The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-05-11
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR LETTERS
PATENT.

~ " NUM- " httY NOHCtIHs
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT
In to the Statutes of the State of Florida. thai
the undersigned will, on the
2Sth Day Of Nay, A. d. 1894,
at O'Clock lin the afternoon at the Executive
Chambers in the Capitol in the City of Tallahas
see and State of Florida, apply to His Exce1len
cy, the Governor of the State of Florida for Let
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. Thalheim, for ourselves, our
associates and successors, do hereby associate
and constitute ourselves a body corporate under
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 l.
The name of the said corporation shall be
THE OCALA ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POW
Err COMPANY"
ARTICLE II.
The powers to be held, exercised and enjoved
by the said corporation and the business and
purposes for which it is created as follows
that is to say: To establish, operate and main
tain 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 enjoy real 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 aud place Of business OF
the said corporation shall be in near the city
of Ocaia, 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 i'll 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 ts25,-
ooo) Dollars, divided into two hundred and fifty
(2so) shares of the value of one hundred $1,000
dollars each.
ARTICLE V.
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 a
Secretary and Treasurer, from their own number
or not as such directors may determine In
case of vacancy in 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
pOTdtlOu, WHICH meeting SnaiI De ne1Ci 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 H l.. Anderson and c.
Thalheim.
ARTICLE VIZ
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 Ian
nary of each year
ARTICLE VIII.
The mount of the capital stock subscribed and
paid in at the time of the execution of these ar
teles IS twenty-five thousand (s25,oool dollars,
which will be paid in by deciding and conveying
to the said company the following described
property, to-wit The southeast quarter of lot
fiftytwo (s2) old survey of the City of Ocala and
the buildings and improvements thereon located,
also the engine, boiler. connectioes, pumps, dy-
namos, shaftiug, wires, lamps, poles, fixtures,
mules, wagons and other personal property,
which is valued by the incorporators at the time
of the incorporation, at more than twenty five
thousand (S2s,ooo) dollars.
ARTICLE TX
The highest amount of indebtedness or liabili-
ty to which the incorporation can at any time
subject itself is one hundred thousand (SIoo, ooo}
dollars.
ARTICLE X,
The term of the corporate existence of the cor
porat1on shall be ninety-nine (99) years from the
date of the recording of the Letters Patent
In witness whereof we have hereto set our
1894.
JOHN A. BISHOP, of Ocala, Fla. [Seall
II. L. ANDERSON, of Oca1a, Fla fSeal1
{. THALHEIM, OF OCala, Fla, lSeal1