The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-23
TRY A WANT AID
OF INCORPORATION
smrH.no11aassox LUMBER

of the Revised Laws of 1905 of Mime
| sofa, and all acts amendatory thereof
and supplementary thereto, we, the I'M
derslgned, hereby associate ourselves,
and have adopted, subscribed and ae
knowledged the following Certificate of
Incorporation:
The name ofthis corporation shall be
smith-Robinson Lumber Company.
The general nature of the business of
this corporation shall be to buy, own,
sell and otherwise deal in, at wholesale
or retail, logs, lumber, building material.
hardware and fuel all of every kind, sort
and description, and all other articles.
pertaining to the buying, owning, selling
and otherwise dealing in, at wholesale or
retail, of such logs, lumber, building ma
terial, hardware and fuel; to make, CON
struct, build and manufacture lumber.
building material, articles of hardware
scription, and to buy, own. lease, sell.
operate and otherwise deal in mills and
factories, and all buildings accessory
thereto, and machinery and tools of
making, constructing, building and man.
ufacturing of such lumber, building ms
terial, articles of hardware and fuel:
ber 69dng sG shgafs sae %
business, at wholesale or retail, in all
the branch hes thereof, and in the max
Ing constr ~ buildng and manu-
articles of hardware and fuel afore-
said in the State of Minnesota, and else-:
where ITO BUY, own, acquire: use and dis
pose OF al fixtures, merchandise and
other personal property necessary or
convenient for the transaction Of any or
all of the business as aforesaid, In any
and all of the branches thereof; and to-
vey and otherwise deal in real estate and
interests therein, and leases and liens,
thereon, and of other personal and mixed
property, in the State of Minnesota and
elsewhere and do all and fhjnpS;
usual, necessary and convenient in con-
Quoting any of the business aforesaid
This corporation shall have the power to-
purchase, hold and reissue the shares of
its capital stock.
The principal place Of transacting the
business of this corporation shall be at
the City of Bemidji in the County of Bel
trami, Minnesota.
The period of the duration Of this cor.
poration shall be thirty years.
The names and places of residence Of
the ineorporators are as f 4ls;Too
Matthias E. Smith. . Bemidji, Minnesota
Anna B. Smith: :::: Bemidji, Minnesota
William T. Ro6ins9 ri: Bemid5i' Minnesota
The control and management of this
corporation shall be vested in a board
of three directors, which board shall be
W6eh Meeting shall tie be Reid on
the es second year. TUESDAY in oc5sR X
NJ, the first annual meeting to be held
on the 18th day of January, 1913, at 10
o'clock A. M. on said day. The board OF
members members to fiji the the vacances caused by
the death or resignation OF any or 1ts
members.
Until the first election, at the first an
nual meeting of the stockholders of the
corporation the board shall be composed
Of the following:
Matt E. Smith. .Bemidji, Minnesota
Anna B. Smith. Bemidji, Minnesota
William z. Robinson. Bemidji, Minnesota
All the directors shall be stockholders
Of the corporation.
The officers of this corporation and
their duties shall be prescribed by the
Board of Directors, and such officers
meeting of the Board of Directors, which
shall be held Immediately upon the ad-
journment of the annual meeting of the
stockholders, or as soon thereafter as
those of president and vice-president,
may be held by the same person. The
officers and directors of this corporation
shall hold their respective offices until
their successors have been duly elected
and qualified.
The amount of the capital stock of
this corporation shall be Fifty thousand
($50,000.000) Dollars, which shall be
divided into five hundred shares of the
par value of One hundred ($1OO.OO) Dol
lars each. Such stock shall be paid in
with money or property, or both, in such
manner, at such times, and in such
amount, as may be ordered by the Board
of Directors.
The highest amount of indebtedness
or liability to which this corporation
shall at any time be subject shall be the
sum of Twenty thousand ($z0,00O.0U)
Dollars. ~.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have
hereunto set our hands and seals this
9th day of December, 1912 In the pres
ence of:
WILLIAM c. KLEIN.
NASA 5: s n SMITH, tt SsaB
STATE Of Ft MfNNE IS 5l G6TNr sfe 81
On this 9Th day of December 1912, be-
fore me, notary public in and for said
county and state, personally appeared
Matthias p. Smith, Anna B. Smith and
to be the persons described in and who
executed the foregoing instrument, and
they and each of them acknowledged
a g <''' william VII LIAM G. KLEIN.
Notary Public, Beltrami County MINI.
MY Commission expires Nov. 10. 1917.
MENT OF STATE. ---
hereby certify that the within in
strument was filed for record in this Of
fce on the 18th day Of December 1912
at O'Clock +. NJ, and was duly recorded
IN Book W. of Interpretations on page
226.
JULIUS a. sCHMAHL,
& Secretary of State.
NO. 42303
OFFICE OF REGISTER OF DEEDS
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY or
Beltrami, IS.
thereby certify that the within in
stument was filed in this office for req.
ord Dec. the 14th, 1912, at 10 O'Clock
~, ana was duly recorded in Misc Rk
7, page 443 =, "a
(seal) J. o. HARRIS.
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