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Show [Exhibit "I"] ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION or PAL0 VERDE MUTUAL WATER COMPANY. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS; That we, the undersigned, a majority of whom are citizens and residents of the State of California, hare this dear voluntarily associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming a 009 poration under the lavs 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 whioh it is formed are to ac-quire by appropriation, purohase, or otherwise, water and water rights, and to hold and own the sans; to mo quire by purchase, or otherwise, and to hold, own and use rights of way and sites for canals, ditches, flumes, dans, levees, dykes, headgates, wagon-roads and telephone lines to bs used in oonnsotlon with the bus-iness of the corporation} to purchase and otherwise acquire, and to build, construct, maintain, use, own and haws 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 corporation only, for use upon the lands within the district and territory hereinafter described, whioh shall, at all tiaas, »e ooa 8iddr<id as one district, for the purpose of apportioning to* 90si of oenBtruotlag, maintaining and operating puvping plants,wat«rt irrigating and drainage systens, Isrees and other layroTSiieetts, necessary or conrenlent to the business of the corporation, sjst such cost shall, at all times, be charged equally and proportionately a-ainst the stook of the corporation,and without regard to fflfmram |
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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. |