Mohave County miner., 1918-06-01
LEGAL ADVERTISING
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE
 NATIONAL FIVE GOLD MINES COMPANY l

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: {: That we. whose names are hereto affixed, do hereby associate ourselves together for the purpose of forming a Corporation under the laws of the State of Arizona. and to that end adopt the following Articles of IncorpOra- tion":
 ARTICLE I. The names and post office address of the IncorpOratorS are:
 Charles H. BurlOck. Oatman. Arizona.
 Benjamin H. Wilson, Oatman, Arizona.
 Will H. Holcomb, Oatman, Arizona.
 The name of the Corporation shall be the NATIONAL FIVE GOLD MINES COMPANY.
 Its principal place of business within the State of Arizona shall be Oatnan. Mohave County, State of Arizona, but other offices may be established and maintained within or outside of Arizona, at such places as the Board of Directors may designate, where meetings of Stockholders and Directors may be held, and any and all corporate business transacted
 ARTICLE II. The general nature of busi- ness proposed to be transacted by this Cor pOration is follows, to-wit:
 To carry on a general mining. milling. smelting, and reduction business to make con- tracts; to purchase, lease. option, locate or otherwise secure, own, exchange and deal in mines. and mining claims, both lode and placer; also to sell or otherwise dispose of, pledge, mortgage. hypothecate and deal in mines, mineral lands, coal lands, oil lands, timber lands, agricultural lands. water and water rights, dam sites, and any other prop erty, both real and personal. and to work. eX- plore, prospect, maintain and develop the same; to purchase or otherwise acquire, plat, subdivide. sell. lease, deal in and control lands and town sites: to purchase, lease, or other wise acquire, erect, own. operate and sell, milling, smelting and other ore reduction works, oil refineries, power plants, water works, railroads and tramways to lead from the Company's principal works; to establish, acquire, build, construct, own, operate, eN- change. sell and dispose of hotels, restaurants, stores, commissaries, houses, and any and all other buildings and structures of whatsoever kind or nature; to do a general manufactur- ing. mercantile and agricultural business to own, cancel and reissue shares of its own cap ital stock; and to purchase, or otherwise Gc- quire, and to hold, own, sell, assign. mort gage, pledge, or otherwise dispose of, shares. bonds, debentures, or other evidences of in debtedness of other Corporations, and while the holder thereof, to exercise all the rights and privileges of ownership, including the right to vote thereon; to issue bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness, and to secure the payment of same by mortgage. deed of trust. or otherwise; to act as agent, trustee, broker. or in any other fiduciary ca pacity. and borrow and to loan money and in genera to do and perform such acts and things, and to transact sucR business in con- nection with the foregoing objects not incon- sistent with law, in any part of the world as the Board of Directors may deem to the ad- vantage of the Corporation.
 ARTICLE III. The Capital Stock of this Corporation shall be ONE MILLION DOL LARS, divided into ONE MILLION SHARES, of the par value of One Dollar per share |; such capital stock may be issued at such nate, either for cash, or real or personal property, or services, or lease, or option to purchase. or any other valuable right or thing for the use and purposes of the Corporation, and all shares of capital stock so issued. shall thereupon and thereby 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 capital stock shall be conclusive, in the absence of actual fraud. in the transac-
 ARTICLE ". The time of the commence ment of this Corporation shall be the date of the issuance to it of a certain Certificate of Incorporation by the ARIZONA CORPORA- the full term of twenty-five years thereafter. with privileges of perpetual succession as pro- vided by law.
 ARTICLE V. The affairs of the Corpora tion shall be conducted by Board of Diree- tors, consisting of not less than THREE nor more than SEVEN members, by whom Presi- dent Vice President, Secretary and Treas urer, shall be elected, from among the stock holders, provided that. the offices of Secretary and Treasurer may be held by the same per son.
 The Board of Directors may from time to time appoint such other officers and agents as to them seem meet and proper. The Di- rectors shall be elected by and from among the stockholders at their annual meeting to be held on the second Monday of January in each year, and shall hold office for one year and until their successors have been elected and have qualified. Until the first annual meeting of the Stockholders and until their successors have been elected and qualified, the following named persons shall be the off, cers and directors stated:
 Charles H. Burlock, President and Director.
 Will H. Holeomb. Vice President and Di- rector.
 Margaret Kempley. Secretary and Treasurer
 Benjamin H. Wilson, Director.
 N Morgan, Director.
 ARTICLE VI. The Directors shall have the power to adopt, amend and rescind Bylaws, to fill vacancies occurring in the Board rom any cause, and to appoint from their own number an executive committee and vest said committee with all the powers granted the Directors by these Articles.
 ARTICLE VII. The highest amount of in- debtedness or liability to which the Corpora tion may at any one time subject itself IS Two Hundred Thousand Dollars.
 ARTICLE VIII. The private property of the Stockholders of the Corporation shall be forever exempt from the debts or obligations of the Corporation.
 ton may be amended by a majority vote of the outstanding stock of the Corporation at any regular meeting of the stockholders or at any special meeting thereof called for that
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. we have hereun. to set our hands and seals this 7th day of March. A. ID. 1918.
 (SeaD CHARLES H. BURLOCK, iSeaD WILL H. HOLCOMB. (SeaO BENJAMIN H. WILSON. State of California. County of Los Angeles. ss.
 On this 7th day of March, A. D. 1918. be fore me. Pearl Brooks, a Notary Public in and for Los Angeles County. State of Califor- mia aforesaid, residing therein, duly commits stoned and sworn, personally appeared VIII H. HoIcomb, known to me to be the person described in, whose name is attached to, and who executed and delivered the within in strument, and he acknowledged to me that he executed the same as his voluntary act and for the purposes and considerations named therein.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year last above written (SeaD PEARL BROOKS. Notary Public in and for the County of Los
 Angeles, State of California.
 State of Arizona. County of Mohave.