The Arizona sentinel., 1906-10-17
Articles of Incorporation of The Yuma Creamery Company

Know All Men by These Presents: That we, the undersigned, have this day associated our selves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona and for such purpose do adopt these articles of incorporation.
 Article l.
 Section l, The names of the corporator2 arc o. c. Johnson, A. L. DeMund and X. H. Kent. Sec. ,. The name of the corporation shall be The Yuma Creamery Company. Sec. g. The principal place for the transac- tion of the business of the corporation shall be at Yuma county, Arizona Territory.
 Article ?.
 The general nature of the businesd proposed to be transacted by the corporation is to manu- facture, buy, sell, import, export and generally deal in cheese, butter, buttermilk, oleomargar- inc and butterine; to buy sell, import, export and generally deal in milk and all kinds of dairy and creamery products.
 Article 3
 Section 1. The authorized amount Of the cap ital stock of the corporation shall be Ten Thou sand Dollars, divided into four hundred shares of the par value of Twenty-Five Dollars each. See. .. The Board of Directors may cause said capital stock, or any part thereof, to be subscribed or paid for in cash, in the purchase or exchange or transfer of real or personal property, or for services rendered, and to issue CT cause to be issued any part all of the capi- tal stock as required at any time, or from tiIne to time,a and when so issued it shall be fully paid and non-aSsesSable, and in the absence Of fraud in the transaction, the judgment of the Board of Directors as to the value of the property pur- chased or transferred or exchanged or services rendered shall be conclusive.
 Sec. 3. No dividends shall be declared or paid on unissued stock and no stock shall be sold or issued for less than par.
 Article 1.
 The time of the commencement of this corpo- ration shall be the date of the fling of 6 ccrti- fed copy of these articles of incorporation in the offiee of the Territorial Auditor, and the termination thereof shall bc twenty five years thereafter
 Article D.
 Section l. The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by board of Directors com posed of five stockholders of the corporation. Sec. ,. The first board of directors shall be elected by the stockholders at their first meet ing and thereafter the board of directors shall be elected by the stockholders at the annual stockholders meetings
 Sec. 3. The board of directors shall have full power and authority to dll any and all vacan- cieS occurring in the mcmbershipof said board, by appointment
 Article G.
 The annual meetings, after the organization shall be held on the first Monday in October in each year, after the year 1905.
 Article :,
 The highest amount of indebtedness or Iia- bility, direct or contingent, to which this corpo ration is at any time subject is Five Thousand Dollars.
 Article g.
 Thc private property of each officer and stockholder Of this corporation shall be exempt from all corporate debts
 In witness whereof we have hereunto set oui hands this Soth day of July, I906
 O. c. JOHNSON,
 A. L. DEMUND,
 A. II. KENT. Territory oT Arizona.
 County ef-Yuma
 Before me, a Notary Pubic in and fer the County of Yuma Territory of Arizona on this day personally appeared O C. Johnson. A. L DeMund and A. H. Kent, known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the purpose and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal Of office this 3lst day of July, A. D. l906.
 4, G. Moore, ESeal Notary Public. My commission expires August 2S 1909. First pub August -, 1906