The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-12
conNcr cOETRAeT HOLDs eOOD.
Protssis Were Hade Against LETTING
q Florida Pins Company, But
Beard Rsfasa6 % Reseind.

Beard Rsfaso6 % Reseind.
Tallahassee, Fla, March 3, 1909.
The Board Of Commissioners Of State
Institutions met IN the executive Oiliee
az 10 O'Clock, q. 10, all members beng
present.
The minutes Of the last meeting we're
read and approved
The following protest against the
award OF the contract for lease Of State
prisoners 90 the Florida Pine Company,
made &C the Boards last meeting, we're
gubmittedi
Tallahassee, Fla, March 2, 1909
To the Honorable Board Of Commits
sioners Of State Institutions, ITALIA
hassee. Fla:
slFs:-The undersigned, cambridge
Richardson & Company, respectfully
represents unto your HOnOrB that they
we're bidders for the lease Of State con.
victs, Ia accordance with b notice and
achedule Of requirements a. published
and furnished, and bid being opened
March 2. 1909, at 10 O'Clock. O. m, and
one Of the contestants fOr bids upon
said contract the undersigned complied
In all particulars with the said schedule
Of requirements and rendered and filed
said bid for the lease Of said cOnvicts
FOR The fixed sum Of two hundred and
seventy.hye (S275.OO) dollars per capita
per anbum
That among the other bids filed and
opened ri said letting there appeared q
BID from the Florida Pine Company, a
corporation organized under the laws OF
the State OF Delaware, and 40 appears
By the records IN the Secretary Of
States Office az doing business IN the
State Of Florida. and that the taid bid
Of the Florida Pine Company was for
the sum OF two hundred and eighty-one
dollars and sixty cents (S28i.00l, the
aaid bid Of the Florida Pine Company
being the highest Of the bids 10 re-.
eeived and opened at aRId letting and
the bids Of the undersigned being the
second highest Of said bids At said let
ting.
The undersigned further represents
unto your HOnOra that nc n meeting Of
your said Board Of COmmil aOnerB the
bid OF the Florida Pine Company, 10
the undersigned are advised, was re-
celvod and accepted and the said FlOri-
De Pine Company were required within
twenty days % prepare and preaent
their contract and bond, In accordance
with the schedule Of requirements fur
nighed By your said Board OF State In
atltutlfns and your Board, as the UNDER
signed are advised, ordered the return
Of said check deposited with the said
Board with said bid.
The undersigned, therefore, hereby
protest against the entering into con-
tract with the State Of Florida theFlOr-
ida Pine Company on the grounds that
a. The undersigned are entitled under
the notice and schedule ofrequirementa
20 the right and privilege Of entering
into contract with the State Of Florida
FOR the lease OF said cOnvicts, they be-
ing the highest and best bidders IN SC
cordanee With the rules and require
ments, and more particularly the under
signed protest against q contract being
made and entered into between the
State 81 Florida and the said Florida
Pine Company upon the following
grounds, tO-Wit;
1. That the Florida Pine Company is
a foreign corporation, Incorporated
under the laws Of the State Of Della
ware. by persons az Of whom except
one are alleged 10 be citizens OF the
State OF Florida who were evidently
t MNANNhUA ~ AkN NANANNANhtAM " N4'N
corporation under the lawa Of q foreign
State BY \ desire 90 avoid the liabilities
which they would incur under the laws
OF che State of Florida and 10 avoid The
laws OF the State Of Florida made "a
protect persons with whom they have
dcalings IN Florida.
g. Said corporation could not legally
BE- 3 bidder under the terms and pro.
visions OF the notice for the lease OF
couviets and the schedule Of require
ments for the lease Of State eonviet'
furnished By the Commissioner Of Az
Flcullurc for the guidance Of bidders
and for other good and sufficient rea'
aona apparent from q reference 20 th'
Charter OF the said Florida Pine Com
pany and thu sald notice and schedule
of requirements for the lease Of STATE
convicts. Respectfully submitted,
Bainbrldge Richardson a Co.
BY Cromwell Gibbons, Atty
Tallahassee, Fla, March z, 1909.
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