The Arizona sentinel., 1904-07-06

hitivsUO VI iHVVi yol utiUH of the Cook County Oil ard Gas
 Company. Know all men by these presents, that: We whose names are hereunto affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together fer the purposa of forming corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona. and to that end adopt the following articles of incorpora- tion:
 ARTICLES 1.
 The names of the incorporators of the said corporation are Frank P. Sadler. Grant Orr, William D. 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 ished 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 develop oil wells and oil propertvi 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 com panies; to act pledgee, trustee, and attorney in fact, assignee or receiver; to bore for. pro- duce, refine, manufacture, pipe, store, buy and sell oil ard 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 gercr- ely 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 (SI GOO O0O), divided into ono million (,00O,00ob shares of the par value of one dollar (SD each. At such time as the board of directors may di-l 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 fraud in the transaction, the judgment of the directors as to the value of the property pur- chased shall be conclusive.
 ARTICLE "
 The time of commencement of this corpo- ration shall be the date of fling 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 a 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 tien for the ensuing year until the second Mon- day in January, 1905, and the election Of their successors, to-wlt: Frank P. Sadlert William D. Schmidt and Grant Orr.
 ARTICLES VI
 The highest amount of indebtedness'or liabil- ity direct or 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 capitol stock of this corporation.
 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 VIC have heretuto set our hands and seals this 1lth day of June, 1904.
 Grant Orr, tSeall
 William D. Schmidt, [SealT
 Frank P. Sader. LSeall State of Illinois, tss
 County of Cook,
 Before me, James CO Brten. q notary public in and for the state of Illinois and county of Cook. dnly commissioned and sworn and resiG< ing therein, on this day personally appeared Grant Orr William D. Schmidt and Frank P. Sadler, known to mo to be the persons de scribed in, whose names are subscribed to, and who executed the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged to mo that they executed the same for the purposes and considerations expressed.
 Given under my hand and seal of office, this, filth day of June 4. D. 1904, at my office in the said county and state
 James c. O'Brien, rSeaI Notary Public. My conmisson expires April F, 1908.