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From this Company you are to receive three notes at two, four and six months, payable to my order, and each for two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars. ## The Edison Electric Illuminating CO. of Sunbury. From this company you are to receive sixteen hundred and fifty ($1,650) dollars in the capital stock fo the company at par. Immediately the arrangements are completed for the extension of this station, I agree to surrender to you my total holding in the Sunbury CO., namely, Sixty One and Fifty One Hundredths shares, and to accept stock in the re-organised Company for Thirty and Seventy Five One Hundredths shares, the par value of the new stock being $100. ## Edison Electric Illuminating CO. of Mt. Carmel. From this company you are to obtain Twenty Four Hundred ($2,400) dollars in full paid unassessable stock, not subject to any call whatsoever. ## On obtainining the notes and securities, you will please return them to me, together with releases signed by the above companies, properly executed by them."},{"label":"Author","value":"Edison, Thomas Alva"},{"label":"Recipient","value":"Shaw, Phillips B"},{"label":"Mentioned","value":["Edison Electric Illuminating Co (Mt Carmel)","Edison Electric Illuminating Co (Sunbury)"]},{"label":"Date","value":"1885-09-19"},{"label":"Type","value":"Letter"},{"label":"Subject","value":["Stocks, bonds, and investments","Contracts and other legal concerns","Central stations"]},{"label":"Folder/Volume ID","value":"LB020-F"},{"label":"Microfilm ID","value":"83:260"},{"label":"Document ID","value":"LB020498A"},{"label":"URL","value":"https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/LB020498A"},{"label":"Rights","value":"Thomas Edison National Historical Park"},{"label":"Publisher","value":"Thomas A. 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