The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-06-13
ARTICLES OF INOORPORAI 1 )N
 --oF THE KERN RIVER & LOS ANGELES ELECTRIC POWER GO.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS That we, J. w. Eddy, l.. J. c. Spruance. P. J | Beverldge, John Cross, K. H. Brooks, W. II Davis, OzrO W. Childs. E. H. James, E. Il l Gale and H. S. Mckee, whose names art hereto subscribed. have this day voluntarily associated ourselves together for the pur. pose of forming corporation. under the laws Of the Territory of Arizona. and we do hereby certify that we have adopted, signed and acknowledged the Articles of Incorporation here following:
 ARTICLE The name of said corporation is and shall be Kern River X Los Angeles Electric Power Company"
 ARTICLE II. The names of the incorporators of this cor poration are: J.W. Eddy, l.. J. c. Spruance. P.J. Beveridge. John Cross. F. H. Brooks, W. H. Davis, Ozro w. Childs, k. Il. James. E. Il. Gale and II. 5. Mckee.
 ARTICLE III.
 The principal place of transacting business of the corporation shall be in the town of Flagstaff, county of CoconIno. Territory of Arizona and at such other p ace or places as it's board of directors may from time to time hereafter designate.
 ARTICLE ".
 The general nature of the business pro- posed to be transacted by this corporation is and shall be to build, construct and operate canals. reservoirs, dams, ditches. fumes, aqueducts and pipes for supplying and stor- ing water for the operation of machinery for the purpose of generating and transmitting electric and other power for the supplying of mines, quarres, railroads. trAmways, mills and factories with electric or other power, and also for the supplying of electric or other power to light or heat mines, quarries. mills factories. incorporated cities, cities and counties, villages or towns. and to acquire for such purposes lands, buildings and all other Improvements in or upon which to erect. install, place, use or operate machinery for the purpose of generating or transmitting electric or orher power for any of the pur- poses or uses above set forth. and to acquire own, possess, contract for sell and ransfer water and water rights, and to contract for and sell in the Territory of Arizona and else where electric and other power for any pur- pose whatsoever.
 ARTICLE V.
 That the amount of the capital stock au- thorized by said corporation Is and shall be five million dollars, to be divided into 50,0J0 shares of the par value of one hundred dol
 
 conditions upon which it Is to be paid in are ss follows: All stock issued must be fully paid .or in cash or property upon issuance, and shal! thereafter Le non-assessable for any purpose whatever.
 ARTICLE VI.
 That the time of the commencement of this corporation shall be the Gate of the filing of these Articles of Incorporation for record fftn ..f ptt..a county. Arizona Territory. and the termina- tion thereof shall be twenty-five years there- after, unless the same Dc renewed pursuant to the laws of Arizona before the termination thereof.
 ARTICLE VII.
 The analrs of the corporation are to be conducted by board of eleven Il, directors, to be elected annually on the first Tuesday Of March, each year; provided, however, that soon as pracIicabl- after the filing of these Articles of Incorporation, the stockholders shall elect a board of directors, who shall hold office until said first Tuesday of March. l3y6 or until their successors are elected and have qualified.
 Each stockholder of this corporation. in Bll elections for directors, snail have the right to vote. in person or by proxy. the number of shares owned by him, as given on tho books of the company, for as many persons as there are directors 10 be elected, or to cumulate said shares and give one candidate as many votes as the number of directors multiplied by the number of his shares of stock shall equal, or to distribute them on the same prip. ciple among us many candidates as he shall sec fit, and that such directors shall not be elected in any other manner. The officers of said corporation shall be | president, first ce-president and second | ri1n al n whom sh hn 1trpp of said corporation. and a secretary and | treasurer and such subordinate officers and | assistants as may be deemed necessary. All officers shall be elected by the board of directors, after the annual election of said directors and shall hold office at the will and pleasure of said directors.
 ARTICLE VIII.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or lia- ,ility to which the corporation Is at any time O subject itself Is three million dollars.
 ARTICLE K.
 The private property of the stockholders of aid corporation shali be exempt from all corporate debts and the stockholders thereof re hereby exempted from all liability for my debt of said corporation.
 ARTICLE X.
 That the corporation shall have an office or tho transaction of its business in the state f California. at the city of Los Angeles herein, and said board of directors may leet and transact the business of said cor oration at said city; and the annual meet ng and election may be held thereat.
 ARTICLE XI
 The board of directors shall have power to orrow money, execute corporate notes or onds of the corporation, and to secure the ( ayinent of the same by mortgage on the roperty of said corporation, or in any other ,anner designated by said board.
 ARTICLE KIT. These Articles of Incorporation may be i mended at any annual meeting of the stock ' olders. or at any special meeting of the | stockholders, called for that purpose. by a yo-thirds vote of all the stock then issued ! oting in favor of such amendment; pro- T ided, however, that at such election called f ,r such purpose, at least majority of the u ockholders shall be present, in person or bY roxy. '"" W " ! IN WITNESS WHEREOF. we have bere-