Arizona republican., 1910-08-19
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION. | BE IT KNOWN, That we, O. Saito. | K Kawatsu and T. HibinO. do hereby associate ourselves together and form corporation under Chapter II of IT. | tie XIII, Revised Statutes of Arizona, 1901, and acts amendatory thereto, and adopt the following Articles of In- | corporation:
 ARTICLE 1.-The name of the cor poration is
 JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA
 and it's principal place of transacting business in Arizona is Phoenix. Off ces may be established. business trans acted and meetings of stockholders and directors held at such places within or outside of Arizona as the Bylaws of the Company shall provide ARTICLE 1.-The purpose for which this corporation is formed is: (a) To enlighten it's members and | improve their minds;
 (b) To promote and maintain a more perfect union among the Japanese peo- nle and the citizens of the United States of America;
 | 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 or America.
 ARTICLE III. This association be- ing purely a 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- cordanoe with law, and the termina- ton 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 he elected by and from among the members on the 2nd Saturday of Janu- ary and July of each year. Until thelr successors are elected and quantieu' the following named persons shall be the Directors and Officers: Q. Salto' 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 Roard 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 Rv-I.aws. shall have and exercise the mowers 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.
 ARTICLE VIII-The private prop ertv 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 l2th oay of August, 1910.
 K. KAWATSU (SeaD
 T HIBINO (SeaD Territory of Arizona, County or Maricopa. ss.
 Before me, SIMS EATON, a 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 in- strument. and acknowledged to me that they executed the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.
 Given under my hand and seal or office this 18th day of August. 1910.
 My commission will expire on the 18th day of July. 1913.
 (NoTARIAL sEAL) SIMS EATON.
 Notary Public. Territory of Arizona, County of Maricopa, ss.
 I, c. F. LEONARD. County Record CT in and for the County and Terri tory aforesaid, hereby certify that l have compared the foregoing copy Wltn the original Articles of Incorporation of JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA filed and recorded in my office on the 18th day of August, lslo, and that the same is full. true ana correct copy of such original and or the whole thereof.
 Witness my hand and seal of office' this 12th day of August. 191O- ,(SEALo C. F. LEONARD, D 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. 1910 al Ii a. m at request of O. Saito whose post office address is P. O. Box 3s7, Phoenix. Arizona.
 w C. FOSTER,
 Tarrftoriol Auditor