Mohave County miner., 1911-06-10
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF THE Ryan Cattle Company.

KNow ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
 That we whose hands are a1ixed heTeunto. do hereby associate ourselves together for the purl ose of forming a corporation under the laws of the Te riJUrS Oi Arizona. and to that end make the following statement:
 FIRST: The names of the cUrporatOrs are J. F. hyan aLd M. ]. Ryan. and the name of the corporation Sh Ill b. the RYAN CATTLE COMPANY. Tne principal place within tho Territ .ry Lf AriZOua in which the business of the said CUIporLtiUi sn al be transacted Is Ger bat MOhaN e County, Arizona and the COrpOr- atiOu may estab ish br inch on ;eS either with in or without the Territory of Arizona, where meetings Cf the BOarI or Directors may be held.
 SECOND: The gen~ral nature of the business prOpOset to be transacted by thls corporation Is a. fOLo .s, tO-wIt: 4iake contracts. to buy, sell. raise aud U~u caJJic, horses, hogs. sheep, goats. and all domestic animals, to butcher ana kill and Duy and sell meats of all domestic animals. to engage Tn the mercantile business, and all kinds of business incident thereto, tU lease. purcnase, locate, bond, Ur otherwise ac Quire, own, exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of pledge. mortgage, hypothecaJe and deal in real estate, anC any ana all kinds Of personal property, mines, mining claims. oil lands. coal lands. mineral lands. oil, gas. coal, shAle, as- pnaltum, petroleum, asbestos, sale water wa ter rights, mills, smelteTs and machinery. and to work, mine, explore. operate ahd develop the same; and lu general 10 do all things nee eSSary to the roper conduct of the business of this corporation ID the Territory and elsewhere. not inconsistent witl' the laTTs of the United
 
 THIRD: The authorized amOuut of the cap ital stock of this corporation shall be TEN THOUSAND (SlO OOO.OO) Dollars, divided into One Hundred shares of the par value of One Hundred (SlOUUOl Dollars eacn. At such time the Board Of Directors may direct by reSO- lutiUn, sad 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 W hich shares of the capital stock Of sad corporation may be issued, and the capital sp shall and thereby become and be fully paid and nonaSSeSSable. aud in the absence of fraud in the transaction, the judgment of the directors us to the Value of the property purchased shall be conclusive. FOURTH: he time of the commencement Of this corr oration shall be the dale Of the filing of a certified copy Of these Articles of lncUr- pOratiOn according to the law. anC the termi- nation thereof shall be twenty five (25) years thereafter.
 FIFTH: The affairs of this corporation shall he 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 Ot 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 (S5OOO.OO Dollars, which amount does not ex ceed two thirds of the amount of capital stock. SEVENTH: The private property of the stockholders oi this corporation shall be ex empt from corporate debts of 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
 M. J. RYAN, SEAL TERRITORY OF RATIONAL Sc
 COuAty of Mohave.
 Before ue, -. a Notary Public, in and for the County Of MOhave, Territory of Arizona on this day personally appeared J. P. Ryan and M. 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- ralion therein expressed.
 Given under my hanc and seal of office this 22nd day of April. A D. 1911.
 NJ, commission expires April ?, 1913.
 Notary Seall NJ 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 fIncOrporat.ous, pages 479 4S0. records of MOhave County, Arizona Territory. J. w. MORGAN,
 County Recorder. First insertion May 27-July