Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-24
ARTICLES AND CERTIFE9ATE
 OK INCORPORATEON
LEONA RsENIHG COMPANY.
OF THE

We the undersigned, Charles J. Nesbitt. Charles Matt, Charles c. Black, Oliver E. Steen and Thos II. Hams desiring to incor- porate ourselves and to form corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and especially of an act of tho Legislative As sembly thereof, entitled "An Act Concerning Corporations approved March Sth, 1887, for the purpose of engaging in the business and enterprise hereinafter menti0ned, do make subscribe aad acknowledge in triphcate these articles of incorporation.
 First-The name of this corporation, and by which it shall be hereafter known is ''The Leona Mining Company" and the principal place for the transaction of its business l is in Casa Grande, Pin al County, Territory of Arizona and Kansas City, Missouri. Second-The object of this corporation and the business and enterprise in which it l purposes to engage, is to carry on the busi- ness of mining in the Territory of Arizona, including the location, pre- exemption, purchase, | acquisition and sale of mines mill-sites WA ter-rights, and the development and working thereof; the purchase and sale, or other quisition, of ore, the erection, purchase, oper- | ating and sale of mnls furnaces and other ap- pliances of and for the working and reduc- tion of ores; the construction, ownership, pur- chase and sale of ditches, fumes, reservoirs, railroads, roads and tramways, convenie nt and necessary therefor; the procuring of title to timber lands, mill-sites, and other proper ty rights which may be necessary or con ducive to any of the objects of said corpor : ation, and to do any and all things pertain ing or conducive to the mining, milling or redue- tion of ores, or pertaining or conducive to any of the objects of this corporation.
 Third-The amount of the capital stock of the corporation shall be One Million, ($1, ,090 000) Dollars, divided into one hundred thousand shares, of the par value of ten dollars ($10) each, ard the same shall be ful! l ,ai1 nj m Hba fnl1 f capital stock shall be paid immediately upon the organization of the company, either in money, property or services, under the con- ditions and terms ordered or approved by the Board of Directors of said ccrDcration.
 Fourth-The time of the commencement of
 of this corporation shall be the day of the filing of these Articles in the office of } the Recorder of Pinal county, Territory oi , Arizona, and shall terminate twenty five (25) years thereafter
 ,, Fifth The highest amount of liability or indebtedness, direct or contingent, to which r this corporation Is at any time to be ub
 ject is the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, (S100,000l.
 Sixth-1he stockholders and their privatt property shall be exempt from the corporate
 debt Of said corporation.
 Seventh-Ihe affairs of this corporation
 shall be conducted by 3 Board of Directors l composed of not more than seven (7) persons ., who shall be elected annually by the stock I holders, and shall hold office for one yea
 until their successors are elected and hav 5 qualified. The time and manner of said cleo T. tion shall be prescribed and provided for b. T the by laws of said c9rpor ation. Said direct ors shall be stock holders in the corporation u u and any person ceasing to be stock holde C shall cease to be a director.
 Eighth-The officers of the Board of Di I rectors shall be President, Vice President f Secretary and Treasurer; and such other oi Il, 11lo ! l. Ninth-The Board of Directors of this col Il poration shall have power to establish bJ q laws and ma 1e al rules and regulations nel
 essary for the management of the affairs v this corporation.
 e Tenth-Meetings of the Directors may b c called and held in such manner and at sue " place or places as the bylaws shall provide ; and the said bylaws may provide for th Il holding of meetings of stock holders an IS meetings of the Board of Directors outsid e, the limits of the Territory of Arizona. !. Eleventh The following named persor who are subscribers to the capital stock
 this corporation, shall constitute it's Boar
 of Directors until January 1st. 1890, and ul k, til their successors are duly elected and qual " fled, viz: Charles J. Nesbitt, Charles Mat ,o Charles c. Black, Oliver B. Steen, Thom - H. Hams.
 ra In witness whereof we have hereunto S to our hands and seals this 9th day of May, in D. 1SS9
 If Executed in triplicate.
 CHARLES J. NESBITT [Se; " CHARLES MATT [Se. Id OLIVER B. SHEEN [Se; C. CHASaC. BLACK [Se: O. T. H. IJAMS [Sei '. State of Missouri CorntY of Jack on ss. III Before me, Geo. B. Paxon, Notary Pu a lie, on this day personally appeared Char! re J. Nesbitt Charles Matt, Oliver B. Stei m Charles C. Black and Thomas H. Han 7" known to me to be the persons whose nam Ic, are subscribed to the foregoing instrumer ca and acknowledged to me that they execut ed the same for the purpose and considerati hv therein expressed.
 oy Given under my hand and seal
 [Seal] office this tenth day of May, A. @ 1SS9
 My commission expires F brnarv 18th 8
 GEO. B. PAXON AY Notary Public in and for Jackson Count ,,o Missouri
 m (Endorsed)
 Ic Ii- Filed and recorded at request of Char ", Matt X Co.,, May 18th, A. D. 1889, st 1:
 D. m A. G. WILLIAMS, Reccrdt of Territory of Arizona, County of Pinal, s. st, st, l. A. G. Williams, Recorder in and for trv bv County and Territory aforesaid, do here on- certify the foregoing to be Q full, true a ted correct copy of the Articles of Incorporat P1- of the Leona Mining Company, as the ga
 appears upon record, in Book l, Articles lmy nryy Incorporation, Page 20, in my office. " In witness whereof 1 have hereunto set l of hand and affixed my official s
 TSeal1 this the Fist day of August. A.
 1889. A. G. WILLIAMS,
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