PROJ00288

• Contract/PO #: C153825
• Contractor Name: Farmers Pawnee Canal Company, The
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 64
• County: Logan
• Bill Number: SPL
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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AR'frCLC;:'; OF IHCOl\.rolL~'1'IOH
of the
F AR;V.rn~ PAlil;EE GAlIlIL JO i"PA1,y

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This 1s to certify that we, John Harbottle, Gea. A. Henderson,

\'1. E. Tatsell, .'::iamuel Deselleill and F. J. lIendp.rGon, all citizens of

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Logan County. :olorado, have associated ourselves together to become

a body corporate under and by virtue of the laws of the state of Colo-

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rado. and we do hereby make, sign and aclnlowledr;e tnls certificate of

Incorporation, and declare as follows:--

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First--
The corporate name of said corporation shall be "'fhe Farmers

Pawnee Canal Company"

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fiecond--

Said Company 1s incorporated for the :['0110.,.,'1ng purposes:

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1. To receive. own, hold, control, manage and operate that certain

canal system known as The Pawnee Ditch, in accordance with the terms

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of the several contracts and deeds conveying ri~lts to water from aaid

system, heretofore executed by The Palinee Ditch and Improvement UOlhpany

aOO the Pa\'mee Land and Canal Company J corporations duly organized under

the laws of the state of Colorado. in and by h'hlcl1 it waa provided that

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said above named companies should have outstandin0 and 1n force a

number of water rights fully paid up, equal to three fourths the capacity

to furnish water of the said canal from \ihien Ule sallie is to be drawn.

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or sooner at its option. said companies would transfer such canal and

the control and manae;elOent thereof to a new di teh cOlupany to be organized

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by the t101ders of said vlater-riehts. in ",mic!! cOiuilany such \'Iater rights

should be the basis of stecle and into \",'hleh t.ne said \'Iater right ~)wners

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agreed to merge their res;Ject.lve water rigl1tsJ t.alcine in liew thereof,

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severally. sto:::lt in such new cOlilpany, in equit~ble propo!'tion to tile
water rights so surrenderedj wllieh sald provl::iion~ the District court
of Logan County. Colorado, 1n a certain uccree entered on tile 25th day
of October, A. D. 1898, in an action tilerein pemling. in \~hleh Charles

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G. '''heldon suint; on behalf of himself and all ot.her 'r/aterrlgl1t o\"!ners

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to "ater froln said canal, "ere plaintiffs, and the Pawnee Land and

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