Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1906-02-22
ARTICLES OF Incorporation
The Arizona National Copper Company
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

OF
The Arizona National Copper Company
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
That we, the undersigned, Thomas
NJ. b. Hicks, of the City of Williams
port and State of Pennsylvania, and
Leroy Scholl of the city of Williams
port and State of Pennsylvania, and
Thomas p. Kelly, of the City of Lara
mic and State of Wyoming, have this
day associated ourselves together for
the purpose of forming a corporation
under the laws of the Territory of Ari-
IONA. And We hereby certify:
FIRST. That the name of the corpor-
alton shall be, ''The Arizona National
Copper Company, and its principal
place of transacting business shall be
the town of Globe in the county of ella
and territory of Arizona.
SECOND. That the general nature of
the business proposed TO be transacted
by the said corporation is as follows:
The buying, leasing, holding and selling
of mines, and the mining, milling,
smelling, treating and marketing of
copper, gold, silver, and other ores and
metals, and the doing of any and all
things appropriate to the successful
carrying on of the said business, in
GLIDING the constructing and operating
of railroad or railroads, tramway or
tramways, turnpike or turnpikes, canal
or canals, to lead from its principal
works or place of business to some
navigable stream, or TO some existing
railroad, turnpike or public highway.
THIRD. That the amount of the
capital stock of said corporation shall
be Three Million Dollars, and the num-
Der of shares into which 1t is divided is
Three Hundred Thousand shares of
the par value of Ten Dollars each,
which amount is to be paid in at the
times and upon the conditions follow
ing, namely: The ownership of stock
in said corporation shall be evidenced
| by certificates of stock, signed by the
proper officers and under the common
and corporate seal of said corporation,
and shall be issued only for money
/ services or property paid to the cor
alton, which payment shall be made
within three months of the subscrip
ton to any such stock, and the GER
tificates If stock shall not be ISSUED
until fully paid for. The stock, wher
issued, shall be full paid and non
assessable.
FOURTH That the time of com
mencement of said corporation is tn,
first day of February, in the year o
our Lord, one thousand nine hundre,
and six, and the time of its termina
ton shall be the thirty-first day o
March, in the year of our Lord, on
thousand nine hundred and thirty -one
The said corporation shall have tn
right to be renewed from time to tim
for a like period of twenty-five years
in accordance with the provisions o
law.
FIFTH That the officers of said corpor
alton to onduct its affairs shall con
sist of board of directors, consisting
of not less than three nor more tina
five persons, and those who shall b
directors of the said corporation unit
others are duly elected in their place
shall be Thomas M. b. Hicks, of tn
city of Williamsport and state of Penn
sylvania, Leroy Scholl, of the city o
"
vania, and Thomas p. Kelly, of tn
city of Laramie and state of Wyoming
Directors shall be elected by vote o
the stockholders at regular meeting O
the first day of February, A. D. 1907
and on the first day of each Februar
thereafter. The board of director
shall have the power to fill any vacan
cies in said board until the then mex
annual meeting of the stockholders
The board of directors shall annual
elect president, treasurer, secretar
and superintendent Of said corporation
and such other officers as said board ma
from time to time provide; and ma
elect one person to fill any two of sal
offices. The board of directors sha
have the power to adopt bylaws defir
ing the duties of the various officers Q
said corporation and for the manage
ment of the affairs of the corporation
and from time to time change, alter an
{ amend the same; but the stakeholder
: may at any meeting, by majorit
t vote of stock, change, alter or amen
any of such bylaws. A majority G
the members of the board of directors
as the same shall from time to time b
constituted, shall be a quorum for tn
transaction of any business. The boar
of directors shall have the power, upo
such terms as they may determine, [
buy, sell, incumber or convey, an
property of said corporation, real c
personal.
SIXTH. That the highest amount &
Indebtedness or liability to which sal
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