Arizona republican., 1903-01-22

Section 5. The ownership of each share of stock of this Association shall carry, as incident thereto, a right to have delivered to the owner thereof water, by the Association for the irrigation of the lands to which such share is appurtenant.
 Section 6. The amount of water so to be de- lvered to such owner shall be that proportionate part of all stored and developed water the storage or development of which is or may be effected by this Association, by means of works under it's trol, management or direction or which may become available for distribution by this Association from storage works built by the National Government, during any irrgating season, the number of shares owned by him shall bear to the whole number of valid and subsistng shares of the Association issued and then outstanding, to be delivered to and upon said lands at such times during such he may direct.
 Section /. And there shall also be incident to such ownership of such shares the right to have de- lvered to the thereof for the irrigation of said lands the Association shall from time time acquire for that purpose the water heretofore and before the shareholder his transeree became a member of this Association, appropriated by him by his predecessors in interest for the irrigation of said lands: prorided however, that the whole amount of water actually delivered from all sources shall exceed the necessary for the proper cultivation of said lands.
 Section 8. The records of the Association and each and every certificate other evidence of ership of shares of stock in the Association, when issued shall contain description of the lands to be irrigated, and to which the aforesaid rights and shares shall be perpetually appurtenant, and there after all rights, whatever their source whatever their manner of acquisition, to the use of water for the irrigation of said lands, shall forever be nseparably appurtenant to said lands, to- gether with the said shares of stock and all rights and interests represented thereby existing accruing by thereof, unless such rights shall become forfeited under the provisions of these Articles of Incorporation or of bylaws adopted in pursuance thereof by operation of law or by the voluntary abandonment thereof by deed grant other instru- mcnt, or by nonuser for the term prescribed by law ont no such abandonment shall be for the benefit of any person designated by such shareholder directly or indirectly 10 his use, confer any right what soever upon the holder of any grant release waiver or declaration of abandonment of whatever kind of such right proridcd however that if for any reason it should at any time become impracticabe to bene-
 cially water for the irrigation of the land to which the right the use of the IS appurtenant on the said and the said right may be severed from said land and simultaneously transferred and at tached to other lands which shares of stock n this Association are or are thereby made appurte nant. If a petition for leave to make such transfer and showing the necessity therefor shall have first been approved by two-thirds vote of the Board of Governors at a regular meeting and by the Secretary of the Interior and all the pro visions and agreements herenbefore in this section contained sa be forth i'll the aforesaid certificate other evidence of the ownership of shares of stock in the Association, and such certificate or other l- strument shall be signed executed and acknowl- edged by the President and Secretary of the Associa ton, and by the person to whom it is issued in the manner required by law for the execution and ac- acknowledgement of deeds for the conveyance of real estate and the Council shall pass bylaws prescribing the form of such certificate other instrument not inconsistent with these articles.
 Section 9. Every transfer of the title to any lands to which the said rights and stock appur tenant whether by grant by operation of law (ex- cep where the land may be subjected by grant n- voluntarily under any law to easement the exercise of which does interfere with the cultivation of the soil by the servient owner) shall operate, whether it be so expressed in the grant other means of transfer not, transfer of all rights to the use of water for the irrigation of said lands, and all rights arising from incident to, the ownership of such stock and well the stock itself to the grantee successor in title of said lands; and upon thS Association of proof of such