The St. Johns herald., 1893-02-23
Articles of Incorporation
 OF THE Amity Irrigation Company.

Be it known to all men by these pres ents: That we, the undersigned, desire to incorporate ourselves for the purpose of engaging in the business of distribu- ting portion of the water of the Little Colorado river to the several persons en- titled thereto and we do mutually agree, declare and specify as follows, to-wlt: ARTICLE l. The name assigned by the corporation hereby created and by which | it shall be known is the Amity Irriga- tion Company.
 Art. 2. The period of the duration of said corporation shal; be twenty-five years from and after the date of this ar l ticle.
 Art 3. The enterprise and business in which said corporation proposes to en- gage, is the distribution of a portion of the water that flows down the Little Col orado river and passes through the ditches belonging to said company, flow ing or hereafter to flow into the precinct of SpringervIlle, Apache county, Ariz. !, to It's stockholders and all other persons entitled thereto, according to law and ac- cording 70 the bylaws of this corpora ton; and for said purpose to construct and repair dams, reservoirs, watergates, sluices and all other necessary and con- venient means for preserving, conveying and distributing water for irrigating and domestic purposes, and to collect from all persons using water so distributed, or any means of conveying water, such rates as the Board of Directors may de- termine to be just, not exceeding twen- ty-fve per cent more than the cost, said rate to be uniform upon all persons of each class to be classified according to the cost of making ditches or reservoirs or other sources of supply or means ef distributing and are of such sources or means as generally to do all things law ful to be done in the relation to the rights and interest of each and all per sons in and to the use of said portion of the Little Colorado river.
 Art. 4. The principal office and place of business of said corporation shall be in the precinct of Springerville Apache county, Arizona Territory.
 Art. }. The amount of capital stock of said corporation shall be fifteen thou sand ($15, ,OOO) dollars.
 Art. G. The number of shares of cap ital stock of said corporation shall be three (3,000) thousand.
 Art 2. The locality in which said wa ter is to be distributed is the irrigable land lping below a dam in the Little Colorado river at or near the west line of the north half of the southwest quar- ter of Section F township 8 range 28 ca t, known as the Westbrook claim and extending east and north about seven miles, emptying into the Nutrioso wash. Art. s. The private property of the stockholders shall not be liable for any obligations of the corporation.
 In testimony whereof we, the under signed as incorporators, subscribe our names this 24th day of December, 1892, at Springerville, Apache county, Ariz.
 JOSEPH UDALL, seal.
 E. E. TAYLOR, [seal.
 HENRY SHADE, seal.
 GEO. H. CROSBY, [seal.l
 JNo. s. BURK, [seal.l
 HEBER JARVIS, seal.
 A. A. nE WITT, ,Jrlseal.l TERRITORY OF ARIZoNA,l es County of Apache.
 Personally appeared before me on the 24th day of December A. D., 1892, Jos. U CudlIJ 1I' I. Ady iOi IACAIy '0i'UO5 OON' H. Crosby, John $. Burk, Heber Jarvis, A. A. De Witt, Jr., known to me to be the persons whose signatures are affixed 70 the foregoing articles of incorporation and each for himself acknowledges sign ing his name for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.
 Witness my hand and seal { SEAL this the 24th day of Decem- Der, 1892.
 GUSTAV BECKER,
 Notary Public. Filed and recorded at the request of E. E. Taylor, December Z9th, 1892, at four o'clock D. m., and duly recorded at Book Mo- of Miscellaneous Records, page 43S. records of Apache county, Arizona. { SEAL } CHAS. JARVIS, County Recorder Tseso RAHFN Is on file in Philadelphia
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