The Arizona sentinel., 1896-05-02
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATI0N
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incorporate OuTSelNeS uuuer tue IttWS Ol tIle Territory of Arizona, for the purpose of engaging in the business hereinafter speei- fled, do make, sign, adopt, acknowledge and publish these Articles of Incorporation.
 ARTICLEI.
 The names ofthe persons hereby associat- ing themselves together for the purpose aforesaid are Casper M. Sanger, Frederick Homer, A. ". Poole, Edward Dexter and Frank NJ. Phelps.
 The name of the corporation hereby form COMPANY.
 | The principal place for the transaction of its business shall be in Yuma, in the COun- ty of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, with an executive, business, branch and transfer office at San Francisco, State of California, with transfer office at Chicago, State of Illinois, and business and tranfer office in the City of New York, State of New York 1; and that the Board of Directors may hold regular and special meetings in said City of San Francisco, and, with the unanimous consent of the Board ofDirectors, may hold regular and special meetings of said Board in the City of New York; with the further privilege of acquiring mines, real and per sonal property, erecting and maintaining its plants, and tranSacting its business, and operating hitter mines in any part of the United States; and dealing in hitter and the products and by-products thereof as stated in this, and Tn Article II hereof,
 ARTICLE II.
 The general nature of the business pro posed to be transacted by this corporation is to engage in a general mining business for hitter, in the various States and Terri tories of the United States, and to deal in, refine and sell hitter, and all its products and by-products, and to acquire, sell, lease and improve niter mining claims, real and personal property, water and water rights, and to erect, construct, purchase, operate, sell and lease all machinery, mills, works, and plants, necessary and requisite for the mining and refining, transportating and selling of hitter, and ali its products and by products, and to purchase, own and hold, and to sell shares, ofstOck in other corpora tiOns. To have perpetual succession; to sue and be sued byits corporate name; to have a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure; to prescribe the mode of making transfers of shares, ,or interests of its stock holders; to make contracts to acquire and transfer property. possessing the same powers in such respects as private indivi- duals now enjoy; to establish bylaws, and make all rules and regulations deemed ex- pedient for the management of its affairs, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States and of the Terri tory of Arizona, as provided by section 233 of Revised Statutes of Arizona.
 ARTICLE III,
 | The amount of the Cap1tal-Stock of the corporation shall be ten million Q0,000, 900, dollars, divided into one hundred thousand QOO,OOO shares of the par value of one hundred (1OO) dollars each, and shall be non -assessable, and be issued as fully paid up, and the several incorporators hereo each do hereby subscribe to one share each of stock respectively.
 ARTICLE ".
 The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the date of the filing O these Articles of Incorporation il the office of the County Recorder of the County of Yuma, Ter ritOry of Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years there after, with the power to renew the perioC ! DF hoD tyva tXy-f -fiyi years upon the vote ot three-fourths of tn capital stock at any regular meeting called and held for that purpose.
 ARTICLE V.
 The affairs of this corporation shall bC managed and conducted by, and shall b vested in Board of Directors consisting 0 five persons, to be elected by and from tht stockholders of this corporation on the frs Monday of February in each and ever. year, at a meeting of this corporation to b. held at Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona provided the following named stockholder shall serve as the Board of Directors unti the regular election in February, 1897, an( until their successors are elected and quail fled, viz: Casper NJ. Sanger, Fredericl Homer, A. w. Poole, Edward Dexter, an Frank M. Phelps, and, provided further that in the event of vacancy in the Boar of Directors before any annual meeting said vacancy may be filled by majority c the remaining members of the Board o Directors then in office. And it is furthu provided that three members of the Boar of Directors shall constitute a quorum flo the transaction of business, and that an meeting of the Board of Directors at whicl } three Directors, or more, shall be present shall be a legal meeting either with o without notice to themselves, or the othe members.
 ARTICLE VI.
 The highest indebtedness, direct or in direct, to which this corporation shall a any tine be subject, shall not exceed a bono ed indebtedness of three hundred thousan (3OO,0O0) dollars, and floating indebtedness of two hundred thousand (2O0,0O dollars
 ARTICLE VII.
 The private property of the stockholder shall be exempt from the debts of this col poration, and no individual liability stockholders shall exist for corporate debt
 ARTICLE VIII.
 The Board of Directors shall have pOwt to establish bylaws, name and designat the officers of the company, and make a !. necessary rules and regulations as may by them deemed expedient for the manag ment of this corporation, not incOnsistel z with the laws of the United States, and tn laws of the Territory of Arizona; and { n enter into all contracts allowed by, or pel - taining to the business of the company. In witness whereof, we have hereunt