The Arizona sentinel., 1892-11-19
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE 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 9th, 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 nams. .of this corporation, and by which it shall hereinafter be known, is the South Gia Inn 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 part GHeEoOI IGselI, anu on OWu or for others, for commission, to borrow and loan money and to carry on the business of banking in all it's 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 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 rrgatng 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, or to lease the same, to purchase ac- quire, 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 C2, ,5OO, ,OOol divided into two hundred and fifty thousand (25O OOO shares of the par value of ten dollars $1O per share, and the same when paid uOu-6occbSdU1S, shall be paid in at the time and under the conditions ordered and authorized by the Board of Directors of this Corporation.
 Tbetime of the commencement of this Corpor- aton 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 twenty five (25) years thereafter.
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 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability, direct contingent, to which this corporation is at any time to be subject is the of one million dollars ($1, DOC, ,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 (1 OOO Oo0)
 VII.
 The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by Board of Directors, composed of five C) per who shall be elected annually by the stockhold 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 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 drec- 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 are sub- scrbers to the capital stock of this Corporation, shall constitute its Board of Directors until the frstday 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 
 In witness whereof we have hereunto Set our hands and seals this 9th day of September, 1892. Executed in duplicate.
 H. G. DAMON, [Seal.l
 HENRY D. UNDERWOOD, tSeaLl
 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.
 [sEALl O. F. THORNTON,
 Notary Public. 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 Il a. m. N. A. MORFORD,
 Secretary of Territory. by.-.-.,............... ny ASslStant. TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
 Office of Secretary sS'
 1, 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. have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal. Done at Phoenix this F day of September, 1892
 tsEAI.l N. A. MORFoRD,
 Secretary of Territory. NORTON'S STAGE LINE|
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