these Articles
 of Incorporation in the office of the Sec c retary of Arizona, and the termina tioI S thereof shall be twenty-five year.
 thereafter.
 ~ FIFTH The affairs of this corpora ton shall be conducted by a Board O
 Six Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board of Director: |, until their successors are elected: Johr
 T. Knox, Andrew A. Boswell, Georg, , Cox, w. Westmoreland, William A : Cox. Henry C. Dooley. Thereafter tn,
 Board of Directors shall be elected iron
 among the stockholders as the bylaw. r of the corporation may provide. Th' t officers of said corporation until theil successors are elected shall be: An l drew A. Boswell, President; w West : moreland Vice-President: John T D | Knox, Secretary; John T. Knox, Treas ? | urer.
 y SIXTH. The highest amount of in l debtedness or liability, direct or contin gent. to which this corporation is a = any time subject shall be Two Hundred , and Fifty Thousand dollars (S25O 900 OOO Q which amount does not exceed two .- thirds the amount of the capital stock ]; SEVENTH: The private property O t the stockholders of this corporation
 shall be exempt from corporate debt.
 of any kind whatsoever.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. We hay,
 hereunto set our hands and seals thf Fourteenth day of Jan, 1903.
 JOHN T. KNOX (Seal
 ANDREW A. BOSWELL. (SeaI S. G. COX. (Seal - w. WESTMORELAND. (Seal
 WILLIAM Il. COX. (Seal n HENRY c. DOOLEY. (Seal l. State of Kansas,
 [, County of Montgomery, ss.
 e On this Fourteenth day of January if in the year 1903, before me, J. Me if Creary, Notary Public in and for tn, 6 State and County aforesaid, residin. e therein, duly commissioned and sworn y personally appeared John T. Knox, An @ drew A. Boswell. George Cox, w West ,. moreland. William A. Cox and Henr, : c. Dooley, known to me to be the per l, sons described in, whose names are sub n scrfbed to and who executed the an = nounced instrument and they acknow- 1t ledged to me that they executed the il same for the purposes and considera- o tiOns therein expressed.
 q IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hav l, hereunto set my hand and affixed m, I official seal, at my office in the sai, e State and County, the day and yea e last above written.