The border vidette., 1927-12-31
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION :
M. Karam and Sons Mercantile Company

VI. kdIdm dHQ SONS MeFCdnIie company
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE
PRESENTS: That we. the under
signed, do hereby associate ourselves
together for the purpose OF forming a
corporation under the laws OF the State
OF Arizona, and do hereby adopt the
following Articles OF Incorporation.
ARTICLEI
The names, residences and post office
ad ddresses of the incorporators are as
follows:
nj. Karam, 1873 Morley Avenue, No
gales, Arizona.
A N Karam. 1873 Morley Avenue,
| Nogales. Arizona.
j. N. Karam, 1873 Morley Avenue,
Nogales, Arizona.
Sahid Karam, 133 Morley Avenue,
Nogales. Arizona.
ARTICLE II
The name OF this corporation is I'M.
lXARAM AND SONS MERCANTILE
Many" !"
ARTICLE III
lie principal place OF business OF the
|poration shall be Nogalea. Santa
Euz county, Arizona. but the corpora.
| t{0n may have such branch offices with
Id or without the State OF Arizona as
may hereafter be established by the
Board OF Directors, and meetings Of
tAe Board OF Directors may be held and
any bu5iness transacted at any branch
Office.
ARTICLE Nv
The general nature of the business
proposed to be transacted by the COR
porRtiou is as followa:
To manufacture. buy, sell and deal
in at wholesale and retail. dry goods.
clothing. wearing apparel and textile
fabrics of every kind, hats, caps, mil
linery. boots. shoes, furnishing goods,
fancy goods. and all articles and mer-
cbandise of like general character and
| description, aud to conduct the bust.
ness OF general dry goods and clothing
merchants, tailors. drapers, haberdash-
ers. milliners, dressmakers and general
0ut6tters; to carry on general mer-
camille or merchandise business and to
purchase. sell and deal in such goods,
supplies and merchandise as are or may
be sold in general mercantile store,
and in the course of such business to
draw, accept. indorse. acquire. buy and
sell all or any negotiable or transfer
able instruments and securities; to bor-
row and lend money; to make and per-
form contracts; to purchase. lease or
otherwise acquire, own, exchange. sell,
or dispose OF, pledge, mortgage, hypo-
thecate and deal Ia real estate, any and
all kinds of personal property OF any
person, firm, association or corpora
ton, and pay for the same in cash or
stock, bonds or obligations of this COR
poration, or otherwise.
To issue bonds, notes, debentures or
other forms OF CORPORATE obligations
and to sell, pledge, hypothecate the
same, and to secure the payment there
of by mortgage, pledge or otherwise
upon sll or any part OF the property OF
the company: together with the right
to own, acquire and buy back its own
stock, bonds or other obligations; to
purchase. acquire, hold, sell and dis
pose of stock, bonds or other evidences
of Indebtedness Of any corporation, do
mestic or foreign, and to issue and ex.
change therefor it's stock, bonds or
other obligations; and In carrying on
its business, or for the purpose of at
tanning or furtherinR any of it's objects,
to do any and all other acts and things,
and to exercise any and all other pow
ers which natural person could do or
exercise, and which now or hereafter
may be authorized by law.
l ARTICLE Nv
| The amount of the capital stock of
this corporation shall be Five Hundred
Thousand $500, 600 O0) Dollars. divided
into five thousand (5.O0OOO) shares of
the par value OF One Hundred (91OO 90,
Dollars each.
The capital stock shall be common
stock, and the terms upon which the
same is created are that it shall be is.
sued to the full par value thereof, and
| said stock shall be issued as fully paid
and nom -assessable, and the capital
stock OF this corporation. after it's full
par value has been paid, shall not be
| subject to assessment to pay the debts
OF the corporation. Said capital stock
may be payable in cash, or by the sale
| and transfer to it of real or personal
property, contracts, services, or any
| valuable right, or thing for the uses
and purposes of said corporation, or
for satisfying Indebtedness, and in the
absence OF actual fraud in the transac-
tion. the judgment OF the directors as
to the value thereof shall be conclusive.
ARTICLE Nv
The time of the commencement of
this corporation shall be the date on
which certificate OF incorporation Is
issued by the Corporation Commission
OF the State of Arizona, and it shall
terminate twenty-five t25) years there
after. unless renewed and extended by
law.
ARTICLE VII
The effairs of this corporation shall
be conducted by board of not less
than three nor more than seven direc-
tors, who shall be stockholders of the
corporation. Said directors shall be
| elected at the annual meeting OF the
stockholders, and shall serve one year.
and until their successors are elected
| and qualified. The annual meeting of
this corporation shall be held at such
place. time and hour as may be pre-
scribed by the by laws of the corpora
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