Graham guardian., 1916-02-11
Articles of Incorporation

THESE ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT
AND ASSOCIATION made and entered
into by and between Peter Weisel
Ernest Vilter, Edward Goes, Theodore
o. Vilter and William o. Vilter, adult
persons, residing in the city of Wilwau,
kee and State of Wisconsin, WITNESS
AS Follows:
l. The parties hereto declare that
they associate for the purpose of form.
ing corporation under Chapter Eighty.
six of the Revised Statutes of the
State of Wisconsin, and that the pur.
pose of the corporation is the manu-.
facture and sale of steam engines and
all kinds of machines and machinery.
2. The name of the corporation shall
be THE WEISEL AND VILTER MANU-.
FEATURING COMPANY, " and its location
in the City of Milwaukee, State OF
Wisconsin.
3. The capital stock of the corpora.
tion shall be sixty thousand dollars tc
be divided into six hundred shares OF
one hundred dollars each.
4. The directors of the corporation
shall be five in number and shall be
elected annually. The officers of the
corporation shall be a president, vice.
president, treasurer and secretary.
The office of treasurer may be held by
the same person holding one of the
other offices.
5. The principal duties of the presi-
dent shall be to preside at meetings OF
the stockholders and of the board OF
directors, to have general supervision
of the business and affairs of the cor
poration according to the bylaws of
the same and to perform such other
duties as the board of directors may
from time to time direct. The vice
president shall discharge the duties of
the president when the latter is dis
abled or absent, and shall also perform
such other duties as the board of direc-
tors may from time to time direct.
The treasurer shall have charge of the
finances of the corporation and shall
keep true and correct account of all
receipts and expenditures and render
accounts and perform such duties as
the board of directors may from time
to time require or the bylaws may
direct. The secretary shall keep a
correct record of all the proceedings of
the corporation and list of stock
holders and record of certificates of
stock issued and such further records
and shall perform such further duties
as the bylaws may prescribe or the
board of directors may from time to
to time require.
6. All persons who are stockholders
and whose stock is fully paid for shall
be members of the corporation. Stock
shall be transferable only on the books
of the company, and transfers of the
stock shall be entered on the books of
the company, and shall be accepted by
the corporation on such conditions only
as may be prescribed in the bylaws.
In WITNESS WHEREOF the said par
ties have hereto set their hands and
seals this 29th day of June, 1886.
PETER WEIsEL (SEAL)
ERNEST VILTER (SEAL)
EDWARD F. GOES (SEAL)
THEODORE o. VTLTER (SEAL)
.., VIM. o. VMTER (SEALl
STATE OF WISCONSIN, / &C.
MILWAUKEE COUNTY.
Be it remembered that on the 29th
day of June, 1886, personally came be-
fore me Peter Weisel, Ernest Vilter,
Edward Goes, Theodore o. Vilter and
William o. Vilter, to me known to be
the persons who executed the forego-
ing instrument and acknowledged the
same.
(SEAL) CHAs. E. WILD,
Notary Public, Wisconsin.
STATE OF WISCONSIN, %.
COUNTY OF MILWAUKEE. '''
Ernest Vilter and Peter WeiseI, be-
ing duly sworn, depose and say and
each for himself deposes and says, that
he is one of the signers to the forego-
ing articles of incorporation, that the
foregoing has been by him compared
with the original articles of incorpora-
ton and that the same is true copy
of such original articles of incorpora-
tion and of the whole and each part
thereof.
ERNEST VILTER.
PETER WEISEL.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 18th day of July, A. D. 1886.
(SEAL) CHAS. E. WILD,
Notary Public, Wisconsin.
STATE OF WISCONSIN, t.,
DEPARTMENT OF STATE. ~
Received and filed this 10th day of
July, A. D. 1886.
ERNEST G. TIMME,
Secretary of State.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRES
ENTs, That we, Theodore o. Vilter, as
President, and William o. Vilter, as
Secretary of The Weisel & Vilter Man
ufacturing Company, Do HEREBY GER
TIFY that at meeting of the stock
holders of The Weisel & Vilter Manu-
featuring Company, held at the com
pany's office on the 14th day of March,
1893, at o'clock p. M. of that day, a
resolution amending the Articles of
Association of said corporation was
duly adopted by unanimous vote of
all the stockholders present; that 600
shares of the capital stock were pres