it
to Daly, Haggin, Tevis, and others, were, upon the books of the bank,
the real owners.
The second part was the summoning into the City Bank of certain
"Standard Oil" lawyers, office-boys, and clerks, and the organization by
them of the Amalgamated Copper Company. The lawyers drew up the papers
and the office-boys and clerks signed them. First, the papers certified
that "whereas we (the office-boys and clerks) are desirous of taking
advantage of the corporation laws of the State of New Jersey, we (the
said office-boys and clerks) do so take advantage of the said laws and
form ourselves into the Amalgamated Copper Company, which will have a
capital of $75,000,000, and which will be allowed by said laws to own
copper-mines and other things, to mine copper and other things, to
manufacture, buy, sell, and trade in copper and other things, and to do
numerous and variegated other things; and that whereas we (the said
office-boys and clerks) have now become the Amalgamated Copper Company,
one of our number will purchase the entire capital stock of the said
Amalgamated Copper Company for $75,000,000 cash, which $75,000,000 cash
we herewith certify to have been paid in the form of a check for
$75,000,000, herewith delivered to the treasurer, one of our number, by
the clerk who drew it; and the treasurer, herewith certifying that he
has received the $75,000,000, herewith delivers unto said clerk the
$75,000,000 capital stock of the Amalgamated Copper Company, and we (the
said office-boys and clerks) herewith certify that there is within the
treasury of the Amalgamated Copper Company $75,000,000, and we (the said
office-boys and clerks) vote that it, the said $75,000,000, shall be
used in the purchase of certain stocks and properties, and said certain
stocks and properties shall be the same stocks and properties previously
purchased by Mr. Rogers and William Rockefeller, and now owned by them,
and we (the said office-boys and clerks) herewith certify that we have
paid from the treasury $75,000,000, that said $75,000,000 is in the form
of a check, and said check is the one previously received, or its
equivalent, by our treasurer, from one of our number, to wit, the clerk
referred to earlier in these papers, and said $75,000,000 has been paid
to Henry H. Rogers for his and William Rockefeller's use." Henry H.
Rogers, now having $75,000,000, where formerly he had stocks and
properties which had cost him $39,000,000, and being desi
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