Arizona silver belt., 1903-02-26
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
Of the Miners and Merchants Bank, Globe
 Arizona.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS Tn
 we the undersigned, arc citizens of the United
 States of America, and do hereby associate
 ourselves together for the purpose of forming
 a corporation under tho laws of the Territory
 of Arizona pursuant to and in conformation
 with Chapter H. Title XII, Revised Statutes
 of Arizona, of 1901, and to that end adopt the
 following articles of incorporation, to.wit:
 ARTICLE I.
 The names of the ncorporators are T. A.
 Pascoe Geo, w. P. Hunt II. II. Bru l.. F. | Wghtman, MD, J. R. Henry. Wm. II. Butler
 R. c. Sloan, N. s. Berray, A. NJ. Beal, ChaS r
 Martin. Il Sutei, F. F. Kelncr, Jr., W. D Fisk
 J. B. Newman, W, R. Rhoads J. II, Pascoe
 Patrick Rose, J. NJ. Alfred, c M Layton, Free
 Hubbard and Wm, Stevenson and the name
 of the corporation shall be, MINERS AND | MERCHANTS BANK" of Globe, Arizona
 and the principal place in which the business
 of said corporation is to be transsc cted in the | Territory of Arizona is at Globe, County of
 Gila, Arizona and at which place meetings Of
 the Board of Directors Of such corporation
 may be held, and the corporation may have | such branch ofdces or places within the Terri | tory Of Arizona as may be established by the Board Of Directors,
 ARTICLE II.
 The general nature Of the business proposed to be transacted by this corporation Is as fol lows: To do general banking business, and in that connection to receive deposits, loan money. invest and collect the same with in. terest and repay depositors with or without interest, to Issue certificates Of deposits, buy and sell exchange and to do all and every act .it, ,s..1 the management and operation Of general banking corporation; to purchase, lease, bond locate or control or otherwise acquire own hold, exchange, sell, or otherwise dispose of or pledge, mortgage, hypothecate and deal in real estate, franchises and any and an kinds of personal property, mines mining claims pros. poets, placer ground. oil, oil lands. mineral lands, gas, aSphaltum petroleum, electricity, electric power, water, water rights, coal and coal lands, salt and salt mines or deposits, be- rax deposits and machinery. and to work mine explore, operate and develop the same to es. tablish, operate and maintain salt plants saw mills quartz stamp mills, concentrating and cyanide plants, hydraulics and sluiclng works well drilling machinery and apparatus, storage tanks, redneries for metals, minerals and oils, 1 assaying plants, and L, erect, operate and maintain gas and gas works, electric limiting and powerplantS, water power; to construct, operate and maintain canals Gitches, fumes pipe lines, reservoirs and water tanks to con. struct operate and maintain tramways street | railways railroads, wagon roads. stages and l stage lines to erect and conduct hotels lodg- l Ing and boarding houses. stores and other | buildings; to own, sell, handle and control let | terS patent, trade marks and inventions: to | accept and execute trusts of any and every | nature, kind and description that may be com | miJted toiJ; |, attend In legal manner to the | and settlement of estates, guar. | Fecetverships assignments and oth- | CT trusts, whether under appointmentoi oi courts | or otherwise to act as administrator, execu. | tor and guardian of estates to act as pledge | holder attorney in fact, agent assignee. re- | ceiver or trustee todo safe deposit busl. | ness, to receive and keep in safe deposit | vaults, or in other places of safe keeping, | bonds stocks, notes paper and yaluables of | every kind. and to collect and receive com pensatIon for such keeping; to transfer. regis | ter and cOuntersign stock bonds, or other eyl. | dence of indebtedness Co issue and sell de- | beutures, bonds secured by mortgages on real | property or otherwise secured; to receive on | deposit, or otherwise, trust funds Of money | belonging to states counties, cities and other | corporations and to deal herewith | according tO the Ia" Of the Territory Of Ari | zona to buy sell and hypothecate shares oI | capital stock of other corporations to borrow | money and execute notes, bonds, mortgages | or deeds of trust as evidence Of such indebt- | eanesS and to secure the same to accept | notes, bonds and mortgages pledges or other | evidence Of indebtedness from individuals or | other corporations, and to exercise in respect | to ali such bonds. mortgages. notes, pledges | brother evidence Of indebtedness, and Secur | tiles and obligations, any and all rights pow | CTS and privileges Of individual owners there | of, and in general to do all things necessary | and requisite to the proper conduct Of the | business of this corporation under the laws i of the Territory of Arizona, and the laws of i the United States of America
 ARTICLE H.
 The authorized capital stock of this corpor ation shall be twenty-five thousand dollars | (S25 OlO), divided into two hundred and fifty | (25Ol shares of the par value of one hundred | dollars each, and transferable only on the |