The History of the Standard Oil CompanyTarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva)
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The History of the Standard Oil Company
Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva)
Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History; Standard Oil Company -- History
SEC. 5. The capital stock of said company shall consist of 2,000
shares, of the value of fifty dollars each, being $100,000, and with
the privilege of increasing the same by a vote of the holders of the
majority of the stock present at any annual or special meeting, to
such an amount as they may from time to time deem needful; and the
corporators, or a majority of them, named in the first section of
this act, shall have power to open books for subscriptions at such
times and places as they may deem expedient; and when not less than
1,000 shares shall have been subscribed, and twenty per cent.
thereon shall have been paid in, the shareholders may elect not less
than three nor more than nine directors to serve until the next
annual election, or until their successors shall be duly elected and
qualified; and the directors so elected may, and they are hereby
authorised and empowered to have and to exercise, in the name and in
behalf of the company, all the rights and privileges which are
intended to be hereby given, subject only to such liabilities as
other shareholders are subject to, which liabilities are no more
than for the payment to the company of the sums due or to become due
on the shares held by them; and should the capital stock at any time
be increased, the stockholders, at the time of such increase, shall
be entitled to a _pro rata_ share of such increase, upon the payment
of the instalments thereon duly called for; and whenever an increase
of capital stock is made, a certificate thereof, duly executed under
the corporate seal of the company, and signed by the president and
secretary, shall be filed with the auditor-general before the same
shall be deemed to be valid.
SEC. 6. The principal office of the said company shall be in the
City of Pittsburg, but the directors, under such rules and
regulations as they may prescribe, may establish branches or
agencies in other parts of the state, or elsewhere; all of the
directors of said company shall be citizens of the United States,
and reside therein.
SEC. 7. The directors shall be elected annually by the stockholders,
on the first Tuesday of June of each year; and they shall elect from
their number, at the first meeting of the board after their
election, a president, and shall also have power to elect from their
number, or otherwise, a vice-president, a treasurer, and secretary,
and such other officers, clerks, and agents as the business of the
company may require; all elections for directors shall be by ballot,
and every stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share
of stock held by him; but no person shall be eligible as director
who is not a stockholder to the amount of ten shares; at the annual
or special meetings a quorum shall consist of stockholders owning at
least one-half of the capital stock.
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