Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-23
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 -OF- TESTER & HICKS.


 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we, the under signed, have this day associated our selves together for the purpose or forming a corporation under the law of the Territory of Arizona. and for that purpose do adopt She f"a"w isg charter:
 Tho nazae of the corporatinp '<as1' be Tester & Hicsa. Inc.
 ARTICLE II.
 The names of the incorporators are Charles w Hicks, William E. Tester and Hugh P. Huddleston.
 ARTICLT III
 The principal place in which the business of the corporation within tue Territory of Arizona is to be conducted is Bisbee, Cochise county, Arizona. The name of the Agent lh charge of and upon whom process may be served in any action, suit or proceedings that may be had or brought against the company iu any of the courts of Arizona, is Charles W. Hicks, residing in the said city of Bisbee. County of CochIss. Terri tory Of Arizors.
 ARTICLE ". The general nature of the business | in which this corporation shall en- gage and the purposes for which this corporation is organized are as fol lows. towit. To carr on general brok- | craze business. buying and selling ! stocks, bonds, securities, mortgages and negotiable instruments; buying ana selling agricultural, mineral and oil lands, to purchase and to neco.u' inc nxnar thereH, to hypotnecate | mortgage or buy and sell other prop erty and effects which the corpola tion may think proper rom time time to acquire for any of us PuI | poses. To subscribe for, buy sen o | otherwise dispose of the capital sues y. or shares of the capital stock or tnl | CT any other corporation, ana genel ally to do any and all acts anu lnins' and to do and transact any or al buBiness incidental to the purposea' aforesaid and not conflicting wlti the laws of the Territory or All zona.
 The authorized capital stock of rnl cornoratiop snail be Twenty-Five | Thousand Dollars (s25, 5,000) divided I Into lZ09 NO IAHAo4SO shares, of the par value or ohe nun !i dred Dollars (s1OO eacn. In' Board of Directors may cause SalC capital stock, or any part th@eoi to he sub scribed or paid for in cash in purchase or exchange or transfe of real or personal property, or fo services rendered, and shall have mower to issue, or cause to be issued any part of the capital stock as re duired at any time, or from time U time and when so issued it shall b
 fully paid and non-assessable, and | the absence oy fraud in any transat ton. the judgment of the Board O Directors as to value of the ploper ty purchased or transferred, or eS l changed. or services rendered, shal
 be conclusive. Shares of stock ma.
 be voted by proxy at all stockholdert meetings.
 ARTICLE VI. The time of the commencement O
 this corporation shall be the date ( , nIing of the certified copy of tn } articles of incorporation in the dfic of the Territorial auditor of Arizon; and the termination thereof shall b Twenty-Five (25) years thereafter.
 ARTICLE VII.
 The affairs of this corporatio : shall be conducted by board three directors, who shall be electe annually, by the incorporators a their first meeting and thereafter b , stockholders at each succeedin - meeting, to be held at the office f the company, at Bisbee, Arizona, O the second Tuesday in January each year.
 The Board of Directors, shall hay the power to adopt bylaws For th |, government of the corporation, an [ amend or to alter the same, as lne + shall deem best The officers of th g corporation shall be, president, SCI Il retary and treasurer, and such otht v officers as the board of directors ma i, from time to time deem neeessar ' and shall hold their office until th B next annual meeting of the stoclhol !. CTS, and until their successor sha [. be chosen and qualified. $ ARTICLE VIII. t The highest amount of indebtet e ness or liability, direct or contingei |. 10 which this corporation is at an ], time subject shall be, Sixteen Tho {, sand, Six Hundred, Sixty-six Dollar | (s16,666).
 T ARTICLE K. The private property of the stoc + holders Of this corporation shall
 exempt from liability for corporal
 debts of any kind whatever.
 In witness whereof, we have nSl o unto set our hands and seals, tn 29th day of February, A. D., 1908.
 CHARLES W. HICKS, (DSJ
 WILLIAM E. TESTER. (LS) F. HUGH P. HUDDLESTON, I.S-9 . e