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Collection: Original Records > Articles of Incorporation
General Petroleum Corp. of CA (AI-G174)(1946) (10 pages)
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Page: of 10
or supplements thereto, but the enumeration of certain powers as herein
specified is not intended as exclusive of, or as a waiver of, any of the
powers, rights or privileges granted or conferred by said General Corporation
Law or the laws of said State now or hereafter in force; provided, however,
that this corporation shall not carry on any business, or exercise any powers,
in any state, territory or country which a similar corporation organized
under the laws of such state. territory or country could not carry on or
exercise, except to the extent permitted or authorized by the laws of such
state, territory or country.
Fourth: The total authorized capital stock of the corporation is Thirty-.
seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($37,500,000.00), divided into
three hundred seventy-five thousand (375,000) shares of the par value of One
Hundred Dollars ($100.00) each. The amount of capital stock with which the
corporation started business was Ten-Thousand Dollars ($10.000.00), being
one hundred (100) shares of the par value of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00)
each,
Fifth: The names and place of residence of each of the original subscribers
to the capital stock, and the number of shares subscribed for by each are as
follows:
Name Residence No. of Shares
T. L. Croteau Wilmington, Delaware 40
A. L. Miller Wilmington, Delaware 50
Alfred Jervis . Wilmington, Delaware 30
Sixth: This corporation is to have perpetual existence.
Seventh: The private property of the stockholders shall not be subject to
the payment of corporate debts to any extent whatever.
Eighth: The numbér of directors of the corporation shall be fixed from time
to time by the By—Laws but shall not be less than three, Directors need not
be stockholders.’ Elections of directors need not be by ballot.
Ninth: The stockholders and the Board of Directors shall have power to hold
their meetings outside the State of Delaware, at such places as from time to
time may be designated by the By-Laws, or, in the case of the Board of.