Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1909-10-22

ART 3. That any person or persons
Who is or are bona fide fruit or prouuSS
growers, or who Is, or are bona nut
r,anresentatiyes OF fruit or proouce
orowers within the territory next adlai'
cent TO the headquarters OF THIS AsSVcl
ton, may become a member OF thlS as
ISOLATION but this Association VIII nv
at any time receive into its memOer'
shin members of any kindred assocla'
lions whose fruit or produce lands are
located nearer to such other klndreu
association than they are to this asso'
citation, without the consent OF the as
ISOLATION next adjacent to where Salo
holdings are located.
ART. 8. Nothing in these Articles
shall be construed as to interfere VIII
the bona fde sale of real estate the
transfer of property, together with the
fruit or other produce growing thereon
at the time of such sale that is to say
That if any person who has signed MS
name for any particular year for plac-
inc the crops then growing on MS Oh
her land off the hands of the Assocla
ton. shall sell or dispose of his lana IN
GOOD faith: then and in that event the
said seller and purchaser are released
if they so desire, from the obligations
of having fruit or produce grown upon
the land so sold marketed or handled
under the authority ofthis Association
ART. Z. That the place where the
principle business of said Association is
Fort Pierce, County of st, Lucie, State
of Florida. And the annual meetings
of the members of this Association snail
convence at said place on the first Tues
day In May of each and every year, at
which time and place its Directors shall
be elected and indicted into Office.
ART. s. That each and every mem
Der of this Association shall place the
packing and handling of all citrus fruit
and such other produce as may be ham
died by this Association, and grown or
controlled by him, her or them, into
this Association, and that this Associa-
ton shall charge for the packing and
handling of such fruit and produce
such reasonable compensation as the
Board OF Directors of this Association
shall fix and determine. But any mem
Der of this Association shall have the
right to withdraw his fruit and produce
for any one year from said Association
without penalty by giving in writing to
said Association notice within the ten
DAYS next before the annual meeting OF
this Association that he desires to
draw his fruit or other produce from
the same but in that event, said mem
Der so giving said notice ceases to be a
member of said association and all
rights and privileges IN said association
belonging 10 said member shall there
upon cease and determine Provided,
however, and it is hereby agreed and
fully understood by all persons joining
this association, that any member OF the
same Withdrawing from this associa-
ton By disposing ot his fruit or produce
through any other source than through
this association, or Withholding the
same from this association, and without
giving the notice as heretofore pro-
yided, shall forfeit to this association
as and for liquidated damages to this
association Tor such withdrawal the
sum Of fifty cents per box for all citrus
fruit on other produce produced by him
during the year of said withdrawal and
so withdrawn by him. 1t is further
hereby understood and agreed that in
case any member of this association
who has withdrawn his fruit or produce
from this association, as above de-
scribed, afterwards wishes ID return
and reioin this association and exercise
the rights of a member that he maydo
so by and With the consent only OF q
majority OF the Board of Directors Of
this Association and upon his paying to
this Association all penalties that have
been assessed against him and not pre-
viously paid,
ART. 9. That the term for which
this Association shall exist is fifty (50)
years from and after date Of its incor-
poration.
ART. 10. That the officers of said
Association who shall transact is BUSH
ness, shall be board of Directors, a
President and Vice President, and
said President and ce-President, res
pectively, of said Board of Directors.
and each of them shall, at the time of
filling said Office, be member of this
Association, and director in the same.
And this Association shall also have
Secretary and Treasurer. bJth Of
which Offices may be filled by one and
the same person. And the number of
Directors OF this Association shall be
three, but the said Association, with,
out amendment of its charter, may, at
any time, by two-thirds vote of its
Directors, increase its directory, as
and may at any time, after so increas-
ing the same, and by similar vote Of
its directors, decrease its directory, as
said Directors shall see fit. But at no
ime shall the number of said Directors
be increased to number greater than
uine; aud at no time, shall the number
Of said Directors be decreased to less
number, than the original number of
directors hersin specified. That the
names and residences Of the growers
who are hereby appointed by the incor-