Arizona republican., 1910-08-17

(a) To enlighten it's members and 1 improve their minds;
 (b) To promote and maintain more perfect union among the Japanese peo- pie and the citizens of the United States of America;
 Co To plan general development | of the Japanese interest on commerce. agriculture, etc, in the United States | of America;
 (d) To preserve and maintain the rights that are guaranteed by law to the Japanese in the United States of America.
 ARTICLE III. This association be- | ing purely fraternal organization there will be no capital stock. ARTICLE IV.-The time of the com mencement of the corporation shall be the day these Articles are filed in ac-
 cordance with law. and the termina- tion thereof shall be twenty-five years
 thereafter, with privilege of renewal and right of perpetual succession as now provided by law.
 ARTICLE V-The affairs of this corporation shall be conducted by
 Board of not less than three nor more than fifteen Directors, by whom
 President and Vice President shall be elected and a Secretary and Treas urer appointed. The Directors shall be elected by and from among the members on the 2nd Saturday of Janu- ary and July of each year. Until their
 successors are elected and qualified, the following named persons shall be the Directors and officers: O. Saito, K Kawatsu and T. Hibino. ARTICLE VI.-The Directors shall adopt Bylaws for the government or the corporation and may amend the same. The President shall have power to fill vacancies occurring in the Board from any cause, and to appoint from among their number an EXecu- tive Committee which, to the extent provided by resolution or by the said By-Laws, shall have and exercise the powers granted the Directors by those Articles
 ARTICLE VII-The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which the corporation is at any time to sub | feet itself is Five Hundred Dollars. l ARTICLE VIII.-The private prop erty of the members of the association
 shall be forever exempt from corpor- ate debts of any kind whatsoever IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We here , to affix our signatures this 18th day of August, 1910.
 O. SAITO (SeaD
 K. KAWATSU (SeaD T. HIBINO (SeaD Territory of Arizona, County of l Maricopa, ss.
 Before me, SIMS EATON, Notary Public in and for the county and state aforesaid, on this day personally ap- 'peared O. Saito. K. Kawatsu and T. Hibino known to me to be the same persons who signed the foregoing ln- strument, and acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. Given under my hand and seal Of office this 18th day of August, 1910. | My commission will expire on the 18th day of July, 1913
 1NOTARIAL SEAL) SIMS EATON, Notary Public. Territory of Arizona, County of l Maricopa, ss.
 LEONARD. County Record CT in and for the County and Terri
  have compared the foregoing copy with the original Articles of Incorporation
 of JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF
 ARIZONA filed and recorded in my office on the 12th day of August. 19lO, and that the same is a full. true and correct copy of such original and or the whole thereof.
 Witness my hand and seal Of otilce' this 12th day of August, 1910. (SEAL) c. F. LEONAfD' County Recorder. ByV. l.. VAUGHN, Deputy Filed in the office of the Territorial Auditor of the Territory of Arizona
 this 12th day of August A. D. lslo at II a. m at request of O. Saito whose post office address is r. O. Box 397. Phoenix, Arizona
 -. w. c. FOSTER, Territorial Auditor