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(f) To engage in all kinds of business, including the following but without excluding others: All manufacturing, milling, mining, quarrying,
building, construction and industrial works and operations; development and utilization of every kind of power; the acquirement,
construction, use, operation, sale and other disposition of all kinds of machinery, plants, factories, warehouses, elevators, buildings and
other structures, bridges, wharves, docks, slips, dams, power works, water works, boats, ships, engines, cars, equipment and
appliances, whether in connection with said business or otherwise, and generally the utilization of all instrumentalities, methods,
processes and appliances, in all ways and by all means now known or which may hereafter be discovered or invented.
(g) To apply for, obtain, register, purchase, lease or otherwise to acquire, and to hold, use, own, operate and introduce, and to sell, assign or
otherwise to dispose of any trademarks, trade-names, brands, copyrights, concessions, patents, inventions, formulae, improvements
and processes used in connection with or secured under letters patent of the United States, or any other country, or otherwise, and to
use, exercise, develop, grant licenses in respect of, or otherwise to turn to account any such trademarks, copyrights, concessions,
patents, licenses, processes and the like, or any such property or rights.
(h) To subscribe or cause to be subscribed for, and to purchase or otherwise acquire, hold for investment, or otherwise, sell, assign, transfer,
mortgage, pledge, exchange, distribute or otherwise dispose of the whole or any part of the shares of the capital stock, bonds, coupons,
mortgages, deeds of trust, debentures, securities, obligations, evidences of indebtedness, notes, goodwill, rights, assets and property of
any and every kind whatsoever, or any part thereof of itself or any other corporation or corporations, stock companies, association or
associations, now or hereafter existing, and whether created by or under the laws of the State of Delaware, or of any other state, district,
territory or colony of the United States, or any other country or otherwise, and to use, operate, manage and control such properties or any
of them, either in the name of such other corporation or corporations, stock company or association, or in the name of this corporation,
and while owners of any of said shares of capital stock or bonds or other property to exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of
ownership of every kind and description, including the right to vote thereon, with power to designate some person for that purpose from
time to time to the same extent as natural persons might or could do.
(i) To endorse, guarantee and secure the payment and satisfaction of the bonds, coupons, mortgages, deeds of trust, debentures,
securities, obligations, evidences of indebtedness, and shares of the capital stock of other corporations, and also to guarantee and secure
the payment or satisfaction of dividends on shares of the capital stock of other corporations; also to undertake the whole or any part of the
assets and liabilities, existing or prospective, of any person, firm or association, also to procure any other person or corporation to
assume any such obligation or obligations.
(j) Without in any particular limiting any of the objects and powers of the corporation, it is hereby expressly declared and provided that the
corporation shall have power to do all the things hereinbefore enumerated, and also to issue or exchange stock, bonds and other
obligations in payment for property purchased or acquired by it, or for any other object in or about its business; to borrow money without
limit; to mortgage or pledge its franchises, real or personal property, income and profits accruing to it, any stocks, bonds or other
obligations, or any property which may be acquired by it; to secure any bonds or other obligations by it issued or incurred; to guarantee
any dividends, or bonds, or contracts, or other obligations; to make and perform contracts of any kind and description, and in carrying on
its business, or for the purpose of attaining or furthering any of its objects, to do any and all other acts and things, and to exercise any and
all other powers which a co-partnership or natural person could do and exercise, and which now or hereafter may be authorized by law in
any part of the world.
(k) To carry on any business whatsoever which the corporation may deem proper or convenient in connection with any of the foregoing
purposes or otherwise, or which may be calculated directly or indirectly to promote the interests of the corporation or to enhance the value
of its property; and it is the purpose of the corporation from time to time to do any one or more of the acts and things herein set forth; and
it may conduct its business in other states, in the territories, the District of Columbia, the colonies and dependencies and in foreign
countries and places; it may have one office or more than one office and keep the books of the company outside the State of Delaware,
except as otherwise provided by law.
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