The Arizona sentinel., 1899-08-05
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.
 OF THE American Boy Gold Mining Company.

Know all men by these presents that we, the undersigned, H. II. Markham, Frank S. Daggett, George D. Patten, D. W. i Field and Thomas Johnson desiring to be- come incorporated under the provisions of Title l2, of the Revised Statutes of the Territory of Arizona, as approved March Sth, 1897, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of incorporat- ing under the said statute, and in pursuance there of do hereby make, declare and adopt the follow ing as our articles of incorporation:
 Article 1.-The name of this corporation shall be the American Boy Gold Mining Company" and the principal place of business shall be in the City of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, and in the City of Pasadena State of California. The stockholders of the corporation meeting at the former place. and the board of directors as hereinafter constituted, meeting in the latter place, and the corporation shall have power to establish branch offices for the transaction of business at other places to be de- 1 signated by the Bylaws.
 Article 2-The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by the Corporation is: First-To acquire by purchase, location or other- wise, mines, mining locations, mills, smeters and all other necessary machinery, property and ap- paratus for the location, owning and operating of mines, mills, smeters, and kindred property Al so to manage, operate, control hypothecate, sell, lease O, otherwise enjoy the same.
 Second-To acquire by purchase, location or otherwise water and water rights and to own, de- velop, operate, construct, control and cnj.y such water, water rights, water systems, dams, con duits and other necessary adjuncts to any such system for the sale, rental use ill development, operation control and enjoyment of mines and other lawful purposes.
 Third-To carry on a general mercantile business such as is proper and usual for the purpose of rur chasing and selling goods, articles merchandise to its employees or others desiring the in the locality of it's general business.
 Fourth-To transact any manner of lawful bus ness that may be necessary, useful or convenient for the purpose of carrying out the general purpose of the Corporation.
 Article 3--The amount of the Capital Stock au thorized by the Corporation shall be the sum O S3OO,o0O, divided into Six thousand shares of the par value of Fifty (5O) dollars each, and the time when and the conditions upon which it is to be paid in are as follows, tOWt: The entire amoun theleof has been subscribed and will be paid il full upon the filing of these articles with the County Recorder of the said County of Yuma, by the sub scribers deedng to the Corporation certain mines mining locations, and other property now owneC by the subscribers in the State of California.
 Article 4-The time of the commencement of thi Corporation shall be when these articles of incor poration are filed in the County Recorders office o the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, and tn termination of the corporation shall be twenty five years thereafter.
 < Article 5--The corporate powers of the Corpora tion shall be vested in Board of five directors Wh .r 1i bX- Gf bFIf pTS meeting assembled for that purpose in the City c ! Yuma Territory of Arizona, on the Sth day c / July of each and every year. The said Board c Directors shall choose President, Vice President Secretary and Treasurer, whose term of office an duties shal be specified by the By-LaWs. The sai 7}oard of Directors shall be chosen by the stock hoI iers by cumulative voting, each sOckhoder be ing permitted to east as many votes as he hold shares of stork, multiplied by the number of D ractors to be elected and shall be permitted to cas all of said votes for any one person, or to distrbut said votes as he may desire
 Article 6-Ihe highest amount of indebtedness crliability to which the Corporation is to at an time subject itself is the sum of Twenty-Five thous
 Article 7--Private property shall be exempt fror corporate lebts.
 itr1i,Ja S-LThese articles of incorporation may b amended at any annual meeting Of the stockhold e or at any special meeting thereof called for tha 1 Uurpose by e majority vote or the stock of tn corporation and by 4lhs cerUllcate oI said amend ment duly certified by the proper officers of tn ! CornoratiGn, in the same manner as provided b Iay, for filing original articles.
 J i Tn witness whereof we have hereunto set ou hands and seals this 20th day of June, 1899.
 H. II MARKHAM, (sEAL)
 FRANK S DAGGETT, (sFAL)
 GEORGE D. PATTON, (sEAD
 D. ". FIELD, (sEAL)
 THOS. JOHNSON, (sEAL) T STATE or CALIFORNIA, County of Los Angeles }ss J On this 2ath day of June, 1899, before me, a No tary Public in and for the County Of Los Angeles . Stafe of California, personally appeared H. II l Markham Frank 5. Daggett George D. Pdtten am . D W Field all of whom are known to me to be tn I,ersons whose names subscribed to the fore going instrument, and acknowledged to me tha they executed the same ol UAet o"n free VIII an'
 Witness my hand and Notary seal the 29th day O Tune 1sg0 J.F. CHURCH, Notary Public in and for the County of Los An geles, State of California.
 TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, County of Yuma lss.
 On this 7th day of July, ill the year one thousand eight hundred and ninetYnine, before he, F. L. EW inc a Notary Public, in and for the said County O ! Yuma, residing therein, duly commissioned ant sworn, personally appeared Thomas Johnson, Whos' name subscribed to the annexed instrument as par tv thereto personally known to me to be the persOI described in and who executed the said annexed in strumeut a. party thereto, who duly acknowledged to me that he executed the same fr.ely and volun tarily, and for the and purposes therein men toned.
 and aXedu official sea at my office in the County of Yuma, the day and year in this CertllcaJe hrs above written F. L. EWING, Notary Public , Commission expires Sept. 26, 1899.
 Received for record July 8th, 1899 at o'clock a ; n at request of Thos. Johnson. Recorded ln book No ? of Bonds and Agreements, page Z39 ct seq. records of Yuma county Arizona Ierrltory W. E. MARVIN, Recorder. By FRANK AvILA,
 Deputy Recorder. (sEALI