The Arizona sentinel., 1904-07-27
C. N. BURKHALTER,
Articles of Incorporation of the Cook County Oil and Gas
 COmDany,

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 Company.
 Know all men by these presents, that:
 We, whose names are hereuntO affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purposa of forming a corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona. and to that end adopt the following articles of incorpora tion
 ARTICLES I.
 The names of the incorporators of the said corporation are Frank P. Sadler, Grant Orr, William b. Schmidt. The name of this corpo- ration shall be Cook County Oil and Gas Com pany. The principal place in which the busi- ness of the corporation within the Territory of Arizona is to be transacted is Yuma, in the county of Yuma and Territory of Arizona, and the principal place of business of the said cor poration outside of the Territory of Arizona shall be the city of Chicago in the county of Cook and state of Illinois, at which place meet ings of the board of directors may be held and the said corporation may have such branch offices either within or without the Territory of Arizona as may be establ ishcd by the board of directors.
 ARTICLES II.
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by the said corporation is as follows to-wit: To lease, locate, buy or ac- Quire by any means of purchase, all kinds of mineral lands and to obtain title to the same to buy, sell, operate and e elop oil wells and oil property; to own, acquire, lease hold sell and convey all kinds of real and personal prop erty; to locate, buy and sell water rights and still sites; to buy, sell, acquire, deal in and hy- pothecate the shares of other incorporated con- panies; to act as pledgee trustee and attorney in fact assignee or receiver to bore for. pro- duce, refine, manufacture, pipe, store, buy and sell oil and other hydro-carbon substances. and all minerals and chemicals; to buy and sell all kinds of merchandise and to own and oper ate stores for dealing in the same; and gener- ally to conduct any business aforesaid as any private individual may do, either in Arizona or in any other state or territory of the United States, or in any foreign country.
 ARTICLE III.
 Ina authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be one million dollars (S1 O00, ,OO0), divided into ono million Q,0o00O0) shares of the par value of one dollar (SD each. At such time as the board of directors may di- rect by resolution, said capital stock shall be paid in to 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 cor poration, in payment of which, shares of the capital stock of said corporation may be issued, and the said capital stock so issued shall there upon and thereby become and be fully paid up and non-assessable, and in the absence of actual 1 fraud in the transaction, the judgment of the directors as to the value of the property pur- chased shall be conclusive. ARTICLE W. | The time of commencement of this corpo- ration shall be the date of filing these articles of incorporation in the office of the auditor of Arizona, and the termination of the said corporation shall by twenty-five years thereafter.
 ARTICLE V.
 The affairs of this corporation shall be man. aged by board of directors composed of five stockholders, who shall be elected annually on the second Monday in January of each year and until snch election the following named stock holders shall serve as directors of this corpora tion for the ensuing year until the second Mon day in January, 1895, and the election of their successors, to-wlt: Frank P. Sadler, William D. Schmidt and Grant Orr.
 ARTICLES VI | The highest amount of indebtedness or liabil- | ty. direct contingent, to which this corpora tion shall at any time subject itself shall be twenty five hundred dollars, which amount does not exceed two-thirds of the capital stock of this corporation.
 l ARTICLES VII.
 The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from liability for corporate debts of any kind whatsoever, | In witness whereof we have hereuuto set our hands and seals this 1lth day of June 1904. | Grant Orr lSealJ William D. Schmidt, [Seall Frank P Sadler. [Seall State of Illinois, ss
 | County of Cook
 Before me, James CO'Brien, a notary public | in and for the state of Illinois and county of Cook dnly commissioned and sworn and resd- ing therein, on this day personally appeared Grant Orr William D. Schmidt and Frank P. Sadler, known to me to be the persons de- scribed in, whose names are subscribed to, and who executed the foregoing instrument and the same for the purposes and considerations | expressed.
 | Given under my hand and seal of office, this 1lth day of June A. D. 1901, at my office in the said county and state.
 James c. Brien, ISeall Notary Public
 My commisson expires April l2, 1908. June 22, 19O4-6t