EXHIBIT A.

No. 6616.—United States of America.

department of state.

To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:

I certify that the document hereunto annexed is under the seal of the State of California, and is entitled to full faith and credit.

In testimony whereof I, John Hay, Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed.


John Hay.

[Seal of the State Department.]

I, C. F. Curry, secretary of state of the State of California, do hereby certify that I have carefully compared the annexed copy of certificate of incorporation of Eagle Fishing Company with the original now in my office, and that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole thereof. Also, that this authentication is in due form and by the proper officer.


C. F. Curry, Secretary of State.

[The great seal of the State of California.]

10 cent stamp.

9/8/1900.

C. F. C.

I, Edwin G. Waite, secretary of the State of California, do hereby certify that a copy of the articles of incorporation of Eagle Fishing Company, certified by the county clerk of the city and county of San Francisco as a copy of such articles filed in his office, was filed in this office on the 29th day of September, A. D. 1891, which articles and the copy thereof contained the required statement of facts, to wit: First, the name of the corporation as aforesaid; second, the purpose for which it is formed; third, the place where its principal business is to be transacted; fourth, the term for which it is to exist; fifth, the number of its directors or trustees, and the names and residences of those who are appointed for the first year; sixth, the amount of its capital stock, and the number of shares into which it is divided; seventh, the amount of its capital stock actually subscribed and by whom.


E. G. Waite,
Secretary of State.

Signed by Wm. H. Stevens,
Deputy.

[Great seal of State.]