The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1892-01-16
Articles of incorporation of
the Mohawk Telephone
Company.

We, Geo. W. Norton, L. B. Clarke and j. W. Dor
rington, desiring to incorporate ourselves under
the provisions Of the laws of the Territory OF
Arizona title II, entitled Corporations" for the
purpose OF engaging in the business and pursuits
hereinafter set forth and specified, do make,
adopt, subscribe and acknowledge these articles OF
incorporation below stated:
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The name of this corporation shall be 1.-THE Mo.
hawk Telephone Company" and the principal place
OF business shall be Mohawk, Yuma county, Ari-
IONA Territory.
The business in which this corporation proposes
to engage is the building telephone line beginning
at Texas Hill station on the Southern Pacific Rail
road in Yuma county and running thence to the
Pump house on the ella river and crossing the said
river to the headgate of the Mohawk canal and
thence down along the banks or near said canal to
the lower end thereof and thence again crossing the
ella river and to Tacna station on the aforesaid
Southern Pacific Railroad and the operation Of the
same.
The capital stock of this corporation shall be FIVE
thousand Us .oOO) dollars, divided into five hundred
$500 shares of the par value OF ten $50 dollars
each. The capital stock when subscribed shall he
paid for at such time and in such manner as the
Board OF Directors may provide. The stock when
fully paid up shall be worcestershire.
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The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted
by board of directors consisting of three persons.
who shall be stockholders, and who shall be elected
annually on the first Monday in January of each
year, by the stockholders The following named
persons shall serve directors until the first Mon.
day in January, A. D. 1893, Geo. w. Norton, L. B.
Clarke and j. W. Darlington. Any director ceas-
ing to be stakeholder shall also cease to be a
director. The Board of directors shall elect one of
their own number to be President and elect stock:
holder as Secretary and Treasurer of the corpora.
ton.
The highest amount of indebtedness or liability.
direct or contingent to which this corporation shall
at any time subject itself shall be one thousand
(s!OOO dollars. The stockholders OF this corpor.
alton and their private property are EXEMPT from
the corporate debts Of this corporation.
VI.
This corporation shall commence at the time
when these articles are filed with the Recorder of
Yuma county, Arizona Territory, and shall terminate
twenty five years after date of commencement
Vacancies in the Board of Directors shall be filed
by the remaining members of the Board of Direc.
tors. The Board of Directors shall adopt rules
subject to the approval of the stockholders. for
their own government, the government of stock
holders and of employees These articles may be
amended at any annual meeting of the stockholders
or at any special meeting of the stockholders called
fer that purpose, provided thirty days written or
printed notice Of the proposed amendment be given
each stakeholder, and provided also that twothirds
Of the votes cast favor the amendment.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our
bands the second day Of January, A. D. 1892:
GEORGE w. NORTON,
L. B. CLARKE,
J. w. DORRINGTON.