The Arizona sentinel., 1907-08-21
Articles of Incorporation of the :, Mayhew Free Gold Mining
Company.

SLateS OI hlitII(d. IO Ahdb SilN NS do adopt this instrument as Articles of ln- corporation of said cooperation. We do therefore certify:
 FIRsr-That the names of the incorpora- tors are those which arc hereunto subscribed; viz: Felix Mayhe=. George F. Hodges, George H. Barker and W. s. 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 stockholders 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 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 acfs of the directors at the meeting be approved by written endorsement of sach approval by the absent directors upon the minutes of the proceedings that may Se had st such meeting. or endorsed upon tbe copy of said minutes filed in the OfSce Of the Secretary Of the corporation and certified to by the Secretary as such copy.
 SEcOSD-Thegeneral uatare Of the hEsi- ness proposed to be transacted by the cor poration is as follows:
 Tofn any lawful way acquire, own -bo5d, htre. rent, pledge, mortgage, selLr 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- denccs 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- sent to or dissent from, all propositions sub- mitted to it as a stock holder or bondholder Of any corporation. To guaranty and be- come liable for, the performance of, obliga- tions and payment of debts. To pledge or mortgage ts property for such purpose. To act as agent or trustee in any lawful man. ner. Through its 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 the same manner, as though they were not such direc- tors officers or stockholders. But it is to be generally chased as a mining corporation, and such is to be its principal business
 It Is also to have and exercise the powers new authorized by Section 765 of the Revised Statutes of the Territory of Arizona, which section is as follows:
 Among the powers of such bodies cOTpor- ate shah be the following:
 | Tn have perye4ual succes+icaa
 2. To sue and be sued by ths corporate name.
 3. To have common seal and after the same at pleasure.
 To render the shares or interest Of stockholders trai' r<eyable and prescribe the anode of making Ech transfers.
 ,. To exempt the private property Of mem- bers from Liability for corporate debts.
 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 all rules and regulations deemed expedient for 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 is 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 the conditions upon which, it shall be paid in are as follows:
 The corporation proposes in pursuance Of ;ta agreement heretofore made for it's benefit to make a contract as soon as organized, for the purchase Of certain mining properties in which Frank Amivlsca and A. E. Soderman now have an interest The corporation is Co 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 ia mstallments.
 FoURTH-The corporate life shall commence on the 27th day of June, 1907, to terminate with the expiration of twenty-five years sroIn that date.
 FIFFH-The affairs of the corporation are to De conducted by Board Of Directors to- con. sist ef five persons; the number of directors So be increased at any time by the affl lrma. tive vote in favor thereof of persons repre- seRting al least two-thirdS of its entire eapi sal stock. The persons who are to serve aS first directors are here appointed and are as 5oi1cwSc Felix Mayhew, George F. Hodges Geesze H. Barker, William L. PeDcey and w s. Wright. They are 10 serve for a period O. sw0 years and until their successors shal IaEe been elected after the expiration of two yezEs- the directors to be elected annually al 4he annual meeting Of the stock holders to bt held st such times as may be fixed by tho by laws of the corporation. All vacancies ir slse BosrG of Directors, excepting when lileC at fEre aansal election by stock holders, shal s,e Sled by the Board of Directors, by 8 ma 5ority vote Of its members.
 SIxrR-The highest ange1nt of indebted ness or liability to which the corporation i at any time to subject Itself is One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars
 SEYENTH-The private property Of In stock kholderS Is to be exempt from eoVporat debts. No stockholder shall he liable for an. debt created by the cooperation op By it Board of Directors officers oragents-
 The capital stock, when issued as, hereil provided shall stand as fully paid. It shal not thereafter be subject to assessment of an, kind. If fhe Board of Directors shall ogde the sale oSany Of the capital stock Of thf corporation and the same shall be sold ana sold in exchange for property OF services ant as fully paid, the same shall stand as full. paid in the absence of actual f5az& on tn part of the purchaser Of said stock and tn Board of Directors in the contract Of sale an, purchase.
 Dated this 27tA day of June. 1907.
 FELIX MAYHEM
 GEO. F. HODGES.