The Arizona sentinel., 1907-08-14
Articles of Incorporation of the Mayhew Free Gold Mining Company.


 United States of America. To that end W do adopt this instrument as Articles of Ir corporation of said corporation. We q therefore certify:
 FIRsT-That the names of the incorpora tors are those which arc hereunto subscribed viz: Felix Mayhew. George F. Hodges George 1T. Barker and w. $. Wright
 The name Of the corporation is fixed a
 Mayhew Free Gold Mining Company"
 The principal place of business of the cor poration shall be the Town Of Yuma. Yum; County. in the Territory of Arizona.
 Meetings of the stockholders of the corpor alton shall be held at said Yuma, at tn, 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 al any time the directors shall meet at any place not fixed by the bylaws, the acts oi 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 minutes of the proceedings that may be had 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-Theg 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, evil dences cf debt, and other personal property ofevery 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 stockIolder or bondholder of any corporatiG<.. To guaranty and be- come l,able for, the performance of obliga- uons 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 its Board of Directors to do any and all Of it's business as one party with any of it's directors, stockholders, or officers as other parties. freely, and in the same manner, as though they were not such direc- tors, officers or stockholders. Butt is to be generally chased 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 follows:
 Among the powers Of such bodies corpor- ate shall be the following:
 !. To have perpetual succession.
 ? To sue and be sued by the cnrnaEaie aame.
 same at pleasure.
 To render tho shares or interest Of stockholders transferable and prescribe the mode Of making such transfers
 3. To exempt the private property of menl- sers from L ability 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 an rules and regulations deemed expedient for the management of their affairs not incon- 1 sistent with the constitution and laws of the l United States and laws of this territory" THIRD-The amount of its 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 an | agreeme Tt heretofore made for it's benefit, to | make contract, as soon as organized, for | 1lbp hos of nj, which Frank AmivIsca and A. k. Soderman | now have an interest Tine corporation is to 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 in 
 foURTH-The corporate life shall commence on the 27th day of June, 1907, 10 terminate with the expiration of twenty-five years from that date.
 FIFTH-The affairs of the corporation are to be conducted by a Board of Directors to con. sist of five persons; the number of directors to be increased at any time by the affirma- tive vote in favor thereof of persons repre- Senting at least two-thirds of its entire capi- fal stock. The persons who are to serve as hrst directors are here appointed and are as follows: Felix Mayhew, George F. Hodges. George H. Barker, William l.. Percey and W. l. ;. Wright. They are to serve for a period of swo years and until their successors shall have been elected after the expiration of two years, the directors to be elected annually at he annual meeting Of the stockholders to be held at such times as may be fixed by the 'y laws Of the corporation. All vacancies in he Board Of Directors, excepting when filled It the annual election by stockholders. shall DC filled by the Board of Directors, by a ma ority vote Of its members
 SlxrH-The highest amount Of indebted- ness or liability to which the corporation is tt any time to subject Itself is One Hundred md Fifty Thousand Dollars
 SEvENTH-The private property of the stockholders is to be exempt from corporate lebts. No stockEolder shall be liable for any iebt created by the corporation or by it's Board of Directors, officers oragents. The capital stock, when issued as herein provided shall stand as fully paid. 1t shall lot thereafter be subject to assessment Of any lind. Iffhe Board of Directors shall order he sale Of any of the capital stock of this orporation and the same shall be sold and he certificate thereof issned and the same be old in exchange for property or services and s fully paid, the same shall stand as fully aid in the absence of actual fraud on the art Of the purchaser of said stock and the 'oard of Directors in the contract of sale and  Dated this 27th day Of June. l907.
 FELIX MATHEW.
 GEO. F. HODGES
 GEORGE H. BARKER.
 ". $. WRIGHT