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the Standard Oil Company was called.
to be held at it's principal place of
business, namely, the City of Rich
mond, in the County of Contra Costa
State of California, and in the Direc-
tors 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
Monday, the 18th day of March, A. D.
1914, at ten o'clock A. M. of said day;
and
WHEREAS, the object of said meet
ing, as stated in said notice, was to
enable said stockholders to then and
there consider and vote upon a propo-
sition to increase the capital stock of
said corporation from fifty million dol
lars ($5,000,000), divided into five
hundred thousand (500,000) shares, of
the par value of one hundred dollars
($100) each, to one hundred million
dollars ($100,000,000) to be divided
into one million 1,000,000) shares, of
the par value of one hundred dollars
($100) each, and the amount to which
it was proposed to increase the capital
stock was stated as one hundred mil
lion dollars ($1OO, O,OOO,OOO); and
WHEREAS the hour of the day
fixed for said meeting by said resoIu-
ton and in the published notice of
said meeting required by law did not
correspond with the hour of the day
fixed in the notice of said meeting
mailed to the stockholders of said cor
poration; and
WHEREAS said Board of Directors
deem it prudent and advisable that a
meeting should be called as in the
resolutions hereinafter set forth more
fully provided, for the purpose in said
resolutions stated;
RESOLVED: That a meeting of the
stockholders of this corporation is
hereby called to be held at the prin-
cipal place of business thereof and
at the building where the Board of
Directors usually meet, in the room
of said Board, namely, the office build
ing of the Standard Oil Company, at
the City of Richmond, in the County
of Contra Costa, State of California,
on Tuesday, the 14th day of July, 1874,
at ten o'clock A. M. of said day, for
the purpose and object of considering
and voting upon proposition to in
crease the capital stock of this cor
poration from fifty million dollars
($50,0O0,000), divided into five hun
dred thousand (500,000) shares, each
of the par value of one hundred dol
lars ($100), to one hundred million
dollars ($100,000, 0,000), to be divided
into one million (1,000,000) shares,
each of the par value of one hundred
dollars ($100); and that the Secre-
tary cause notice of such meeting to
be published once week for sixty
(6O) days prior to said 14th day of
July, 1914, in the Richmond Record
Herald, a newspaper published at
Richmond, in said County of Contra
Costa, and that said notice be sub
stantially in the following form, viz:
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF
STOCKHOLDERS
Notice is hereby given that, pur-
suant 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 adopted at
a regular meeting of said Board duly
and regularly held on the 5th day OF
May, 1914, at the office of said corpora
tion in the City of Richmond, County
of Contra Costa, State of California,
special meeting of the stockholders
of the Standard Oil Company is here
by called to be held at it's 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 building of
said Standard Oil Company at said
place, and which is the building where
said Board of Directors usually meet,
on Tuesday, the 14th day of July, A.
n Of III
day; that the object of said meeting
is to enable said stockholders then and
there to consider and vote upon
proposition to increase the capital
stock of said corporation from fifty
million dollars ($50000, 0,000), divided
into five hundred thousand $50 800
shares of the par value of one hundred
dollars $100) each. to one hundred
million dollars ($1O0, 0,00O,O0O,) to be
divided into one million Q.0QG,000)
shares of the par value of one hun
dred dollars ($100) each The amount
to which it is proposed to increase the
capital stock is one hundred million
dollars ($1O0,000,000).
By order of the Board of Directors.
Dated: Richmond, Contra Costa
County, California, May 9Th, 1914.
+. ii. ElLLMAN,
Secretary, Standard Oil Company
And it is further
RESOLVED: That the Secretary of
this corporation do address and mail,
postage prepaid, a notice substantially
of the form hereinbefore set forth,
of said meeting to each of the stock
holders of this corporation whose
names appear on 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, Cali
fornia, that being the place at which
the principal place of business of the
corporation is situated as aforesaid,
which notice shall be so mailed to
such stockholders at least thirty (30)
days before the said 18th day of July,
A. D. 1914"
And we do further certify that in
pursuance of the foregoing resolutions,
the said F. H. Hillman, the Secretary
of said corporation, caused to be
published in said Richmond Record
Herald a notice so as aforesaid pre-
scribed by the Board of Directors and
set forth in the resolutions next here
inbefore recited.
That said publication of said no
tice was commenced in said news
paper on the 9Th day of May, 1914,
and the same was published in the
regular issues of said newspaper on
the following dates, to wit: May 9Th
May 18th, May 22nd, May 29th, June
5th, June 18th, June 10Th, June 26th,
July 3rd, and July 10th, A. d. 1914,
and being once a week for at least