The Arizona sentinel., 1904-07-13

knOW all men DN GbeSe pGtScl1lS' ildJ NC, the undersigned, whose hands are hereunto ! affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together fer the purpose of forming a corporation under the general laws and the amendments thereof of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end we certify as follows: The names OfthC incorporatOTs are: stephen ". Dorsey, George M. Chartier and George C. Haldoman, citizens of the United States. II., The name of the said corporation shall be Tine Western Contracting Company and the principal place of business shall be in-the town of Yuma, Yuma county, Territory of Arizona, where the annual meeting shall be held.
 The directors may meet and do business in the city of Los Angeles, California, or such other place in the United States or any other country as they may from time to time de- termine.
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this Corporation shall be as follows, to-wit:
 1 To make contracts for the construction and equipment of railroads, bridges, station houses, warehouses, telegraph and telephone lines, the owning and Operating of stores for l the purchase and sale of goods of all kinds, | to own, buy, lease and sell real estate, erect buildings for it's own use orunder contract or for sale, 10 en,er into contracts with other corporations to build railroads. conals, inn prove streets, or do other and any sort of con- tract work for corporators, municipalities or individuals; to build clcctrs light plants gas, ! rl- afa l,C fp f,lrn others, and to do any and all things that would come within the scope ofa general con tracting business, and may accept in pay ment for work done under such contracts the stock and bonds of other corporations and buy or sell the sane. in lie conduct of it's business tbis corporation shall have power to issue and negotiate it's own stock, bonds, notes, or other evidence ot indebtedness by sale or hypothccation, and to deal in the stock and bonds of other corporations. The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be five thousand (5,00O shares of a par value of ten dollars (Sl000 each
 Said capital stock shall be paid in this cor | poration in cash or it may be issued in pay mcnt for contracts; options, or for services rendered, or for lands, buildings, supplies, or for patents, machinery and other things val uabic to the corporation. Ali stock so issued shall become fully paid up and non-assessabIe; and the judgment of the directors as to the value of the property or other things pur- chased and paid for in the stock of this corpo- ration shall be final and conclusive,
 The time of the commencement of tIIis cor poration shall te the date of the filing Of these articles of incorporation In the office of the County Recorder of Yuma county, Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty five years The affairs or the corporation shall be con Ciucted by q board of three directors, who shall hold office until their successors are duly elected and qualified as the bylaws may pro- vide, and the directors for the first year shall be as follows:
 NAME RESIDENCE stephen w. Dorsey Los Angeles California George M. Chartcr Los Angeles, California George c. Haldcman Los Angeles, California
 VII
 The board of directors may by resolution increase it's number to five members at any time.
 VIII
 The highest amount of indebtedness aside from the current expense accounts shall not exceed Thirty Thousand (SS0,o00) dollars.
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 The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall bc exempt from corpo- rate debts of any kind whatsoever.
 In testimony whereof the incorporators have hereuuto set their hands and seals at Los Angeles, California on this 3lst day of May, 1904.
 stephen W. Dorsey. George NJ. Charter.
 George C. Haldeman STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ls l County of Los Angeles '' ! On this jlst day Of May, 1901, before me, l Charles D. Kinball, a Notary Public in and for said los Angeles County, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn personally ap- pearcd Stephen w. Dorsey, George Nj. Char tier and George c. HaIdeman known to inc to be the persons whose names are subscribed to to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that they executed the same
 In witness whereof, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Los An gclcs, in said county, the day and year in this certificate first above written.
 Charles D. Kimbail,
 Notary Public in and for Los Angeles
 County, State of California. Recorded at request of stephen ". Dorsey. at d. nl., June 1, 1901.
 c. r. GROWN,
 County Recorder. Territory Of rizona, es
 County of Yuma, ]
 I, C. F. Cronin, County Recorder in and for the County ofYuma, Territory Of Arizona, do hereby certify that the foregoing is true, fuli and correct copy of articles of incorporation of The Western Contracting Compay as filed for record in my office on the 4th day of June, A. D. 1904, and as appears of record in Book One of Articles of Incorporation, page ct sea-. Records of Yuma County aforesaid In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 4th day | of JuEe, A. D. 1901.
 C. P. GROWN,