The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-22


known, then at Richmond, Contra
Costa County, California, that being
the place at which the principal place
OF business of the corporation is situ-
ated, as aforesaid, which notice shall
be so mailed to such stockholders at
least thirty 500 days before the said
10th day of March, A. D. 1914"
And we do hereby further certify
that the bylaws of said corporation
do not prescribe, and never have pre-
scribed, the newspaper in which no
tices of meetings of the directors or
trustees or stockholders of said cor
poration are to be published.
And We do hereby further certify
that, in pursuance of the foregoing
resolution, the said F. H Hillman, the
Secretary of said corporation, caused
to be published in the Richmond Rec
ord-Herald, which is and was at all
of the times herein mentioned a news
paper of general circulation, printed
and published daily Sundays and
legal holidays excepted) in the said
City of Richmond, County of Contra
Costa, State aforesaid, a notice in the
words and figures so as aforesaid
prescribed by the said Board of Di.
rectors, and set forth in the resolu-
tion hereinbefore recited
That said publication of said notice
was commenced in said newspaper on
the 10th day of January, 1914 and the
same was published in the regular is
sues of said newspaper on the follow
ing dates, to wit: January 10th, Janu-
ary 18th, January oath, January 31st,
February 7th, February 18th, Febru-
airy 21st, February 18th, March 7th,
and March 18th, A. D. 1914, and being
once week for at least sixty (60)
days next prior to Monday; the 18th
day of March, A. D. 1914, the day
fixed for said stockholders meeting,
and that true copy OF the affidavit
of the due publication of said notice
is as follows, to wit:
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
Notice of Meeting, of Stockholders of
the Standard Oil Company.
State of California,
IS.
County of Contra Costa.
Frank Hull, being first duly sworn,
deposes ald says: That at ali times
hereinafter mentioned he was citi-
zen of the United States, over the
age of eighteen years and resident
of said county, and was at and during
all said times the Principal Clerk and
Book-keeper of the printer and pub
Usher of the Richmond Record-Herald,
a newspaper of general circulation
printed and published daily, Sundays
and legal holidays excepted, in the
City of Richmond, in said County of
Contra Costa, State of California; that
said Richmond Record-Herald is, and
was at all times herein mentioned. a
newspaper of general circulation as
that term is defined by Section 4460
of the Political Code, and, as pro-
vided by said section, is published
for the dissemination of local and tele-
graphic news and intelligence of a
general character, having a bona fde
subscription list of paying subscribers,
and is not devoted to the interest, or
published for the entertainment or
instruction of particular class, pro-
fession, trade, calling, race, denomin-
alton, or for the entertainment or in
struction of any number of such class
es, professions, trades, callings, races
or denominations; that at all said
times said newspaper had been estab-
lished, printed and published in said
City of Richmond, in said County and
State at intervals for more than one
year preceding the first publication
of the notice herein mentioned; that
said notice was set in type not small
Ter. than nonpareil and was preceded
with words printed in black face type
not smaller than nonpareil, describ-
ing and expressing in general terms
the purport and character of the no.
tice intended to be given; that the
Notice of Meeting of Stockholders Of
which the annexed is printed copy
was published and printed in said
newspaper at least Ten days, com
mencing on the 10th day of January,
1914, and ending on the 18th day of
March, 1914, both days inclusive, and
as often during said time as once
each week, to wit: January 10th-17th
24th-31st, February 7th-14th, 21st-28th,
March 7th-14th, 1914.
That the notice was published in
the newspaper proper and not in a
supplement.
FRANK, HULL
Subscribed and sworn TO before me
this 18th day of March, 1914.
i'll. KENNON,
Notary Public in and for Contra Costa
County, California.
(SeaD"
NOl1OE Ut VI O1OOH
HOLDERS OF THE STANDARD
OIL COMPANY
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
pursuant to a resolution and order OF
the Board of Directors of Standard
Oil Company, corporation organized
and existing under the laws of the
State of California, UNANIMOUSLY adop
ted at regular meeting of said Board
duly and regularly held on the 6tl
day of January 1914, at the office OF
said corporation in the City of Rich
mond, County of Contra Costa, State
of California, special meeting of the
stockholders of the Standard Oil Com
pany is hereby called to be held al
it's principal place OF business, name
ly, the City of Richmond, in the Coun
ty of Contra Costa, State of Califor
MIA, and in the Directors room of the
, building of said Standard Oil Com
pany at said place, and which is the
building where said Board of Direc
tors usually meet, on Monday, the 18th
day of March, A. D., 1914, at ten
o'clock A. M. of said day; that the
object of said meeting is to enable
said stockholders to then and there
consider and vote upon a proposition
to increase the capital stock of said
corporation from fifty million dollars
($5O, ,O00,O00), divided into five hun
dred thousand (500,000) shares, OF
the par value of one hundred dollars
($100.) each, to one hundred million
($100,000,000 to be divided into
one million 1,000,000) shares, of the
par value of one hundred dollars
($1O0) each.