Arizona republican., 1910-08-15
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.

associate ourselves together and form a corporation under Chapter II of Ti- tie XIII. Revised Statutes of Arizona. 1901, and acts amendatory thereto, and adopt the following Articles of In- corporations:
 ARTICLE I-The name of the cor poration is
 JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF
 ARIZONA
 and it's principal place of transacting business in Arizona is Phoenix. Offl- 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 more perfect union among the Japanese peo- pie and the citizens of the United States of America;
 Co To plan a 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 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- cordance 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 a President and Vice President shall be elected and a Secretary and Treas urer appointed. The Directors shali be elected by and from among the members on the End 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 Vu.-The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which the corporation is at any time sub feet itself is Five Hundred Dollars.
 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.
 K. KAwATSU (SeaD T. HIBINO (SeaD Territory of Arizona, County Of 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 m strument, and acknowledged to me tnaS they executed the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. Given under my hand and seal or office this 12th 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 m and for the County and Terri tory aforesaid. hereby certify that l have compared the foregoing copy with the original Articles of Incorporation of JAPANESE ASSOCIATION Of ARIZONA filed and recorded in my office on the 18th day of August, 1slo. and that the same is full, true ana correct copy of such original and ol the whole thereof.
 Witness my hand and seal of oftlce' this 12th day of August, 1910 | tSEAIO c. F. LEONARD, County Recorder. ByV. L. VAUGHN, Deputy. Filed in the office of the Territoriai Auditor of the Territory or Arlzoha l this 12th day of August A ID. lSlO at II a. m at request of O. Saito whose post office address is r. O. BOX S''' | Phoenix. Arizona.
 w. c. FOSTER, Territorial Auditor.