The Arizona sentinel., 1907-07-31
Articles of Incorporation of the Mayhew Free Gold Mining Company.
Company.

the laws of the Territory of Arizona, in the United States of America. To that end we do adopt this instrument as Articles of h. corporation Of said corporation. We Go therefore certify:
 FIRsr-T'hat the names of the incorp0ra- tors are those which are hcrcunto 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 poratfon shall be the Town of Yuma, Yuma County. in the Territory of Arizona.
 Meetings of the stockholders Of the coTpcr- ation 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 as may be aUthoriz- ed by the bylaws of the corporation. If at 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 acis Of the directors at the meeting be approved by written endorsement of such approval by the absent directors upon thc minutes of the proceedings that may be had at such meeting. or endorsed upon the copy of said mindtes filed in the office of the Secretary of the corporation and certified Co sy the Secretary as such copy.
 SEcoND-Thegeneral nature Of the husi- ness proposed to be transacted by the eer- poration is as follows:
 Toin any lawful way acquire, OgE 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, evil dences Of 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 seat to or dissent from, all propositions sub mitted to it as a stockholder or bondholdcr of any corporation. To guaranty and be- come liable for, the performance Of, obiica- lions and payment of debts. To pledge or mortgage its property for such purpose. To act as agent or trustee, in any lawful man. ner- Through it's Board of Directors to do any and all of it's business as one party, with any of its directors, stockholders, or officers, as other parties, as freely, and in tue same manner, as though they were not such 6irec- tors officers or stockholders But it is to be generally classed as mining corporation, and such is to be its principal business.
 It Is also to have and exercise the powers now authorized by Section 765 Of the Revised Statutes of the Territory Of Arizona, which section is as fellows:
 Among the powers of such bodies ceFpoY- atc shall be the following:
 |. To have perpetual succession.
 7. To sue and be saed by the corporate name.
 3. To have a common seal and after the same at pleasure.
 To render the shares or interest Of shock kheIders tr:l'iegeFable and prescribe the mode of Inalsins sch transfers
 ,. Toexempt the private property Of mem oers from Liability for corporate debts.
 6 To make contracts, acquire and trans fer property. possessing the same powers in such respects as private individuals new enjoy.
 :. To establish bylaws and make all rules and regulations deemed eXpedient for she management Of their affairs not incon- sistent with the constitution and laws of the Emitted States and laws of this territory"
 THIRD-The amount of it's capital stock is authorized at One Million Dollars to be di- widcd intoone million shares of a par value ef One Dollar each. The time when, and the conditions upon which, it shall be paid in arc as follows:
 The corporation proposes in pursuance of an agreeme It heretofore made for its benefit, to make contract, as soon as organized, f0I the purchase Of certain mining properties iN which Frank AmivIsca and 4. F. Soderman HOW have an interest. The corporation is tl agree to pay for the mines and mining prop critics its entire capital stock fully paid; and One Hundred Thousand Dollars in addition thereto, the stock to be paid immediately and the One Hundred Thousand Dollars iu hStallments.
 FoURTH-The corporate life shall commence on the 27th day of June, 1867, to terminate with the expiration of twenty-five years from that date.
 FIFTH-The affairs of the corporation are tC be conducted by Board Of Directors to con sist of five persons; the number of director: to be increased at any time by the affirma tive vote in favor thereof of persons repre- sentng a least two-thirds Of its entire capi gal stock. The persons who are to serve & first directors are here appointed and are a follows; Felix Mayhew, George T.. Hodges George H. Barker, William l.. Pcrcey and " <. Wright. They are to serve for a period c two years and until their successors sinai have been elected after the expiration of tyyt years; the directors to be elected annually a the annual meeting Of the stockholders to D held at such times as may be fixed by tn by laws of the corporation. Ail vacancies il She Board of Directors. excepting when file, atthe annual election by stockholders. shal De filed by the Board Of Directors, by @ Ina 58ritY vOteofits members.
 SIxrH-The highest amount Of indebted ness or liability 10 which the corporation i at any time to suIjrct itself is One HGndrc and Fifty Thousand Dollars
 SEvENTu-The private property of tn stock shOlGcrs is to he exempt from corporal debts. No stocllhodcf shall be liable for an s.ebt created by the corporation or by il Board of Directors, officers orageEJs.
 The capital stock, when issued as herei provided shall stand as fully paid. # sha not thereafter be subject to assessment Of an kind. If fhe Beard Of Directors shall ordc the sale Of any Of the capital stock Of thi corporation and the same shall be sold an thc certificate thereof issued and the same b sold in exchange for property or services an as fully paid, tine same shall stand as full paid in the absence of acteal fraud on th part of Lhe purchaser Of said stock and th Board of Directors in the contract Of sale an purchase
 Daied this Eth day Of June. l90z.
 FELIX MAYHEM.
 GEO. 2. HODGES.
 %ECiiGC F. BARKER.
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