Arizona republican., 1903-02-14
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE DULUTH AND VIRGINIA GOLD MINING COMPANY.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS. That we, whose hands are hereunto affixed, do hereby associata ourselves together for the purpose or forming a corpora tion under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and to that end make the following statement:
 First. The names of the corporators are: Norman H. Murray, J. c. Harris and A M. Morrison and the name of the corporation shall be THE DULUTH & VIRGINIA GOLD MINING COM PANY. Tine principal place in which the business of said corporation within the Territory of Arizona is to be trans acted is Phoenix, Maricopa County. Arizona, and the principal place Of business of said corporation outside the Territory of Arizona shall be the City of Duluth in the State of Minnesota, at which meetings of the Board of Di rectors may be held, and the corpora tfon 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 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, mining claims, oil lands, mineral lands, oil, gas asphaitum, petroleum, asbestos, salt water and water rights and machinery. and to work, mine, explore, operate and develop 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 corpo- rations: to borrow money and execute notes. bonds, mortgages, or deeds Of trust to secure the same, and to exer- else in respect of all such bonds, mort gages, notes, shares of capital stock and other securities and obliga tions any and all rights, powers and prvi- leges of individual owners thereof, in- cluding 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 Ter ritory 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 One Million Dollars ($1,000, ,000) di- vided into one million shares of the par value of one dollar (S1.o0) 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 CT by the sale and trans fer to 1t of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said corpora ton, in payment for which shares of the capital stock of said corporation n may be issued, and the capital stock 50 issued shall thereupon and thereby be- come and be fully paid up and no assessable. and in the absence of actual frauu 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 of incorporation in the office of the Sec retary of Arizona, and the termination thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter.
 Fifth: The affairs of this corporation l shall be conducted by q board of nine Directors and the following named shall constitute the Board of Directors until their successors are elected: Norman H. Murray, J. G. Harris, A. M. Mori- son, James Kelly, 4. J. Murray. H. $. MockfCrd. Andrew Bloom, R. J. Morri- son, Edward McVean. Thereafter the Board of Directors shall be elected from among the stockholders as the by laws of the corporation may provide. | The officers of said corporation until | their successors are elected shall be: | Norman H. Murray, President; Edward 1 McNean, Nice-PresideGt; J. G. Harris, Secretary; Donald Morrison, Treasurer.
 Sixth: The highest amount of in debtedness or liability, direct or contin- gent, to which this corporation is 1t any time subject shall be One Hundred 1 Thousand Dollars ($10O,000), 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.
 hereunto set our hands and seals this 12th day of January, 1905
 NORMAN H. MURRAY. (SeaD A. M. MORISON, (SeaD
 J. c. HARRIS. (SeaD State of Minnesota
 County of St. Louis, ss.
 On this day of January, in the year 1903 before me, Saide McLenan, d Notary Public in and for the State and County aforesaid, residing therein duly commissioned and sworn, person. ally appeared Norman H. Murray, J. G Harris and A. M. Morrison, known to me to be the persons described in whose names are subscribed to- an.l who executed the annexed instrument and they acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and considerations therein expressed.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have 1 hercunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, at my office in the said State and County, the day and year last | above written.
 (Notarial Seal) SAIDE McLENAN.
 Notary Public
 My commission expires G-1S-1SO9
 Territory of Arizona,
 County of Maricopa, ss
 I. B. F. McFall. County Recorder ir