The Arizona sentinel., 1907-08-28
Articles of Incorporation of the Mayhew Free Gold Mining Company.

coronation of said corporation. We do therefore certify:
 FIRsT-That the names of the incorpora- tors are those which arc hereunto subscribed; viz: Felix Mayhew, George F. Hodges George H. Barker and w. s. Wright.
 The name Of the corporation is hXed as UMayhew Free Gold Mining Company" The principal place Of business of the cor poration shall be the Town of Yuma, 1uma County. in the Territory of Arizona.
 Meetings of the stockholders Of the eorpor- 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 authorlz- ed by the bylaws Of the corporation. 1T al any time the directors shall meet at any place not fixed by the bylaws, the acts oi such directors shall be valid acts or 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 minutes Of the proceedings that may oe had at such meeting. or endorsed upess the copy of said minutes filed in the office or the Secretary of the corporation and certified to by the Secretary 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, bold, 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 teie- graph lines, real estate, stocks, bonds, eVl- dences cf debt, and other personal property ofevery character and description. To incur debts, and tOexecute it's promises to pay the same with interest. To vote upon, and as- sent to or dissent from, all propositions sub mitted to it as a stockbolder or bondholder of any corporation. To guaranty and be- come liable for, the performance of, obliga- tions and payInent of debts. To pledge or mortgage it's property fer such purpose. To act as agent or trustee in any lawful man. ner. Through its Board of Directors to do any and allsof its business as one party, with any of its directors, stockholders, or officers, as other parties, as freely, and in the same manner, as though they were not such direc- tors, officers or stock kholders. But it is to be generally classed as mining corporation, and such is to be its principal business.
 1t Is also to have and exercise inc powers now authorized by Section 765 of the Revised Statutes of the Territory of Arizona, which section is as follows:
 Among the powers of such bodies eOrpor- ate shall be the following:
 l. To have perpetual succession.
 2. To sue and be sued by the corporate name.
 8. To have a common seal and alter the same at pleasure.
 To render the shares or interest oI stockholders transferable and prescribe the mode Of making such transfers.
 :. To exempt the private property of mem bers from Liability for corporate debts.
 6 To make contracts, acquire and trans fer property possessing the same powers in such respects as private individuals now enjoy.
 :. To establish bylaws and make al rules and regulations deemed expedient fol the management of their affairs not incon sistent with the constitution and laws of the United States and laws of this territory"
 THIRD-The amount Of it's capital stock i: authorized at One Million Dollars, to be di vided into one million shares of a par value of One Dollar each. The time when, and thu conditions upon which, it shall be paid in ar, as follows:
 The corporation proposes in pursuance of al agreeme1 Tt heretofore made for its benefit, tC make contract, as soon as organized, fo the purchase of certain mining properties il which Frank AmivIsea and A. k. SodermaI now have an interest The corporation is t' agree to pay for the mines and mining prop critics it's entire capital stock fully paid, ant One Hundred Thousand Dollars in addition thereto, the stock to be paid immediatel and the One Hundred Thousand Dollars il installments.
 FOURTH-The corporate life shall commenc on the 27th day of June, 1907, to terminal with the expiration of twenty-five year from that date.
 FIFTH-The affairs of the corporation are t be conducted by Board of Directors to COT sist of five persons; the number of director to be increased at any time by the affirms tive vote in favor thereof of persons repr, Senting at least two-thirds Of its entire cap tai stock. The persons who are to serve a first directors are here appointed and are g follows: Felix Mayhew, George F. Hodge George H. Barker, William l.. Percey and W S. Wright. They are to serve for period two years and until their successors Sha have been elected after the expiration of tw years; the directors to be elected annually the annual meeting of the stock holders to held at such times may be fixed by tt by laws of the corporation. All vacancies the Board of Directors excepting when file at the annual election by stockholders, sha be filled by the Board of Directors, by a m jOrity vote Of its members.
 SIxTH-The highest amount of indebte ness or liability Co which the corporation at any time to subject Itself is One Hnndr, and Fifty Thousand Dollars
 SEvENTH-The private property of il stock khOlders is to be exempt from corpora debts. No stockholder shall be liable for al debt created by the corporation or by Board Of Directors, officers Oragents.
 The capital stock, when issued as here provided shall stand as fully paid It Sh; not thereafter be subject to assessment of al kind. If fhe Board of Directors shall ord the sale of any of the capital stock Of il corporation and the same shall be sold al the certificate thereof issued and the same sold in exchange for property or services al as fully paid, the same shall stand as full paid in the absence of actual fraud on { part of the purchaser Of said stock and t Board of Directors in the contract Of sale al purchase.
 Dated this 27th day of June. Ia07.
 FELIX MAYHEM.
 GEO. F. HODGES.
 GEORGE H. BARKER.
 w. s. WRIGHT.