DESIGNATION OF AGENT FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS,
That pursuant to Sections 405 and 406 of the Civil Code
of the State of California, relating to Foreign Corporations,
the YOSEMITE LUMBER COMPANY, a corporation formed under the
laws of Delaware, and carrying on the business of to purchase
or otherwise acquire, own, hold, rent, take on lease or under
agreement, use, improve, deal in and with, lease, sell,
mortgage, convey or otherwise dispose of timber lands and timber
rights, wood lands and lands for agricultural, stock, mining
and other purposes, and all stock, crops, growth, yield,
produce, products and Increase thereof, therefrom or thereon,
and rights to cut or take wood or timber or other yield or
produce from such or any lands and any and all rights,
privileges, easements and interests in, on, over or upon such or
any lands.
To engage in, do and transact the lumber business in
any and all its branches; to establish and operate lumber yards;
to buy or otherwise acquire and sell or otherwise dispose of
and in any manner deal in and with trees, logs, lumber, timber
and wood of any and all kinds, in any and all states, forms
and conditions, whether felled, standing or growing, and in any
and all worked, built, manufactured or made shapes, articles,
or structures; to build, manufacture, and make any and all
articles and structures, and to use, sell, or in any manner deal
with or dispose of the same; to fell, haul, float or otherwise
transport, cut, dress, treat, work and handle trees, logs,
lumber, timber and wood of any and all kinds in any and all
manners and for any and all purposes; to purchase or otherwise
acquire, build, construct, own, hold, take on lease or under
agreement, rent, use, operate, lease, let, sell, convey
mortgage or otherwise dispose of, and in any manner deal in and with
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railroads, inclines, lumber mills, saw mills, manufactories
and other works, machinery, plants and equipments for felling,
hauling, floating or otherwise transporting, cutting, dressing,
treating by secret processes'or otherwise, working, and
handling trees, logs, lumber, timber and wood in any and all
forms and for any and all purposes; to build, construct,
maintain and operate plants and works for the development of such
lands and for the handling, preparing and rendering commercially
available of the various products thereof.
To mine or otherwise to extract or remove, coal, oil,
gas, ores, stone and other minerals from any lands owned, acquired,
leased or occupied by the company, or from any other
lands.
To transport lumber, agricultural products, and all
kinds of goods, wares and merchandise, and passengers, upon land
or water; to engage in the construction, operation,. building
repairing and designing of houses, structures, vessels, ships,
boats, wharves, docks, dry docks, railroads, engines, cars, machinery
and all other equipment; and to build, construct,repair
maintain and operate water, gas, or electric works, tunnels,
bridges, viaducts, waterways, wharves, and piers; to own,operate
and maintain steamship lines, vessel lines, and other lines for
water transportation.
To purchase, or otherwise acquire, to hold, own, lease
maintain, operate, work, develop, sell, convey, mortgage,or otherwise
dispose of, in any part of the world, real estate, and real
property, and any or all rights, privileges, easements and
interests therein, and personal property of all kinds and any
interest and rights therein.
To acquire by grant, purchase or otherwise, subject to
legislative or governmental authority when and where necessary,
franchises, concessions, rights and privileges of every kind and
nature, necessary and incidental in carrying out the purposes of
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this corporation, and to develop the same and operate under, same
as herein provided; or to sell or lease the same or any interest
therein to others for development and operation where such sale
or lease shall be lawful under the laws of the governmental
power granting such franchise, concession, right or privilege.
To purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage,
pledge or otherwise dispose of the shares of the capital stock
of, or any bonds, securities or evidences of indebtedness created
by any other corporation or corporations of this or any
other state, territory or country, and while owner of such stock
or bonds to exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of
ownership, including the right to vote such stock or bonds.
In the course of its business to assume or guarantee
the payment of the principal, dividends or interest of or upon
any shares of stock or notes, bonds, or other securities owned
or acquired by it, and to guarantee any contract or obligation
issued or, executed by any corporation, firm, or individual; in
which this corporation may be interested, and to use its name
and credit for the benefit of other corporations, firms, and
individuals, if deemed advisable by a majority of the Board of
Directors.
To acquire the good-will, rights and property, and to
undertake the whole or any part of the assets and liabilities,
of any parson, firm, association or corporation, and to pay for
the same in cash, stock or bonds of this corporation or otherwise
To acquire, hold, use, sell, assign, lease, grant
licenses in respect of, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of letters
patent of the United States or any foreign country, patents,
patent rights, licenses and privileges, inventions, improvements
and processes, trade-marks and trade names, relating to or useful
in connection with any business of this corporation.
To enter into, make, perform and carry out contracts
of every kind, for any lawful purpose, without limit as to amount,
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with any person, firm, association or corporation.
To draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and
issue promissory notes, bills of exchange, warrants and other
negotiable or transferable instruments.
To issue bonds, debentures or obligations of this corporation
from time to time, for any of the objects or purposes
of the corporation, and to secure the same by mortgage, pledge,
deed of trust, or otherwise, and to purchase, hold and re-issue
the shares of its capital stock; in the State of California.
has constituted, appointed, and designated, and by these present.
does constitute, appoint, and designate, in accordance with a
resolution duly adopted at a meeting of the Board of Directors
of said Corporation, held on the 10th day of April , A. D. 1913,
John Murray Marshall, residing in 601 American Bank Building,
Los Angeles, California, its General Agent in the State of California.
That said John Murray Marshall, so designated as
aforesaid, is the Agent of the said Company in the State of California,
upon whom process. issued by authority of or under any law of
said State of California, may be served.
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