The Arizona sentinel., 1904-06-29

hereby associate ourselves together for 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 I.
 The names of the incorporators of the said corporation are Frank P. Sadler, Grant Orr, Williar2 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 Cf 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 IT.
 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- auire 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 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 po:hecate the shares of other incorporated com panies; to act as pledgce, trustee and attorney ira fact, assignee or receiver to bore for. pro duce, refine, manufacture, pipe, store, buy and nil md oil by-1r and all minerals and chemicals; to buy and sell all kinds of merchandise and to own and opcr ate stores for dealing in the Same and gencr- 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. Tha authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be one million dollars l (S1, 900 COO divided into ono million Q,010,00O shares of the par value of one dollar (Si) 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 | 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 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, 1905, 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- ity,.direct or contingent, to which this corpora ton 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.
 ARTICLES VII.
 The private property of the stockholders of 1 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 filth day of June, l904-
 Grant Orr, lSeall
 William D. Schmidt, [SealJ
 Frank P. Sadlere tSeal} State s6s,2tT of fl tlinGis rn"1i ss
 Before me, James C,OfBrien, notary public in and for tho state of Illinois and county of Cook dniy commissioned and sworn and resid- ing therein, on this day personally appeared Grant Orr, William D. Schmidt and Frank P. Sadler, known to me to bc the persons de- scribcd in whose names are subscribed to, and who executed the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and considerations expressed
 Given under my hand and seal of office, this flth day of June, A. D. 190f at my office in the said county and state
 James c. O'Brien, rSean Notary Public.