The Arizona sentinel., 1892-05-07
Articles of Incorporation of the CHR YSTOTAL
 CONSTRUCTION
 AND MERCANTILE
 COMPANY.
CONSTRUCTION
MERCANTILE

H. D. Underwood, John N. SchuremaH, Joseph 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, canal irrigating ditehes reservoirs storage places, etc, and for the purpose of doing general mercantile business. It was decided to call the Company The Chrystoval Construction and Mer- cantile Company.
 Below is given in full the Articles of Incorpora- tion:
 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 an Act of the Legislative Assembly thereof, entitled "An Act Concerning Corporations" approved March Sth, 1887, for the purpose of engaging in business and enterprise hereinafter mentioned, do make, sub. scribe and Acknowledge in triplicate these Articles of Incorporation.
 The name of this corporation, and by which it shall be hereafter known is ''The Chrystoval Con- struction and Mercantile Company" and it's princi
 
 Chrystoval, County of Yuma, TerritoryOf Arizona
 II.
 The purposes for which said company is formed are to construct, and maintain dams, canals ditches, pipes and reservoirs for water to acquire and own such machinery, tools, implements, ap- plianees and instrumentalities as may be deemed necessary proper to prosecute the business 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- pedient and profitable, to acquire, own and dis pose of, when deemed expedient, such real estate, in one or more localities, whether by purchase or ease as may be thought necessary for the uses and purposes of the Company, to mortgage, hypothe- cate or pledge any of the property of the Corpora tion; to do and transact an and all inds of bus- ness which may be transacted by natural person.
 III.
 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 one hundred dollars per share, and the same shall be non-assessabe, and the said capital stock shall be paid in at the times and under the conditions ordered and authorized by the Board of Directors or tnlS CorporaEon.
 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 or contingent to which this corporation is at any time to be subject, is the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars.
 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
 VII.
 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 one year until their success sors are 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 stoekholder in the corporation, and any person ceasng to be subscriber shall cease to be Director, and hereafter if any Director shall cease to be stockholder he shall cease to be Di- rector. The Board of Directors of this Corporation shall have power to establish Bylaws and make ail rules and regulations necessary for the management 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. Sehureman and Joseph P schureman
 VIII
 The stockholders and their private property shall be exempt from the corporate debts of this COT. poraton.
 In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this Tenth day of March, A. D. 1892. Executedi in triplcats
 H. D. UNDERWOOD, [seal.l
 JOHN N. SCHUREMAN, CSeal |
 JOSEPH P. ScHUREMAN [Seal. I TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, .,
 County of Pima. 3D.
 Before me, w. T. Gibbon, 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 to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and each of them ac- knowedged to me that he executed the same for the purpose and consideration therein expressed.
 Given under my name and seal of office [sEAL.I this tenth day of March, 1892.
 ". T. GIBBoN, Notary Public. Recorded at request of O. F. Thornton March 18th, 1892, at p. m.
 J. L. REDoNDo, County Recorder. TERRITORY of ARIZONA, ss
 County of Yuma 7S'
 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, [SEAhl day of April, A. D. 1892. 216t J. L. REDoNDo, County Recorder M. HI. BOXIN.
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