The Saint Paul globe., 1903-03-19
Articles Of Incorporation Of The schTm-
per Coal erTquette companv.


| supplemental thereto, do hereby associate
| ourselves into corporation. for the pur-
! pose hereinafter named and do hereby
| adopt the following Articles of Incorpo-
alton and Association.
! 1. The name of this Corporation shall
| be The Schimper Coal Briquette Com
! pany. its principal place of business shall
| be the City of st. Paul. State of Min
/ nesota- The general nature Of the busi-
/ ness and the purposes for which this Cor
poration is formed shall be that of man
ufacturing only and shall be the manu-
| facture of The Schimper Coal Binder and
OF coal and other fuel BTiQuettes in which
Such Binder shall be used or form a part
ana the machinery necessary for that
| purpose and the selling and marketing
Corporation -
= The time of the commencement of
! thls corporation shall be the goth day OF
April. A. D. 1903. and the period of the
tpir. fpSintInuance Gane OF such corporation shall be
thirty 600 years.
8. The amount of the CAPITAL Stock of
said Corporation shall be One Million dol
lars (S1,OOO,0O0). but the corporation may
commence business when FIVE hundred
thousand dollars $500 OOOJ or more shall
have been subscribed for and paid for
| IN full, and the balance of said Capital
STOCK STOCK shaLi be paid in in full when sub
A, The highest amount of Indebtedness
or liability to which said Corporation
Million Dollars ($1,000, 000).
o. Ihe names and places Of residence
o. OF the persons forming such association
1or incorporation are as follows:
rudolph j. Schimper. Saint Paul, Mime
Henry C. Ferguson. Saint Paul. Min
Frank H. Murray Saint Paul Mime
Henry c. Ferguson Jr.. Saint Paul. Min
| neSota
Uri L. Lamprey. Saint Paul. Mime
6. The names of the first Board of Di-
| rectorS are as follows: Rudolph J. Schim-
per. Henry G. Ferguson, Frank II. Muir
ray, Henry c. Ferguson Jr.. Uri L. Lam
prey.
The Government OF the Corporation and
the management OF It's affairs shall be
Tested EsH 4S9.o in a Board OF not less than five
ly by and from the Stockholders of said
Corporation at each annual meeting
| thereof, which meeting shall be held at
! ten O'Clock In the forenoon on the first
| Tuesday of April of each and every year
at the office of said corporation in Saint
t%l. Minnesota. Each of said Directors
shall hold his office for the term of one
| year and until his successor shall have
| been elected and qualified; except that
| each of said first Board of Directors
| shall hold office until the annual meeting
in 1904 and until his successor is elected
| and qualified. A meeting of the Board OF
Directors shall be held at the Office of the
Corporation in said Saint Paul immedi-
| ately after the adjournment of each an
| Corporation.
Vacancies in the Board Of Directors
may be filed by the remaining members
dJ any meeting, regular or special, OF
the Board Of Directors. The officers OF
! this Corporation shall be a President.
First Vice President. a Second Vice Pres
ident. Secretary and Treasurer. But,
| the office of Secretary and Treasurer may
| be held by the same person. Such off,
| GERS shall be elected by the first Board Of
| Directors at their first meeting. which
shall be held at the office of Uri l.. Lam
prey, in the Gilillan Block in said Saint
apIi pii 96 36od ten a m on tn the 2oth day % OF OF
| of Directors at the first meeting after
| the annual meeting of the Stockholders
| in each year.
! And the officers first elected shall hold
| office until the first annual meeting and
until. their successors are elected and
| qualified. and thereafter said officers shall
| hold Office for one year and until their
| successors are elected and qualified, and
any vacancy in any of said offices shall
| be filed by the said Board of Directors
| for the uneXpred term thereof. Such
| officers shall perform such duties and have
such powers as the Bylaws Of said Cor
! pOratiOn shall prescribe.
Special meetings of the Stockholders and
| of it's Board of Directors may be held
may be prescribed by such Bylaws to
| be adopted by the Stockholders at their
| first annual meeting or at any meeting
called for that purpose; and the same
shall be changed or modified only by the
Stockholders at regular meeting or at
| a meeting called for that purpose. but
| Bylaws which shall continue in force
| until bylaws shall have been adopted
| by the stockholders.
The Board of Directors shall have pow
| er and authority to prescribe the duties
| Of and to suspend or remove each. either
| or every officer Of said Corporation by a
| majority vote of said Board.
Z. The Capital Stock of said Corpora
! ton shall be divided into ten thousand
| 100000 shares of One Hundred C$100)
/ Dollars each.
In witness whereof we have hereunto
| set our hands and seals this Ninth day
% VA RITDOI.PH 7 sCHTMPER (seal(
| HENRY c. FERGUSON (Seal.)
| FRANK II. MURRAY (SealC
H. c. FERGUSON JR. (Seal)
I Uri L. LAMPREY (SeaL)
| Signed, sealed and delivered in pres
ence of
M C. TuttIe,
John C. Kohl.
STATE OE MINNESOTA COITNrY OF