Estate - Northern Railway of California Bonds, 1908

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY 4% 1997 $1000. Bonds. Forward 225 2 bonds numbered M 39236 to M 39237 1 " " M 39243 1 " " M 39481 1 " " M40011 1 " " M 40051 2 " " M 41567 to M 41568 1 " " M 41876 1 " " M 44805 2 " " M 45020 to M 45021 1 " " M 45081 1 " " M 45092 1 " " M45172 2 " " M 45228 to M 45229 3 " " M 45339 to M 45341 1 " " M 45172 2 " " M45228 to M 45229 3 " " M 45339 to M 45341 1 " " M 45371 1 " " M 20705 3 " " M 20881 to M 20883 ---------------- Total -- 250 (signed) J M [ ?]

There is a wax seal with a red ribbon in the top center of the page, and a partial triangle is near the center middle of the page.

The seal reads: [UNION TRUST COMPANY OF SAN FRANCISCO]

County Clerk State of California, City and County of San Francisco [These words are enclosed by a curved bracket and ss.]

I, H. I. Mulcrevy County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco, and ex-officio Clerk of the Superior Court thereof, the same being a court of Record, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That

JAMES MASON

[The following words are on the right side, while a stamp saying "SEAL" is on the left] whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof and acknowledgment, a Notary Public, in and for said City and County, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by the laws of said State to take the acknowledgments and proofs of deeds or conveyances, for land, tenements or hereditaments in said State, to be recorded therein. And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Notary Public, and verily believe that the signature to said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, the 14th day of Feb. 1908 H.I. Mulcrevy, Clerk

The James H. Barry Co. Allied Printing Trades Union Label Council San Francisco 212-214 Leavenworth St.

[notation, left margin: a] [notation, right margin: J. P. M. & Co.]

Know all Men by these Presents,

That The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University for Value Received, have bargained, sold, assigned and transferred, and by these presents do bargain, sell, assign and transfer unto Bearer

250 Bonds of the Northern Pacific Railway Co., Prior Lien, 4%,

For $ ______ Numbers_____

M 47, M 163, M 736, M 1943, M 2151 to M 2154, both inclusive, M 2495, M 2757, M 2759, M 334, M 3389, M 3601 to M 3605, both inclusive, M 3613, M 3614, M 3693, M 3738, M 3780, M 3781, M 4058, M 4365, M 4416, M 4637, M 4654, M 4845, M 5066, M 5257, M 5258, M 5268, M 5330, M 5351, M 5457, M 5459, M 5460, M 5774, M 6210 to 6213, both inclusive, M 6412, M 6460, M 6461, M 6462, M 6483, M 7846 to M 7850, both inclusive, M 8001, M 8491, M 8492, M 8493, M 8576, M 8577, M 8774, M 8867, M 8873, M 8874, M 8894, M 9116, M 9117, M 9186, M 9187, M 9312, M 9313, M 9314, M 9398, M 9412, M 9419, M 9549, M 9555, M 9630 to M 9636, both inclusive, M 9659, M 9675, to M 9683, both inclusive, M 9903, M 9904, M 9905, M 10655, M 11238, M 11851, M 12332, M 13048, M 13319, M 13563, M 15001, M 15004, M 17317, M 17318, M 17320, M 18533, M 18573, M 18597 to M 18600, both inclusive, M 18698, M 18699, M 18700, M 18701, M 19136, M 19137, M 20332, M 20262, M 20264, M 20269, M 20270, M 20297, M 20388, M 20558, M 20701, M 20702, M 20703, M 20705, M 20270, M 20297, M 20388, M 20558, M 20701, M 20702, M 20703, M 20705, M 20881, M 20882, M 20883, M 20994, M 21126, M 21128, M 21145, M 21146, M 21209 to M 21216, both inclusive, M 21217, M 21468, M 22052, M 22973, M 23197, M 23271, M 23272, M 23923, M 28798, M 29085, M 30061, M 30191, M 30312, M 30341, M 30372, M 30381, M 30389, M 30784, M 30951, M 31227 to M 31233, both inclusive, M 31236, M 31394, M 31395, M 31872, M 32655 to M 32658, both inclusive, M 32681, M 32682, M 32683, M 32882, M 34092, M 36542, M 36609, M 36610, M 36726, M 36766, M 36862, M 37065, M 37158, M 37226, M 37244, M 37245, M 37393, M 37394, M 37472, M 37473, M 37553, M 37536, M 37539, M 37756, M 37926, M 37927, M 38080, M 38735, M 38735, M 38843, M 38844, M 38849, M 38868, M 38870, M 39042, M 39043, M 39116 to M 39119, both inclusive, M 39190, M 39228 to M 39232, both inclusive, M 39236, M 39237, M 39243, M 39481, M 40011, M 40051, M 41567, M 41568, M 41876, M 44805, M 45020, M 45021, M 45081, M 45092, M 45172, M 45228, M 45229, M 45339, M 45340, M 45341 and M 45371.

standing in our names on the books of the said Company

And we do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint [leave blank] our true and lawful attorney, for us and in our name and stead, but to the use of the above-named transferee, to sell, assign, transfer and make over, the said bonds, and for that purpose to make and execute all necessary acts of assignment and transfer thereof, and to substitute one or more persons with like power, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said Attorney or his substitute or substitutes shall lawfully do by virtue hereof.

In Witness Whereof, [insert] said the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University has [/insert] [--have--] hereunto set its hand and seal at San Francisco the Thirteenth day of February 1908 by Charles G. Lathrop, its Treasurer.[notation, left margin: J. M. { ]

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, [image: monogram seal, LS] By

Chas. G. Lathrop

Treasurer.

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of (Sgd) James Mason

State of California, City and County of San Francisco} ss.: On this Thirteenth day of February one thousand nine hundred and eight before me a Notary Public for the [insert: City and] County of San Francisco personally came Charles G. Lathrop, Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, to me personally known, and known to me to be the same person described in and who executed the forgoing Power of Attorney, and he duly acknowledged to me that he executed the same and he duly acknowledged the said Power of Attorney to be the act and deed. [insert] of said The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University and his own act and deed as such treasurer. [/insert]

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal of office, the day and year last above written.

(sgd) James Mason

Notary Public

In and for the City and County of San Francisco, State of California.

[image: ink stamp "SEAL"]

Certificate.

I, GEORGE E. CROTHERS, Secretary of The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, a body corporate under the laws of the State of California, do hereby certify:

THAT the By-Laws of The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, a body corporate under the laws of the State of California, contain no provision authorizing and person or persons to act for said body corporate in causing transfers and sales of its securities, other than that the respective officers of the Board (consisting of President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary) "shall exercise the usual functions of such officers, together with such powers and duties as the Board of Trustees may, from time to time, designate or assign to them;"

THAT in such matters as transfers and sales of its securities, special action is take by said Board whenever any transfer or sale is made, and that the Board of Trustees alone has full power to sell and direct the transfer of any bonds or personal securities belonging to said body corporate;

THAT a meeting of said The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University was duly held, pursuant to notice and according to law, at its office in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, on the 7th day of February, 1908;