The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19

| the laws of the Territory of Arizona and especially of an act of the Leg islative Assembly thereof entitled ''Ar Act Concerning Corporations" approved March 8, 1887, for the purpose of engaging in the business and enterprise hereinafter mentioned, do make, subscribe and ac knowledge in triplicate these Articles o l Incorporation.
 ARTICLE I. The name of this incorporation and by which it shall be hereafter known l. the Mohawk Ranch Company" and its principal place for transacting bus mess is Mohawk Ranch, rear Mohaw section house, on the Southern Pacific Rail road, in the Count, of Yuma, Territory of Arizona.
 ARTICLE IT, The business and enterprise which this Cooperation purposes to engage in sEall be to acquire by purchase, location, or in any other lawful manner, real estate, lands and all other kinds of property, real, personal or mixed, and to improve and sell the same; to borrow or loan money and receive mort gages upon lands, and to carry on the busi ness of banking in all it's branches; to buy and sell merchandise, and conduct and carry on mercantile business in all its branches; to acquire water by location or purchase, and to construct and maintain dams, canals, ditches, pipes and reservoirs for conducting, and distributing the same; to construct buildings and warehouses, and hold, occapy, buy and sell the same; to con struct roads and maintain the same; to erect, operate and maintain telegraph and telephone lines; to mortgage, hypothecate or pledge any of the property of this corpo- of business which may be transacted by a natural person.
 ARTICLE III.
 The amount of the capital stock of this corporation shall be Three Hundred Thous- and Dollars, $500, ,OO0) divided into Sixty Thousand (60, 000) shares, of the par value of Five (5) Dollars share, and the same shall be non -assessable, and the said capital stock shall be paid iA at the time and under the Board of Directors of this corporation.
 ARTICLE ".
 The time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the day of the filing o: these Articles in the office of the County Reco: der of the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, and shall terminate (5e) Fifty years thereafter.
 ARTICLE V.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or contingent, to whic! this corporation is at any time to be subjec; is the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand (l5O .O0O) Dollars.
 ARTICLE VI.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to ~h hich this corporation is at any time to subject itself is the sum of One Hun dred and Fifty Thousand Q5O, ,0O0) Dollars.
 ARTICLE VII. The affairs of this corporation shall be con- ducted by 8 Board of Directors con- posed of not more than five (5) persons nor ess than three @ persons, who shall be elected annually by the stockholders and shall hold office f1r one year and until theii successors are elected and qualified. Tn, time and manner of said election shall be provided for in the Bylaws of said Corpo ra! ion.
 Said Directors shall be subscribers to the capital stock of said corporation, an@ no person shall be eligible to sait cffiat unless he be a stockhOlder in the Corpora tion, and any person cedscing U he sab scriber shall cease to be Director, and here. fter if any Director shall cease t. be stockhoIder he shall cease to be Directo The B ,ari of Directors of this corpora tion shall have poSer to establish B. laws and snake ali rules and regulations necessary for the management of She aif sir> of this corporation ani the otf ;ers thereof The folio .ing named persons, wi.o are to the capital stock of thi corporation, shall constitute it's Board or Directors for the first three m, nths follow ing snd Immediately after the day of the tiIing of these Articles in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Yuma, Territory Of Arizona, ani until their sue cessors are d"l. elected ani q ,A.itied, to- a it: Samuel Knox, w. K. McFarla1G and Samuel Purdy.
 ARTICLE VIII
 The stockholders aud their private pror erty shall be exempt from the co: poratc debts of this corporation.
 IN WITNESS W HEREOF, We ha hereunto set our hands and s.als this l5tt day Of December. A. D 1888. Execute" i'll triplicate.
 w. K MCFARLAND. EAEALJ
 JOHN GANDOLFO, sEAL1
 SAMUEL PURDY. SEAL]
 TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, ss
 County of Yuma,
 Before me, E. B. Wagy, a Notary Publi, in and for the County of Yuma, Territory oi this day personally appeared w. K Mcfarland. ,T.,bu Eandolfo and SAmUe