The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-29

apply to the lionOfaDle -Aiptil "
Gilchrist. Governor OF the State Of
Florida, at Tallahassee, Florida, on
the 10th day OF ..pril, 1912, for Let
tiers Patent on the proposed Charter
for the Chautauqua Auditorium Asso-
citation. hereto attached.
II. d. BASSETT.
s. +. SMITH,
l.. VI. FCTCh.
y. 4. HIGGINS.
l.. +. HENLEY.
lncOrpOrators.
Articles OF Incorporation for the
ChautauQua Auditorium
Association.
We, the undersigned persons, do
hereby associate ourselves together
for the purpose of forming a corpora
ton for profit under and by virtue OF
the laws of the State of Florida, and
do hereby adopt the following char
ter for the government OF said cor
poratiOn:
ARTICLE ONE.
Name and Location: The name Of
this corporation shall be"Chautauqua
auditorium Association, and tn
principal place of business Of said
corporation shall be at Lakeland, in
the county of Polk ard in the State
Of Florida; but the Corporation shall
have the right to establish branch
Offices as desired n the State Of
Florida or in other States Of the
United States or in Foreign coun-
tries.
ARTICLE TWO.
Nature of Business: The general
nature of the business to be transact
cd by said corporation shall be: To
buy, hold, sell, barter. mortgage,
lease, rent, real estate and personal
property and mixed property; to
build or to have built, auditOriums
and other play houses and other
houses and buildings; to erect play
grounds, parks, boating and bathing
houses and other places of amuse-
mcnt; to operate auditoriums and
other play houses for hire or other
wise, for chautauqua or other pur-
poses of amusement, education or
religion; to operate public parks,
grounds. boating and bathing houses,
for hire; to operate young mems
Christian Associations; to borrow or
to loan money; to buy or to sell
mortgages and to deal in securities
of all kinds; and to do any and all
things necessary for the proper con-
duct of the foregoing enumerated
businesses.
ARTICLE THREE.
Capital Stock: The capital stock
of the corporation shall be twenty
Thousand Dollars $50, 600. OO) TO be
divided into shares to the number of
four hundred (iOO). of the par value
of fifty dollars ($5O.OO), each. to be
paid In money or in property to be
used in the conduct of said corpora
ton. just valuation of said prop
crty to be agreed upon by the incor-
porators at meeting called for that
purpose. Said corporation shall have
the right to increase its capital
stock to Fifty Thousand Dollars
$50. 900 900. the par value of which
shares shall be Fifty Dollars ($5O.O0)
each.
ARTICLE FOUR.
Term of Exhistence: This cor
poration shall continue for a term of
n!nety-nine years (99), unless sooner
dissolved according to law.
ARTICLE FIVE.
Officers: The officers of this cor.
pOration shall be a President, a Vice.
President, a Secretary, a Treasurer,
and such other officers as the said
corporation may choose; the Secre-
tary and Treasurer may be one or
two persons: Board of Directors
that may consist Of any odd number
OF persons, not less than three nor
more than twenty-one, as the stock
holders may decide at their annual
meetings, which shall be held at nine
o'clock. a. m, at the principal ONCE
OF the corporation, on the frst Tues
day In March each year, unless
changed BY the bylaws Of the cor
poration. which may be done.
In the election Of officers each
stakeholder shall be entitled to one
vote for each share Of stock owned
by him at the time Of said election,
and said votes may be cast In per.
son or by proxy evidenced by writ
ten authority signed by the owner
OF the stock so desired to be voted.
No person who IL not q bona fide
stockholder shall be eligible to hold
any ONCE In the corporation.
Until the officers shall be chosen
at the first annual meeting and quail.
led. the business Of this corporation
shall be conducted by the following
Ohicers, to-wit:
II. d. Bassett shall be president.
s. F. Smith shall Be the vice-Presi.
dent.
L. NJ. Ntch shall be the Secretary
and Treasurer.
II. d. Bassett. 8. F. Smith. l.. NJ.
Futch, n. A. Higgins and L. F. Hen.
ley shall constitute the Board of Di-
rectors.
Any such other officers as the
shall elect. or the Board |
Of Directors shall appoint.
ARTICLE SIX.
Limit Of Liability: The highest
amount of liability or Indebtedness