The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-05-23
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
-OF THE KERN RIVER & LOS ANGELES ELECTRIC POWER co.

ELEUIRlU PUW ER UU, KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That we, J. w. Eddy, L. J. c. Spruance. P. J. Beveridge, John Cross, E. H. Brooks, W. H. Davis, Ozro w. Chllds, E. H. James, E. II. Gale and H. S. Mckee, whose names are hereto subscribed. have this day voluntarily associated ourselves together for the pur- pose of forming a corporation, under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and we do hereby certify that we have adopted, signed and the Articles of Incorporation here following:
 ARTICLE I.
 The name of said corporation Is and shall be Kern River & Los Angeles Electric Power Company"
 ARTICLE II.
 The names of the incorporators of this cor poration are: J.W. Eduy L.J. c. Spruance P. J. Beveridge. John Cross E. H. Brooks, w H. Davis, Ozro w. Childs, k. II. James, E. II Gale and H. $. Mckee.
 ARTICLE III.
 The principal place of transacting business of the corporation shall be in the town oi Flagstaff, county of Coconino, Territory oi Arizona, and at such other place or places as its 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 fol the purpose of generating and transmitting electric and other power for the supplying O mines, quarries, railroads. tramways, mills and factories with electric or other power and also for tine supplying of electric or othel power to light or heat mines, quarries, mills factories incorporated cities, cities anC counties, villages or towns, and to acquir, for such purposes lands, buildings and al other Improvements in or upon which t' erect. install, place, use or operate machinery for the purpose of generating or transmitting electric or other power for any of the pur poses or uses above set forth. and to acquire own, possess, contract for, sell and transfer water and water rights, and to contract fol 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 b' five million dollars, to be divided into 5000 shares of the par value of one hundred dol lars per share. and that the times when ant conditions upon which it Is to be paid in ar ss follows All stock issued must be full! paid Tor in cash or property upon issuance and shall thereafter be non-assessable fo any purpose whatever.
 ARTICLE VI.
 That the time of the commencement of thi corporation shall be the Cate of the filing 0 these Articles of Incorporation for recor, with the County Recorder of Coconin county. Arizona Territory, and the termina tion thereof shall be twenty-five years there after, unless the same be renewed pursuan to the laws of Arizona before the termination thereof.
 ARTICLE VII.
 Tne auaIrs of the corporation are to b conducted by board of eleven u1J directors to be elected annually on the first Tuesda. of March, each year; provided, however, tha as soon as practicable after the filing of thes Articles of Incorporation, the stockholder shall elect board of directors, who shal hold office until said first Tuesday of March 1898 or until their successors are elected an' have qualified.
 Each stockholder of this corporation, in al elections for directors, shall have the righ to vote, in person or by proxy, the number o shares owned by him, as given on the book of the company, for as many persons as ther gre drectors to be elected, or to cumulat said shares and give one candidate as man. votes as the number of directors multiple, by the number of his shares of stock shal equal, or to distribute them on the same prin ciple among as many candidates as he shal see fit, and that such directors shall not b elected in any other manner.
 The officers of said corporation shall be president, first vice-president and secoDt vice-president, all of whom shall be diTectpr of said corporation, and secretary ant treasurer, and such subordinate officers an, assistants as may be deemed necessary.
 All officers shall be elected by the board o directors, after the annual election of sai, directors, and shall hold office at the will an, pleasure of said directors,
 ARTICLE VIII.
 The highest amount of indebtedness or lia bility to which the corporation is at any tim to subject itself is three million dollars.
 ARTICLE TX.
 The private property of the stockholders o said corporation shall be exempt from al corporate deDtS ana the StOckh0lderS thereO are hereby exempted from all liability fo any debt of said corporation,
 ARTICLE X,
 That the corporation shall have an offlc for the transaction of its business in the stat of California, at the city of Los Angele therein, and said board of directors ma, meet and transact the business of said cor poratlon at said city; and the annual meet ing and election may be held thereat
 ARTICLE XI.
 The board of directors shall have power t borrow money, execute corporate notes O bonds of the corporation, and to secure tn payment of the same by mortgage on tn property of said corporation, or in any pths manner designated by said board.
 ARTICLE XII.
 These Articles of Incorporation may b amended at any annual meeting of the stock holders, or at any special meeting of tn stockholders, called for that purpose. by two-thirds vote of all the stock then issued voting in favor of such amendment; pro vided, however, that at such eleetion eafle for such pprpoSe, al leasg majority of tn stockholders shall be present, in person or b proxy.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF. we have here