Arizona republican., 1903-02-17

end make the following statement:
 FIRST: The names of the corpora tors are: C. A. WEIGH, C. B. WILL LIAMS. A. E. CRAVER and A. D. MORTON. and the name of the corpo- ration shall be RAMONA OIL AND GAS COMPANY. The principal place in which the business of said corpora tiCn 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 Ramona, Cherokee Ma tion, in the State of Indian Territory at which meetings of the Board of Di- rectors may be held, and the corpora tion may have such branch offices either within or without the Territory of Arizona as may be established by the Beard 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 ac quire, own. exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hypothe- cate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property, mines. mining claims. oil lands, min eral lands, oil. gas. asphaltum. petro- leum, asbestos, salt, water and water rights and machinery. and to work mine, explore, operate and develop the same: to do general real estate manufacturing and mercantile busi- ness; to own. handle and control letters patent and inventions and shares of capital stock of other corporatios: to borrow money and execute notes bonds mortgages. or deeds of trust to secure the same and to exercise In re- Spect of all such bonds, mortgage notes, shares of capital stock and other securities and obligations any and all rights, powers and privileges of indi- vidual owners thereof. including the right to vote upon any shares of stock held by it to the same extent that 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 Territory and elsewhere, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and the Ter ritory of Arizona.
 THIRD: The authorized amount of capital stock of this corpora tion shall be One Million Five Hundred Thou sand dollars (S1. 800, 900. .OO). divided into enc million five hundred thousani shares of the par value of One Dollar (S100) 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 issued and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid up and non-assessab ble, and in the absence of fraud in the transaction the judg- ment of the Directors as to the value of the property purchased shall be con- elusive.
 FOURTH: The time of the com mencement of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these Articles of Incorporation in the office of the Secretary of Arizona, and the termna- = ton thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 FIFTH: The affairs of this corpo- ation shall be conducted by Board of Five Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected: C. A. WEIGH, s. L. WHITZEL, C. P. WILLIAMS, A. E. CRANER and A. D. MORTON.
 Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stock holders as the Bylaws of the corpo- ration may provide. The officers of Sai hni c are elected shall be:
 C. A. WEIGH, President; S. L. WHITZEL, e-President: c. B. WILL LIAMS. Vice-Pres. and Manager: A E. CRAVER, Secretary; A. D. NOR TON, Treasurer
 SIXTH: The highest amount of in- debtedness CT liability. direct or con- tingent, to which this corporation is al any time subject shall be One Hun dred Thousand and no 1OOths dollars Cs100, ,OOO.CO). which amount does not ex- ceed two-thirds of the amount of th= cal pital stock
 SEVENTH: The private property ot the stockholders of this corpora tior shall be exempt from corporate ie.,t; of any kind whatsoever.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have
 
 Nineteenth day of January, 1903. C. A WEIGH. (Seal c. B. WILLIAMS. (Seal ] A E. CRAVER. (Seal A. D. MORTON. Seal Indian Territory.
 Northern District, ss.
 On this - day of January, in tn, | year 1903. before me. E. G. Lewis, No | tary Public in and for the State ant County aforesaid. residing therein l duly commissioned and sworn, person ally appeared C. A WEIGH. C. B | WILLIAMS. A. E. CRAVER, A. D | MORTON, known to me to be the per sons described in. whose names az, i subscribed to. and who executed tn, annexed instrument. and they acknoWl edged to me that they executed th same for the purposes and co1sidera uons therein expressed.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hay, hereunto set my hand and affixed m, ofllclal seal at my office in the sait state and County. the day and yea last above written.
 (Notary SeaD E. G. LEWIS
 Notary Pubic
 MY commission expires May T. 190t