Mohave County miner., 1909-06-19
State of West Virginia
CERTIFICITE OF INCORPORATION \

CERTIFICITE OF INCORPORATION. I,C. w. SWlSHER, Secretary of State O the state of West virginia, du hereby certlf. that an agreement duly acknowledged and ac companied by the proper aIiiua, it's, has beer this day delivered Lo me, whlcn agreement h in words and figures following:
 I. The undersigned agree to become a cor pOratlUn by the name uI UNION CARBIDE SALES COMPANY.
 II. The principal place of business of saiC corporation shall be located in the City of Chl cagO, in the COunty of COOK and State of Hi nois. Salu corporation will have no chef works III. The objects and purposes for which this corporation Is formed are ..S follows: l. 10 purcnase, acquire, store, use, sell and otherwise dea In and dispose of, either directly | or indirectly by means or agents Ur otherwise, calcium carOlde and all other gas producing materials. and gas, especially acetyiehe gas, l and all machinery, apparatus. fixtures. appll' | ances and eluipment jur any purposes relati ng | Tn any manner to the use calcium carulue aLd ace ylene or other gas; also any and all | meJallurslcal electro meta lurgical, chemical | and electro chemical products and compound, il c. .ud ng any and all elementary substances, anu any anu all alio.s and compounds there partly consisting of the foregoing or any of them, ana any anu all products of the foregoing or any Of them.
 | 2 10 construct, purchase. lease and other | Wise aJqulre, Snups, stores, warehouses ana other buildings, and to maintain, use aud Up- crate the same for any purposes of the com | pany and tU lease and sell or otherwise dis. | pose of the same.
 | g. To apply for, obtain register purchase or | otherwise acquire and to mold. use, own, up- | crate and introduce, and tu sell assign, or | otherwise dispose of, any and all trade marks, | trade names, patents, appllcatlon Tor patt n L, patent rights, licenses inventions, improve. | ments and processes used in cynnecth with | or secured under letters patent of Lne United States, or elsewhere or Otnei wise. and to use. exercise develop, grant licenses in respect of | or otherwise to turn to account the foregoing | or any or either of them, or any such property | or rights.
 A. To acquire by purchase. subscription or otherwise, and to hold and dispose of. proper ties. rights. goodwill, and other assets, stock bonds or any other fiscal obligations of any | operation formed for. or now or hereafter en- gagged 1n or pursuing any one or more of the Kinds Of business, purposes, objects, opera t tons aoove indicated, or own ng or holdi Ig any property of any kind herein mentioned. | D. To hold for investment or otherwise, to use, sell or dispose of any stocks, bonds or | other nscal obligations of any other corpora tion anu while owner of any such stocks, bonds or other obligations, to exercise all he right. powers and privileges of ownerShip thereof l and to exercise any and all voting powers thereon.
 G. To construct, purchase lease or otherwise | acquire, and to maintain, use employ and tp- crate, and to lease and sell, or otherwise diS- pose oi all machinery, apparatus, fixtures, ap pllances and equipment relating In any manner to the storage, use and sale of calcium carbide
  eSsary. desirable or convenient in turtherance of any purposes and objects hereinabove set forth
 z. The object or purp ses of the company is from time to time to do any oLe more, or al. of the acts herein set forth. and it Is the inten tion that the objects and purposes specified in any and all of the items Of thlA clause (IIl) of tins certificate of incorporation shall be re- garded as independent objects and pui poses. The company may also conduct It's business in other States, and in territories and de pendencies of the United states, and in foreign countries and may have branch offices in the City of New York Tn the State Of New York. or Tn he City of Niagara alls in the ,tate u, New York, or in each, or elsewhere, and seep its books outside the State of West Virpini except aS otherwise may be provided by law. ". The amount of the total authUrizeu cap- ital stock of said corporation shall be Three Hundred Thousand Dollars (SovO, ,OOO) which shall be dividel into three thousand (3,OOO) shares of the par value of one hundi ed dollars tSlUUl each. of which authorized capital stock the amount of thirty thousand (S3OOOO) has been subscribed, and the amount of thii ty thousand dollars tS3O0OO) has been paid.
 V. he names and post office addresses of incoi porators and the number of shares of stock subscribed for by each are as follows:
 Post Office No. uf Total
 Address Shares No
 Common Shares Names Stock $. s. Jackson 777 East Sixty-ninth 60 60
 Place,l hIcugU. Illinois Benjamin O'Shea,6O CalumetAv'ue 60 60
 
 Jessie J. Ricks l522 Windsor Av'ne 60 6U
 Chicago Illinois
 E. E. White, 268 So. ClaremUht Ave. 60 60 Fred l.. Blackinton. $50 Lake Av'ne 60 60
 Wllmette. Illinois
 VI. This corporation is to expire in fifty (5O) yea rIm the date of this certificate of lncor- portion
 VII. In furtherance and not in limitation of the general powers conferred by the laws of the State of West Virginia, and of the objects aud purposes as hereinabove stated, it is here by eXpres sly provided that this company shall have also the following powers, that is to say, to do any and all of the things set forth ob- jects and purposes in clause III hereof to the same extent and as fully as natural persons might or could do.
 Given under our hands this 9th day of March A. D. 1908. J. $. JACKSON,
 BENJAMIN O'SHEA
 JESSEJ KICKS,
 E, k. WHITE,
 FRED L. BLACkINTON. WHEREFORE. The corporators named in the said Agreement, and who have signed the same. and their successors and assigns, are hereby declared to be from this date uuLiI the eleventh day of March, Nineteen Hundr, and Fifty Eight. a corporation by the name anu for the purposes set forth in said Agreement.
 Given under my hand and Great Seal Of the sad State at the City of Charleston. this Eleventh day of March Nineteen Hundred and Eight. (. w. SWISHER, [Seall Secretary of State. CERTIFICATE UNDER SECTION 9O6 REVISED STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, STATE OF EST VIRGINIA. OFFICE OF TH@ SECRETARY OF STATE. l. Stuart F. Reed. Secretary of State of tho State of West Virginia being the officer who, under the constitution and laws of said State, is authorized to issue certificates of incorpora- tiOn of all companies incorporated under the