Transcription:
Certificate of Incorporation, The Loveland Estes Park Auto Company
State of Colorado, filed in Larimer County, Colorado State Archives, #428255, book 131, pg 121
Transcribed by Arlene M. Miller, 3/3/2001
  No. 48255
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE LOVELAND-ESTES PARK AUTO COMPANY

DOMESTIC

Filed in the office of the Secretary of State, of the State of Colorado, on the 24 day of November, A.D. 1908, at 9:45 o'clock A.M.  Recorded in Book 131, Page 121

Timothy O'Connor, Secretary of State;

By <blank signature field>, Deputy
Fees $20.00

________

Know all Men by these Presents, That we, D. O. Osborn, W. A. Osborn, O. L. Osborn, and L. E. Osborn, residents of the State of Colorado, have associated ourselves together as a Corporation under the name and style of The Loveland-Estes Park Auto Company, for the purpose of becoming a body corporate and politic under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Colorado, and in accordance with the provisions of the laws of said State, we do hereby make, execute and acknowledge in triplicate this certificate in writing of our intention so to become a body corporate, under and by virtue of said laws.

FIRST.  The corporate name and style of our said Corporation shall be The Loveland-Estes Park Auto Company.

SECOND.  The object for which our said Corporation is formed and incorporated is for the purpose of purchasing and owning automobiles, and conducting and operating a passenger automobile line between Loveland and Estes Park, in the County of Larimer and State of Colorado, and also to own and operate an automobile line to and between any and all other places necessary or convenient, or in the judgment of the said Company profitable, whether mentioned herein or not; also to conduct and operate at Loveland and any other place the said Company may desire, an automobile livery, and to maintain at Loveland and elsewhere a Garage and Repair Shop, and to buy and sell automobiles and repairs therefor.  To purchase or lease real estate for their own use and to do any and all other acts which may in the judgment of the directors be for the advancement of the business heretofore mentioned.

THIRD.  The capital stock of our said Corporation in s Fifty Thousand Dollars to be divided into five hundred shares of One hundred Dollars for each share, and said stock shall be ___ assessable.

FOURTH.  Our said Corporation is to exist for the term of twenty years.

FIFTH.  The affairs and management of our said corporation is to be under the control of a board of four directors, and D. O. Osborn, W. A. Osborn, O. L. Osborn and L. E. Osborn are hereby selected to act as said board and to manage the affairs and concerns of said corporation for a period of one year or until their successors are elected and qualified.

SIXTH.  The operations of our said Corporation will be carried on in the County of Larimer and the principle place and business office of said Corporation shall be located in the Loveland County of Larimer and State of Colorado aforesaid.

SEVENTH.  The board shall have power to make such prudential by-laws as they may deem proper for the management of the affairs of the Corporation according to the statute in such case made and provided.

 IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We have hereunto set our hands and seals, on this 21st day of November, A.D. 1908.

D. O. Osborn

W. A. Osborn

O. L. Osborn

L. E. Osborn

STATE OF COLORADO,

County of Larimer

I, William H. Trindle Notary Public, in and for said Larimer County, in the State aforesaid , do hereby certify that D. O. Osborn, W. A. Osborn, O. L. Osborn, and L. E. Osborn, personally known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the annexed and foregoing certificate of incorporation, appeared before me this day in person, and acknowledged that they signed, sealed and delivered the said instrument of writing as their free and voluntary act, for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

Given my hand and Nortarial Seal, this 21st day of  November, A.D. 1908
My commission expires May 15th, 1909
William H. Trindle
Notary Public

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Transcribed by Arlene M. Miller, 3/3/2001; transcribed from a photocopy of the document.  This copy is in excellent condition and was obtained by the transcriber from the Colorado State Archives.  No spelling deviation from the original was used.  All blank fields in the document were handwritten legibly.  All signature blocks appear to have been signed by same person as the remainder of the document.  Capitalization and punctuation in this transcription follow the document's conventions.

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