The Arizona sentinel., 1906-01-24
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE Bean Medicine Company.

OF THE
 Bean Medicine Company. Know All Men by These Presents: That we, the undersigned have this day asso- ciated ourselves together for the purpose of forming an incorporation under the laws of Arizona. and for that purpose do adopt the fol- lowing charter:
 ARTICLE l. The name of this corporation shall be the Bean Medicine Company
 ARTICLE g. The company shall keep an office at Yuma, Arizona, and may keep other principal offices and places of business at Los Angeles, State of California. at which place all incorporators', stockholders and directors meetings may be held and all corporate business may be trans acted.
 ARTICLE 3. The amount of the capital stock of this cor poration shall be Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars divided into Fifty Thousand shares of the par value of Five Dollars each. Said capital stock shall be paid up at the date of issuance, or at such time as the Board of Di- rectors may designate, in money property, labor. or any valuable right thing, and the judgment of the Board of Directors or manag- ing officers as to the value thereof shall be con- elusive.
 ARTICLE 4. The general nature of the business in which this corporation shall engage is as follows, to- wit:
 To manufacture, patent. copywright, buy, sell, vend, control and deal in proprietary med icineS formulas, prescriptions, copyrights and appliances; to employ physicians for the med ical treatment and cure of diseases; to own, buy, hold. take, sell, hire, let, lease, improve, mortgage and deal in both real and personal to acquire, buy hold, take, own, sell, transfer and deal in the capital stock of this and of other corporations; to loan and borrow money and make and execute it's bonds, noteS bills, mortgages and trust deeds as security for money borrowed or any of it's contracts, liabilities, debts or obligations, and to receive, hold, sell assign evidences of debts and securities made to, belonging to, or owned by it; to buy, hold sell, subscribe for, hypoth- ecate, mortgage and deal in stocks. bonds, notes, of debts, mortgages trust deeds and other securities of private and public corpora tionS, and of persons, asSoclationS and corpora tions, and, generally, to do all things necessary and convenient and fit or proper to the full ex- ercise and accomplishment of all or any of the foregoing purposes.
 ARTICLE 5. The affairs of this corporation shall be con ducted by a Board of not less than three nor more than five Directors who shall be elected on the first Saturday of December of each year. as the bylaws shall provide. The names and residences of the Directors who are appointed for the first year and to serve until the election and qualification of their successors, are as fol lows, to-wit:
 D. H. Bean, Los Angeles, California. J. B. Hoover, Jerome, Arizona A. c. Cordiner, Jerome, Arizona w. H. Townsend, Los Angeles, California. J. M. Brown, Los Angeles, California.
 ARTICLE G. The highest amount of liability to which this shall subject itself at any one time shall not exceed Ten Thousand Dollars.
 ARTICLE z. This corporation is formed to endure for twenty-five years after it's articles are duly exc cuted, but it's charter rights may be renewed (before it's charter expires) from time to time for periods not exceeding twenty-five years at time perpetually.
 ARTICLE 8. The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be and is hereby made forever exempt from all liability for it's debts or obligations.
 ARTICLE j. The capital stock of this corporation shall be ,l,lo this corporation for any purpose. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 26th day of December, A. D. 1905.
 D. H. Bean (SeaD
 J. B. Hoover (SeaD
 w, H. Townsend (SeaD
 J. M Brown (SeaD State of California ss County of Los Angeles ] ss On this 26th day of December, in the year one nine hundred and five A. D. before me, L. B. Belcher,, Notary Public in and for said County of Los Angeles, State of Califor- mia, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared D. H. Bean, J. B. Hoover, w. H. Townsend and J. M. Brown, personally known to me to be the persons
 
 strument, and acknowledged to me that they executed the same
 In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
 l.. B. Belcher,
 Notary Public in and for Los Angeles (Seal) County, State of California. My commission expires January 29, 1908. Territory of Arizona, County of Yuma, '' I, J. NJ PolhamuS County Recorder in and for the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, do hereby certify that the foregoing is true, full and correct copy of the Articles of In corporation of the Bean Medicine Company, as filed for record in my office on the 18th day of December, A. D., 1905, at 2:05 p, and as ap- pears of record in Book of Articles of Incorpo- ration, Page - ct seq, Records of Yuma County aforesaid.
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 18th day of December, A. D. 1905.
 [Seall J. M. Polhamus,
 County Recorder, Yuma County
 Arizona Territory. First pub January 3, 1906