The Arizona sentinel., 1896-06-06

That we, the undersigned, a majority of whom are citizeds and residents of the | State of California, desiring to incorporate | under the laws of the Territory of for the purpose of engaging in the | business hereinafter specified, do maKe, sign, adopt, acknowledge and publish these Article of Incorporation.
 ARTtCEEI,
 The names of the persons hereby asso- | ciating themselves together for the purpose l aforesaid are Robert Ash, A. W. Poole, i John Cameron Simonds, William H. Nc | Donald and Charles w. Pope. The name of the Corporation hereby formed is the SHASTA GROUP GOLD MINING COMPANY. The principal place for the transaction ot its business shah be in Yuma, in the County of Yuma Territory of Arizona, with an executive, business, branch and transfer office at San Franciscoy State of California, and business and transfer office in the City of New York, State of New York; and that the Board of Directors may hold re- guar and special meeting in said cities of San Francisco and New York, with the further privilege of acquiring mines, real and personal property, erecting and main taining it's plants, and transacting it's busi- ness, and operating gold and other mines, in any part of the United States; and deal- ing in gold and the products and by-pro- ducts thereof as stated in this, and in Ar ticle II thereof.
 ARTICLE II.
 The general nature of the business pro- posed to be transacted by this Corporation IS to engage in general mining business for gold and other metals, inthe various States and Territories of the United States, and to deal in, acquire and sell gold and other metals, and all their products and by-pro- ducts, and to acquire, sell, lease and im- provegold and other mineral mining claims, real and personal property, woter and water rights, and to erect, construct. purchase, operate, sell and lease all machinery, mills, works and plants, necessary and requisite for such gold and other mineral minlng, transporting and selling of such products, and all Its by-products, and to purchase own and hold, and to sell shares of stock in this and other corporations; to have per- petual succession; to sue and be sued by its corporate name; to have a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure; to prescribe the mode of making transfer of shares or in terests of its stockholders; to make con- tracts to acquire and transfer property, pos sessing the same powers in such respects as private individuals now enjoy; to establish bylaws and make all rules and regulations deemed expedient for the management Ol it's affairs, not inconsistent with the consti- tuition and laws of the United States and ol the Territory of Arizona as provided by section two hundred and thirty-three C23S of the Revised Statues of Arizona.
 | ARTICLE III.
 The amount of the capital stock of the corporation shall be one million ($1, 900, ,00o lO). divided into one hundred thousand (1O0, ,OOO) shares of the par value of ten dol lars C$10.OOl each, and shall be non-assessl- bIe, and be issued as fully paid up, and the several incorporators hereof each do hereby subscribe to one share each of stock respec- lively, and the following are the names o the persons by whom the same has been subscribed to wit:
 NAMES OF SUBSCRIBERS No. of shares Robert Ash
 Chas. w. Pope
 John Cameron Simonds
 Wm. H. Mcdonald
 A. w. Poole
 ARTICLE ".
 The time of the commencement of thi' corporation shall be the date of the filing O these Articles of Incorporation in the office of the County Recorder of the County o Yuma, Territory of Arizona, and the terml nation thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter, with the power to renew, the period of extension not greater than twenty five years, upon the vote of three-fourths o the capital stock at any regular meeting called and held for that purpose.
 ARTICLEV.
 The affairs of this corporation shall be managed and conducted by, and shall be vested in a Board of Directors consisting Oi five persons, to be elected by and from the stockholders of this corporation on the first Monday of February in each and every year, at meeting of this corporation to be held at Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, Ol in the city of San Francisco, State of Cali fornia, provided the following named stock holders shall serve at the Board of Directors until the regular election in February, 1897, and until their successors are elected and qualified, viz. Robert Ash, A. w. Poole, l.Iohn Cameron Simonds, William H. Me- Donald and Charles w. Pope; and provided further. that in the event of a vacancy in the Board of Directors before any annual meeting, said vacancy may be filled by a majority of the remaining members of the Board of Directors then in office. And 1t IS further provided that three members of the Board of Directors shall constitute aquorum forthe transaction of business, and that any meeting ofthe Board of Directors at which three Directors, or more, shall be present, 1 shall be legal meeting, and that notice ot any and all meeting of the Board of Di- reotors shall be served personally or by registered mail, with sufficient time to enable such Director, or Directors, to attend such meeting, or meetings.
 ARTICLE VI.
 The highest Indebtedness, direct or in direct to which this corporation shall at any time be subject, shall not exceed a honded indebtedness of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and floating in- debtedness of one hundred thousand dol lars.