The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1896-01-11
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
FrancO-American Mining and Milling
Company.

IL NOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS
| IN That we the undersigned have associated
ourselves together for the purpose of forming =
| corporation under the laws Of the Territory of
| Arizona.
And wee hereby certify as follows:
FIRsT.-The names of the incorporators are: A.
G. Adams; H: Harrison, ]. L. Curtis and E. N.
Browder. And the name of the corporation is and
shall be Franco-American Mining and Milling
Company and its principal place of transacting
business shall be at its office in the village of Yuma
in The County of Yuma and Territory of Arizona
with branch offices at such other places as the
Board Of Directors shall from time to time agree
upon.
sEcoND.-The general nature of business pro-
posed to be transacted by this corporation is min
ing, milling, smelling and reducing ores bearing
gold, SILVER, copper, lead and other metals and
minerals, buying, bonding, leasing and in any
other manner acquiring title to mines and mineral
lands in said Territory of Arizona and in any State
Territory of the United States of North America
developing working, Holding or selling same and
acqurir title to any other real or personal prop
erty by purchase, lease bond or otherwise, as the
Board of Directors may elect and holding or dis
posing of said Board of Directors see fit and
order.
THIRD.-The amount of capital stock authorized
by this corporation is ten million CSC, 900 ooo.)
dollars, divided into one million shares of the par
value of ten (s1O) dollars per share and is to be
issued and paid up called for from time TO time
by the Board of Directors of this corporation or bv
being issued and delivered from time to time by the
said Board of Directors in payment of property
purchased by this corporation; or for debts con-
| tracted by this corporation.
FoURTH.-The time of the commencement of this
corporation shall be the date of the day of the
filing of these articles of Incorporation in the Office
of the County Recorder of said Yuma County
Territory of Arizona, and its corporate existence
shall continue for the term of twenty Yeats from
and after said date unless sooner dissolved by
two-thirds majority vote of the stockholders.
FIFTH.-The affairs of this corporation are to be
conducted by a Board of Directors to be elected
annually upon the first Tuesday in Jshuary of each
and every ear and the election of said Directors
shall be in aeco, dance with the bylaws of said
corporation. All officers and directors of said
corporation shall be stockholders OF said corpor-
alton.
sIxTH.-The highest amount of indebtedness or
liability to which this corporation may at any time
be subject shall be ten thousand dollars.
SEvENTH-The private property of the stock
holders and directors of this corporation shall be
exempt from corporate debts.
EIGHTH--The officers of this corporation shall be |
q President, Vice-President, Secretary, and |
Treasurer and such other officers as the Board of
Directors may see proper to name and elect by |
resolution, and may be necessary and essential
in conducting the affairs of this corporation. |
NINTH.-The Directors elected for the first year |
and until the first annual meeting of the stock
holders on the First Tuesday in JAM ary 1896 are
ii. Harrison, j. l.. Curtis, E. M. Browder, Murat |
Masterson, and Thomas j. Hurley. Who shall act |
as such until their successors duly elected at
said first annual meeting of the stockholders.
TENTH:-That majority of the Directors shall
constitute quorum and that a quorum shall 1
have power to adopt bylaws and transact all other
corporate business.
ELEVENTH These articles of incorporation NAV
be amended by majority vote of the Board of |
Directors when authorized by vote or written |
assent OF the stockholders representing two-thirds
of the capital stock of this corporation,
In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed |
our names and affixed seals, this July 18TH /
1895.
A. G.. ADAMS, (Seal)
H. HARRISON, (SeaI)
J. L. CURTIS, (SealJ
Z. NJ. BROW DER, (Seal.)
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA
County Of Yuma. o..
Before me, Notary Public in and for said
County and Territory on this day personally ap-
peared A. G. Adams, H Harrison, j. L. Curtis and |
L. NJ. BTowder, known to me to be the persons
whose names are subscribed to the foregoing in
strument and acknowledged to that they exc
cuted the same for the purposes and considerations
therein expressed. 4
[sEAL.l SAMUEL PURDY,
Notary Public.
Received for Record, August 20 1895 at so |
minutes past o'clock a. m. at the request of NJ.
Masterson, Recorded in Book No. 1, of Bonds and |
agreements, page 4O4 ct sea-, Records of Yuma
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