The Arizona sentinel., 1895-08-31
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE Franco merican Mining and Milling
 COmpany.

H NOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS
 AN That we the undersigned have associated
 ourselves together for the purpose of forming
 corporation under the laws of the Territory oi
 Arizona.
 l And we do hereby certify as follows: FIRsT,-The names of the incorperators are: A.
 c. Adams, Ii. Harrison, J. L. Curtis and E. NJ . | Browder. And the name of the corporation is and ! shall be Franco-American Mining and Milling
 Company and its principal place of transacting
 business shall be at its office in 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
 SEooND.-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 or Territory of the United States of North America developing, working, holding or selling same and acquiriL title to any other real or personal prop ertY by purchasa, lease bond or otherwise as the Board of Directors may elect and holding or dis posing of said Board of Directors sec fit and order.
 THIRD.-The amount of capital stock authorized by this corporation is ten million (Sl0 000, ,0O0) dollars, divided into one million shares of the par value of ten (SlO) dollars per share, and is to be issued and paid up 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 a two-thirds majority vote of the stockholders. FnTH.-The affairs of this corporation ara to he 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 acco dance with the by-laws- of said corporation. All officers and directors of said corporation shall be stockholders of said corpor- atiOn.
 SIxTH.--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.-Ihe officers of this corporation shall be President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer and such other officers the Board of Directors may see proper to name and elect by resolution, and as may be necessary and essential in conducting the affairs of this corporation. NINTH.-Ihe Directors elected for the first year and until the first annual meeting of the stock holders on the First Tuesday in JanU ary 1898 are H. Harrison, J L. Curtis, E. II. Browder Murat Masterson, and Thomas J Hurley. Who shall act such until their successors duly ele ted at said Iirst annual meeting of the stockholders 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 a vote or written
 assent of the stockholders representing two-thrds
 of the capital stock of this corporation 1 In witness whereof we have hereuntO subscribed our names and affixed seals, this JuIv 18th 1 1895.