The Arizona sentinel., 1892-12-10
Articles of Incorporation
 0T THE SGnth Gila Improvement Con-
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 Hor@ee c. Damon, Henry D. Underwood and F ana Ii. Woodwork, desiring to incorporate our selves under the provisions of the laws of the Ter itory Of Arizona, and especially Act of the Legislative Assembly thereof, entitled ''An Act Concern 'ng Corporations" approved March sth, 1887, for the pgr21sc of engaging in the business and enterprise hereinafter mentioned, do Esake, su3scriIe and acknowledge in triplicate, these Ar iclss of Incorporation, as follows, namely: Tie name of this corporation, and by which it shall h'fein .fscr be known, is the South Gila Im- provemcnt Company, and the principal place for tra sac5ing business is the town of Chrystoval, County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona.
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 The business and enterprise in which this cor- poration proposes to engage, shall be to acquire, own hold, manage and control by purchase, deed, git, grant, conveyance, lease or location, real estate and rights anl interests therein of every kind and nature and also to acquire, own. hold, manage and control personal property, contracts,
  of every kind and nature, and to sell the same or any pert thcrec for itself and on it's own account O. f9r o,hcrs for commission, to borrow and loan money ard to carry on the business of banking in ; | it's branches. to give and take mortgages and ot;tr sccu fly for money borrowed or loaned, to uy and sci goods, and merchandise, and to c,;..d;ct and curry general mercantile business in ail it's branchs% t. acgu.re water and water rights and privileges by location, purchase or grant, and to sell and lease the same for irrigating Fl nuiacturing, power, or domestic purposes, to construct and maintain dams, canals ditches, pipes and reservoirs for diverting. receiving, dultng and distributing water, to construct build ingS and warehouses, and to buy sell and lease the Same to cons-ru:t roads and other public i'm Proyments, and t. maintain the same, to purchase, hold aid sell stock in other corporations, to build construct, own and operate telephone and tele- graph lines, or to lease the same, to purchase qfIi-e, own and operate railroads and tramways to be or operated by steam. electricity or other &pl lroved motive power, and to lease the same.
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 The amount of the capital stock of this Corpor. alton shall be two million five hundred thousand doiar7 Cs2, ,5J0, ,OOe) divided into two hundred and fifty thousand (25), ,O0O shaes of the par value of ten dollars (30) per share, and the when paid shall Ce non-asses5abe, and the said capital stock shall he paid in ct the time and under the conditions ordered and authorize l the Board of Directors of this Ger. orlUiou.
 The time Of the Commencement of this Corpor- ation shall be tFe day Of the fling of these artclez in the office of tire Recorder of the County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, and shall terminate twenty five (2D years thereafter.
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 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability direct or contingent, to which this corporation is at any time to be sybect, is the sum of one million dollars (sl, ,o0O,OO0).
 The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which this Corporation is at any time to subject itsef is the of one million dollars (s1 O0O OOO):
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 The affairs of this Corporation shall be conducted by Board of Directors, composeI uf live (5) per- sons who shall be elected annulIy ay the stockhold- CTS, and shall hold office for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. The time and manner of sail 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 astockholder in the corporation, and any person teasing to be a subscriber shall cease to be director, and hereafter if any direc- tor shall cease to be a stockholder he shall cease to be a 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, sand the officers thereof
 The following named persons who are 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 duplicate.
 H. G. DAMON, [Seal.I
 HENRY D. UNDERWOOD, LSeal.l
 FRANK H. WooDwORTH. IseaLJ HERR TORY OF ARIZONA, ss
 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. Woodwork, known to me to be the persons whose are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and each of them ac- knowledged to me that they executed the same for the purposeand consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal of office this 9th day of September, A. D., 1892.
 [sBAL.I 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................. Assistant
 Office of Secretary. ss'
 I, 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 iHmy ofhce
 In witness whereof. have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal. Done at Phoenix, this F day of September, 1892
 IsEALJ N A. MORFORD,
 Secretary of Territory.
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