Williams news., 1906-04-21
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION Poison Bros. Mercantile
 Company

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
 That we, the undersigned, Alfred Poison, Frank O. Poison and Prince A. Melick, the cor porators, have this day associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corp0r- ation a1h % to rtr m d for hat purpose do adopt Articles of Incorporation" as follOws to-wit:
 ARTICLE I.
 The names of the corporators of this corpora tion are Alfred Poison, Frank o. Poison and Prince A. Melick.
 ARTICLE II.
 The name of this corporation is, and it shall be, "Polson Bros. Mercantile Company" ARTICLE III. The principal place of transacting business of this corporation is. and it shall be, the Town of Williams. in CocOninO County Territory of Ariz9na and it may have other places sba oi eTsl r ritory or State if so hereafter at any time de- termined by the Board of Directors. ARTICLE ".
 All incorporators', stockholders and direct ors' meetings shall e held at Williams. Ari- zona; except otherwise hereafter ordered by the Board of Directors.
 ls ARTICLE
 The affairs of this corporation shall be man. aged by Board of not less than three. nor more than five directors, who shall be elected an- nually on the first Tuesday coming on or after the fifteenth day of February, of each and every year, as the Bylaws may provide; excepting that, until otherwise ordered by any meeting of the stockholders, such Board of Directors shall consist of three. and the following persons shall constitute the Board of Directors of this ! corporation until their successors are elected and qualified:
 Alfred Poison, of Garfield, Kansas.
 Frank O. Poison, of Williams, Arizona. Prince A. Melick. of Williams, Arizona. ARTICLE VI.
 The amount of the capital stock of this corporation shall be One Hundred and Fifty Thousand ($15OO OO.OO) Dollars. divided into Eff Hundred tsioo.oo1 Dollars each: ph and the said capital stock shall be fully paid up at the date of its issuance and it may be paid for in morey, property, labor. or any other right or thing of value, and the judgment and decision of the Board of Directors, or managing officers, as the value thereof, shall be conclusive. ARTICLE VII.
 posed to be transacted by this Corporation is, and it shall be, as follows. tO-wit: To own, carry on, maintain, manage and con- duct general wholesale and retail merchant disc business, or businesses, at Will lliams Arl- zona and such other or different places as it may desire; and to manufacture, buy, acquire, own hold, sell, give, trade assign. divert trans fer. or otherwise acquire or dispose of every wares. merchandise, bonds, notes, mortgages, securities. and all and every other class, kind, sonal in any manner it may deem if or neces- sary, or incident to the carrying on and con- ducting of such merchandise business. To buy, sell own, hold, lease, mortgage, or hypothecate, give, slaughter, and otherwise deal in live stock of any and every description, and the brands irons: and marks & TOT any sueh , eraI butcher business, and to buy and self all and any kinds of meats, hides, pelts. and other properties necessary for or incident to live stock and to a butcher business.
 To secure, take, purchase, own, buy, acquire, hold, sell. lease, mortgage, or otherwise use, store houses, warehouses, or any interest there in and real estate, notes, mortgages, or other Securities of all and every description, collat- municipal or corpOrate and corporate shares of capital stock; and any other securities, obli- Oat nfS nd Of debtedness of any character; and to sell or pledge any or all such securities; and generally to exercise in respect to the same. and each and all of the above mentioned affairs, any and all right, powers and privileges of individual nat ural persons, owners thereof.
 ARTICLE VIII.
 The time of the commencement of this corpor- atOn shall be the date of the filing of these Arti cles of Incorporation for record in the office of the County Recorder, and certified copy there of in the office of the territorial auditor; and this corporation is formed to endure for twenty i've years thereafter. but it may be renewed from time to time for d period of twenty-five years longer, each time perpetually.
 ARTICLE TX. The highest amount of indebtedness and lia- bility, direct or contingent, to which this cor pOration is at any time to be subject. shall be in no case to exceed One Hundred Thousand Dollars. stockholders of this corporation shall be, and it is hereby made forever exempt from all lia bilty for its corporate debts of every kind what sOever.
 ARTICLE XI. The capital stock of this corporation shall be and it is hereby made forever non-assessable, | for any and every purpose.
 ARTICLE XII. The Directors of this Corporation may ap- point General Manager, who shall have all l the powers which said Board of Directors may confer upon him. In Witness Whereof, we have hereunto set our hand and seals. at Williams. Arizona, this the 21st day of March, A.D., 1906
 ALFRED POISON. [Seal1 |
 FRANK O. POISON. [Seal1 |
 PRINCE A. MELICK. tSeall | TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, ~