The Arizona sentinel., 1904-06-22
Articles of Incorporation

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 Know all men by these presents: That we, the'undetsigned, whose hands are hereunto .tffI xed, do hereby associate ourselves together for 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 of the incorporatOrs arc: Stephen W. Dorsey, George NJ. Chartier and George C.. Haldeman, citizens of the United States.
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 The nanIe of the said corporation shall be The 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- terminc.
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation shall be as follows, to-wit:
 To make contracts for the construction an d equipment of railroads, bridges, station houses, warehouses, telegraph and telephone lines the owning and operating of stores for the purchase and sale of goods of all kinds to own, buy, lease and sell real estate, erect buildings for it's own use or under contract or for sale, to enter into contracts with other corporations to build railroads. conals, inn prove streets, or do other and any sort of con- tract work for cOrpoYators. municipalities or individuals; to build clectris light plants gas, works, water works and to furnish power to others and to do any and all things that would come within the scope of a general con- tracting business, and may accept ill pay ment for work done under such contracts the stock and bonds of other corporations and buy or sell the same. In the conduct of its business tifis corporation shall have power to issue and negotiate it's own stock, bonds, notes, or other evidence ot indebtedness by sale or hypothecatien, and to deal in the stock and bonds of other corporations. ".
 The authorized alEUunt of capital stock of this corporation sAall be five thousand (5,0OO shares of a par value of ten dollars (GlG.GU each.
 Said capital stock shall be paid in this cor goration in cash or it may be issued in pay ment for contracts; options, or for services rendered, or for lands, buildings, supplies, or for patents machinery and other things val, uable to the corporation. All stock so issued shall become fully paid up and non-aSscssable 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 coTpo ration shall be final and conclusive, | The time of the commencement of this cor poration shall be the date ofthe 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 De con ducted by a 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 shal 1 be as follows:
 NAME RESIDENCE Stephen ". Dorsey Los Angeles California George NJ. Chartier Los Angeles, Califosnia George c. Haldeman Los Angeles, California 1 VII | The board of directors may by resolution | increase it's number to five members at any time.
 1 The highest amount of indebtedness aside | from the current expense accounts shall not exceed Thirty Thousand (S30,00O) dollars. TX. The private property of the stockholders o tlIfs corporation shall fpe exempt from corpo yste debts of any kind whatsoever. Tn testimony whereof the incorporators have hereunto set their hands and seals al Jos Angeles, CaIiforna, on this Slst day o May, 1901.
 stephen w. Dorsey. George NJ. Charticr. George C. Haldeman. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, tsa County of Los Angeles. 9"
 On this 3lst day of May, 1901. before mo Charles D. Isimball, a Notary Public in and for said Los Angeles County, residing therein duly commissioned and sworn, personally ap peared Stephen ". Dorsey, George M. Char tier and George c. Haldeman, known to me tc be the persons whose names are subscribed tc 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 geIes, in said county, the day and year in this certificate first above written | Charles D. Kimbal,, Notary Public in and for Los Angeles County, State of California. | Recorded at request of stephen W. Dorsey at g. rn., June f. 1901.
 C. P. GROWN, | County Recorder. Territory of Arizona, ss County of Yuma, l, C. P Cronin, County Recorder in and fol | the County Of Yuma, Territory of Arizona dc hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, ful 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 l ct seq, Records of Yuma County aforesaid. In witness whereof I have Iereunto set my hand aud affixed my seal of office this ith day | of June A. D. 1901.
 C. P. CROWN County Recorder Yuma County A T. ! First publication June s, Ip24,