The Arizona sentinel., 1907-07-03
Articles of Incorporation of the Mayhew Free Gold Mining Company.

the purpose Of creating corporation undCr the laws of the Territory of Arizona in inc United States of America. To that end we d adopt this instrument as Articles of ln- c ,rporation of said corporation. We do therefore certify: FIRsr-That the names of the incorpora- tors are those which arc hereunto subscribed; viz: Felix Mayhew. George r. Hodges, George H. Barker and w. $. Wright.
 The name Of the corporation is fixed as "Mayhew Free Gold Mining Company The principal place of business of the cor poration shall be the Town Of Yuma, Yuma County. in the Territory of Arizona.
 Meetings Of the stock holders of the corpor- alton shall be held at said Yuma, at the office of the corporation.
 Meetings of the directors of the corporation may be held at such place within or without the Territory of Arizona may be authoriz- ed by the bylaws of the corporation If al any time the directors shall meet at any place not fixed by the bylaws, the acts of such directors shall be valid acts Of the Board of Directors if such meeting be held by the written consent of all of the directors, or if the acts Of the directors at the meeting be approved by written endorsement of such approval by the absent directors upon the 
 at such meeting. or endorsed upon the copy of said minutes filed in the office Of the Secretary of the corporation and certified to by the Secretary as such copy.
 SEcoND-The general nature Of the busi- ness proposed to'be transacted by the cor poration is as follows:
 Toin any lawful way acquire, ,own, hold, hire. rent, pledge, mortgage, sell, improve, loan, operate and generally deal in, manage, and make profit from, mines, mining property, reduction mills, hotels, hydraulic, electric and other power plants, transportation lines railroads and tramways, telephone and tele- graph lines, real estate, stocks, bonds, eVi- aences cf debt, and other personal property of every character and description. To incur debts and to execute it's promises to pay the same with interest. To vote upon, and as sent to or dissent from, all propositions sub- mittcd to it as a stockholdcr or bondholdel of any corporation. To guaranty and be come liable for. tSze performance of, obllga lions and payment of debts. To pledge ol mortgage ts property for such purpose. It act as agent or trustee in any lawful man ner. Through its Board of Directors 10 d' any and all Of its business one party, witt any of its directors, stockholders, or officers as other parties, as freely, and in the sam' manner, as though they werenot such direc tors, officers or stockholders. But it is to b' generally classcd as a mining corporation and such is to be its principal business.
 It Is also to have and exercise the power now authorized by Section 765 of the Revisc' Statutes of the Territory of Arizona, whicl section is as follows:
 Among the powers of such bodies corpoI ale shall be the following:
 ]. To have perpetual succession.
 D To sue and be sued by the cerporat Dame.
 3. To have a common seal and alter tE same at pleasure.
 To render the shares or interest C stockholders trans, rable and prescribe tn mode Of making uch transfers.
 ,. To exempt the private property of men bers from l. ability for corporate debts.
 To make contracts, acquire and tran fer property. possessing the same powers such respects as private individuals no enjoy.
 :. To establish bylaws and make a rules and regulations deemed eXpedient f' the management of their affairs not inco sistent with the constitution and laws of u United States and laws of this territory" THIRD-The amount of it's capital stock auJ0OrlZBQ at One MllllOn OOlidISs bO DC U vided into one million shares of a par walt ofOne Dollar each. The time when, and u conditions upon which, it shall be paid in a as follows:
 The corporation proposes in pursuance of . agreeme Tt heretofore made for its benefit, make contract, soon as organized, f the purchase of certain mining properties which Frank AmivIsca and A. E. Soderm; now have an interest The corporation is agree to pay for the mines and mining pro critics its entire capital stock fully paid, al One Hundred Thousand Dollars in additi' thereto, the stock to be paid immediate and the One Hundred Thousand Dollars instalments.
 FoURTH-The corporate life shall common on the 27th day of June, 1907, to termina with the expiration of twenty-five yea from that date.
 FIFTH-The affairs of the corporation are be conducted by a Board of Directors to co sist of five persons; the number of directt 10 be increased at any time by the affirm live vote in favor thereof of persons rep Eentng at least two-thrdS of its entire ca tai stock. The persons who are to serve first directors are here appointed and are follows: Felix Mayhew, George F. Hodg George II. Barker. William L. Percey and $. Wright. They are to serve for period two years and until their successors sh have been elected after the expiration of { years; the directors to be elected annually the annual meeting of the stockholders to held at such times may be fixed by by laws of the corporation. All vacancies the Board of Directors, excepting when fiji at the annual election by stock holders, sl be filled by the Board of Directors, by a I tority vote Of its members
 SINTH-Tbe highest amount Of indebt ness or liability to which the corporation at any time to subject Itself IS One Hund and Fifty Thousand Dollars
 SEvENTH-The private property of stock holders is to be exempt from coTpoI debts No stock holder shall be liable for debt created by the corporation or by Board Of Directors, officers oragents.
 The capital stock, when issued as her provided shall stand as fully paid It sl not thereafter be subject to assessment of kind. 1.-The Board Of Directors shall or the sale of any of the capital stock Of corporation and Jhe same shall be sold the certificate thereof issued and the sam sold in exchange for property or services as fully paid, the same small stand as f paid iu the absence of actual fraud on part of the purchaser Of said stock and Board of Directors in the contract of sale purchase.
 Dated this 2Tth day of June. l907-
 FELIX MATHEW.