Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1909-11-05


REPRESENTATIVES of fruit or produce
growers within the territory next adla-
/ cent TO the headquarters OF this Associ-
, tion. NAV become member Of this AS
sociation but this Association VIII not
at any time receive into its MEMBER
ship members of any kindred assocla'
tions whose fruit or produce lands are
: located nearer to such other kindred
association than they are to this asso'
citation, without the consent OF the as
, ISOLATION next adjacent to where sald
holdings are located.
ART. 6. Nothing in these Articles
shall be construed as TO interfere with
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 bis
name for any particular year for plac-
ing the crops then growing on his or
her land off the hands of the Assocla
tion, shall sell or dispose OF his lana In
good faith then and in that event the
said seller and purchaser are released,
if they 50 desire, from the obligations
of having fruit or produce grown upon
the land 50 sold marketed or handled
under the authority of this Association.
ART. I. That the place where the
principal business of said association Is
to be transacted is White City Railroad
Siding, St, Lucie county, State I
Florida And the annual meeting s
Of the members of this Association shall
convence at said place on the first Tues
day in May of each and every year, Al
which time and place its Directors shall
be elected and indicted into Office.
ART. 8. 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 han
died by this Association, and grown OF
controlled by him, her or them, into
his Association, and that this Associa-
lion shall charge for the packing and
handling of such fruit and produce
such reasonable com pehsation 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 10 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 10 that event, said men,
Der so giving said notice ceases to be d
member of said association and all
rights and privileges in said association
belonging to said member shall there |
upon cease and determine; Provided |
however, and it is hereby agreed ano |
fully understood by all persons joining |
this association, that any member OF the |
same withdrawing from this associa'
tion by disposing Of 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-
vided, 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 or other produce produced by him
during the year Of said withdrawal ano
so withdrawn by him. 1t is further
hereby understood and agreed that IN
case any member of this association
who has withdrawn his fruitor produce
from this association, as above de.
scribed, afterwards wishes to return
and reioin this association and exercise
the rights of member that he may de-
so by and with the consent only of a
majority of the Board of Directors oil
this Association and upon his paying to
this Association all penalties that have
been assessed against him and not pre-.
viousy 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. To- That the officers of said /
Association who shall transact Is bust
ness, shall be board of Directors, a
President and Vice-P President, and
said President and Vice-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, b 9TH 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, al
any time, by a two-thirds vote Of its
Directors, increase its directory, as
and may at any time, after so increas-
ing the same, and by a 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
nine; and at no time, shall the number
Of said Diractnre no daorao God m a taac
number, than the original number OF
directors hersin specified. That the
names and residences OF the growers
who are hereby appointed by the incor-
porators of this Association, and who
shall act IS directors to said Association
for the first years of its oxistense, and
until It's other directors are legally
elected and qualified are