Mohave County miner., 1901-08-03

and c. o. Retslofr, have this day associated
ourselves together for the purpose of forming
a corporation under the laws OF the Territory
of Arizona and we do hereby certifT.
That the name OF the corporation is declared
to be Southern Exploration and CONNER cial
Company and its principal place for transact.
ing business shall be Kngman County of Mo
have, Territory of Arizona, with branch Offices
at San Francisco, State of California, and Es,
merales, Ecuador, South America, and such
other places as the Board OF Directors may de
eide "
That the general nature of the business pro
posed to be transacted is as follows
l. To engage in and carry on in all branches,
in every part of the world, general CONNER.
cial, mercantile mining, shipping. transpor
tation, express, banking and safe deposit bus
mess; in any manner, and in every part OF the
world, to acquire by purchase, condemnation,
exchange, location, appropriation, or other.
wise, and to sell, mortgage, least, or otherwise
dispose OF property Of every kind, and any In
terests therein; to erect, establish, buy, lease,
operate ana dispose OF lands, mines. stores,
warehouses, safe-depost vaults, factories
vessels waterworks, wharves, docks, hotels
boarding houses, and other buildings and
works, that in the opinion Of the Board Of Di.
rectors for the tine being may facilitate the
carrying on of the business OF said corporation
.. To contribute in every manner to the ex-
pense OF constructing improving, maintaining
or operating any works deemed calculated by
It's Board OF Directors for the time being to
directly or Indirectly advance the interests Of
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with reference to, or dispose OF, stocks or Sc
cureties OF this or any other corporation; to
do such business OF whatever nature and in
such places in every part of the world as the
Board of Directors may from time to time de-
termine. .....
g. To promote, maintain, do, acquire, own,
operate and dispose OF, each and everything
incidental to, or which in the Judgment OF its
Board of Directors may be necessary, conyen-
lent, or proper 10 carry out or perform any of
the purposes aforesaid, or which in the iudg.
meut of the Board Of Directors for the time
being may tend, or be declared to tend, to ad.
vance the interests of the corporation directly
or indirectly. .. ..,.. r... .............. ...
That the amount Of the capital stock Of this
corporation shall be ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS (siOO,OOO,O,D divided into ONE HUN
DRIED THOUSAND SHARES 100000 OF the par
value of ONE DoLLAa CsL0o) each, and the same
shall be paid for In cash or its equivalent In
full as the same shall be subscribed and when
issued shall be full paid and non assessable
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That the time OF commencement OF said cor
poration shall be the day Of the filing OF these
articles In the Office OF the Recorder OF Mohaye
County, Territory Of Arizona, and the termina-
tion thereof shall be twenty-five years there
after
PIE direct or contingent Indebtedness OF this
corporation shall at no time exceed TWENTY
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS (25,oOO.O0). ...r B..
s
The private property Of stockholders OF this
corporation shall not in any event be liable for
the debts of this corporation.
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The affairs OF this corporation shall be man
aged and conducted by Board Of Directors
consisting OF Five persons, who shall be bona
fide stockholders of this corporation and the
names and residences Of the Directors who are
appointed for the first year, to serve until the
election and qualification OF their successors
are as follows, to-wit:
Chas. A. Wainwright San Francisco, Cal
| J. c. Hallocf.
f, Harrie X. Hardness,
| J. X. B Coon, g. 4"
G. o. Retslon, #r"
| The said Board of Directors shall be elected
annually on the first Monday in July OF each
| year by the stockholders and shall hold ONCE
for the term of one year, or until their sue
cessors are elected and have qualified The
time ana manner Of such election. and the
qualifications of the Directors shall be pre-
scribed IN and provided for by the Bylaws OF
this CORPORATION, The oficers OF the Board OF
Directors shall be President, vice-President.
Secretary and Treasurer and General Manager,
and such other officers as the Board may order
and direct.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our
hands and seals this second day OF July, A. ID.
1901. CHAS. A. WAINWRIGHT, (Seal)
j. G. HALLOCK (SeaD
HARRIE X. HARIiNESS, (Seal,
J.RB COON (SeaD
t-s c. o. RETSLoFF, (Seal)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA. sr
City and County of San Francisco. S7'
On this I'd day OF July, in the year One Thou
sand Nine Hundred and One, before me, A. X
Daggett, Notary Public in and for the City
and County Of San Francisco, residing therein
duly commissioned and sworn, personally ap
peared Chas. A. Wainwright, j. c. Hallock
Harrie X. Hardness, J. r. b. Coon and @. o
Retsloff. known to me 10 be the persons WHOSE
names are subscribed to the within instrument
and acknowledged to me that they executed
the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, have hereunto SCI
my hand and afnxed my ofhcial seal at my of
fee In the City and County of San Francisco
the day and year in this certificate first abov,
written. A. X. DAGGETT,
Notary Public in and for the City and Count,