The Arizona sentinel., 1895-09-07
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE Franco American Mining and Milling
 Company.

EINOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENrS-- IN That we the undersigned have associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona.
 And we do hereby certify as follows:
 FIRsT,-The names of the incorporators are: A. c. Adams, H. Harrison, J. L. Curtis and E. M. Browdef. And the name of the corporation is and shall be Franco-American Mining and Milling Company and it's principal place of transacting business shall be at it's office i'll the village of Yuma in the County of Yuma and Territory of Arizona with branch offices at such other places as the Board of Directors shall from time to time agree upon:
 SECoND.-The general nature of business pro- posed to be transacted by this corporation is min ing, milling, smelting and reducing ores bearing gold, silver, copper, lead and other metals and minerals, buying, bonding, leasing and in any other manner acquiring title to mines and mineral lands in said Territory of Arizona and in any State Territory of the United States of North America, developing, working, holding or selling same and acqurir title to any other real or personal prop erty by purchase, lease bond or otherwise, as the Board of Directors may elect and holding or dis posing of said Board of Directors see fit and order.
 THIRD.-The amount of capital stock authorized by this corporation is ten million ($1OO0O, ,OOO.) dollars divided into one million shares of the par value of ten (slO) dollars per share, and is to be issued and paid up as called for from time to time by the Board of Directors of this corporation or by being issued and delivered from time to time by the said Board of Directors in payment of property purchased by this corporation, or for debts con; tracted by this corporation.
 FoURTH.--The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the date of the day of the
 filing of these articles of Incorporation in the office of the County Recorder of said Yuma County, Territory of Arizona, and it's corporate existence shall continue for the term of twenty years from and after said date unless sooner dissolved by two-thitds majority vote Of the stockholders.
 FIFTH.-The affairs of this corporation afe to be conducted by Board of Directors to be elected annually upon the first Tuesday in January of each and every ear and the election of said Directors shall be in accordance with the bylaws of said corporation All officers and directors of said corporation shall be stockholders of said corpor ation.
 SIxTu.--The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which this corporation may at any time be subject shall be ten thousand dollars
 SEvENTH.-The private property of the stock holders and directors of this corporation shall be exempt from corporate debts.
 EIGHTH.-The officers of this corporation shall be President, a Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer and such other officers as the Board of Directors may proper to and elect by resolution, and as may be necessary and essential | in conducting the affairs of this corporation. NNTH.-The Directors elected for the first year and until the first annual meeting of the stock holders on the First Tuesday in January, 1896 are H Harrison, J. L. Curtis, E. M. Browder Murat Masterson, and Thomas Hurley. Who shall act as such until their successors are duly elected at | iSoid firCta nal n1a Of hn
 TENTH.That majority of the Directors shall constitute quorum and that quorum shall have power to adopt bylaws and transact all other corporate business.
 ELEVENTH These articles of incorporation may | be amended by majority vote of the Board of Directors when authorized by vote or written assent of the stockholders representing two-thirds | of the capital stock of this corporation l In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names and affixed our seals, this July 18th, | 1895.