Arizona silver belt., 1903-02-19
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
or the Miners and Merchants Bank, Globe,
 Arizona

| KNOW ALI. MEN BY THESE PRESENTS Thqt | we the undersigned, are citizens of the United States of America and do hereby associate
 ourselves together for the purpose of forming
 a corporation under the 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 l.
 The names of the incorporators are T. A. | Pascoe, Geo w. P. Hunt II. H. Bru. L. F. | Wightman, VI. D., J. R. Henry, Wm. IT. Butler,
 R. c. Sloan, N. s, Berray, A. Nj. Beal Chas T. | Martin, J. SuteI, F.. F. Kellner, Jr., w. D Fisk,
 J E, 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 transacted in the | Territory of Arizona is at Globe. County of Glla, Arizona, and at which place meetings of the Board Of Directors of such corporation
 may be held and the corporation may have
 such branch offices or places within the Terri
 tory Of Arizona as may be established by the
 Board of Directors,
 ARTICLE IT,
 The general nature of the business proposed
 to be transacted by this corporation is us 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 ard to do all and every act requisite, essential and necessary in and about the management and operation of a 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 all 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 bo- | rax deposits and machinery and to work mine explore operate and develop the same to es- tabish, operate and maintain salt plants, saw | mills quartz stamp mills, concentrating and | cyanide plants, hydraulics and slutcing works | well drilling machinery and apparatus, storage | tanks, reGneries for metals, minerals and oils, | aSsaying plants, and tO erect, operate and | maintain gas and gas works, electric liahting | and powerplants, water power; to construct, | operate and maintain canals, ditches, fumes | pipe lines, reservoirs and water tanks to con. Struct operate and maintain tramways, street | railways, railroads, wagon roads stages and | stage lines to erect and conduct hotels, lodg | 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 Oi any and every | nature, kind and description that may be com. mitted toit; tJ attend In legal manner to the | management and settlement of estates guar receiyerships assignments and oth- CT trusts. whether under appointment Of 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 a safe deposit busi- 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 evi. | dence of indebtedness to issue and sell de- | bentureS, bonds secured by mortgages on real | property or otherwise secured to receive on | deposit or otherwise, trust funds of money | belonging Co states. counties, cities and other | municipal corporations. and Co deal herewith | according to the law of the Territory of Ar | lona to buy, sell and hypothecate shares Of l capital stock of other corporations Co borrow | money and execute notes bonds, mortgages | or deeds of trust aS evidence Of such indebt- | edness 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 all such bond, mortgages. notes, pledges | or other evidence of indebtedness and secur- tiles and obligations, any and all rights pow CTS and privileges of individual owners there ot and in general to do all things necessary and requisite to the proper conduct of the business Of this corporation, under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and the laws Of the United States of America.
 ARTICLE III
 The authorized capital st ocb of this corpor- aton shall be twenty-five thousand dollars CS25 OJO), divided into two hundred and fifty (25W shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each, and transferable only on the books of the company. Said capital stock shall be paid into the corporation either in cash or by sale and transfer to it Of real or personal property for the uses ana purposes Of this corporation at such time as the Board of Directors may, by resolution, direct, authorize and accept, and such payment, for which shares Of capital stock of this corporation