The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-03-05

office at 10 o'clock a. H., March ),
1909, all members being present.
| The minutes Of the last meeting
| were read and approved.
The following protests against the
award OF the contract for lease OF
state prisoners to the Florida Pine
company, made at the boards last
meeting, were submitted:
Tallahassee, Fla, March ,.
| To the Honorable Board of Commits
| sioners of State Institutions, TaIla-
hassee, Fla.
Sirs: The Undersigned cambridge
Richardson & Company respectfully
represents unto your honOrs that they
were bidders for the lease of state
cOnvicts, in accordance with a notice
and schedule of requirements as pub
Hshed and furnished, said bid being
opened March 2, 1909, at 10 o'clock a.
NJ. 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 their said bid for
the lease of said convicts for the fix
ed sum of two hundred and seventy
five dollars ($275.00) per capita per
anuum.
That among the other bids fled and
opened at said letting their appeared.
a bid from the Florida Pine company,
corporation organized under the
laws Of the state of Delaware, and as
appears by the records in the Secre-
terry of States office as doing business
in the State of Florida, and that the
said bid of the Florida Pine company
was for the sum OF two hundred and
eighty-one dollars and sixty cents
(S281.60)-the said bid of the Florida
Pine company being the highest OF
the bids as received and opened at
said letting and the bid Of the under
signed being the second highest OF
said bids at said letting.
The undersigned further represents
unto your honors that at a meeting
of your said board of commissioners
the bid of the Florida Pine company,
as the undersigned are advised, was
received and accepted and the said
Florida Pine company were required
within twenty days to prepare and
present their contract and bond, in
accordance with the schedule of re-
Quirements furnished by your said
board of state institutions and your
board, as the undersigned are advised,
oroered the return of said cneck de
posted with the said board with said
BID.
The undersigned, therefore, hereby
protest against the entering into the
contract with the state of Florida by
the Florida Pine company on the
ground that as the undersigned are
entitled under the notice and seized
uIe of requirements to the right and
privilege of entering into contract
with the state of Florida for the lease
Of said convicts, they being the high
est and best bidders in accordance
with the rules and requirements OF
the said board of state institutions,
and the said Florida Pine company not
having qualified in accordance with
said requirements, and more particu-
laTly the undersigned protest against
a contract being made and entered
into between the state of Florida and
the said Florida Pine company upon
the following grounds. to-wit:
L The said Florida Pine company
is a foreign corporation, incorporated
under the laws of the state of Della
ware, by persons ali of whom except
one are alleged 10 be citizens of the
state of Florida, who were evidently
actuated in the organization Of said
under the laws Of a for
eign state by a desire to avoid the
liabilities which they would incur I'M
der the laws of the state Of Florida
and to avoid the liabilities which they
would incur under the laws of the
state of Florida made to protect per-
sons with whom they have dealings
in Florida.
2. Said corporation could not legal |
~ be a bidder under the terms and !
provisions Of the notice for the lease
of state conYicts and the schedule OF |
for tae lease Of state !
furnished by the commission
er of agriculture for the guidance OF |
and for other good and SUI |
ficient reasons apparent from a ref |
erence to the charter of the said Flor
IDA Pine company and the said notice |
and schedule of requirements for the /
lease of state cOnYicts.
Your petitioners therefore respect |
fully petitions that the bid Of the said |
Florida Pine company shall be reject |
ed and that contract snail be let 10 /
your petitioners as the highest and 1
best responsible bidder, in accordance I
with the notice and schedule of re 1
for the lease Of state con
victs. Respectfully submitted,
RICHARDSON & CO, |
BY Cromwell Gibbons, Attorney
Tallahassee, Fla, March 2
To the Honorable Board of Commits /
sioners Of State Institutions, and i
the Commissioner Of Agriculture OF 1
the State Of Florida, Tallahassee,
Fla.
Gentlemen: Your petitioners. Hen
- z. Pritchett and Thomas J. Pritcl- 4
etE. partners, doing business under the 4
firm name and style of Pritchett /
Brothers. of BrevaTd county. Florida.
respectfully represent TO YOU that 4
they were bidders for the lease of
state convicts and strictly complied 1
With the provisions OF the notice for 1