Mohave County miner., 1903-12-26

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, whose hands are hereunto affixed, do here by associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming corporation under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end make the following statement:
 FIRST: The name of the corporators are: squire P. Bevier, John Boyle, Junior. and Robert Secular and the name of the corpora tion shall be The Premier Consolidated Gold Mines Company. The principal place within he Territory of Arizona in which the business | of said corporation is to be transacted is King man. Mohave County. Arizona. and the cor poration may establish branch offices either within or without the Territory of Arizona where meetings of the Board of Directors may be held and the principal place of business outside of the Territory shall be Saint Louis, Missouri, where stockholders meetings shall be held. ., ,...-
 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 acquire, own, exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deal in real estate and any and all kinds of personal property, mines, min ing claims oil lands, coal lands. mineral lands, oil, gas coal, shale asphaltum. petroleum, as- beStOS. salt, water and water rights and ma chinery, and to work mine, explore operate | and develop the same, and in general to do all | things necessary to the proper conduct of the business of this corporation in the Territory and elsewhere, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and the Territory of Arizona.
 | THIRD: The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shall be Three Mill, | ion Five Hundred Thousand dollars (SS5O0,UC0) divided into Three Million Five Hundred Thou- | sand shares of the par value of one dollar (SD | 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 | UT personal property for the uses and purposes | of said corporation, in payment for which | shares of the capital stock of said corporation | may be issued, and the capital stock so issued | shall thereupon and thereby become and be | fully paid up and non-assessable, and in the | absence of actual fraud in the transaction the l judgment of the Directors as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive.
 FOURTH: The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the date of the | filing of a certified copy of these Articles of | Incorporation according to law, and the termi- nation thereof shall be twenty five years there | after. ...,,-o...,r
 FIFTH: The affairs of this corporation shall | be conducted by a Board of Three Directors | and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are l elected: Squire P. Bevier John Boyle, Junior, and Robert Secular.
 Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be ] elected from among the stockholders on the l second Monday in January of each year. The
 officers of said corporation until their success
 ors are elected shall be: Squire F. Bevier, | President: John Boyle, Junior Vice-PreSident;
 Robert Secular, Secretary; and Treasurer.
 SIXTH: The highest amount of indebtedness
 or liability, direct or contingent. to which this corporation is at any time subject shall De | one hundred thousand dollars (Sl0O, ,OOO), 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 ex- empt from corporate debts of any kind what | Soever. -, ra
 In Witness Whereof, We have hereunto set our hands and seals this nineteenth day of
 October, 1903. ~ ..r
 SQUIRE P. BEVIER, | JOHN BOYLE, JR., ~..s.-.' | ROBERT SCOULAR.