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Show -2- Articles of Incorporation of Palo Verde Mutual Water Company Know AH Men by These Presents: That we, the undersigned, a majority of whom are citizens and residents of the State of California, have this day voluntarily associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the State of California, And We Hereby Certify: First:- That the name of said corporation shall be Palo Verde Mutual Water Company. Second:- That the purposes for which it is formed are to acquire by appropriation, purchase, or otherwise, water and water rights, and to hold and own the same; to acquire by purchase, or otherwise, and to hold, own and use rights of way and sites for canals, ditches, flumes, dams, levees, dykes, headgates, wagonroads and telephone lines to be used in connection with the business of the corporation; to purchase and otherwise acquire, and to build, construct, maintain, use, own and have ditches, canals, flumes, headgates, dams, levees, and water and irrigating systems, and reservoirs and other storage places for water; to distribute and sell said water at the cost thereof to the stockholders of the corporation only, for use upon the lands within the district and territory hereinafter described, which shall, at all times, be considered as one district, for the purpose of apportioning the cost of constructing, maintaining and operating pumping plants, water, irrigating and drainage systems, levees and other improvements necessary or convenient, to the business of the corporation, and such cost shall, at all times, be charged equally and proportionately against the stock of |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |