Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-06
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
Of the j. A. Hoover $ Company.

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 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS. That we. J. A. Hoover. F. R. Harrington and Fred Sutter. citizens of the United States. do here bv voluntarily associate ourselves to- | gether for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona. and We hereby certify. ackncwbdge and adopt the following articles of incorporation l ARTICLE I. The name of this corporation shall 1 be and is, J. A. Hoover 6 Company" ARTICLE II.
 The principal place of business of this corporation shall be in the City of Bisbee. Cochise County. Territory of Arizona. and this corporation may have and establish such other branch offices at such other places es the Board of Directors of said corpora ton may from time to time select. ARTICLE III.
 The general nature of the business and enterprise proposed to ba trans acted and carried on by this corpora tion shall be and is as follows. To engage in and carry on general brokerage and commission business. to buy. sell and trade in stoeks. bonds. mortgages and other per .Jnal prop erty on commission or otherwise. % acquire. own. locate or lease lanus and real estate of every nature and de- sciption. and to sell and dispose of the same. to sell it's own stock and to puIe chase. own and acquire and deal in the same and in the stock of other svx r3Y-,o to transfer, pledge. E1oTtgage or other wise convey and dispose of any ard all of the lands and other property lights and prfEleges of this corporation. both real and personal property; to lend money and take motgages on both real and personal property as security therefor. and generally to do any and all business. acts and things incident to the business afore- said and not contrary to the laws of the Territory of Arizona. ARTICLE ".
 The amount of the capital stock Of this corporation shall be Fifty Thou sand Dollars ($50,000). divided into Five Hundred Shares (500). of the par value of One Hundred Dollars ($100) each; the time when and the condition upon which the said capital stock shall be issued and paid sor shall be as fixed and regulated by the Board of Directors of this corporation. and when fully paid for shall be un- assessable. In the discretion of the Board of Directors and in the absence Of actual fraud. said capital stock may be issued as fully paid for less than par and in exchange for properST conveyed or transferred to said cor poration.
 ARTICLE V. The existence of this corporation shall begin immediately after the re- cording of these articles of incorDora- ton in the office of the County Re- corder of said Cochise County. Arizo- na, and the filing of certified copy thereof in the offlce of the Territorial Auditor of said Territory. and shall continue for a period of twenty-five 1 (25) years thereafter.
 ARTICLE VI. The affairs of this corporation shall | be conducted by Board of Directors consisting of not less than three per | sons. who shall be shareholders Of the stock of this corporation 1 The first directors of this corpora- | ton shall be J. A. Hoover, F. R. liar rington and Fred Sutter. who shall | hold office until the election and l qualification of their successors at the 1 first annual meeting of the stockhold- | CTS, which annual meeting shall be | held each year on the third Monday in February of each year at o'clock i D. m. at the office of said companY | in the said City of BiSbec.
 | The board of Directors shall have i power to fill any vacancy in their i number at any time.
 | The officers of this corporation shall be a President. Vice-President. Sec retary and Treasurer. and such other 1 minor officers as the Board Of Di' recters may from time to time deem it expedient to have.
 | More than one of said above men | toned offices may be held by one and the same person. The above named | officers for the first term. and until | their successors are elected and quail Il fled, shall be elected by the above | named, Board of Directors from their Il number at the first meeting after the legal organization of this corporation. and thereafter such officers shall be elected annually by the Board of Di- rectors from. their own number at their first meeting following the an. nuaI election of such Board. l ARTICLE VII.
 The highest amount of indebtedness I or liability to which this corporation | is at any time to be subject shall not Il exceed Thirty-Ffve Thousand Dollars l ($35,000.).
 II ARTICLE VIII.
 Il The Board of Directors-shall adopt Bylaws for this corporation which \ may be repealed or amended at any \ time by said Board or by two-thirds
 vote of the stock at a regular stock holders meeting.
 ARTICLE TX.
 The private property of the stock
 holders and officers of this corpora tion shall be exempt from all liability
 for the corporate debts of this cor. poration.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. we have l hereunto set our hands and seals tE:s
 20th day of February, A. D. 1907.
 J. A. HOOVER. (SeaD
 F. R. HARRINGTON. (SeaD FRED SUFFER. (SesD i Territory of Arizona. County of Co
 chiss. ssr
 Before me. E. c. strickler. a Notary 'ublic in and for the County Of Co
 chise. Territory of Arizona. on this day personally anS<ared J. A. Hoover