Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-07-31
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
of the
MERIDIAN CANAL COMP ANY.

Know All Men by These Presents:
That we, the undersigned, to form a
corporation under and pursuant to the
laws of the Territory of Arizona, do
hereby sign and acknowledge the fol-
lowing articles of incorporation:
ARTICLE 7.
The names of the oorporators are
Nathaniel w. Haggard, John H. Ivy
and Fred F. Campbell. The name OF
the corporation shall be Meridian
Canal Company and it's principal
place of transacting business shall be
Phoenix, Arizona
ARTICLE II.
The general nature of the business
proposed to be transacted is as fol-
lows. and the corporation shall be au-
thoIized:
1. To construct, acquire. own, OPP
crate, sell. rent, lease, cucumber, dis
pose of, or redeem dams, reservoirs,
canals; aqueducts, pipe lines. wells.
pumps and amy and ali other appli-
ances necessary or convenient for the
appropriation, diversion, distribution
or use Of water for irrigation or any
mechanical agricultural domestic or
humanitarian use, or use of animals;
2. To appropriate, develop, i'm
pound, obstruct, divert. convey, con-
struct, use, supply or distribute wafer
for any useful or beneficial purpose
and to acquire, own. operate, use, sell.
rent, lease, cucumber, dispose of or
redeem water rights or rights to the
control or use of water initiated,
owned or controlled by others;
3. To reclaim land by the use OF
water;
f. To acquire, own, cultivate, de-
velop, sell, rent, lease, cucumber dis
pose of or redeem lands, tenements or
Entertainments and. any real, personal
or mixed property, or rights in the ma
ture of property, including sites, 10
cations and rights of way in fee or by
easement or otherwise.
5. And generally to undertake and
carry on any business, undertaking,
transaction or operation commonly
carried on or undertaken by irrigation
companies, water supply companies,
or water power companies, and any
other business which may seem to the
company capable of being convenient
ly carried on in connection with the
above or calculated either directly or
indirectly to enhance the value of or
render profitable any of the company's
property or rights;
To enter into contracts with any
other company or companies, or per-
son or persons for the foregoing pur-
poses;
To do all or any of the aforesaid as
principal, agent, contractor, trustee
or otherwise and that by or through
trustees, agents or otherwise, and
either alone or in conjunction with
others;
To amalgamate or unite with any
other company altogether or in part
similar in its objects or purposes to
this company;
To borrow or raise money by mort
gage or on bonds, debentures, accept
ances, promissory notes or other Sc
cu-ittes, or property of the company
or any part thereof; and to provide
for the repayment thereof and interest
thereon, by the creation of a sinking
fund Or otherwise, and to do all such
things as are incidental or conducive
to the attainment of the above OBJ
jects.
ARTICLE III.
The capital stock of this corporation
shall be sixty thousand dollars, d.
vided into six hundred shares of one
hundred dollars each; and the com
pany shall have power to increase, |
subdivide, classify or reduce the cap
ital for the time being by the amend |
ment of these articles and to raise the |
whole or any part thereof or any in |
creased capital at a premium or |
with any preference, guarantee, priv |
ilege, or other advancement or post /
ponement The board of directors |
may at their discretion and are hereby |
to make water sufficient /
from time to time for the proper irri-
CATION of ten acres OF land, and not |
exceeding one siX-hundredths part of |
water, to be diverted at the HaggaId |
and Ivy head from the Salt river, in
cidental and appurtenant to each
share of the cOmpany'S capital stock
1r to such portion thereof as the board
If directors may by resolution deter
mine, but the land to be irrigated
hereby must be promptly and perma-
1ently specified. Capital stock shall
De subscribed for, sold, issued and the
price thereof paid in at such times for
such prices and upon such terms and
conditions as the board of directors
shall from time 10 time by resolution
lirect,
Provided, however, that the pur-
,hase price of all stock shall be fully
)aid before the certificates therefor
'hall be issued, and all stock shall be
ssUed fully paid and non-assessa BILE.
ARTICLE ".
The time of commencement of the
corporation shall be the second day of
Nay, A. D., 1899, and it's termination
It the end of fifty years from the date
# commencement
ARTICLE V.
The affairs of the corporation shall
e conducted by a board of three di-
ectOrs to be elected yearly at the