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<br />ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
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<br />BOOK 852l'AGE 436
<br />10 AUG ;73
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<br />OF, THE
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<br />JOHNSON AND EDWARDS DITCH COMPNY
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<br />The undersigned persons acting as incorporators of a
<br />corporation under the Colorado Nonprofit Corporation Act,
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<br />signed and acknowledged the following acticles of incoporation
<br />for such corporation.
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<br />FIRST: The name of the corporation is The Johnson
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<br />and Edwards Ditch Company.
<br />SECOND: The period of duration is perpetual.
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<br />THIRD: The purposes for which said company is formed
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<br />and incorporated are and shall be:
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<br />1st. "To acquire by proper coveyances, all the rights,
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<br />title, interest, privileges, appropriations of water, rights
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<br />of way, powers and franchises, w,hich ,the owners of the
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<br />Johnson and' Edwards Ditch have or had, in, to, over and
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<br />concerning those certain irrigating c,anals, "known and called,
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<br />the Johnson and Edwards Ditch, now situated in the Counties
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<br />of Morgan and washington in the State of Colorado, the same
<br />being two irrigating ditches constructed in the years 1872
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<br />and 1886 by Bruce F. Johnson and William H. Edwards, also
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<br />all head-gates, waste-gates, flumes, sand-chutes, bridges,
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<br />-- dams, dikes, lateral and branch ditches, in any way connected
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<br />with or appurtenant to such irrigating canals.
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<br />2nd. To operate, construct, superintend, maintain and
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<br />keep in repair said ditches with their branches and appurtenances,
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<br />as irrigation ditches for conveying and supplying water for
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<br />the irrigation of lands, and for domestic uses incidental to
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<br />irrigation, to the stockholders of our said Company, and to
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<br />all and every such person or persons and bodies corporate
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<br />and to them only, their heirs, succeSsors or assigns, who,
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<br />by conveyances, deed, contracts or otherwise, have hertofore
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