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CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
THE HELMERs~BArr COMPANY.
We, the undersigned, for the purpose
of forming a corporation, do hereby
associate ourselves as a body corporate
and 90 adopt the following Articles Of
The name of this corporation shall
be The Helmers~Bate Company.
The general business of this corpor.
| alton shall be to purchase. own, i'm
prove, sell, lease and deal in real prop
| own, hold and deal in personal proper
| ty Of all kinds; to manufa cture per-
sonal property of any description; to
purchase. own and sell shares of stocks,
to maintain and carry on a commits
sion and brokerage business; to act
I as agent, trustee and broker; to own
eral to do and perform all other acts
or things necessary or incidental to the
purposes herenab3ye set forth.
The principal place of transacting
! the business of this corporation shall
| be the City of Duluth, st. Louis County,
! State of Minnesota:
The time for the 1s' commencement of
| this corporation shall be September
18th 1919, and the period of it's dura-
tion shall be thirty years.
The names and residences of the per-
sons forming this corporation are Fred
+ Helmers, George H. Bate and Ruth
! Barncard.
| The mana nagement of this corpora ton
shall be vested in q Board of Directors,
composed Of not less than three nor
and addresses Of the first Board OF
Directors are Fred J. Helmers. George
II. Bate and Ruth Barcard. all of Du-
@ s5a %hf first ha 1T efGerg
mers: President: George H. Bate, Vice
president and Treasurer, and Ruth
Barneard nft;Gsec Secretary Al the above
tive offices aforesaid until the next an
nual meeting Of the corporation, to be
| held on the second Wednesday in jan
uary, tSaSso 1920 t' at Which time ana annually
be elected from and by the stockhold-
ers of this corpGT1tion' T21
The annual meeting of this corpor-
alton shall be held az its principal
| place of business on the second We'd
nesday of January in each year. I'm
mediately after the election OF the
directors, or as soon thereafter as prac-
ticable, the directors shall meet and
elect from their number or from the
stockholders a President, Vice-Pres-
dent ana as Any
and Vice-President, may be held by one
person. The directors and officers
of this @Tfcst shall hold their
have been duly elected and entered
upon the discharge of their. duties. The
first meeting of the stockholders and
Board Of Directors shall be held at Du--
luth, Minnesota, on the 18th day of
September, 1919, at II A. M, and II 80
A. NJ, respectively:
The amount of VIII III capita1 stock O.,
this corporation shall be Fifty Thous-
and Dollars, which shall be paid in in
money or. property, or both in such
amounts as the Board of Directors shall
order: The capital stock shall be div
ided into fifty thousand shares of the
value of One M Roilar each The
bility to which this corporation ehall
at any time be subject shall be the sum
of one Hundred THOUSAND Dollars:
day of September. 1919.
! GR6ReE GGE6R I HETMFEs H. KXFE
RUTH BARNCARD
$H25: $H2E%AfR zf :! Hsc54 {54Nsrs
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
st. Louis.-ss.
on On this $ 18Th day Of septemher, } m! 1919;
for said County. and State, personally
appeared Fred J. Helmers, George H.
Bate and Ruth Barncard, to me known
to be the persons described in and who
executed the foregoing instrument and
acknowledged that they executed the
same as their THGS f9Hs WSfn pst nnq Ha%snv dfss;
Notary Public, St. Louis County. Minn..
My Commission Expires Jan. 12, 1925.
(Notarial SeaD.
STATE OF MINNESOTA. DEPART
MENT OF STATE.
J I hereby certify that the within in
strument was filed for record in this
office on the 18th day of September,
A. D. 1919, at IL o'clock A. NJ, and
was duly recorded in Book H-4 Of IN
CORPORATIONS on page 517.
JULIUS 4. SCHMAHL
Secretary of State.
OFFICE OF REGISTER OF DEEDS
STATE. OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY Of
st. Louis.-ss.
I hereby certify that the within In
record Sept. 16, 1919 at 10 A. NJ, and
was duly recorded in Book 20 Of Mis-
e cellaneous page 33o.
b asi Register Of Deeds.
5t ss. 4. i.. BY G. L. LOFGREN,
Il d: Y. SEP. Sept; y s7-oet ISIS.