The news-herald., 1902-08-23
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
Sunset Telephone and Telegraph
Company.
OF THE

KNOW ALL MEN By THESE PRESENTS: That
we, the undersigned, have this day voluntarily
associated ourselves together for the purpose
of forming Il corporation under the laws OF the
State Of California, and we hereby certify:
First-That the name of said corporation is
SUNSET TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
Second-That the purposes for which it is
formed are: To purchase, construct, lease or
otherwise acquire, and to hold, operate main
tain, lease. sell or otherwise manage or dispose
OF all kinds of telegraphic and telephonic
rights, patents, licenses, franchises, lines, in
struments. submarine or other cables machin-
cry, wires, poleS materials, apparatus and
other property appertaining to the telegraph
or telephone business; to deal in all kinds OF
telephone. telegraphic and electrical materl-
ais and supplies and TO contract for the con
struction, maintenance and sale of all kinds OF
telegra phic, telephone and electrical systems
and apparatus; to receive, transmit and de-
| liver telegraphic and telephonic messages Tor
hire, and generally to do and perform all kinds
of tnegraphic and telephone business, private
or public, and everything pertaining thereto;
| TO do general district and local telegraph
and messenger business in various cities
and towns in the State OF California and
elsewhere; to construct maintain ana OPP
! crate in cities and towns and elsewhere tee-
! phonic and telegraphic lines connecting the
houses and offices Of subscribers with its cen
tral or branch offices, and to connect such OF
| fees towns or other places by telephone and
! t1egraphic wires; to acquire, hold and dispose
! of shares and interests in the capital stock and
! other property of other corporations, ana TO
| acquire and hold real estate for the purposes of
| its business with power to sell, lease or other
wise dispose Of the same; to purchase, SELL
! lease and acquire any and all kinds OF property
pertaining to the purposes and objects OF SAID
| corporation, and generally to do and perform
all other acts and things which may be deemed
necessary or proper to establish and carry on
said business in the States OF California, Ore
gon Nevada and the Territory OF Washington
! Utah and Arizona and elsewhere.
Third-That the place where its principal
! business is to be transacted is the city ana
| County of San Francisco, in the State OF ca Ii
fornia
Fourth-That the term for which tits toexist
is fifty (5O years.
| Fifth-That the number of its Directors or
Trustees shall be seven ~, and that the names
| the first year are:
NAMES RESIDENCES.
George S. Ladd. .... San Francisco, California
| John l. Sabin ....... san Francisco, California
Louis Glass. s........... San Francisco California
William G. Oliver. San Francisco California
Monroe Greenwood. San Francisco, California
Percy r. Morgan. .......... Berkeley, California
David Gage................Oa Oakland, California
SiXth-That the amount of its capital stock
shall be Three Million (S3,000,0 ,0OO) Dollars, di-
vided into thirty thousand (30000) shares OF
the par value of One Hundred ($100) Dollars
each
| Seventh-That the amount of said capital
! stock which has been actually subscribed is
| One Hundred Thousand 0000) Dollars, and
the following are the names Of the persons by
| whom the same has been subscribed, and the
amounts thereof, respectively, to Wit