Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-05-26

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 In Testimony Whereof, The Arizona Corporation Commission, by its Chair man. has hereunto set it's hand and af- fixed it's Official Seal Done at the City of Phoenix. the Capitol, this 2sth day of April A. D. 1922.
 ARIZONA CORPORATION
 D. F. JOHNSON.
 Chairman. ATTEST:
 F. K. J. MCBRIDE,
 Secretary.
 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION COLORADO RIvHR FEazY COMPANY Know All Men By These Presents:
 That we. the undersigned. have this day associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming corporation un- der the laws of the State of Arizona. and hereby adopt the following Articles of Incorporation:
 ARTICLE l. The name of this cor poration shall be .- COLORADO RIVER FERRY COMPANY
 ARTICLE IT. The names. residences porators are H. L. McCarn, Robert W. Davidson and E. Everett all of Chloride, Mohave County, Arizona.
 ARTICLE III. The principal place or business of this corporation within the State of Arizona, and where its office is situated is Chloride, Mohave County, Arizona; but other offices may be estab- lished and maintained within or without the Board of Directors may designate, the State of Arizona at such places as where any and all corporate business may be transacted.
 ARTICLE w. The general nature Of the business to be transacted by this company is to provide means of trans portation and communication between the Sattes of Arizona, Nevada and Cai- ifornja by the establishment of ferry across the Colorado River. at point where the Chloride -Searchlight highway crosses said river.
 To establish other ferries along sald the same.
 boats of any description;
 To contract for, lease. buy and sell any land adjacent to the river wh,cn ,t is necessary or expedient to own Tor the proper conduct of its ferry bust ness or any other business which IS at- lowed by it's articles of incorporat1oni.
 To contract for. lease. buy and sell and operate stage and transfer lines or cor1panies. automobiles. auto trucks or wagons and supplies and parts for tho same;
 To erect. contract for. lease. buy and sell buildings. buy sell and operate
 
 To purchase or acquire in any lawful manner, and to own. mortgage. pledge, transfer or sell or in any manner dis pose of and deal in goods. ware and mer- rights and property and to undertake the whole or any part of the assets of liabilities of any person. firm, associa- tion. or corporation, to pay for the same in cash or the stock of this company, or otherwise, to hold or dispose. in any manner, of the whole or any part of any business so acquired, or to conduct the same, exercising all the necessary or convenient powers lin the management of such business; ...
 To enter into make and perform con- tracts of any kind with aany person. firm, association. corporation, municj- pality, body polite, state government or any dependency thereof;
 To borrow and loan money and to do all other things necessary or convenient to carry out the purpose Of the above business in the United States or any part of the world, to own shares Of it's own capital stock and that of other cor porations, and to vote any stock owned by 1t the same as a natural person might or could, to issue bonds. notes., deben- lures and other evidences of indebted ness and secure the payment of the same by mortgage, deed of trust or
 ARTICLE V. The authorized amount of capital stock of this corporation shali be ten thousand dollars S10000.00) 'di- vided into two thousand t20o0) shares of the par value of five dollars t$6.oo} each. &.
 Of this amount five hundred t500) shares shall be issued and paid for in cash in services, labor and supplies fur nished and no stock shall be issued ex- cept stock that is paid in full.
 The remaining 1500 shares shall be held as a reserve and may be issued only at full paid value of $500 per share to pay for extensions or betterment or the company's enterprises on specific auth orization' by the Board of Directors of this company.
 ARTICLE VI The time of the com mencement of this corporation shall be the day upon which a certificate or in- Corporation Commission and the termin- ation thereof shall be twenty-five years thereafter, with the privilege of renewal as provided by law. ..,..
 ARTICLEE VII. The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by Board of Directors, consisting of seven CD members, each of whom shall be a stockholder of record who shall serve for one year from the date of their first annual election, or until their successors are elected and qualified. The directors shall be elected on the second Monday of January of each calendar year.
 The first Board of Directors shall be elected by the incorporators at the or
  as soon as possible after the issuance of the certificate of incorporation. and shall hold office until the annual meet ing of the stockholders, or until their successors are elected and qualified. '
 The officers of this corporation shall ! be President. Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer.
 The Secretary and Treasurer may be one person. or the Treasurer need not be stockhol6er.
 ARTICLE VIII. The Directors may adopt Bylaws for the government Of this corporation, with full power to amend the same. They are vested with power to fill vacancies occurring in the Board of Directors from any cause. and may appoint from their own number an executive committee.
 ARTICLE TX. The corporation in debtedness shall at no time exceed one half of its capital stock issued and out standing.
 ARTICLE x. The private property. of the stockholders of this corporation shall be and is forever made exempt from the debts of the corporation.
 ARTICLE XII. The capital stock or this corporation shall be and IS hereby made forever non-assessable by this for any purpose. l..
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands this goth day ot April, A. D. 1922.