Graham guardian., 1895-09-06
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Of the Graham County Min,
ing and Smelling Com.
pany.

We, II. N. CHLARsoN. W. Z. BROWN, LARS H
CHLARsoS, WESLEY w HALTERNAN II. r.
CHLARsON, S. NJ. HALTERMAN, and W. c.
HoyT hereby associate ourselves together, or
ganize and form corporation to transact the
business of mining. smelling, selling and other
wise dlsposing of gold, silver, copper and other
ores and metals, and also to purchase, sell own
and hold all real property and all personal
property that may be necessary or expedient
in transacting said business.
The name of said corporation shall be THE
GRAHAM COUNTY MINING AND SMELT-
ING COMPANY, and its principal place of bus
ness shall be at the town of Thatcher, in the
County of Graham and Territory of Arizona.
The capital stock of said corporation shall be
One Hundred Thousand Dollars, which shall
be divided into Ten Thousand Shares. and
each Of said shares shall he Of the par value Of
! ten dollars.
All stock must be paid for as soon as it is is
sued.
The working capital of this corporation shall
be Twenty Thousand Dollars.
The time of the commencement of this cor.
poration shall be the day on which these arti'
cles of incorporation shall be filed for record in
the Office of the county recorder of said Graham
! county, and its time of termination shall be
twenty years after said time of commencement.
| The affairs of said corporation shall be con-
| Quoted by the following officers, TO wit: A
board of directors, each of whom must own
stock of fsaid corporation. One of said directors
shall be president of the corporation and said
| president shall be ex-officio chairman cf said
| board of directors. Another one of said direc-
tors shall be vice. president of the corporation
| The vice-president shall act as president when
ever the president is absent or unable to act.
A secretary and treasurer of said corpora
| ton shall be chosen.
All officers of this corporation shall be elected
by ballot by majority of the stock thereof rep
resented at each annual meeting of said stock
owners. but in case of an emergency they may
| be elected at any regular meeting. Said annual
meeting shall be held t,said principal place of
| business on the first Monday in September of
each year.
The highest amount of Indebtedness which
said corporation may contract or have at any
time shall not exceed Ten Thousand Dollars.
The private property of all stock owners in
said corporation shall be exempt from all its
corporate debts and liabilities.
None but owners of its stock shall be eligible
| to any office or qualified 10 hold any Office in
said corporation.
The following officers are chosen by said cor
poratlon and authorized to act from the COM
mencement of the corporation until the first an
nual meeting of said stock owners TO be held on
the first Monday in September, A. d. 1885, to-wit
W. G. HoYT,
LARS ii. CHLARsoN,
SILEs NJ. HALTERMAN, Directors.
w. Z. Brown,
ii. N. CHLARsON
II. N. CHLARsoN, President.
W. E. BROWN, Vice-President.
II, r. CHLARsoN, Secretary.
| WESLEY W. HALTERMAN. Treasurer.
These articles ofincorporation may be amend
| ed at any annual or regular meeting of said
stock owners by a majority of the stock there
| represented.
| ii N. CHLARsoN,
w. c. HoYT,
ii. r. CuLARsoN,
W. Z. Brown,
l.. ii. CHLARsON
WESLEY HALTERMAN.
| $. NJ. HALTERMAN.
| TERRITORY OF ARIzoNA,l co
| COUNTY OF GRAHAM,
Before me this day appeared H. n Chlarson,
w. E. Brown, Lars II. Chlarson, Wesley W.
Haltermau, II. r. Chlarson, S. NJ. Halterman
and w. C. Hoyt with allof whom | am and for
long time have been. personally and well
acquainted, and each of them acknowledged to
me that lac is oneI of the corporators whose
names are subscribed to the foregoing articles
of Incorporation and each for himself further
acknowledged 70 me that he executed said ar
ticles freely, Voluntarily and for the purpose
and uses therein stated.
| In witness wherefo / have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my official seal this 29thday