The Arizona sentinel., 1892-05-07
Articles of Incorporation of the Land
 Company.

These articles of association made and entered into by and between John w Darlington, George W. Norton and Jos. J. Stein, whose names are hereunto subscribed this seventh day of April, A. D. 1892, Witnesseth:
 That for the purpose of forming an incorporated company under and in pursuance of Chapter 2, Title F. of the general statutes of the Territory Arizona, approved March Sth, 1887, do hereby as- sociate and agree upon the following articles of incorporation:
 ARTICLE 1.
 The name of the company shall be the Mohawk Land Company.
 The names of the incorporators are: John W. Darlington, George ". Norton and Jos. J. stein
 ARTICLE III.
 The principal place of transacting it's business shall be Yuma, Yuma County, Territory of Arizona, or at such other place within said county as said company may hereafter designate; and it may create and designate and locate as many subordi- nate offices for the transaction of it's business as it may deem best within and without the limits of said Territory.
 ARTICLE "
 The general nature of the business proposed to Ce, reclaim cultivate and improve arid or desert lands, and for that purpose to appropriate, purchase or otherwise acquire and maintain water, water rights, dams, canals, fumes, ditches, conduits aqueducts, reservoirs gates and such other struct- ures and appliances as may be necessary or con- venieRt in daming, collecting, obstructing con- ducting or regulating the flow of water; to sell water and the use thereof, water-rights and priv ileges; to use and furnish for use water, for agr cultural, mining, milling, mechanical, domestic and other beneficial purposes; to acquire by loca- ton, purchase or otherwise, lands and all other kinds of property, real, personal or mixed and to hold, use improve, sell, lease otherwise convey the same; to loan money and borrow money, and to contract to repay the at such times or times and with such rate rates of interest it's Board Of Directors may see t to issue bonds and to exc cute mortgages upen any of it's property, hereafter to be acquired to secure any loans, for any of it's indebtedness; to pledge and hypothecate any of it's property to pay of any of it's indebtedness or secure any of its oans and may do any and all things that its Board of Directors may deem necessary or in. cident to it's business.
 ARTICLE V.
 The amount of the capital stock of said company shall be Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, divided into five thousand share of the par value of One Hundred dollars each.
 ARTICLE VI.
 The time of the commencement of the company shall be the second day of May, A. D. 1892, and the termination thereof shall be fifty years thereafter, to-wit: the 2nd day of May, A. D. 1942
 ARTICLE VII.
 The h11einacr ofoirC StooI, oo-. cerns of said company, shall be managed, governed and controlled in accordance with it's bylaws, by Board of Directors, including a president, vice. secretary and treasurer: The Directors shall be elected annually by the stockholders in said company at general meeting to be held for that purpose on the first Monday in May of each year, except that the first general election of direc tors for the first year shall be held at such time as the incorporators may designate. The term of office of the directors shall be for year and until their successors shall have been elected and quail fed.
 The first Board of Directors shall consist of five members and thereafter the number shall be de- termined by the bylaws
 ARTICLE VIII.
 hehighest amount of indebtedness or liability to wMch the company shall at any time subject it. self shall not exceed Three Hundred Thousand dollars.
 ARTICLE K.
 The private property of the stockholders and directors shall be exempt from liability for or on account of the debts of the company. In witness whereof we here sign our names, and affx our seals this seventh day of April, A. D. 1892, at the town of Yuma, Arizona Territory
 JOHN W. DoRRNGToN, [Seall
 GEORGE W. NORTON, [Seal.l
 Jos. J. STEIN. (Seal.1