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Gilboa Electric Light Heat & Power Company
Articles of Incorporation

We, the undersigned, all being persons of full age, and all of us residents of the United States and the state of New York, desiring to become a corporation for the purposes herein specified, pursuant, to the provisions of the Transportation Corporation Law Article 7, do hereby certify:

First.

The name of the corporation is to be the Gilboa Electric Light Heat & Power Company

Second.

Its objects to be manufacturing & using electric for producing light, heat, or power, & in lighting streets, avenues, public park & places & public & private & village & towns within this state as follows—the unincorporated village of Gilboa, Schoharie County N. Y.; the unincorporated village of Grand Gorge, Delaware County N. Y.; & the unincorporated village of Prattsville, Green County N. Y.; also the private buildings on the road leading from the said village of Gilboa to the said village of Grand Gorge, and on the road leading from the said village of Gilboa to the said village of Prattsville, and for public and private buildings and highways within one and one-half miles from either of said villages of Gilboa, Grand Gorge, and Prattsville.

(b) To generate and produce electricity, steam or other power for the purpose of operating factories and mills and for lighting and heating purposes.

(c) To acquire by purchase, by manufacture or otherwise, all material, supplies, machinery, and other articles necessary or convenient for use in connection with and in carrying on the business aforesaid.

(d) To acquire by grant, demise, purchase, exchange or lease or otherwise, lands, tenements, and hereditaments and any interest therein that may be required or conducive to the business of said corporation, and to sell mortgage, convey, lease, let, sub-let, and dispose of the property or estate so acquired.

(e) To enter into, make, perform and carry out contracts of every kind with any person, firm, association, or corporation engaged in any business similar to that referred to in subdivision (a), or with any person, corporation or association pertaining to the company’s business.

(f) To do all and everything necessary suitable, or proper for the accomplishment of any of the purposes or attainment any of the objects hereinbefore enumerated either alone or in association with other corporations, firms, or individuals, as principals, agents, contractors, or otherwise and in general to engage in any and all lawful business that may be necessary or convenient in carrying on the business of said corporation, and for the purposes appertaining thereto, and to do any and every other act or acts, thing or things, incidental to, growing out of, or connected with said business or any part or parts thereof.

Third.

The amount of the capital stock is to be $25,000.

Fourth.

The term of its existence is to be fifty years.

Fifth.

The number of shares of which the stock shall consist is to be two hundred fifty.

Sixth.

The number of directors is to be nine.

Seventh.

The names and places of residence of the directors who are to serve for the first year are as follows, viz:

Names and Places of Residence
Ernest E. Billings, Gilboa, N. Y.
Eli S. Persons, Gilboa, N. Y.
Sidney Rivenburgh, Gilboa, N. Y.
James M. Case, Gilboa, N. Y.
George M. Wyckoff, Gilboa, N. Y.
Edgar Hulbert, Gilboa, N. Y.
Nathan C. Wyckoff, Gilboa, N. Y.
Frank S. Lewis, Gilboa, N. Y.
John M. Crank, Grand Gorge, N. Y.

Eighth.

The name of the towns and counties in which the operations of the corporation are to be carried out are Gilboa, Schoharie Co., N. Y., Grand Gorge, town of Roxbury, Delaware Co., N. Y., Prattsville, Greene Co., N. Y.

In Witness whereof, we have made, signed and acknowledged this certificate in duplicate this 3rd day of June, 1909.

James M. Case     Ernest E. Billings
Eli S. Persons      Nathan C. Wyckoff
Ward P. Croswell      Sidney Rivenburgh
Edgar Jackson

State of New York,
County of Schoharie, SS:
On this 3d day of June, 1909, before me personally came Ward P. Croswell, Edgar Jackson, Ernest E. Billings, Eli S. Persons, Sidney Rivenburgh, James M. Case, and Nathan C. Wyckoff to me severally known to be the persons described in and who made and signed the foregoing certificate and severally duly acknowledged to me that they made, signed, and executed the same for the uses and purposes therein stated.

Elmer Baker, Notary Public

Filed and Entered, July 21, 1909 at 8 a.m.

Clarke Shaule, Clerk.

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