Mohave County miner., 1911-06-03
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE Ryan Cattle Company.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
 That we, whose hands are affixed hereunto do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws ot the Te riJOry of Arizona and to that end make the following statement:
 FIRST: The names Of the rurpOratOrS are J. P. Ryan and M. J. Ryan. name of the corporation shall De the N CATTLE COMPANY. The principal ce within tho Territory of AriZOua in which Lne business Of the said Corporation shall be transacted is Ger bat, Mohave County, Arizona and the COrpOr- atiOn may establish branch offices either with in or without the Territory of Arizona. where meetings of the Board Of Directors may be held
 SECOND: The general nature of the business prOpOs to be tr insacted by this corporation Is .ls [, lows, to-w.t: Make contracts. to buy, se.l, rs SC and owl cattle, horses, hogs. sheep, goats, nd all dom sstlc animals, to butcher anu kill, au,- buy and sell meats of all domestic animals. t. ,.i-dge Tn the mercantile business, and all kinds of business incident thereto, tO lease, purchase, locate, bond, UT otherwise ac quire. own, exchange. sell or otherwise dispOs OL pledge, mortgage. hypOthecate and deal in real estate. anC any anu all kinds of personal property, mineS mining claims. oil lands. coal lands. mineral lands. oil, gas. coal, shale, pnaltum, petroleum, asbestos. sale water, wa ter rights, mills, SmelJeTS and machinery. and to work mine explore. operate and develop the same; and ln general 10 do all things nee eSSary to the UrOper conduct of the business UI this corporation in the Territory and elsewhere. not inconsistent witl' the lays of the United States and the Territory of Arizona
 THIRD: The authorized amount of the cap ital stock of this corporation shall be TEN THOUSAND (SlO O00.OO) Dollars divided into One Hundred shares of the par value of One Hundred (SlOU.UOl Dollars each. At such time the Board of Directors may direct by reso- lutiOn, said capital stock shall be paid into this corporation in cash or by the sale or transfer to it of real or personal property for the uses and purposes of said corporation, m payment for N hich shares of the capital stock of sad corporation may be issued, and the capital stock so issued shall thereupon and thereby become and be fully paid and nonaSsessable. and in the absence of fraud in the transaction, the judgment of the directors as to the value Of the property purchased shall be conclusive. FOURTH: The tune Of the commencement Of this corporation shall be the date of the filing of certified copy of these Articles Of IncOr- poration according to the law, ano the termi- nation thereof shall be twenty-five (25) years thereafter
 FIFTH: The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by board of two directors, but which number may be changed at any regular or regularly called meeting Of the stockholders, by majority of the vote of the stockholders of record. The directors shall be elected at the first stockholders meeting and the reafter from among the stockholders at the annual meeting on the Third Wednesday of March of each year. SIXTH: The highest indebtedness or liability direct or contingent to which the corporation is at any time subject shall be Five Thousand (S5.000O0 Dollars, which amount does not ex- ceed two thirds of the amount of capital stock. SEVENTH: The private property of the stockholders of this corporation shall be ex- empt from corporate debtS or any kind what sOever. In Witness Whereof We have hereunto set our hands and seals this 22nd day Of April 1911.
 J. P. RYAN, (SEALl
 NJ. J. RYAN, lSRALl TERRITORY OF ARIZoNA.l cc Couuty Of Mohave. % Before ne, -, Notary Public in and for the County Of Mohave, Territory of Arizona, on this day personally appeared J. P. Ryan and NJ J. Ryan, known to me to be the persons whose hands are subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the purposes and cOnsid- ] eration therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal of office this | 22nd day of April. D. 1911. NJ, commission expires April 2, 1913
 Notary Seall M N HONEYWELL,
 Notary Public. Filed and recorded at request of J. P. Ryan, | April 24th. A. D. 1911, at 40 minutes past ? o'clock D. m. in book of Interpretations, pages | 479 4s0. records of MOhave County, Arizona | Territory. J. W. MORGAN,
 County Recorder. First insertion May 27-July