Mohave County miner., 1917-09-29
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 OF J. P. MINES CORPORATION.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS; That we. the undersigned, having associated ourselves for the purpose of forming corpor- ation under the laws of Arizona, do hereby adopt the following Articles of Incorporation. ARTICLE 1.
 The ineorporators are:
 ROLAND c. SWAFFIELD, post office ad- dress. Long Beach. California. PHIL NJ. SWAFFTELD. post office address. Long Beach, California
 GWENDOLINE M. PATERSON, post office address, Long Beach. California.
 And the name of the Corporation shall be "J. P. MINES CORPORATION" Its prin- eipal place of business within the State of Arizona shall be at the City of Kingman. but other offices may be established or main tained within or outside of the State of Ar izOna. at such place the Board of Direct ors may designate. where meetings of stock holders and directors may be held and any and all corporate business transacted.
 ARTICLE II.
 The general nature of the business pro posed to be transacted, Is to-wil To pur- chase. lease. option. locate. or otherwise ac- quire, own. operate, exchange, sell or other wise dispose of, pledge, mortgage. hypothecate, and deal in mines, mining claims, mineral lands. coal lands oil lands. timber lands, wa ter and water rights, and other property, both real and personal, and to work. operate and develop the same, and to deal in the products and by-products thereof; to purchase. lease or otherwise acquire, rent, own. operate and sell, smelting and other ore reduction works, milling machinery and apparatus, oil refiner- tes, saw mills and power plants; and to own. handle and control Letters Patent and inventions and shares of it's own capital stock. and that of other corporations. and to vote any shares of stock of other corporations owned by 1t, the same as a natural person might do; to borrow money and to issue bonds notes, debentwes. and other evidences of in- debtedness, and to secure the payment of the same by mortgage. deed of trust or otherwise: to act as agent, trustee. broker or in any other fiduciary capacity and in general to do and perform such acts and things and transact such business in connection with the forego- ing objects, not inconsistent with law, in any part of the world. and as the Board of Diree- tors may deem to the advantage of the cor poration.
 ARTICLE III
 The capital stock of the corporation shall be One Million Dollars (S1. 900 .O0O.0O), divid- ed into One Million (l.0O0. ..0OO) shares of the par value of One Dollar (S1.00) each, which shall be paid in at such time as the Baord of Directors may designate, in cash. real or per- sonal property, services, leases, options to pur- chase. any other valuable right or thing for the uses and purposes of the corporation. and all shares of capital stock when issued in exchange therefor, shall thereupon and there by become and be full-paid, the same as though paid for in cash at par, and shall be non-assessable forever, and the judgment of the Directors as to the value of any property, right or thing, acquired in exchange for eapi- tai stock, shall be conclusive.
 ARTICLE ".
 The commencement of the corporation shall be the date of the Issuance to 1t of a eertif- ieats of incorporation by the Arizona Ger poration Commission, and It shall endure for the full term of twenty-five (25) years there after. with the privilege of perpetual sueees- sion provided by statute
 ARTICLE V.
 The affairs of the corporation shall be con- dueted by Board of Directors and such officers as the said Directors may elect or appoint. The Board of Directors shall be designated by the bylaws and shall be elected from among the stockholders at their annual meeting to be held on the of each year. Until the first annual meeting of the stockholders and until their successors have been elected and have qualified. the fol- lowing named persons shall be the officers and directors: Roland Swaffield Phil N Swaffield. Gwendoline M. Paterson
 ARTICLE VI.
 The Directors shall have power to adopt, amend and rescind bylaws, to fill vacancies occurring in the Board from any cause, and to appoint from their own Board. an exec tive committee and vest said committee with all the powers granted the Directors by these Articles.
 ARTICLE VII.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or lia- bility to which the corporation may at any one time subject itself is Six Hundred Sixty Six Thousand Dollars (S666, ,000.0O).
 ARTICLE VIII. , The private property of the stockholders of the corporation shall be forever exempt from iLS oeOtS or oDhgarions-
 ARTICLE K.
 This corporation does here appoint Guy E. Pierson of the City of Kingman. State of Arizona, who has been a bona fide resident of the State of Arizona for at least three years It's lawful agent in and for the State of Ari- zona for and in behalf of said company to ae- sept and acknowledge service of, and upon whom may be served. all necessary process or processes in any action. suit or proceeding that may be had or brought against the said in any of the courts of said State 1f Arizona, such service of process or notice. pr the acceptance thereof by said agent en- iorsed thereon. to have the same force md effect as if served upon the president and Iecretary of sail company.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we hereto affix ,ur signatures and seals this first day of August, 1917.
 ROLAND G. SWAFFIELD (SeaD
 PHIL M SWAFFTELD 1SeaH
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