The Arizona sentinel., 1892-11-26
Articles Of Incorporation
 OF THE South GiIa Improvement Con-
 pany.

Horace G. Damon, Henry D. Underwood and | Frank H. woodworth, 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; The name-of this corporation, and by which it shall hereinafter be known, is the South Gila I'm provement Company, and the principal place for tral sacting business is 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 itself, and its 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, 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 rrlgatlng 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 provnents and to maintain the same, to purchase, hold and sell stock in other corporations, to build construct, own and operate telephone and teie- graph lines or to lease the same, to purchase, ac- ouire own and operate railroads and tramways to be run or 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 5OOOOo), divided into two hundred and fifty thousand (250, ,OOO shares of the par value of ten dollars (S1O) per share and the same when paid shall be non 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.
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 The time of the commencement of this Corpor- ation shall be tFe 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.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct or contingent, to which this corporation is at any time to be subiect is the of million dollars (sl, ,OOO,OOO).
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which this Corporation is at any time to subject itself is the sum of one million dollars (s, cO
 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 stockhod- ers 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 no person shall be eligible to said office unless he be stockholder in the corporation, and any person teasing to be a subscriber shall cease to be director, and hereafter If any diroc- 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 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 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, LSeal.l
 HENRYD UNDERWOOD, Gseal.l
 FRANK H. WOODWoRTH. [Seal.l HERR TORY OF ARIZONA, co County of Yuma.
 Before me, o. F. Thornton, Notary Public n and for the County of Yuma, Territory of Asizona  Underwood and Frank H. Woodwork, known tC me to be the persons whose names subscribed t( the foregoing instrument, and each of them ac knowledged to me that they executed the same fo the purpose and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal of office this 6tl q day of September, A. D., 1892. [sEAL.l O. F. THORNTON, l Notary Public. |, ENDORSED.
 ssArticles Incorporation South Gila Improvement Co.,, Chrystoval, Yuma Co.," }, Filled in the office of the Secretary of the Tel , ritory of Arizona this day of September, A. 1 1892, at Il a. m N. A. MORFORD,
 Secretary of Territory. By..................... Assistant
 TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, ] SC
 Office of Secretary.
 IN A. Morford, Secretary of the Territory J Arizona do hereby certify that the above and for going is true and correct copy of the Articles V. Incorporation of the South Gia ImprovemeI Company now file in my office.
 In witness whereof. I have hereunto set my har and affixed my official Seal. Done at PhoenlN, tn u 0TS TsraI, N. A. MORFORD,
 Secretary of Territory. NORTON'S STAGE LIN
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