The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-15

fornia, a special meeting of the stock
holders of the Standard Oil Company
is hereby called to be held at it's prin-
cipal place of business, namely, the
City of Richmond, in the County of
Contra Costa, State of California, and
in the Directors room of the building
of said Standard Oil Company at said
place, and which is the building where
said Board of Directors usually meet,
on Tuesday, the Goth day of July, A.
ID. 1912, at twelve o'clock noon 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 twenty
five million dollars ($25, 900, ,00O) di-
vided intoAtwo hundred and fifty thou
sand (250,O00) shares of the par value
of one hundred dollars ($100) each, to
fifty million dollars ($50,00O,00O.), to
be divided into five hundred thousand
(5OO,000) shares of the par value of
one hundred dollars ($10O) each.
The amount to which it is proposed
to increase the capital stock is fifty
million dollars ($50,000,00O.)
By order of the Board of Directors.
Dated: Richmond, Contra Costa
County, California, May 21st, 1912.
VIM. EDWARDS,
Secretary, Standard Oil Company
and it is further
Resolved that the Secretary of this
corporation do address and mail, post
age prepaid, notice of the form here
inbefore set forth of said meeting to
each of the stockholders of this cor
poration, whose names appear upon
the corporations books as sufficiently
addressed or identified, to his place
of residence if known, and, if not
known, then at Richmond, Contra
Costa County, California, that be-
ing the place at which the principal
place of business of the corporation is
situated, as aforesaid, which notice
shall be SO mailed to such stockhold-
ers at least thirty 800 days before
the said Both day of July, A. .. 1872"
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 William Edwards,
the Secretary of said corporation,
caused to be published in the "Rich-
mond Record-Herald", which is and
was at all of the times herein men
toned a newspaper of general cir
culatiOn, 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 Directors, and set forth in the reso-
luton next hereinbefore recited;
That said publication OF said notice
was commenced in said newspaper on
May oath, A. D. 1912, and the same
was published in the regular issues
of said newspaper on the following
dates, to wit: May oath, May 31st,
June 7th, June 14th, June 21st, June
28th, July 5th, July 18th, July 18th,
July 26th and July 29th, A. D. 1912,
and being once a week for at least
sixty (60) days next prior to Tuesday,
the 30th day of July, A. D. 1912, the
day fixed for said stockholders meet
ing, and that a true copy of the affi-
davit of the due publication of said
notice is as follows, to wit:
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
in the
RICHMOND RECORD-HERALD.
Notice of Meeting of Stockholders OF
the Standard Oil Company
State of California,
County of Contra Costa.
Frank Hull, being first duly sworn
deposes and says: That at all times
hereinafter mentioned he was a male
citizen of the United States, over the
age of twenty-one years and resi-
dent of said county, and was at and
during all said times the Principal
Clerk of the printer and publisher
of the Richmond ecord-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 men
toned, a newspaper of general circu-
lation as that term is defined by Sec
tion 4460 of the Political Code, and
as provided by said section, is pub
lished for the dissemination of local
and telegraphic news and intelligence
of a general character, having bona
fide subscription list of paying sub
scribers, and is not devoted to the
interest, or published for the enter
tainment or instruction OF particu
lar class, profession, trade, calling
race, denomination, or for the enter
tainment or instruction of any mum
Der of such classes, professions
trades, callings, races or denomina
tions; that at all said times said news
paper had been established printed
and published in said City of Rich
mond, in said County and State, al
intervals for more than one year pre-
ceding the first publication of the no
tice herein mentioned; that said no
tice was set in type not smaller than
nonpareil, and was preceded with
words printed in black face type not
smaller than nonpareil, describing and
expressing in general terms the pur
port and character of the notice in
tended to be given; that the Notice OF
Meeting of Stockholders of the Stand
ard Oil Company, of which the an
nexed is true printed copy, was pub
lished and printed in said newspaper
once week for a period of at least
sixty days, commencing on the oath
day of May, A. D., 1912, and ending or
the 29th day of July, A. D., 1912, both
days inclusive, to wit: On May oath
and 29th, June 7th, 14th, 21st and
18th, July 9Th, 18th, 10Th, 26th and
29th, A. d. 1912.
That the notice was published in
the newspaper proper and not in q
supplement
That he has no interest whatso