The Arizona sentinel., 1892-05-28
Articles of Incorporation of the Mohawk Land
 Company.

These ar ices of association made and entered into by and between John W. Darlington, George W. Norton and Jos J. Stein, whose names are hereunto subscribed this seventh day of April, A. D. 1892, Witnesseth:
 That for the purpose of forming incorporated company under and in pursuan of Chapter 2, Title 12 of the general satutss of the Territory of Arizona, approved March Sth, 1887, do hereby as- sociate and agree upon the following articles of incorporation
 The name of the company shall be the Mohawk Land Company.
 The names of the incorporators are: John W. Darlington, George W. Norton and Jos. J. Stein. ARTICLE III.
 The principal place of transacting it's business shall be Yuma, Yuma County, Territory of Arizona, or at such other place within said county said company may hereafter designate; and it may create and designate and locate as many subordi- nate offices for the transaction of its business it may deem best within and without the limits of 1 said Territory.
 ARTICLE ". The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by the company shall be to irrigate reclaim cultivate and improve arid or desert lands, and for that purpose to appropriate, purchase or otherwise acquire and maintain water, water | rights, dams, canals, fumes, ditches, conduits aqueducts, reservoirs gates and such other struct ures and appliances as may be necessary or con- venieRt in damlng, collecting, obstructing, con- ducting regulating the flow of water; to sell water and the use thereof water rights and priv ileges; to use and furnish for water, for agr- cul ural, min ng, milling, mechanical, domestic and other beneficial purposes to acquire by lOca- tiOn, pIrchase otherwise. lands and all other kinis of pio .erty, real, personal mixed, and to hOld use improve, sell, lease or otherwise convey 1 the same; to loan money and borrow money, and to contract to repay the at such times or times and with such rate rates of interest as its BcarI of Directors may Et to issue bonds and to exe- cute mortgages upsn any of it's property, hereafter to be aquirei to any loans or any of its indebte ness; to pledge and hypothecate any of its property to pay off any of it's indebtedness any of it's loans and may do any and all things that | its Boar1 of Directors may deem necessary or in cident to its business.
 ARTICLE V. The amount of the capital stock of said company shall be i've Hundred Thousand Dollars, divided | into five thousand share of the par value of One Hundred dollars each.
 ARTICLE VI. The time of the commencement of the company shall be the second day of May A. D 1S92 and the termination thereof shall be fifty years thereafter, | to-wit the 2nd day of May, 4. D. 1922 ARTICLE VII | The business afai s, stock, property and con- cerns of said company, shall be managed. governed and controlled in accordance with it's bylaws by a Boar1 of Directors, including president, viUe- preside mt, :retary an1 treasurer: The Directors shall be elected annually by the stockholders in | sa company at general meeting to be held for 1 that purpose on the first Monday in May of ea:h year. except that the first general election of direc tors for the first year shall be held at such time the incorporators may designlte. The term of office of the directors shall be for year and until their successors shall have been elected ani quail | fled
 Tie first Boari of Directors shall consist of five members an thereafter the number shall be de ! termined by the bylaws. l ARTICLE VIII. 1 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which the company shall at any time sub ec+ it | self shall not exceed Three Hundred Thousand dollars.
 | ARTICLE TX.
 The private property of the stockholders and dire tors shall be exempt from liability for or or account of the debts of the company.
 In witness whereof We here sign our names, and 1 atfx our seals this seventh day of April, A. D. 1892, at the town of Yuma Arizona Territory
 JOHN W. DoRRINeToN, tSeal.l 1 GEORGE W. NORTON, [Seal.] l Jos. J. STEIN. lSeal.l