Mohave County miner., 1911-08-05
Certificate of Incorporation
Stockton Hill Recreation As
 sociation.
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
 COITNTY OF MOHAVE. BE-

TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
 COUNTY OF MoHAvE. lss-
 This is to certify that we, the undersigned have associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming an association where pecuniary profit is not our object, and desiring to form body porate under Chapter VIII, Title I3 Revised Stat utes of Arizona, 1901, and the several acts amend atory thereof and supplemental thereto, do hereby associate ourselves together as a body corporate, and hereby adopt the following Certificate of h. corporation.
 The name of this Association shall be THE STOCKTON HILL RECREATION ASSOCIATION" |" and its principal site for the home of said Association and where its business and other matters relating to its purposes of organization shall be at Stock ton Hill, Wallapai Mining District, Mohave County, Territory of Arizona.
 The general nature of the business proposed to be transacted by said association is as follows: Pleasure, social recreation and the promotion of outdoor sports; and to that end the said Associa- tion may own and maintain clubhouse and such grounds as may be necessary and lawful for which said association is formed: also a library, reading room, billiard and pool rooms. dining room taurant and other facilities for the of its bers to hold receptions, public private lectures musical and literary entertainments and to do any and all things which may be lawfully done for the comfort and we-being of its members.
 This Association shall have no capital stock
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 The time of the formation of this Association 
 sociation with the Recorder of Mohave County, Arizona Territory, in which it's principal place of business is situated, and the filing of like Certif- cate with the Territorial Auditor of said Arizona Territory and shall continue for the period of twenty-five (25) years from -he date of said form ation, with privilege of renewal as by law pro- vided
 The management and control the business and affairs of this association shall be vested in Board of Directors of not less than three (3) and ns -s.E ka any annual meeting of the members thereof or at any special meeting called for that purpose to any number not exceeding twenty-five (25) Di- rectors. All Directors SO elected shall hold office for the period of one year until their successors elected and qualified,
 The annual eeting of the members of said As sociation shall be held the third Saturday of October of each year, commencing with Saturday, October Fist, 1911.
 That there was a meeting of all the incorporat- ors of this association held at the town of King man, Mohave County, Territory of Arizona, on the 18th day of July, 1911, at the hour of two @ o'clock of said day for the election of Direct of said association, to hold office and manage the affairs of said association until the first annual meeting of the members of said association to be held on the 2lst day of October, 1911, all of said ineorporatoIs being present and voting with the result that THOMAS Bt RKE, DA TEL HAN LAY and LEON NJ. HARRIS. were duly declared elected directors to manage the business and affairs of said association until the first annual meeting of the members thereof provided in this certificate of incorporation.
 The officers of this association shall be Presi- dent, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer. The office of Secretary and Treasurer may be vest ed in the same persor, unless otherwise prov d d by the bylaws to be adopted by this Association The officers shall be elected by the Directors from their own number at the first annual meeting of the Board of Directors following the annual meet ing of the members, and which meeting of Direct shall be held as soon as convenient after the adjournment of said annual meeting of the mem- bers. This Association shall have and possess all the powers vested by Chapter VIII, Title l3 Re vsed Statutes of Arizona, l9Ol relating to corpor ations organized for purposes other than for profit and may in it's bylaws provide for: 1. The qualification of it's members, mode of election and terms of admission to membership. Q The fees of admission and dues to be paid to its treasury by members.
 8. The expulsion and suspension of members for misconduct or nOn-payment of dues; also for restoration to membership. 4. Contracting, securing, paying and limiting the amount of it's indebi iedness. 5. Other rer ulations, not repugnant to the laws of the Territory of Arizona, and consonant with the objects of the corporation. The officers for the first three months shall be, Thomas Burke. President; Daniel Hanlay, Vice-President; and Leon M. Harris, Secretary and Treasurer. VI The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to adopt such rules and regulations and, in the absence of the adoption of any bylaws by the members hereof. to adopt bylaws, for their own government and the government of the affairs of the association, as they may deem proper and necessary, not inconsistent with law. They shall have full power and authority to re- ceive applications for membership in the manner which they may prescribe, and shall issue to all members, if requested, certificate of member ship.
 VII The Board of Directors nor any officer or agent of this association by their authority shall con- tract any indebtedness which shall at any time exceed one thousand (Sl.OOO.OO) dollars.
 VIII. The private property of the members of this association shall be and hereby is made forever exempt for the associations debts of any kind or character whatsoever.
 K This Certificate of Association may be amended l at any time by a majority vote of the members ] hereof or by a two-thirds vote of the Directors of this Association at any regular meeting Cf said 1 Board any special meeting of said Board called for that purpose.
 X. Ten 1O) per centum of all members in good | standing shall constitute quorum for the trans action of business at any annual special meet ing of the members of this association. In Witness Whereof. we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 20th day of July, 1911.
 THoS. BURKE, (SeaD |
 DANIEL HANLY. (SeaD !
 LEON M HARRIS, (SeaD | Subscribed and sworn to before me, this goth day of JulXy