The Arizona sentinel., 1892-04-30
Articles of Incorporation of ths CHR TSTOT.AL
 CONSTRUCTION
 AND MERCANTILE
 COMPANY.
CONSTRUCTION
COMPANY.
AND

P. Schureman and others met in Chrystoval, Ari- | zona, and agreed to organize stock company un- der the laws of the Territory; to build under con tract, canals rrgatng ditches, reservoirs storage places, etc, and for the purpose of doing general mercantile business. It was decided to call the | Company The Chrystova1 Construction and Mer- | camille Company. Below is given in full the Articles of Ineorpora- ton: We, H. D. Underwood John N. Schureman and | Joseph P. schureman, desiring to incorporate our selves under the provisions of the laws of the Ter ritory of Arizona, and especially Act of the | Legislative Assembly thereof, entitled "An Act Concerning Corporations" approved March sth, 1s87 for the purpose of engaging In business and enterprise hereinafter mentioned, do make, sub- scribe and acknowledge in duplicate these Articles of Incorporation. The name of this corporation, and by which 1t shall be hereafter known is ''The Chrystoval Con- structlon and Mercantile Company," and it's prinei pal place for transacting business is the town of Chrystoval, County of Yuma Territoryof Arizona.
 II.
 The purposes for which said company is formed are to construct, and maintain dams, canals ulUCH6oJ pes EeSeTNOIrS lOE WbCeES CO and own such machinery tools, implements, ap pliances and instrumentalities as may be deemed necessary proper to prosecute the busiress of the company with profit and success; to acquire water by location or purchase; to buy and sell merchan- disc and conduct and carry on a mercantile busi- ness in all it's branches that may be deemed ex- pedent and profitable to acquire, own and dis pose of, when deemed expedient such real estate, in one or more localities, whether by purchase or lease may be thought necessary for the uses and purposes of the Company, to mortgage, hypothe- cate pledge any of the property of the Corpora tion; to do and transact any and all inds of busl- ness which may be transacted by a natural person
 H.
 The amount of the Capital Stock of this Corpora tion shall be One Hundred Thousand Dollars, di- vided into thousand shares of the par value of enc hundred dollars per share, and the same shall be nonassessabe, and the said capital stock shall be paid in at the times and under the conditions ordered and authorized by the Board of Directors of this Corporation.
 The time of the commencement of this Corpora tion shall be the day of the filing of these Articles in the office of the Recorder of the County of Yuma Territory of Arizona, and shall terminate fifty (5O years thereafter
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability direct contingent to which this corporation is at any time to be subject, is the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars. u
 VI.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which this Corporation is at any time to subject itself is the sum of One Hundred Thousand dollars
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 The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by Board of Directors, composed of five persons who shall be elected annually by the stockholders and shall hold office for year until their success sors elected and qualified The time and man. ner of such election shall be provided for in the Bylaws of said Corporation Said Directors shall be subscribers to the capital stock of said corpora tion and no person shall be eligible to said office unless he be stockholder in the corporation, and any person ceasing to be subscriber shall cease to be Director, and hereafter if any Director shall cease to be stockholder he shall cease to be a Di- rector The Board of Directors of this Corporation shall have power ts establish Bylaws and make all rules and regulations necessary for the managee ent of the affairs of the Corporation and the officers thereof The following named persons, who are subscribers to the capital stock of this Corporation shall constitute it's Board of Directors until the Tenth day of March, 1893, and until their success sors are duly elected and qualified, to-wit: H. D. Underwood, H. G. Damon, W E. Pope John N. schureman and Joseph P. Schureman. VIII
 The stockholders and their private property shall be exempt from the corporate debts of this cor poraton.
 In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this Tenth day of March, A. D. 1892. Executedin triplicate.
 H. D. UNDERWOOD, GSeal.1 JOHN N. ScHUREMAN, ISeal | JOSEPH P. ScHUREM AN, [seal. l TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
 County of Pima. S'
 Before me, W. T. Gibbon, a Notary Public in and for the County of Pima, Territory of Arizona, per sonally appeared H. D. Underwood, John N Schureman and Joseph P. Schureman, known to me l to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and each of them &C., knowledged to that he executed the same for the purpose and consideration therein expressed. Given under my name and seal of office [SEAL.l this tenth day of March, 1892 W. T. GIBBoN, Notary Public.
 Recorded at request of O. F. Thornton, March 12th, 1892, at p. m
 J. L. REDcNDo, County Recorder. TERRITORY of ARIZONA, a
 County of Yuma O. I,J. L. Redondo, County Recorder of Yuma County, Territory of Arizona, do hereby certify that the foregoing is true and correct copy of the articles of Incorporation of the Chrystoval Con- struction and Mercantile Company, as the same appears of record in my office in Book One of Bonds and Agreements, page PAS, ct seq.
 Witness my hand aud official seal this 18th, [SEAL.l day of April, A. D. 1892.
 21-ot J. L. REDoNDo, County Recorder