The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-05-18
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR LETTERS
PATENT.
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To Whom it Nay Concern:
NOTICE IS HER = s, e cry, PURSUANT
| the undersigned will on the
aSth Day of Nay, A D. 1894,
at O'Clock sin the afternoon, at the Executive
Chambers in the Capitol in the City of Tallahas-
see and State OF Florida, apply to His Excellen-
tiers Patent, incorporating the following. named
company, under and pursuant to the following
proposed charter viz:
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE ocALA
ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY
We the undersigned, John A. Bishop. H. L.
Anderson and c. Thalhein for ourselves orr
associates and successors, do hereby associate
and pursuant to the Constitution and Statutes
the State of Florida and do publish and declare
this writing to be our Articles of Incorporation.
ARTICLE I.
The name of the said corporation shall be
THE ocAI.A ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POW
Err COMPANY"
The powers to be held, exercised and enjoyed
by the said corporation and the business and
purposes for which it is created are as follows
that is to say To establish operate and main
tam plant for the purpose of producing, fur
nishing, transmitting and selling all kinds of
light and power to purchase, lease and in any
manner acquire, hold, use and eniov real and
personal property; to SELL barter EXCHANGE and
convey or IN any other manner dispose of said
property; to build, buildings erect poles, wires &
other necessary appliances; to use and enjoy all
the rights and privileges granted and delegated
to corporations by the constitution and statutes
OF the State of Florida and to do and perform all
other acts IN furtherance of the said business
and purposes.
ARTICLE III
The principal office and place of business of
the said corporation shall be i'll or the city
OF Ocala, IN the county of Marion and State of
Florida, and the business of the said corporation
shall be conducted in said county of Marion and
State OF Florida and such other counties in the
State OF Florida as may hereafter be designated
by the corporation.
ARTICLE ".
The amount of the capitol stock of the said
corporation shall be twenty-five Thousand (S25,-
ooo) Dollars, divided into two hundred and fiffy
(25o) shares of the value of one hundred (sioo)
dollars each.
ARTICLE ".
The officers of said corporation shall consist of
a Board OF three Directors, who shall be stock
holders, and who shall elect from their own
number President and shall elect or appoint
Secretary and Treasurer, from their own number
or not as such directors may determine. In
case of a vacancy i'll the office of President the
remaining members of the Board may elect his
successor until the next regular election.
ARTICLE VI.
The Board of Directors shall be elected at the |
annual meeting of the stockholders of the cor
poration, which meeting shall be held at the |
time and in the manner as shall be prescribed by
the bylaws; and the following named persons |
shall be the directors until the first annual meet
ing John A. Bishop, II. L. Anderson and {. |
Thalheim.
ARTICLE VII.
The annual meeting of the stockholders shall |
be called in the manner provided by the bylaws,
and shall be held on the second Tuesday in jan |
uary of each year
ARTICLE VIII.
The mount of the capital stock subscribed and !
paid in at the time of the execution of these ar
ticles is twenty-five thousand ($25ooo) dollars, !
which will be paid in by deciding and conveying |