The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-07-15
THE ARTICLES
INCORPORATE
Original Charter Granted The
Fort Pierce Improvement Club
AMENDMENT INCLUDED
Organiz alton Which Has Furnished Fort
Pierce an Opera House, Public Library
and an Amusement Hall


AT the request of stockholders we
publish below the original articles of
incorporation of the Fort Pierce I'm
provement club. The balance of the
stock is now offered for sale to free the
club of indebtedness.
|. The name of this corporation shall
be the Fort Pierce Improvement Club.
Its principal place of business shall be
the town of Fort Pierce, county of ST.
Lucie and State of Florida.
III. The general nature of the bust
ness to be transacted by this Corpor-
alton shall be as follows; To own, buy,
sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise con-
troll real estate; to own, buy, sell. mort
gage and manage and control or lease
personal property of any and all kinds;
to own and control public library; to
give public entertainments for stated
price Of admission and to sell refresh
ments and to serve meals for consid-
GRAFTON: to rent their hall property for
public amusements and entertainments
of all lawful kinds; to hold fairs and
bazaars and to profit thereby; to own
and control launches, row boats or
steamers and operate them for profit;
to preform any and all kinds of lawful
acts incident to the scope of an Improve
ment Club; to improve streets, parks
and public meeting places, in the town
of Fort Pierce; to render more attrac-
tive the town; to act in conjunction
with the town authorities in matters of
sidewalk improvements and the general
betterment of the town of Fort Pierce;
to do and perform all acts for the social
and literary advancement of the said
town and its inhabitants.
III. The Capital Stock of this Cor
poration shall be Four Thousand Dol
lars ga, OOW divided into Eight Hundred
Sharse of par value of S. each. All
shares of stock shall be paid for in cash.
w. This corporation shall have a
perpetual existence.
V. The business of this corporation
shall be conducted by President, Vice
President, a Secretary and Treasurer
and Board of five directors. The Of
ficers shall be elected at the annual
meeting of the Corporation, held at the
place of business on the last Monday in
June of each year and shall serve till
their successors are elected and quail
fed.
vi. The highest amount of indebt-
edness to which this corporation can at
any time subject itself shall be SO, 900.
VII. This corporation shall have full
power to make necessary bylaws.
VIII. The name and residence of
some of the subscribers to the stock
shall be as follows: Lizzie B. mccarthy.
Eldred, Florida, 5 shares; Grace P. HOr-
ton, Fort Pierce, Fla. 5 shares; Beatrice
Middlebrooks, Fort Pierce, Florida, 3
shares; Cora H. Dittmar, Fort Pierce,
Fla, 2 shares; Diza Saunders, Fort
Pierce, Fla, share; Minnie Milton,
Fort Pierce, Fla, share: Daisy F.
Horton, Fort Pierce, Florida, share;
Lorena Faber, Fort Pierce. Fla share.
AMENDMENT
Whereas, 1t appears that the Fort
Pierce Improvement Club, a corpor-
alton existing under the laws of the
State of Florida, by vote of more
than three fourths of all its stock at
meeting held for that purpose on the
twenty-fifth day of June, A. d 1906,
adopted a proposed amendment Of its
charter, as follows:
Resolved, That Article of the char.
ter be amended to read as follows:
Article 3
"The capital stock of this corpor-
alton shall be Four Thousand Dollars
ga, O0W, divided into four hundred (400)
shares of par value of Ten Dollars
(SlO) each. All shares of stock shall
be paid for in cash. V
And, Whereas, a certificate under
the common seal of the corporation of
the said proposed amendment, adopted
as aforesaid, was duly filed in the Of
flee of the Secretary Of State, and due
notice and publication thereof have
been made in proper form. and it ap.
pearing that the proposed amendment
will be beneficial and lawful and not
injurious to the community, and is in
accord with the purposes of the char
ter, the same is therefor approved.
Whereupon, the State of Florida
hereby grants unto the said Fort Pierce
Improvement club full authority to
exercise the powers and privileges of
such corporation under and in accord
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