The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-29

ticularly related, at it's said office and
principal place of business, for the
purpose of voting upon proposition
to increase the capital stock of said
corporation from Six Million Dollars
s to Twenty-Five Million Dollars, the
same to be divided into Two Hundred
and fifty thousand shares of the par
value of One Hundred Dollars each;
that the proceedings had and taken
at said meeting were and are as fol-
lows:
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE
STOCKHOLDERS OF THE
STANDARD OIL COM
PANY.
Office of the Standard Oil Company,
Office Building, Refinery Works at
Richmond, Contra Costa County,
California, October 2, 1906.
Pursuant to an order of the Board
of Directors of the Standard Oil Com
pany, made July "a, 1906, and herein
after recited, and to a notice of this
meeting, a copy of which is hereafter
set out at length, and which was pub
lished by order of said Board, no pa
per having been prescribed by the by
laws of the corporation in which no.
tices of meetings of directors or trus-
tees or stockholders are to be pub
lished, at least once a week for at
least sixty (60) days next preceding
the date of this meeting, in the "Con-
ira Costa Gazette" a newspaper pub
lished in the Town of Martinez, Con-
ira Costa County, to wit: on the fol-
/ lowing dates: on July 28th, 1906, and
the 4th, 18th, 18th and 25th days of
August, 1906, and on the 1st, 9Th, 18th,
22nd and 29th days of September,
1906, all of which is shown by the af-
fidavit of the Principal Clerk of the
Printer of said Contra Costa Ga
zette,' attached to said Notice and
now on file in the office of said cor
poratfon, and copy of which affidavit
and notice is as follows, to wit:
COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
In the Matter of
Standard Oil Company.
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION.
State of California,
County of Contra Costa.
/ G. e. MILNES being duly sworn, de-
poses and says, that at all the times
herein named rhe was, and now is, a
male citizen of the United States of
America, over the age of eighteen
] years, and a resident of said County of
Contra Costa. That he is not, nor was
he, at any of the times hereinafter
named,sa party to the above entitled
proceedings, or interested therein, and
that all of the said times he was, and
now is the Principal Clerk of the
! Printer of the Contra Costa Gazette,
a newspaper printed, published and
circulated In said Contra Costa Coun-
ty, and as such Principal Clerk he had
charge of all the advertisements in
said newspaper. That the said Con
ira Costa Gazette is q newspaper of
general circulation in the said County
of Contra Costa, published for the dis
semination of local and telegraphic
news and intelligence of general
character, having bona fide sub
scription list Of paying subscribers
and which has been established, print
ed and published in said County for
more than ten years last past, land
which is not devoted to the interests
or published for the entertainment Of
a particular class, profession, trade,
calling, race or denomination, or any
number thereof.
That the Notice of Stockholders
Meeting of which the annexed is a
printed copy, was printed and pub
lished in the regular and entire issue
of every number of the said paper
during the period and times of publ
cation for 10 consecutive weeks, to
wit: from the % day of July, 1906, to
and until the 20 day of September,
Il 1ax DG CO. @fOY1o
1906, both days included, and as often
during said period as said paper was
published, to wit: July 28th, August
9Th, 18th, 22nd and 29th, 1906.
That the said notice was published
in the newspaper proper and not in a
supplement G.. E. MILNES.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
8th, 18th, 22nd and 29th, 1906.
(SeaD M. R. JONES,
Notary Public in and for the County
of Contra Costa, State of California" "
The following is copy of the No
tice attached to said Affidavit:
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING.
Notice is hereby given that, pursu-
ant to resolution and order of the
Board of Directors, a meeting of the
stockholders of the Standard Oil Com
pany is hereby called to be held at its
principal place of business, namely,
the City of Richmond, in the County
of Contra Costa, State of California,
and in the Directors room of the Of
flee building of said Standard Oil
Company at said place, and which is
the building where said Board Of Di-
rectors usually meet, on Tuesday, the
End day of October, A. D. 1906, at
twelve o'clock noon; that the object
of said meeting is to enable said
stockholders to then and there vote
upon a proposition to increase the
present capital stock of said Company
of $6,O0O,00O., to $25,000,000., to be di
vided into 250,00O shares of the par
value of $100 each.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY,
BY W. S. Rheem, Secretary. -
and also a like notice which was ad-
dressed and mailed to each stockhold-
er by the Secretary of this corpora
ton at least thirty days before the
day appointed for such meeting, to
wit: on the 31st day of July, 1906, all
of which was done in compliance with
said order and pursuant to Section
359 of the Civil Code of the State of
California, the stockholders of the
Standard Oil Company, corporation,
met at twelve o'clock noon this day
at the office and principal place OF
business of said corporation, to wit:
in it's Office Building at it's Refinery
Works, in the City of Richmond,
County of Contra Costa, State@of Cali