The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-04-04
OF INCORPORATION OF
MATHIS MERCANTILE COMPANY.
Article l.

| ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF
| MATHIS MERCANTILE COMPANY.
| Article l.
The name of this corporation shall
| be Mathis Mercantile Company, and its
| office and principal place of business
| shall be in the town of Crescent CITY,
IN the County of Putnam and State of
| Florida.
The general nature Of the business
to be transacted by this corporation
shall be as follows:
To acquire, buy, own, hold and sell
goods, wares, and merchandise and to
conduct general mercantile business,
and have the right to buy, hold, con-
Ney or mortgage such personal or real
estate as the purposes or the corpora
ton shall require; also to take, hold
and convey such other real and per-
sonal property as shall be necessary
for the corporation to acquire in Or
der to secure the payment of any in
debtedness or liability to it.
Article 3.
The amount of the capital stock of
this corporation shall be Ten Thousand
Dollars, which shall be divided into one
hundred shares of the par value of One
Hundred Dollars each. All payments
for the capital stock of this corpora
ton shall be made in lawful money of
the United States of America, provided
however, that payments for said capt.
tai stock, OF: any portion thereof, may
be made in property, labor or services
at just valuation to be fixed by the
directors of this corporation at a meet
ing called for such purpose.
The term for which this corporation
shall exist shall be Twenty-Five Years
Article 3.
The business of this corporation shall
be conducted by the following officers,
tO-wit:
A President, Vice President, and
treasurer, and Board of Directors.
The officers of this corporation shall
hold office for term of one year from
the date of election or until their sue
cesSors are elected and qualified, and
shall be elected at it's regular annual
stockholders meeting which shall be
held in the office of this corporation at
Crescent city, Florida, on the first
Monday in July of each year at the
hour of ten o'clock.
The incOrporatOrs and stockholders
shall meet at the office of the corpora
ton in the town of Crescent City on
the first Monday in May, 1913, at II
o'clock, a. M, for the purpose of adopt
ing bylaws and transacting any othel
business which may come before the
stockholders meeting.
Until the officers elected at the first
annual meeting shall be qualified, the
business shall be conducted by the fol-
lowing officers:
e. L. Mathis, President; ]. H. Mathis
Vice President; Mary S Mathis, Treas
urer; board of directors, Il. L. Mathis
J. H. Mathis and Mary S. Mathis.
Article q.
The highest amount of indebtedness
or liability to which this corporation |
can, at any time, subject itself is Twen-
ty Thousand Dollars.
Article z.
The names and residences of the sub |
scribers to the foregoing articles OF |
Incorporation are as follows:
r. L. Mathis, Crescent City. Florida;
j. H. Mathis, Crescent City, Florida;
n x OF iC L
da.
We, the Undersigned subscribing in
'orporators do hereby subscribe fol
he amount of capital stock written tc
he right of and Immediately opposite
,ur respective signatures.
In witness whereof, we have here
INTO set our hands and subscribed our
names on the 18th day of March, 1913
e. L. Mathis, Sixty Shares.
I. H. Mathis, Five Shares.
Mary S. Mathis. Thirty-Five Shares.
'TATE OF FLORIDA,
County of Putnam.
Personally appeared before me, an
hicer duly authorized to take ac-
nowledgements of deeds, e. L. Mathis
:. II. Mathis, and Mary S. Mathis, each
+ whom is to me well known, and
ames are signed to the foregoing in
trument as subscribers for the amount
T capital stock of Mathis Mercantile |
company, written to the right of and
ignatures, and each of whom ac-
nowledped before me that he signed !
nd executed each for himself the !
lregOing instrument for the purpose :
lerein expressed; that he has sub +
ribbed the amount of capital stock in :
aid corporation so written to the
"ht of and Immediately opposite his
anne; and that the name so written is q
Is or her signature. L
In witness whereof, I have hereuntO +
t my hand and official seal, at Cres- .
mt City, Florida, this Gath day OF 5
arch, 1913.
(SeaL) PAUL C. SMITH, r.
Notary Public, State of Florida. :
commission expires September s