The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1892-04-16
Articles of Incorporation Of the
Mohawk Land
Company.

These articles of association made and entered
into by and betws 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 r. of the general statutes of the Territory of
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 W. Norton and JOS J. Stein.
ARTICLE III.
The principal place of transacting its 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 its business it
may deem best within and without the limits of
said Territory.
ARTICLE ".
The general nature of the business proposed to
be transacted by the company shall be to irrisate,
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, bitches, conduits
aqueducts, reservoirs gates and such other struct-
ures and appliances may be necessary or con-
venieRt in daming collecting, obstructing, con-
Quoting 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 agri
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 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 as its Board
OF Directors may ft to issue bonds and to exc
cute mortgages upen any of its property, hereafter
to be acquired to secure any loans, for any of its
Indebtedness; to pledge and hypothecate any of its
property to pay off any Of its indebtedness
any of its loans and may do any and all things that
its Board of Directors may deem necessary or in.
cident to its 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. 1892, and the
termination thereof shall be fifty years thereafter
to-wit: the End day of May, A. D. 1912.
ARTICLE VII.
The business afai S. stock property and con-
Germs of said company, shall be managed, governed
and controlled in accordance with it's bylaws, by
Board of Directors, including a president, vice
president, secretary and treasurer: The Directors
shall be elected annually by the stockholders in
sa 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 drec
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 one year and until
their successors shall have been elected and quail
fed
The first Board of Directors shall consist of five
members AMI thereafter the number shall be de-
termined by the bylaws.
ARTICLE VIII.
The highest amount of indebtedness or liability
W "Sh Uho COMPANY o""il az any Iline ouOJecN ~
self shall not exceed Three Hundred Thousand
dollars.
ARTICLE TX.
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
afix our seals this seventh day of April, a. D.
1892, at the town of Yuma, Arizona Territory.
JOHN W. DoRRNGroN, ISeal.l
GEORGE w. NORTON, [Seal.l
Jos. J. STEIN. ISeal.l