Series 17798

DESCRIPTION: These volumes record copies of Articles of Incorporation filed with the First District Court by newly organized corporations. The record books were kept as the official copy which was available for public use. The actual articles of incorporation record the following: names of the incorporators and their places of residence, the length of the corporation's duration, the pursuit of business agreed upon, amount of stock each shareholder receives, description of stock classes, number and kind of corporate officers, and the number of directors necessary to transact corporate business.

Under current Utah law and the laws of the territorial legislature, individuals desiring to incorporate, were to file and record articles of incorporation with their respective county clerk. These agreements specified the nature and place of business, amount of stock to be issued, terms for officers, etc. The clerk in turn issued a certificate of incorporation and recorded the final articles of incorporation in these record books.

ARRANGEMENT: Chronological.

RESEARCH NOTE: It is unclear why these corporations were filed with the District Court, since state law required the corporation to be filed with the Clerk of the County Court or with the County Clerk.

PROCESSING NOTE: Incorporation Record Books were first scheduled as permanent records in 1978. The record book was microfilmed in February 1968. This entire series was archivally processed by David Clark in July 1996.

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