Arizona republican., 1910-08-16
oE INcoRpoRATIoN.

' K. Kawatsu and T. Hibino. do hereby associate ourselves together and form | a corporation under Chapter II of ri ! tie XIII, Revised Statutes of Arizona 1901, and acts amendatOry thereto and adopt the following Articles of In | corporation:
 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. 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:
 Ca) 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;
 (c) 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 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 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 shall be elected by and from among the members on the 2nd Saturday of Janu- ary and July of each year Until their 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 of the corporation and may amend the l same. The President shall have power to fill vacancies occurring in the | Board from any cause, and to appoint l from among their number an Execu- | i've Committee which, to the extent | by resolution or by the said | Bylaws, shall have and exercise the | powers granted the Directors by those 1 Articles. ARTICLE VII-The highest amount ! If indebtedness or liability to which l he corporation is at any time to sub l ect itself is Five Hundred Dollars. ARTICLE VIII.-The private prop | ,rty of the members of the association ihall be forever exempt from cOrpor- lte debts of any kind whatsoever. IN WITNESS WHEREOF. We here O affix our signatures this 18th day f August, 1910
 K. KAwATSU CSeaD
 T. HIBINO (SeaD Territory of Arizona, County of .Iaricopa, ss.
 Before me, SIMS EATON, a Notary 'ublic in and for the county and state foresaid, on this day personally ap- cared O. Saito. K. Kawatsu and T. Iibino known to me to be the same ersons who signed the foregoing in trument, and acknowledged to me that hey executed the same for the uses nd purposes therein mentioned. Given under my hand and seal of ffice this 12th day of August, 1910. My commission will expire on the 9th day of July. 1913. ; SEAL) SIMS EATON, ,
 Notary Public. Territory of Arizona, County of i Iaricopa, ss. I, c. F. LEONARD, County Record I F in and for the County and Terri , ,ry aforesaid, hereby certify that I z ave compared the foregoing copy with ! le original Articles of Incorporation , [ JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF $ RIZONA filed and recorded in my : ifice on the 12th day of August, 1910, , nd that the same is a full, true and )rrect copy of such original and of le whole thereof.
 Witness my hand and seal of office, lis 12th day of August, 1910. c. F. LEONARD,
 County Recorder.
 ByV l.. VAUGHN,
 Deputy. Filed in the office of the Territorial uditor of the Territory of Arizona lis 12th day of August A. D. 1910 at a. m. at request of O. Saito whose ,st office address is r. O. Box 397, hoenIx. Arizona
 w. c. FOSTER,
 Territorial Auditor.