The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-07-10
NOTICE OF INCORPORATION.

NOTICE OF INCORPORATION.
Notice is hereby given that we, the
undersigned, intend to apply TO the
Honorable Park Trammell, governor
of the State of Florida at Tallahassee
Florida, on the 3Oth day of July, A. D.
1918, for letters patent, Incorporating
The Tampa, Charlotte Harbor and
East Coast Railroad company, under
the following proposed charter, the
original of which Is now on file In the
Office of the secretary Of state OF the
State of Florida.
This notice is given In pursuance OF
section 2649 of the general statutes
of the State Of Florida.
w. ]. EPPERSON,
w. J. BOILING,
T. C. McEACHIN.
PROPOSED CHARTER OF THE
TAMPA, CHARLOTTE'S HARBOR
AND EAST COAST RAILROAD
COMPANY.
The undersigned, William ]. Epper-
son of Bronson, Levy county, Florida !;
w. J. Boiling of St. Louis, State OF
Missouri, and Thomas G. McEachin
of Meredith, in Levy county, Florida,
and their associates, successors and
assigns, hereby associate themselves
together for the purpose Of becom-
ing incorporated and forming a cor
poration and making themselves a
body polite under and by virtue Of
the laws of the State of Florida, with
and under the following charter:
~
The name of this corporation shall
be the Tampa, Charlotte Harbor and
East Coast Railroad company, and
its business shall be carried on in the
State of Florida, and such other states
and foreign countries as shall be de-
manded or expedient.
The principal place of business Of
said corporation shall be in the town
.of Bronson, in Levy county, Florida,
until otherwise ordered by the prop
er officers of this corporation.
The general nature of the business
to be carried on and transacted by
the said undersigned, their associates,
successors and assigns, shall be to
build, construct, maintain, manage
and operate and equip one main line
of railroad, as follows, to-wit: Be-
ginning at or near the City of Tampa
in Hillsborough county, Florida, and
County of Polk or Manatee, and
Soto and Lee and through the County
of Palm Beach or st. Lucie in the
State Of Florida, to some point on the
East Coast of Florida, between Indian
River inlet and Lake Worth, dis
lance of approximately 100 miles and
a certain branch line from some point
ON the main line of said the Tampa,
Charlotte Harbor and East Coast
Railroad company, via Charlotte Har-
Dor in DeSoto County, Florida to
Venice in Manatee county, Florida,
and such other branch line or lines
as may be determined upon by the Of
ficers and board Of directors of said |
corporation from time to time, ex-
tending from some point on the main |
line of said The Tampa, Charlotte |
Harbor and East Coast Railroad COM
pany through the counties of Mana
tee, DeSoto and Lee, in the State Of |
Florida, and the said corporation
shall have the right to construct and
maintain such side tracks, spurs, Of
fees, shops, stations, warehouses;
wharves, bridges and buildings as may
be needed for the operation of the
said main line of railroad and its
branches. That the guage of said
railroad and it's branches shall be
standard
That the said incorporators and
their associates, successors and as
signs may by such name sue and be
sued, plead and be implicated, and be
authorized to adopt and use a cor
porate seal, and change the same at
It's pleasure; to purchase, receive, re-
tain and enjoy lands and tenements,
goods, chattels and eff 6
'ects, chooses in action and posses
sion; to purchase the stock in other
corporations and hold and control the !
same and to do all other things neces-
'ary for the full exercise of the |
lights and privileges herein granted; I
IND TO sell, alien, convey, mortgage u
md dispose OF the same; to adopt and L
o establish such bylaws as may be
necessary for the government of said .
corporation, and generally to do and i
o perform all acts and things neces- O
airy to carry into effect fully the OBJ n
ects of this incorporation. T
That the said corporation shall S
ave the right of way and privilege to 0
onstruct and complete a railroad for Il
he transportation of passengers and t
IL kinds Of freight, together with . 9
elegraph or telephone line, or both II
UGH telegraph or telephone line or b
ines along the line of said railroad
nd its branches and to this end shall e
ave the right to enter upon any a
ands along the line of it's said rail G.
Dad or its branches and appropriate r
he same for its right of way to the 2
xtent of two hundred feet in width 5
r less, and to construct its said line a
railroad and its branches there
pom; and for the purpose of cutting IL