Arizona republican., 1903-04-30
LEGaL EASEMENTS. ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE LACLEDE INVESTMENT COMPANY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we whose hands are hereunto affixed. dc hereby assoclate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws
 Of the Territory of Arizona. and to that
 end make the following statement: First: The names of the ooIporators
 are: Bruce B. Oyler, Charles Sckoen-
 beck, and Joseph P. Walsh, and the name nf the corporation shall Ee the LACLED1 INVESTMENT C O NJ PANY. The principal place in which 1 the business of said corporation within 1 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 CT 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,
 
 own, exchange. sell or otherwise dis pose, pledge, mortgage. hypothecate
 and deal in real estate and any and
 all kinds of personal property, mines,
 mining claims. oil lands. mineral lands
 oil, gas, asphaltun. petroleum. asbes- tos, salt, water and water rights and machinery and to work, mine, explore, operate and develop the same: to do 1 general req! estate. manufacturing and mercantile business; to own. handle and control letters patent and inveH tions and shares or capital stock oi 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- lligations any and ali 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 natural person might or could do: and in general to do all things necessary to the proper 1 conduct Of this corporation in the Ter ritory and elsewhere, not inc onsistent with the laws Of the United States and the Territory of Arizona.
 Third: The authorized amount of ] capital stock of this corporation shall 1 be One Hundred Thousand ($1C0G00.G l Dollars, divided into Ten Thousand i shares QO,009) O: the par value of Ten i C$1O) dollars ach. At such time as the : Board of Directors may b. resolution direct said capital stock shall be paid 1 into this corporation either in cash or by the sale ard transfer to it of real 1f r,o purposes of said corporation in pay ment for which shares of tine capital stock Of said corporation may be is sued, and the capital stock so issued i shall ttereupoR and thereby become and be fully paid up and non-assess- able. and in the absence of actual fraud ! in the transaction the judgment of the directors as to the value ot the prop | erty purchased shall be conclusive. Fourth: The time of the commence nent of this corporation shall be the date Of the filing of these articles Of incorporation in the office of the Sec retary of Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter
 Fifth: The affairs Of this corpora tion snail be conducted by Board of ! three Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board cf Directors uCttl their successors are elected: Bruce E. Oyler. Charles Schoenbeciz, and Joseph P. Walsh. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stcc kholtIers as the by-laws of the corporation may provide. The officers of said oorp0ra- tion until their suot esscrs are elected shall be: Bruce E. oyler. President: Charles Schcenbeck. Vice President; Joseph F. Walsh, Secretary and Treas Urcr.
 Sixth: The highest amount of in debtedness or Iia5ilit,- direct or son. tingert to which this corporation is at any time subject shall 3e Sixty Thou sand (260G09.C0l Dollars, which amount does net exceed two-t thirds the amount Of the capital stock.
 Seventh: The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from corporate debts Of any kind whatsoever.
 N WITNESS WHEREOF. We have tereunto set our hands and seals this 9th day oi February. 1909.
 BRUCE B. OYLEE. (SeaD JOS. r. WALSH. tSeaD CHARLES SCHOENBECK. (SeaD State of Missouri.
 City of St. Louis, ss.
 On this 9th day of February, in the year 1903, before ne. W. D. Becker, q Notary Public in and for the State and City aforesaid, personally appeared Bruce B. Oyler. Charles Schoenbeck, and Joseph p Walsh, known to ne 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 1 executed the same for the purposes and l conscientious therein expressed i IN WITNESS WHEREOF. have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal. at my office in the said | State and City. the day and year last | above written
 l (NotariaI SeaD
 w. E. BECKER. Notary Public.
 Ny commission expires June 10th. 1905 | Territory of Arizona.