The Arizona sentinel., 1895-12-21
ARTICLES Or INCORPORATION
 OF THE, FrancO-American Mining and Milling
 Company.

| I NOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS AA That we the undersig d have associated
 ourselves together for the purpose of forming :
 corporation under the laws of the Territory O
 Arizona. | And wet Hereby certify as follows:
 1 FIRsF,--The names of the incorporators are: A
 G. Adams, H. Harrison, J. L. Curtis and E. NJ
 Browder. And the name of the corporation is anC
 shall be Franco-Amercan Mining and Milling
 Company and it's principal place of transa ting
 business shall be at its office in the village of Yuma l in the County of Yuma and Territory of Arizons
 with branch offices at such other places as the
 Board of Directors shall from time to time q rec | upon.
 SEcoND.-The general nature of business pro
 posed to be transacted by this corporation is min ing5 milling, slceltng and reducing ores bearing gold sIlyer, copper, lead and other metals and
 minerals, buying, bonding, leasing and in any othermanner 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
 acquiriI title to any,dtherreal or personal prop erty by purchas- lease bond or otherwise as the Board Of Directors may elect and holding or dis
 osing Oz same as saidBoard of Directors see fit and i ortcr.
 T1HRD.-The amount of capital stock authorized by this corporation is ten million (slO,OOO OOO
 dollars, divided into ole million shares of the par value of ten (s1O) dollars per share, and is to be
 iSsfed and paid up IS called for from time to time the gard of Directors of this corporation or by
 being issued and delivered from time to time by the 5@id' Board of Directors in payment of property r-.- tracted by ttis corporations. = F0URrH.-Ihe lime of the conlmencenent of tris corporation shell be the date of the day of the filing these arti les of Incorporato in the office Of the County Recorder Of said Yuma County, Territory Of Arinona and it's corporate existence shall continue forthe~ teEm of twenty years from 1nd aftei sSiJ date unless sooner dissolved by a twO-tbirtis majority vote of the stOck-hOldeis
 FIFTH.-The affairs of this corporation era to be .ccnducted bI Board of Directors 10 be el.cted annually upon the first Iuesdaj i'll January of each and etery ear and the election of said Director shall be in acco dance with the iy-laws of sai corporation. All officers ant directors of sai,.' crpor1tion shall be stockholders said corpOr atiOn.
 SIxTu.-The highest anqdsnt of Inde b edness O. liability to which this corporation may at any tim be subject shall be teT thousand Ioliars 2. :.
 SEVEN 1.-The pr'vate Pro.,erta of the stock holders and directors of this cCrp6raticn shall O. exempt from corporate. debts.
 EIGHTH-ihe officers of this corporation sh,,E b a President, Vice-President Secretary, an Treasurer and such other officers as the Board o Uirtctors may see. proper to name and elec5 b. 'ses'lution and a. may b. nscgss ,rv ait es>enii Ill c2nduc ing th- a&a r, @. thi- 1yEr}. ali sl.
 -'i<IH.--s he .:-Tec-. Ts elr. -- -s -r,t r.-s all l-l!'ll the.i.ISt aHuu. .e sLaa "a. hold r. on the First Tuosda5 IT jant ary j5 ar, Ii. Harrison, J. Curtis, r.. II. Browdes, Murs Masteison, and Thomas j. Hurley. Who shall ac such until their succ. ssors are duly elected at said first annual meeting of thesstockholders TENTH.-That majority of the Directors shall constitute a. quorum and that quorum shal have power to adopt bylaws and transact al oth i corporate business.
 ELEVENTH. These articles of incorporation ma, be amended by majority vote of the Board O. Directors when authorized by vote or written assent of the stockholders representing two-thrd of the capital stock of this cor poration.
 In witness whereof we have hereunlo subscribe 1895.