Mohave County miner., 1918-05-18
LEGAL ADVERTISING
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE NATIONAL FIVE GOLD MINES COMPANY

1 ARTICLE l. The names and post office
 address of the I.corporator> are: Charles II. Burloek, Oatman Arizona. Benjamin H. Wilson, Oatman. Arizona. Will IF. 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 Oatman, 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 porution is as follows, to-wit:
 To carry on a general mining, milling, snelting 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 oli lands; timber lands, agricultural lands, water and
 water rights dam sites, and any other prop erty. both real and personal and to work eN- 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. smeting and other ore reduction works, oil refineries, power plants, water works, railroads and tramways to lead from
 the Company's principal works; to establish aeqvire, 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 it's own cap ital stock and to purchase, or otherwise ic-
 quire. and to hold, own, sell, assign. mort gage, pledge, or otherwise dispose oi' snares'
 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 nouclary caI
 pacfty, and O borrow and to loan money ana
 in penera5 to do and perform such acts and
 thinys, and to transact such business m 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 MlLLLON D DOL- LARS. divided into ONE MILLION SHARES,
 of the par value of One Dollar per share
 such capital stock may be issued at such
 times as the Board of Directors may deslg-
 nate, either for cash, or real or personal
 rroperty 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 stoek so lssueI, sI lii thereupOn and thereby become and be tull paid the same as though paid for in cash at par and shall be non-assessable forever, ana the judgment of the Directors as to the Vaiue of any property, right or thing acquired Tn exchange for capital stock shall be conclusive, in the absence of actual fraud' in the transae- ton. ment of this Corporation shall be the date of the issuance to it of a certain Certificate or Incorporation by the ARIZONA CORPOhA- TON COMMISSION, and it shall endure for the full term of twenty-five years thereafter with privileges of perpetual succession as pro
 ARTICLE V. The affairs of the Corpora tion shall be conducted by Board of Direc- | tors. consisting of not less than THREE nor more than SEVEN members, by whom Presi- l dent a Vice President, Secretary and Treas | urer, shall be elected, from among the stock l holders, provided that the offices of Secretary | and Treasurer may be held by the same per |
 The Board of Directors may from time to time appoint such other officers and agents l 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 i 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 offi- cers and directors as stated:
 Charles H. Burlock, President and Director.
 Will H. Holcomb. Vice President and Di- rector.
 Margaret Kempley, Secretary and Treasurer and Director.
 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 from 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 ton may at any one time subject itself is Two Hundred Thousand Dollars.
 ARTICLE VIII. The private property or the Stockholders of the Corporation shall be forever exempt from the debts or obligations of the Corporation.
 ARTICLE TX. These Articles of Incorpora- ton may be amended by 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. D. 1918. ,-, ISeaO WILL H. HOLCOMB, fSeaO BENJAMIN H. WILSON. State of California. County of Los Angeles ss.
 On this 7th day of March, A. ID. lslS' De fore me, Pearl Brooks, Notary Puhlie in and for Los Angeles County, State of Calitor- mia aforesaid, residing therein, duly commlS, stoned and sworn, personally appeared WilI H. Holcomb, 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, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year last above written.
 CSeaO PEARL BROOKS, Notary Public in and for the County of Los
 Angeles, State of California.
 State of Arizona. County of MOhave, ss.
 On this sth day of March, A. D. 1918, be fore me, ElvE c. Shuck. Notary Public in and for the County of Mohave, State of ATi- zona. aforesaid. residing therein, duly com missioned and sworn. personally appeared Charles H. BurlocS and Benjamin H. Wilson, known to me to be the persons described ln' whose names are attached to, and who eXecut- cd and delivered the within instrument and they each acknowledged to me that they exc -uted the same as their voluntary act and for he purposes and considerations therein named.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year last above written. (Seal) ELNA c. SHUCh, Notary Public in and for the County of Mo
 have, State of Arizona.
 Endorsed: Filed in the office of the Ari- zona Corporation Commission this 18th day