Arizona republican., 1903-04-27
LEszL HpvERrIsEMENrs.
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE LACLEDE INVESTMENT COMPANY

LACLEDE IN ltS l MENI COMPANY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS. That we whose hands are hereuntO affixed, dc hereby associate 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 corpora tors are: Bruce B. Oyler. Charles Schoen- beck, and Joseph P. Walsh, and the name of the corporation shall be the LACLEDE INVESTMENT C O Nj PANY. The principal place ill which the business of said corpora ton within the Territory of Arizona is to be trans acted is Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. and the principal place of business oi 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 DTS may be held and the corporation may have such branch offices either within or without the Territory of Ari- zona as may be esta ablished 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, 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, asphaltum. petroleum, asbes- tos, salt, water and water rights and machinery and to work, mine, explore, i operate and develop the same; to do | general real estate. manufacturing and mercantile business; to own, handle and control letters patent and inven- tions and shares Of capital stock Of other corporations: to borrow money and execute notes, bonds, mortgages, l 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- legations 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 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 Hundred Thousand ($1O0 O00.00) Dollars, divided into Ten Thousand shares QO000) of the par value of Ten ! (S10) 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, and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon 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 oi the prop erty purchased shall be conclusive. i Fourth: The time of the commence ment 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 shall be conducted by a Board of three Directors and the following l 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 suco essors 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 con tingent, to which this corporation is at any time subject shall be Sixty Thou sand ($6o, 100000 Dollars, which amount does not exceed two-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.
 l IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have | hereunto set our hands and seals this 9th day oi February. 1903.
 BRUCE B. OYLER. (SeaD JOS. P. WALSH. (SeaD
 CHARLES SCHOENBECK. (SeaD State of Missouri,
 l City of St. Louis, ss.
 i On this 9th day of February, in the year 1903, 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 me 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. I 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.
 | (Notarial SeaD
 w. E. BECKER. Notary Public My commission expires June 10th. 1905 Territory of Arizona,
 l County of MSriCoua cc