The Arizona sentinel., 1903-10-07
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
Smyth-PierCe Company.

Know all men by these presents: That we, whose names are hercunt to affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming and do hereby form a corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end do make the following state ment:
 FirSt-The names of the incorporators are Erastus F.. Pierce. John Franklin Miner, Ernst IT. Seiple. Timothy S. White, Samuel PWhitc, Charles A. White, Joseph F. Mitchell. and John Read Miner, alI of the Borough of New Brighton. Beaver county. Pcnnsylvania, su i George E. Post of Pasadena, Los Angeles county. California
 Seeond-The name of this corporation shall be srnyth-Plepce Company.
 Third-The principal place in the Territory of Arizona at which the business of this cor poration is to be transacted IS Tn Iulna Yuma county, therein, and inc principal place of business of this corporation outside of the Territory ot Arizona shall be in the Borough oi New Brighten, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, at which place the meetings Of the stockholders and hoarG Of directors shall be hefd. unless otherwise changed by or in aecordanee with tle bylaws of the e0rpora- tiosl, and this corporation may have such braneh oftIse=s, either within or without the Territory ct Arizona and either within or without fEs commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as may Iss created and established from time to tirs.a by its board of directors.
 Fourth-The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as follows: To acquire, own. sell, lease. h. cense the use of, control and generally deal in patents, letters patent, inventions secured by patents and rights to inventions, rights secured by inventions and rights secured to fnveli tors: to manufacture, acquire, lease, sell and control the Of any machinery or other apparatus that may be used in manu- featuring, architecture, building, engineering and in the arts; to make, build, construct, manufacture, acquire lease. sell and control the use of any machine, machinery, apparti- tus tool or appliance. constructed wholly or partially Of any fabric. steel, iron, aluminium or other metal or substance or any comblna- lion thereof and either protected or not by letters patent Of these United States, or ei any other country, state or principality; to acquire. own, sell, hypothecate. mortgage and dispose of bonds and other securities and evi- dences of indebtedness. to acquire mortgage sell and dispose of real and persos:si a1'ope rty to borrow money and eNeeEbs- R~Sss- s91ds mortgages or deeds of srESe s< sseure ths same; to purchase seauiEs-szS78, Ecs1Eetasr con troE hypothecate- TEsJrtg7Ez1r sell and aTssose of the shares cE %zEsctsal stock of 9eher e0Spo rations as HPa3 aS eS Ebs OWE issae. aad bo eX ereise 5n respecs tes sl3 slaeh beaids mortgages noteS shares SE cispit;sI stock aode6iTeE seeur ities and obligations slIly- and all the rights powers and privileges of isadIvalTsll oTneEs thereof including the right to votcon any share or shares of stock held by it to the same extent that a natural person might ol could do, excepting only that this corpora tion shall not vote or cause to be voted any o its own stock owned or held by it in its treas ury. 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 ofthese United States and the Territory of Arizona.
 Fifth-The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall he five hun dred thousand dollars, divided into five thousand shares of the par value of one hun dred dollars each. The said capital stock has been and is now and hereby subscribed for a' follows: