Arizona republican., 1902-08-02
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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE BALTIMORE & SONORA GOLD & COPPER COMPANY"

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we, whose hands are hereunto affixed, do hereby assocl- 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 corporators 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 principal place in which the business of said cor poration within the Territory of Arl- zona is to be transacted is PhoeniA' Maricopa County, Arizona, and the principal place of business or sald cor poration outside the Territory of Arl- zona shall be the City of Baltimore, m the State of Maryland, at which meet ings 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 corpora ton is as follows, to-wit: To make contracts; to purchase, lease, bond, locate, or otherwise ac- qufre, 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 a 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 a 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,OO0.000) di- vided into five hundred thousand shares of the par value of ten dollars (s10.00) 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.is corpora ton 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 B. 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 corporation may pro- vide. The officers of said corporation until their successors are elected shall be J. O. Johnston, President; Daniel H. Hayne, Vice-President; Chester F. Johnston, Secretary; William 70 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, {s3,O00, ,0000O which amount does not exceed two- thirds the amount of the capital stock.
 Seventh: The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be exempt from corporate debts of any kind whatsoever.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We have hereunto set our hands and seals this twenty-flrst day of June, 1902.
 Attest: Howard D. Adams
 DANIEL H. HAYNE (SeaD
 WILLIAM H. BROOKE. (SeaD
 J. O. JOHNSTON. (Sean State of Maryland,
 City of Baltimore, ss
 On this Fist day of June. in the year 1902, before me, Howard D. Adams, Q Notary Public in and for the State an6 City aforesaid, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Daniel H. Hayne, William H Brooke and J. O. Johnston, known tC 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. 1 hav hereunto set my hand and affixed m, official seal. at my office in the sai, Inc I.4Nr I-r