The Winslow mail., 1919-12-05
LEGAL NOTICES
Certificate Relative to Amendment of
Articles of Incorporation of the ]. C.
Penney Company.

We, Earl C. Sans, President, and
George H. Bushnell, Secretary, of the
]. c. Penney Company a corporation,
created, organized and existing under
and by virtue of the laws of the State
of Utah, hereby certify to the County
Clerk of Salt Lake County, State of
Utah,and to the Secretary of State,
of the State of Utah, that at a special
meeting of the stockholders of the
corporation duly, regularly and le-
gally called upon notice for said pur-
pose, and regularly. held in accord
ance with the requirements of the
Articles of Incorporation of said
Company, and with the laws of the
State OF Utah, at the principal office
OF the Company, at Suite sos Boston
Block, Salt Lake City, State of Utah,
on Monday, August IS, 1919, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, each, every
and all shares of the capital stock of
said corporation was represented by
the owners and holders thereof in
person or by proxy and voted unani-
mously for the following amendments
to the Articles of Incorporation and
the same were duly, regularly and
legally adopted and passed amending
the said Articles of Incorporation as
follows:
RESOLVED:
1st. THAT Article VII be and here
by is amended by changing the last
sentence in the next to the last para
graph of said Article to read as fol-
lows:
Subject to. the provisions of these
Articles of Incorporation, this cor
poration shall have the right to dis
burse out of profits actually earned
land on hand such dividends from
time to time as the directors may ap-
prove"
End. That Article VIII be and
hereby is amended as follows:
(a) By changing the paragraph
numbered O so as to read as fol-
lows
sd The limit of the capital stock
of this corporation shall be Fifteen
million dollars ($15,OOO, O,OOO), divided
into Fifty thousand (500O0) shares
=. of common stock of the par value of
e One hundred dollars ($100) per
share, and One hundred thousand
+ t10O,000) shares of preferred stock
of the par value of One hundred dol
lars ($1OO) per share"
(b) BY inserting the word "com-
mon" before the words stock"
capital stock, shares" and ''stock-
holders" in each and every place
where any of the said words appears
in the paragraphs or subdivisions
numbered (2), (3), (N and (5) of
said Article WILL
(c) BY adding to said Article VIII
the following paragraphs, to be mum
bered (6), (D, (S) and (9):
500 The preferred stock shall not
be assessable for any purpose what
ever. The private property of the
holders of said preferred stock shall
not be liable for the obligations OF
debts of the corporation in any
amount or to any extent whatever
Said preferred stock shall be entitl
ed from date of it's issue to cumula
tive dividends at the rate of sever
per cent CD per annum, payable
quarterly on the first day of March
June, September and December ir
each year. If the corporation shall
fail to pay such dividends quarterly
on all the outstanding preferred
stock, all accumulated dividends
thereon shall be fully paid before
any dividends shall be set apart, de.
clared or paid upon any class O
common stock; and the preferred
stock shall be entitled to no further
dividends. The preferred stock shall
be redeemable in whole or in part or
sixty (60) days notice by mail a
One hundred five dollars ($1O5) PEI
share and an amount equal to accu-
mulated dividends to the date of re
demption, although not earned OF
declared; when any redemption i
made of part of the preferred stool
outstanding, it shall be in such man
ner and by such method as the Boart
OF Directors shall determine sUpol
any sale of all of the assets of tn,
corporation, or upon any liquidation
OF the corporation, except upon the
discontinuance of branch in ac
cordance with the provisions of para
graphs numbered (2) and (7) of this
Article VIII, the holders of preferred
stock shall be entitled to be paid Ono
hundred five per cent Q05) of the PAL
value thereof and an amount euua
to accumulated dividends to the date