The Arizona copper camp., 1918-02-02


Board duly and regularly held on the
21st day of May, 1912, at the office
of said corporation in the City of
Richmond, County of Contra Costa,
State of California, special meeting
of the stockholders of the Standard
Oil Company 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 Cali
fornia. 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 Tuesday, the
Both day of July, A. D. 1912, at twelve
o'clock noon of said day; that the OBJ
ject of said meeting is to enable said
stockholders to then and there con-
slider and vote upon a proposition to
increase the capital stock of said cor
poration from twenty-five million dol
lars (S25,O00, ,000.), divided into two
hundred and fifty thousand (250,0O0)
shares of the par value of one hundred
dollars ($100) each, to fifty million
dollars ($5O, ,000.), to be divided
into five hundred thousand (5O0,0OO)
shares of the par value of one hundred
dollars ($1OO.) each.
The amount to which it is proposed
to increase the capital stock is fifty
million dollars ($50,000,000).
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,
postage prepaid, notice of the form
hereinbefore set forth of said meeting
to each of the stockholders of this
corporation, 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 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 Both
day of July, A. D. 1922
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 oa said corporation
caused to be published in the Rich
mond Record-Herald", which is and
was at all of the times herein men
toned newspaper of general circula-
ton, printed and published daily (Sun-
days 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 afore.
said prescribed by the said Board OF
Directors, and set forth in the resolu
ton 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 Gath, May 31st, June 7th
June 14th,- June 21st, June 28th, July
5th, July 18th, July 10Th, July 26th
and July 29th, A. D. 1912, and being
once a week for at least sixty (60)
days next prior to Tuesday, the 3Oth
day of July, A. d. 1912, the day fixed
for said stockholders meeting, ano
that true copy of the affidavit 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 al
times hereinafter mentioned he wa:
a male citizen of the United States
over the age of twenty-one years anG
a resident of said county, and was a
and during all said times the Prin
cipal Clerk 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; thai
said Richmond Record-Herald is, anG
was at all times herein mentioned, g
newspaper of general circulation as
that term is defined by Section 446C
of the Political Code, and, as provided
by said section, is published for the
dissemination of local and telegraphiC
news and Intelligence of a genera
character, having bona fide sub
scription list of paying subscribers
and is not devoted to the interest, OF
published for the entertainment or in
struction of a particular class, profes
sion, trade, calling, race, denomina
ton, or forath entertainment or in
struction of any number of such
classes, professions, trades, callings
races or denominations; that at al
said times said newspaper had been
established, printed and published in
said City of Richmond, in said County
and State, at intervals for more than
one year preceding the first publica
tion of the notice herein mentioned
that said notice was set in type not
smaller Cnan nonpareil, and was pre-
ceded with words printed in black
face type not smaller than nonpareI
describing and expressing in general
terms the purport and character OF
the notice intended to be given; that
the Notice of Meeting of Stockholders
of the Standard Oil Company, of which
the annexed is true printed copy
was published and printed in said
newspaper once week for period OF
at least sixty days, commencing on
the oath day of May, A. D. 1912, and
ending on the 29th day of July, A. D
1912, both days inclusive, to wit: On
a. I,