The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-28
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railway Company.

Notice is hereby given that the Six
teenth Annual Meeting of the Stock
holders of The Atchison, Topeka and
Santa F'e Railway Company will be
held at the principal office of the Com
pany in Topeka, Kansas, on
Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of Oc-
tober, 1S1i. at twelve o'clock noon, for
the election of four a. Directors to
hold office for four (4) years, and for
the election of Independent Auditors
to audit the books and accounts of the
Company at the close of the fiscal year.
Said meeting has been called by the
Board of Directors and is to be held
for the following further purposes re-
spectively, to-wit:
To approve of, confirm and ratify the
leases to this Company of the respec-
tive railways, properties and fran
chises of the Kings River Railway
Company, of the Laton and Western
Railway Company and of the Garden
City, Gulf and Northern Railroad Com
pany, and the purchase by this Com
pany of the Capital Stock and Bonds
of said Garden City, Gulf and Northern
Railroad Company;
To ratify an agreement for the sale
to and purchase by this Company Of
the railroad Of the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company extending from
point near the town of Needles, Cali
fornia, to Mojave, California, and to
approve the acquisition by this Com
pany Cf said last mentioned agree
ment should not be made or should
not be carried ouD of the stock and
bonds of a railroad company which
may purchase and own said railroad;
To authorize the certihcatiOn and de-
livery, pursuant to Section of Article
One of the Company's General Mort
gage of such amount of the General
Mortgage Bonds reserved under said
Section, and not heretofore certified
and delivered, as will produce sum
sufficient to acquire (a) said railroad
from Needles to Mojave, which railroad
af r.
ton of this Company's s railway which
was formerly the western division of
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Com
panv with that portion of this Com
nany's railway which was formerly the
railway of the Southern California Rail
way Company; or (b) the stock ana
bonds of a railroad company owning
said railroad from Needles to MojaVe;
To authorize the Board of Directors
to use from time to time, for the i'm
provement of that portion of this Com
pany's railway formerly the Atlantic
and Pacific Railroad, any or all of the
shares of this Company'S Preferred
Stock, certificates for which are de-
posted with the Union Trust Com
pany of New York, Trustee under the
agreement made the Sth day of March,
1898, between Edward King and others
constituting the Joint Executive Com
mittee mentioned in said agreement,
this Company, and said Union Trust
Company of New York;
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pany One hundred million dollars
($1OO, 900 ,O0O), such increase to be Com
mon Stock, divided into shares of the
par value of One hundred dollars ($1O0)
each, so that the total Capital Stock Of
the Company shall be Four hundred
and eighty-one million, four hundred
and eighty-six thousand dollars ($4S1,-
1856 OOO) divided into One million, three
hundred and fourteen thousand, eight
hundred aud sixty C,314, $500 shares OF
Five Per cent. non-cumulative Pre-
ferred Stock of the par value of One
hundred dollars ($100) each, as describ-
ed in the Certificate of Incorporation;
and Three million, five hundred thou
sand (3.50O, ,0O0) shares of Common
stock of the par value of One hundred
dollars ($100) each;
To authorize the Board of Directors
at any time or from time to time to
create an issue or issues of convertible
bonds of the Company, not exceeding
in the aggregate One hundred million,
two hundred and eighty-nine thousand
dollars ($10O, 289,000), each of which
bonds shall entit1e the holder thereof
to convert the same into Common
terms, conditions. restrictions and pro-
visions, and to have such benefits, il
any of future mortgages of the Com
pany and to be issued and disposed of
from time to time upon such terms,
as may be authorized by the Board
of Directors
The stock transfer books will be
day, September 21. 1911, and will be
reopened at the close of said meeting.
BY order of the Board OF Directors,
L. C. DEMING,
Assistant Secretary.
New York City, August l. 1911.