Legal documents [photocopies], 1900-1904

STATE OF CALIFORNIA,: ss. COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA,: J. G. McMillan being first duly sworn, says that he is the Engineer and Superintendent for the Construction of the Concrete Reservoir for Jane L. Stanford, who is the owner of the property described and referred to in the foregoing notice; that he has read said notice and knows the contents thereof; that the same is true of his own knowledge. (signed) J G McMillan Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th day of August 1901 (signed) Chas. P. Owen, Recorder, Santa Clara Co Cal

NOTICE OF COMPLETION OF WORK GIVEN BY Jane L. Stanford Dated August ----- 190--- Recorded at the Request of J G McMillan Aug 20 A.D. 1901 at 30 min past 4 o'clock PM in Vol 10 of Misc page 581 et seq Records Santa Clara Co., Cal. (signed) Chas P. Owen, Recorder aff. 25 cents {doc ?] 1.00, total 1.25

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given by Jane L. Stanford and by the Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, owners of the building and property hereinafter described, that the Pipe Organ for and situated in the University Church of the Leland Stanford Junior University, at Palo Alto, Santa Clara County in the State of California, the contract for building which organ was heretofore let on the 5th of May, 1900, to Murray M. Harris, was actually completed on the 29th day of November, 1901, and accepted on said day; the said contract for building said organ was filed for record in the Recorder's Office of the County of Santa Clara, State of California, on the 24th day of May, 1900, and the church in which said organ was to be and has been built is known as the University Church of the Leland Stanford Junior University at Palo Alto, said County of Santa Clara, and said church is situated on the grounds of said University in said County; That Jane L. Stanford is the name of the person who caused the building of said organ and other work under said contract to be done and that she was acting in that behalf as Surviving Founder of the Leland Stanford Junior University and for and on behalf of the Trustees of said University. This notice is intended to be the notice of completion contemplated by Section 1187 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California. (signed) Jane L. Stanford TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (signed) by Jane L. Stanford, Surviving Founder.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: STATE OF CALIFORNIA -SS. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO

JANE L. STANFORD, being first duly sworn, says: That she is the Surviving Founder of the Leland Stanford Junior University and in that capacity and for and on behalf of the Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University the owners of the property described and referred to in the foregoing notice she makes this affidavit: that she has read said notice and knows the contents thereof and that the same is true of her own knowledge.

Subscribed and Sworn to before me this 29th day of November, A.D. 1901. (signed) Jane L. Stanford (signed) A. B. Ryan, Notary Public, San Francisco, Cal.

[notation] Charles G. Lathrop 819 Market S.F. [/notation]

NOTICE OF COMPLETION OF WORK

Given by JANE L. STANFORD

Dated November 29th, 1901.

Recorded at the request of Jane L. Stanford, in 11 of miscl. page 201 this 29th day of November, 1901. Records of Santa Clara County.

Chas. P. Owen

Recorder

By Felix Mitchell

Deputy Recorder.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

That I, Jane Lathorp Stanford, a resident at Stanford Univeristy in the county of Santa Clara, State of California, am about to erect for the Leland Stanford Junior University, upon the campus or grounds of said University in the County aforesaid, a new University Library Building: that I have set apart a trust fund of three hundred and fifty thousand (350,000.00) dollars in the hands of Hessrs. Horace Davis, Leon Sloss and Joseph D. Grant, to defray the cost of said Building; and that I have determined upon plans and am about to let contracts and enter into obligations for the erection of said Library Builiding.

No THERFORE in order to have my intentions more conveniently and quickly carried out in the erection of said Library Builiding during my absence from California, I do hereby authorize and direct my brother, Charles G. Lathorp, Horace Davis, Leon Sloss and Joseph D. Grant, or any two of them, for me and in my name to make and execute any and all contracts for the erection of said Library Building, and for me and in my name to make any and all purchases necessary to the erection of said Building, and generally to do and perform for me and in my name and as my act, all things necessary and proper for the erection of said Library Building, to the same extent and with the same effect as if done by me in person.

Said Library Building shall be erected upon the plans approved by me but I hereby authorize and direct my said agents to cause said plans to be perfected and completed as to all details not passed upon by me, also to cause to be corrected any structural weakness or architectural imperfection which may be discovered in said plans or in the specifications for the work.

I hereby direct that the entire of said Library Building shall be kept within the said sum of three hundred and fifty thousand (350,000.00) dollars, and I hereby request and direct my said agents, in entering into contracts, to use due