The Arizona sentinel., 1892-11-05
Articles Of incorporation
 OF FTHE South GiIa Improvement COm-
 pany.

Horace c. Damon, Henry D. Underwood and Frank H. Woodwork, desiring to incorporate our selves under the provisions of the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and especially an 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 it shall hereinafter be known, is the South Gila I'm provsment Company, and the principal place for traI sacting business is the town of Chrystoval, County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona.
 The business and enterprise In which this cor poration proposes to engage shall be to acquire, own, hold, manage and control by purchase, deed, i gift grant, conveyance, lease or location, real estate and rights and interests therein of every kind and nature, and also to acquire, own. hod 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 itself and it's account, for others, for a 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 a general mercantile business in all it's branches, to acquire water and water rights and privileges by location, purchase or grant, and to sell and lease the same for irrigatng ! op,,fao of,Y fo construct and maintain dams, canals, ditches, pipes and reservoirs for diverting, receiving, 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 buid construct, own and operate telephone and tele graph lines, or to lease the same to purchase, &C., quire, own and operate railroads and tramways to be operated by steam, electricity or other 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 thousand dollars (s2, 800 OOo) divided into two hundred and fifty thousand (25O, ,OOO shares of the par value of ten dollars (s1O) per share and the same when paid shall be nOn-assessabe, 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 tfe day of the filing of these artice in the office of the Recorder of the County of Yuma Territory of Arizona, and shall terminate twenty five (25) years thereafter.
 1 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or contingent, to which this corporation is at any time to be subject, is the sum of one million dollars (s1, ,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 S 900 O00) VII.
 The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by Board of Directors, composed of five (5) per sons who shall be elected annually 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 drec- 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 a subscriber shall cease to be director, and hereafter if any direc- tor shall cease to be a stockholder he shall cease to be director.
 The Board of Directors of this Corporation shall have power to establish bylaws, adopt a 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 are 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. Exec zted in triplicate.
 H. DAMON, [Seal.I HENRY D. UNDERWOOD, tSeall
 FRANK H. wOODwORTH. ISeal.I TERR 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 ofico this 9th day of September, A. D., 1892.
 [sEALl 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 By. By..................... Assistant" TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, ss
 Office of Secretary. 3D.
 I, N. A. Morford, Secretary of the Territory of Arizona, do hereby certify that the above and fore going is true and correct copy of the Articles of Incorporation of the South Gila Improvement Company, now on file in my office. In witness whereof. I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal. Done at Phoenix this IT day of September, 1892.
 lsEAL.l N. A. MORFORD,
 Secretary of Territory.