The Arizona sentinel., 1902-02-05
ARTICLES OF INC0RPORATION.
 OF THE Rio Del Monte Gold Mines Company

Know ali men by these presents that John P. Jones' Richard F. Pettigrew and Stephen w. Dorsey, being citizens of the United States of America, have this day associated ourselves to- cether for the purpose of forming a corporation under and by virtue of the general incorpora- tion laws of the Territory of Arizona, and all the amendments thereto, and for that object do hereby adopt the following articles Of incorpor- ation, namely:
 First-That the names of the incorporatorS are John P Jones, Richard F, PettiGrew and Stephen w. Dorsey, and that the name of the corporation shall be the Rio Del Monte Gold Mines Company. That the princi- pal place for the transaction of the business of the said corporation is and shall be the Town of Yuma, in the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona. with brarch offices at such other places as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.
 Second-The general nature of the business propcsed to be transacted by said corporation is mining gold silver and other metals, and in the furtherance of that object, to buy sell lease, bond develop and operate mines, mining claims, mills. cyanide plants, pump, saw mills, coal mines, coke ovens; to buy, sell, lease, bond, construct, maintain and operate canals ditches, fumes reservoirs wells, ripe lines .nd all other equipments necessary or incidental to the devel- opment of water and other powers, for mining. milling and domestic purposes; to obtain by purchase or otherwise mill building and town sites; to erect thereon all necessary buildings for it's own use or to rent; shafts, mills, smelt- CTS concentrators, cruShers and all kinds of machinery. apparatus or contrivance necessary or useful in reducing ores and extracting the values therefrom; to buy, own, lease, bond, construct maintain and operate railroads, wag- cnroadS, electric reads, trGmways, or other agencies adapted to the conveyance of ores, freight material of any kind, as well as passen- gers; to own, control, buy and sell patents or other inventions in any way relating to the = ing business, to carry on and maintain general mercantile business, or to grant exclus- i've rights to others to do so on the premises of the corporation; to borrow money, issue bonds and to mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose Of any or all of its property; to acquire both real and personal property Of any and every sort, to buy and sell the same, to consolidate it's prop ertJ with other corporations; to buy sell and own the stock or bonds of other corporations; and to do and perform in any and all acts and things necessary to do and perform in any man. ncr incidental to the carrying out of all the pur- poses hereinbeforc specified.
 Third-That the amount of the capital stock of said company shall be Five Hundred Thous- and (5OO00O) shares of the par value of Five Dollars ($5.OC) per share.
 Fourth-That the corporate existence of said company shall commence upon the day of the filing of these Articles of Incorporation in the office of the County Recorder of the County of riz md hal cnntinnp fOr on tV- five years thereafter.
 Fifth-Ihat the affairs of the corporation shall be managed by 0 Board of nine -rectors and that the first Board of Directors shall consist Of John P. Jones, Richard r. Pettigrew, Marion Butter, Stephen W. Dorsey, J, B. Land6eid, Jr., Charles H, Fay, James Simmons, J, B. Peter son and Edmund II. Moves, who shall hold their offices for period of one year from the date of the recording of these Articles or until their successors are duly elected end qualified. At the expiration of the year above stated, or soon- CT if the stockholders elect, a new Board of Di- rectors shall be elected by the stockholders of said corpor .tiOn at it's regular annual meeting; said annual meeting to be held on the second Monday of October of each year in the Town of Yuma, Territory of Arizona.
 Sixth-The Board Of Directors shall have the power to appoint al Executive Committee con sisting of three members of the Board, who shail exercise all of the powers necessary for the proper conduct of the business and report their proceedings to the Board of Directors Seventh-The officers Of said corporation shall consist Of President Vice-President, Score tary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer ard Assist ant Treasurer, and such other officers as the Board of Directors may from time to time create.
 Eighth-The President and Vice-President of the corporation shall be members of the Board of Directors, and no Director shall hold office who is not bona fidc stockholder Of record in the corporation. In the event of the death or resignation or disability of any Directors the remaining members of the Board of Directors may fill the vacancy by the election of some | Stockholder.
 | Ninth-That the highest amount of indebted ness that this corporation shall at any time create shall not exceed the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Gs5OO, ,OOO) Dollars.
 Tenth-That all private property of the stock holders of said corporation shall be exempt from any and all liability for corporation debts In witness whereof VIC hJve hereunto set our hands and seals this 3rd day of January, 1902.
 JOHN P. JONES, (Seal) RICHARD F. PETTIGREW, (Seal)
 STEPHEN W. DOI.SEY, (seal) STATE OF NEW YORK,
 County of New York.
 | On this 3rdday of January, 1902 before me personally, came John P. Jones, Richard F. Pettigrew and Stephen W. Dorsey, each to me personally known and known to me to be the individuals described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and they severally ac- knowledged to me that they executed the same. JOHN G. HONEY, (Seall Notary Public N. Y. County.
 Recorded at request 0; J. H. Carpenter at 3:1e p, ID, January s, A. D. 1902.
 C. P. GROWN, County Recorder. Territory of f, Arizona Xd@n ss
 1 IC.P ?. Cronin, County Recorder in and for the County of Yuma, Territory oi Arizona, do hcret. certify that the foregoing is true, full and correct copy of the articles of incorporation l of the Rio Del MOntc Gold Mines Company, aS filed for record in my eff1ce, and which appears of record in Book 8 of Bonds and Agreements, uage -et sea-, records of Yuma county, afore- | said.
 l In witness whereof have hcreunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 10th day C.P. GROWN, [SealI County Recorder, Yuma County. A. T. First publication January 15 1902.
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