The Winslow mail., 1922-06-09
CERTIFICATE
RELATIVE TO AMENDMENT OF
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
]. C. PENNEY COMPANY

We. EARL C. SANS, President,
and L. A. BANNER, Secretary oa'
the ]. C. PENNEY COMPANY, a
Corporation created, organized and
existing under and by virtue of the
avs of the State of Utah, HEREBY
CERTIFY to the County Clerk of
Salt Lake County, State of Utah, and
he Secretary of State of the State
Utah, that at the Annual Meeting
J the stockholders Of the Corpora
ton, duly regularly and legally
called and held upon due notice
hereof, and said notice having been
given hy publication thereof for a
period of twenty-one (2D days in
Salt Lake Tribune, newspaper
printed in the English language, and
having a general circulation in the
) County of Salt Lake, State of Utah.
} and which said notice stated the
proposed change or amendment to
| he Articles of Incorporation of the
, said Corporation, and the time and
place of. such Stockholders Meeting
and was so given in the manner and
form required by law: and said
, Stockholders Meeting was duly, reg
uarly and legally held in accord
, ance with said notice and in accord
ance with the requirements of the
5 AL 1ticles of Incorporation of said
Corporation and with the laws of
! he State OF Utah, at the principle
office of the Company, Suite COS
t Boston Block, Salt Lake City, State
: i Utah, on the 10th day Of January,
1922, at one o'clock in the afternoon,
t which more than majority Of
IL of the outstanding shares of the
capital stock of said Corporation en-
] titled to vote theraat, was repre-
/ ented by the owners and holders
hereof in person or by proxy; the
ollowing Amendment was duly
adopted by vote representing at
east a majority of said shares of
outstanding capital stock of said
corporation entitled to vote at said
feeting, and the said Amendment
vas regularly and legally adopted
Ind passed amending the said Art
cles of Incorporation as follows:
al WHEREAS it is desired to in
crease the authorized number of
VI shares of Common Stock which
a can be issued by said Corporation
VI from Fifty Thousand 100000
Ell shares o. Common Stock of the
el par value of One Hundred Dollars
IL ($1OO) per share to One Hundred
Thousand Q00,OOO) shares of
al Common Stock of the par value
a of One Hundred Dollars ($10e)
per share;
al NOW, THEREFORE,, BE 1T Re-
SOLVED that Article VIII, Para
3 graph Cd be and hereby is amended
|. so as to read as follows:
q "a The limit of the capital
stock of this Corporation shall be
Twenty Million Dollars ($2O,OOO,-
OOO), divided into One Hundred
Thousand (1O0,O0O) shares of
Common Stock of the par value
e of One Hundred Dollars ($100)
a per share and One Hundred Thou
sand QOO,OO0) shares of Preferred
q Stock of the par value of One
! Hundred Dollars ($100) per share.
;, Given under our hands and the
Il seal of this Corporation the 18th
Il day of January, 1922.
, EARL C. SANS,
y President.
L. A. BANNER,
Secretary.
n STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
: County of Los Angeles, S.:
Il On the 26th day of January, 1922,
S personally appeared before me
e EARL c. SANS, who being by me
o luly sworn, did say: That he is
the President of the j. c. PENNEY
: | COMPANY, Corporation of Utah,
| and that said above instrument was
u signed in behalf of said Corporation
oy authority of the resolution duly,
L | regularly and legally passed at a
! | regular meeting of the stockholders,
Il duly, regularly and legally called
| and held upon notice for said pur-
' pose, and that the said EARL C.
:. SANS acknowledged to me that he
d executed the same for and in behalf
of said Company.
EARL C. SANS.
Il Subscribed and sworn to before
$ me this 26th day of January, 1922.
. (SeaD WALTER E. COOLEY,
Notary Public in and for the County
f of Los Angeles, State of Califor-
"a mia.
my Commission expires Dec. 1st,
r 1925.
: STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
i County of Los Angels, ss
Il 1. L. E. HAMPTON, Clerk of the
County of Los Angeles (and ex-of-
ficio of the Superior Court of the
,, State of California, in and for said
= ! County, the same being court of
: ! record of the aforesaid County, hav-
: ing by law a seaD de hereby certify
that WALTER E. COOLEY, whose
name is subscribed to the attached
certificate of acknowledgment, proof
or affidavit, was at the time of TAX
ing said acknowledgment, proof or
affidavit, a Notary Public in and for