Arizona republican., 1902-07-31
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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE BALTIMORE & SONORA GOLD X COPPER COMPANY"

are hereunto affixed, do hereby asSoci- ate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end make the following state ment:
 First: The names of the curporators are Daniel H. Hayne, William H. Brooke, J. O. Johnston. and the name of the corporation shall be THE BAL TIMORE AND SONORA GOLD AND COPPER COMPANY. The princlpai place in which the business of sad cor poration within the Territory of Ari- zona is to be transacted is fhoehiA' MaricOpa County, Arizona, ana the principal place of business or saiu cor poration outside the Territory of Ari- Zona shall be the City of Baltimore, Tn the State of Maryland. at which meet ines of the stockholders and Board of Directors may be held. and the corpo- ration may have such branch offices either within or without the Territory of Arizona as may be established by the Board of Directors.
 Second: The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation is as follows. to-wit: To make contracts; to purchase, lease, bond locate. or otherwise ac- quire, own, exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hypothe- cate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property, mines, mining claims, oil lands, min eral lands, oil. gas, asphaltum, petro- leum, asbestos, salt, water and water rights and machinery. and to work, mine, explore, operate and de- velop the same; to do general real estate, manufacturing and mercantile business; to own, handle and control letters patent and inventions and shares of capital stock of other cor porations; to borrow money and exc cute notes, bonds, mortgages. or deeds of trust to secure the same, and to eX- ercise in respect of all such bonds, mortgages, notes, shares of capital stock and other securities and obliga- tions any and all rights. powers and privileges of individual owners thereof, including the right to vote upon any shares of stock held by it to the same extent that q natural person might or could do; and in general to do all things necessary to the proper conduct of the business of this corporation in the Territory and elsewhere. not in- consistent with the laws of the United States and the Territory of Arizona.
 Third: The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be Five Million dollars s5.000.000) di- vided into five hundred thousand shares of the par value of ten dollars ($10OO each. At such time as the Board of Directors may by resolution direct, said capital stock shall be paid into this corporation either in cash or by the sale and transfer to it of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said corporation. in pay ment for which shares of the capital stock of said corporation may be is sued, and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid up and non assess able, and in the absence of actual fraud in the transaction the judgment of the Directors as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive. Fourth. The time of the commence ment of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of these Articles oi Incorporation in the office of the Sec retary of Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 Fifth: The affairs of t.iis corpora tion shall be conducted by a Board of seven and not more than eleven Di- rectors and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected: Daniel H. Hayne. William H. Brooke. J. O. Johnston, William E. Mccormick. Wal ter s. Matthews, Frank D. Thomas, P Sandoval, w. E. Johnston. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders as the bylaws Of the corpora ton may pro- off of f until their successors are elected shall be J. O. Johnston. President: Daniel H Hayne, Vice-President; Chester F. Johnston. Secretary; William H Brooke, Treasurer.
 Sixth: The highest amount of in- debtedness or liability. direct or con- tingent, to which this corporation is at any time subject shall be Three million dollars, (s3000, ,0O0.0O) which amount does not exceed two-thirds the amount of the capital stock.
 Seventh: The private property of the stockholders of this corpora tior shall be exempt from corporate debts of any kind whatsoever.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty-first day of June. 1902.
 Attest: Howard D. Adams
 DANIEL H. HAYNE. Seal
 WILLIAM H. BROOKE. (SeaD
 J. o. JOHNSTON. (SeaI State of Maryland
 City of Baltimore, ss.
 On this Fist day of June. in the year 1902, before me, Howard D. Adams, a Notary Public in and for the State anC City aforesaid, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn. personally appeared Daniel H. Hayne, William H Brooke and J. O. Johnston, known tt me to be the persons described in whose names are subscribed to, anC who executed the annexed instrument and they acknowledged to me tha they executed the same for the pur poses and considerations therein ex pressed.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hav hereunto set my hand and affixed m, official seal, at my office in the sai, State and City, the day and year las above written.
 (Notary Seal)
 HOWARD D. ADAMS.