Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1895-05-12
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
ALEXANDRIA Mercantile and Real Estate Co.
Of Alhambra, Maricopa County, Arizona.

We, josiah Harbert, George W. Harbert, Ar
thur E. Hinton, Gilbert D. Gray aud John 7
Harbert. whose names are herein subscribed
for the purpose of forming corporation anc
being incorporated under the laws of the terri
tory OF Arizona, and especially an Act of the
legislative assembly thereof entitled "an Ac
concerning corporations" approved March Sth
1887, and all Acts amendatory thereto, have
adopted, signed and acknowledged these arti
Giles of incorporation.
ARTICLE 1.
The name of the corporators of this cor
poration are: Josiah Harbert. George W. Har-
bert, Arthur E. Hinton, Gilbert D. Gray and
Joht T. Harbert.
The name of this corporation, and by
which it shall be designated and known,
is the Alhambra Mercantile and Real Es-
tate Company, and its principal place
Of transacting business is and shall be IN
the town of ALEXANDRA, Maricopa county, terri
tory of Arizona, and at which other place or
places as its board OF directors may from time
to time hereafter designate.
ARTICLE H.
The general nature and character of the bust
ness proposed to be transacted by this corpor-
alton is and shall be that of general whole
sale and retail mercantile and real estate bust
ness, buying and selling all kinds of farm pro-
ducts and supplies and buying and selling all
kinds OF real estate, and buying and selling any
product whatever that is manufactured, grown
or produced, also stock in other corporations.
ARTICLE III.
The authorized capital stock of this corpora
ton is fifty thousand ESQ 0OO dollars, divided
into five hundred $500 shares of the par value
of one hundred Q00) dollars per share The
when and the conditions upon which said
capital stock is to be paid in are as follows
All stock shall be paid in full in cash, or in
property at the time said stock is issued and
no stock shall be issued by this company until
1t shall be fully Iaid, and thereafter shall be
worcestershire.
ARTICLE ".
The time of commencement of this CORPORA
ton shall be the date of the filing of these
articles of incorporation for record with the
county recorder OF Maricopa county, Arizona
territory, and the termination thereof shall be
twenty-five (25) years thereafter.
ARTICLE "
The affairs of this corporation shall be con-
Quoted by board of directors consisting of
five (5) persons each of whom shall be stock
holder in the corporation, and shall be elected
at the annual meeting of the stockholders and
hold their resi- ective offices as such directors
for one year, or until their successors are
elected and qualified; provided. that any officer
or director ceasing to be stakeholder shall
cease to be an officer or director in the corpor-
alton, and any vacancy in the board of direc-
tors shall be filed by the board until the next
annual meeting of the stockholders The first
annual meeting of the stockholders of this cor
poration shall be held at the office of the cor
poration in the town of ALEXANDRA, Arizona
territory, on the second Monday in January,
1896. at the hour of 10 O'Clock, a. M, aud the
annual meeting of the stockholders shall be
thereafter neld at the hour of 10 O'Clock in the
forenoon of said day.
ARTICLE VI.
The officers OF this corporation shall be a
president, vice president, secretary and treas
urer, each OF whom shall be elected by the
board of directors from among their number
at the next annual meeting after their annual
election in each year.
The president shall be the chief executive Of
hcer OF the corporation and shall have the gen |
eral management of all it's affairs subject TO |
the approval and control of the board OF 6irec- |
tors All certificates of stock, contract and |
other papers except checks shall be signed in |
the corporate name by the president, and in
his absence or inability to act, the vice presi-
dent shall posses all the powers and perform
all the duties of the president, The checks of |
the corporation may be signed by either the |
president or secretary.
ARTICLE VII.
The following named persons who are sub
scribers to the capital stock of this corporation
shall constitute the board of directors and of. !
hcers of this corporation until the second Mon
day in January, 1896, and until their successors
are duly elected and qualified viz: Josiah
Harbert, president: Gilbert D. Gray, Vice Presi-
dent; George W. Harbert, Secretary; Arthur Z.
Hinton, Treasurer.
The above named board of directors shall as
soon as practicable after the filing of these
articles of incorporation in the office of the
county recorder of Maricopas county, Territory
of Arizona, meet and adopt by laws and may
prescribe in said bylaws the method of calling
meetings of the board of directors and stock
holders. The board of directors shall have
power to prescribe the duties of the officers and
agents of the corporation and fix their salaries
and Conversations maj ority of the board of
directors shall constitute quorum and any
meeting of said board of directors at which
quorum shall be present. shall be deemed a
legal meeting and have the same authority as
q full board whether the absent members shall
have had first notice of said meeting or not.
ARTICLE VIII
The highest amo unit of Indebtedness or liabil-
ity to which this corporation is at any time to
subject itself is the sum of Twenty Thousand
$50 000) Dollars
ARTICLE TX.
The private property of the individual stock
holders of this corporation is and shall be ex-
empt from the corporate debts of the corpora
ton.
ARTICLEX.
The corporation shall never loan its credit
for the purpose OF endorsing commercial papers
or becoming security on any bond or obligation
whatsoever.
ARTICLE XII.
The board of directors shall have power to
borrow n oney, execute the corporate note or
bond of the company to secure the payment of
the same by mortgage on the cOmpany's pro-
perry or in any other manner desig mated by the l.,
board of directors.
ARTICLE XII
These articles of incorporation may be
amended at any annual meeting of the stock
holders or at any special meeting of the stock .
holders called for that purpose by majority
vote of all the stock then issued, voting in !
favor of such amendment and all amendments
so made shall be signed and acknowledged by
the president and shall have the same force !
and effect as the original articles OF incorpora-
ton without the signature of the individual
Whereto.
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our
hands this 8,h day OF May, A. D., 1895,
JOSIAH HARBERT,
GEORGEW HAPREPT