The Clifton clarion., 1889-04-26
Articles of Incorporation
 --oF THE Clifton Clarion Publishing Company.

Torrance, Henry tlll, M. \. Kelley ana Wm- C. Oaks, residents of Clifton, Graham county, Territory of Arizona, being desirous of forming corporation under the provisions of an act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona entitled '' Corporations, approved March s, 1887, for the purpose of engaging in the business hereinafter mentioned, do make, subscribe and acknowledge these articles of in- corporation, and declare:
 That the name and style assumed by this cor poration, and by which it shall hereafter be known, is ''The Clifton Clarion Publishing Co. '' The business and occupation In which this corporation will engage will be printing, pub fishing and circulating newspaper named and to he called ''The Clifton Clarion, ,'' and through the columns of said publication, "The Clifton Clarion, will do advertising, publishing and job printing by contract or otherwise. The principal place for the transaction of it's business shall be Clifton, Graham county, Arizona Territory.
 The amount of capital stock of this corpora ton shall be Two Thousand Dollars (S2,000 00.O0) divided into four hundred (40O) shares of the par value of Five Dollars ts5.Oo) each, to be fully paid up at the first meeting of the Directors, hereinafter provided for.
 The time.of the commencement of this COT poration shall be the 29th day of March, 1889, and shall endure and terminate ten years there after.
 The business of this corporation shall be con- ducted by Board of Directors composed of five persons who shall be stockholders in this cor poration, and who shall be elected annually by the stockholders, and who shall hold office foI one year thereafter or uItl their successors are duly elected aud qualified. The annual meet ing for the election of Directors shall be held on the last Friday in March of each year, and any director ceasing to be stockholder shall cease i to be director, and his place such director shall be filled by the remaining directors from among the stockholders within thirty days after the occurrence of such vacancy.
 The highest amount of liability or indebted ness to which this company is at any time to be subject is One Thousand Dollars. The stock holders and their private property shall be ex- empt from any liability for the corporate debts of this corporation.
 The Board of Directors of this Corporation shall have power to establish bylaws and rules for the government of this corporation, and do all things necessary for carrying on its busi- ness; 10 appoint officers, agents and persons therefor and to provide salaries therefor and the necessary means by levying assessments on the shares of the capital stock or otherwise, as may be the most eNpedient. The present Board of Directors shall consist of W. ". Jones, John Torrance, Henry Hill, Nj. \. Kelley and Win. C. Oaks who shall serve uutil the last Friday in March, 1890. or until their successors are duly elected and qualified
 In witness whereof We have hereunto set our hands and seals on the 29th day of March, 1889. W. W JONES, IsEAL.l
 JOHN TORRANCE, tsEAL.l
 IL HILL, [sEAL.]
 M. A. KELLY, lsEAL.l
 W. C. OAKS. tsEAL.1 TERRITORY or ARIZONA, lss
 County of Graham.
 Before me- P. J. Clark, a Notary Public in and for the county and territory, above on this day personally appeared ". ". Jones, John Tor rance, Henry Hill, M. A. Kelly and Vim C. Oaks, known. to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instru- ment of writing as parties thereto, and they each of them acknowledged to me that they ex- ecuted the same for the purposes and considera- tions therein expressed.
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
 hand and affixed the seal of my IsrA11 office this sNh day of March, 1889.
 P !. CLARR,
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