The Arizona sentinel., 1892-10-15
RrlisIes Of incorporation
 OF THE South GiIa Improvement Com.
 pany.


 Horace e. Damon, Henry D. Underwood and FrsnA H. woodworth, desiring to incorporate our selves under the provisions of the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and especially Act of the Legislative Assembly thereof, entitled "An Act Concerning Corporations" approved March sth, 1887, for the purpose of engaging in the business and enterprise hereinafter mentioned, do make, subscribe and acknowledge in triplicate these Articles of Incorporation, as follows, namely:
 l.
 The name of this corporation, and by which 1t shall hereinafter be known, is the South Gila Im- provement Company, and the principal place for trl sacting business s the town of Chrystoval, County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona.
 II.
 The business and enterprise In which this cor poration proposes to engage, shall be to acquire, own, hold, manage and control by purchase, deed, gift, grant, conveyance, lease or location, real estate and rights and interests therein of every kind and nature, and also to acquire own. hold, manage and control personal property, contracts, choses in action, and property rights and interests of every kind and nature, and to sell the same or any part thereof for itsef and on it's own account or for others, for commission to borrow and loan money and to carry on the business of banking in all its branches. to give and take mortgages and other security for money borrowed or loaned, to buy and sell goods, wares and merchandise, and to conduct and carry on general mercantile business in all its branches, to acquire water and water rights and privileges by location, purchase or grant, and to sell and lease the same, for irrgating manufacturing, power, or domestic purposes. to construct and maintain dams, canals, ditches, pipes and reservoirs for diverting receiving, con- ducting and distributing water, to construct build ings and warehouses; and to buy sell and lease the same, to construct roads and other public i'm provments, and to maintain the same, to purchase, hold and sell stock in other corporations to build, construct, own and operate telephone and tele graph lines, to lease the same, to purchase, ac quire, own and opersts railroads and tramways to be run or operated by steam. electricity or oth r approved motive power, and to lease the same.
 III.
 The amount of the capital stock of this Corpor ation shall be two million five hundred thou and dollars (S2, ,5oO, ,00c), divided into two hundred and fifty thousand (25o OOO) shares of the par value of ten dollars (slo per share and the same when paid shall be assessable and the said capital stock shall be paid in at the time and under the conditions ordered and authorized by the Board of Directors of this Corporation.
 The time of the commencement of this Corpor- ation shall be te day of the filing of these articles in the office of the Recorder of the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, and shall terminate twenty five (25 years thereafter.
 V.
 hehighest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct contingent, to which this corporation is at any time to be subject, is the of million dollars Csl. .Ooo ,oOO).
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which this Cooperation is at any time to subject itself is the sum of one million dollars l o0o ooO:
 VII.
 The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by Board of Directors, composed of five (s) per who shall be elected annu1lly by the stockhold CTS and shall hold office for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. The time and manner of said election shall be provided for in the bylaws Of said corporation. Said direc- tors shall be subscribers to the capital stock of said corporation and person shall be eligible to said office unless he be stockhoder in the corporation, and any person teasing to be 8 subscriber shall cease to be a director and hereafter if any direc- tor shall cease to be stockholder he shall cease to be director.
 The Board of Directors of this Corporation shall have power to establish bylaws, adopt Corporate Seal and make all rules and regulations necessary for the management of the affairs of this Corpora tion, and the officers thereof
 The following named persons who arc sub scribers to the capital stock of this Corporation, shall constitute it's Board of Directors until the first day of March 1893, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, to wit: Horace G. Damon Henry D. Underwood. Frank H. Wood worth, George W. Cameron and George H. Lewis.
 VIII
 The stockholders and their private property shall be exempt from the Corporate debts of this corporation.
 In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 9th day of September, 1892. Executed in triplicate.
 H. G. DAMON, Seal
 HENRYD. UNDERWOOD, GsealI
 FRANK H. wOoDwoRTH. [sealI HERR TORY OF ARIZONA,
 County of Yuma.
 Before me, O. F. Thornton, Notary Public in and for the County of Yuma, Territory of Asizona, personally appeared, Horace G. Damon, Henry D. Underwood and Frank H Woodworth, known to me to be the persons whose names subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and each of them ac- knowledged to me that they executed the same for the purpose and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal of office this 9th day of September, A. D., 1892.
 [SEAL.l o. F. THORNTON,
 Notary Public.
 ENDORSED.
 Articles Incorporation South Gila Improvement Co.,, ChryStoval, Yuma Co.,"
 Filled in the office of the Secretary of the Ter ritory of Arizona this day of September, A. D. 1892, at II a. m. N. A. MORFORD,
 Secretary of Territory. 6y..................... Assistant" TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, ,
 Office o Secretary. I, N. A. Morford, Secretary of the Territory of Arizona do hereby certify that the above and fore going is true and copy of the Articles of Incorporation Of the South Gila Improvement Company, now file in my office.
 In witness whereof. have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal. Done at Phoenix, this F day of September, 1892.
 [sEAL.I N. A. MoRFoRD, Secretary of Territory. NORTON'S STAGE LINE
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