NUMBER 54 (See page 154)
FORMS OF MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CERTIFICATE OF HOLDINGS IN THE STANDARD OIL TRUST, WITH ASSIGNMENT OF LEGAL TITLE WHICH TOOK ITS PLACE IN 1892
[From History of Standard Oil Case in the Supreme Court of Ohio, 1897-1898. Part II, pages 53-56.]
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS
That we, John D. Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler, William Rockefeller, John D. Archbold, Benjamin Brewster, Henry H. Rogers, Wesley H. Tilford, and O. B. Jennings, Trustees, for winding up the Standard Oil Trust, by W. H. Tilford, our Attorney in Fact, and John D. Rockefeller, of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., do hereby constitute and appoint John Bensinger, of New York City, our true and lawful attorney for the purposes following, to wit:
Whereas, John D. Rockefeller has placed in the hands of said attorney assignment Number A 365 for 256,854⁄972,500 of the amount of corporate shares held by said trustees on the first day of July, 1892, in each of the companies whose stocks were so held.
Now the said attorney is hereby authorised to secure from each of said companies transfer upon their corporate books of said stock and stock certificates for whole shares, and scrip for fractional shares thereof, and when the said certificates and scrip are received from all the companies referred to, the said attorney shall deliver the same to John D. Rockefeller, and the said assignment Number A 365 shall at the same time be delivered to the said trustees.
And the said attorney hereby agrees to obtain the said certificates and scrip and to deliver the same and the said assignment as above specified.
(Signed in print) John D. Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler, William Rockefeller, John D. Archbold, Benjamin Brewster, Henry H. Rogers, O. B. Jennings, Wesley H. Tilford. (Signed in ink) W. H. Tilford, Attorney in Fact, John D. Rockefeller, per Geo. D. Rogers, John Bensinger.
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