The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-04-18
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF
MATHIS MERCANTILE COMPANY.

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATED OF
MATHIS MERCANTILE COMPANY.
Article 1.
The name of this corporation shall
be Mathis Mercantile Company, and it's
office and principal place of business
shall be in the town of Crescent City,
IN the County of Putnam and State of
Florida.
Article ..
The general nature of the business
to be transacted by this corporation
shall he as follows:
To acquire, buy, own, hold and sell
goods, wares, and merchandise and to
conduct a general mercantile business,
and have the right to buy, hold, con-
vey or mort sage 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-
sonaI property as shall be necessary
for the corporation to acquire in or
der to secure the payment of any in
debtcdness 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
ton shall be made in lawful money of
the United States of America, provided,
however, that payments for said capt.
tai stock, or any portion thereof, may
at a just valuation to be fixed by the
directors of this corporation at meet
ing called for such purpose.
The term for which this corporation
shall exist shall be Twenty Five Years.
Article ;.
The business of this corporation shall
be conducted by the following officers,
A president, Vice President, and
Treasurer, and Board of Directors.
The officers of this corporation shall
hold office for a term of one year from
the date of election or until their sue
cessOrs are elected and qualified, and
shall be elected at its regular annual
stockholders meeting which shall be
held in the e, office =, OF this corporation at
Monday in July of each year at the
| hour of ten o'clock.
The inCorpuratOrs 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 10
o'clock, a. m, for the purpose of adopt
| ing bylaws and transacting any other
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:
| Vice President; Mary S. Mathis, Treas
urer: a board of directors. Z. l.. Mathis
J. II. 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 TWEEN
ty Thousand Dollars.
Article Z.
! The names and residences of the sub
! scribers to the foregoing articles OF
| Incorporate ton are as follows:
! f. l.. Mathis, Crescent City, Florida
J. H. Mathis. Crescent City, Florida;
Mary 5. Mathis Crescent City, Flor
We. the undersigned subscribing in
| cOrpuratOrs, do hereby subscribe fol
| the amount of capital stock written t
! the right of and Immediately opposite
| our respective signatures.
| In witness whereof, we have here
unto set our hands and subscribed oul
names on the 18th day of March, 1913
F. l.. Mathis, Sixty Shares.
]. II. Mathis, Five Shares.
Mary 5. Mathis, ThirtyFi Shares
! STATE OF FLORIDA,
County of Putnam.
| Personally appeared before me, al
officer duly authorized to take &C
! acknowledgements of deeds, Z. l.. Mathis
]. II. Mathis, and Mary s Mathis eacl
| Of whom is to me well known, an'
known by me to be the persons, who's
names are signed to the foregoing in
| strument as subscribers for the amour
| of capital stock of Mathis Mercantile
| Company. written to the right of an'
! Immediately opposite their respective
signatures, and each of whom &C
| knowledpod before me that he signeC
| and executed each for himself, tbs
| foregoing instrument for the purpost
therein expressed; that he has sub
scribed the amount of capital stock II
| said corporation so written to thu
right of and Immediately opposite hi
name; and that the name SO written Il
his or her signature.
| In witness whereof, l have hereunti
set my hand and official seal, at Ores
| cent City, Florida, this Gath day o
| March. 1913.
| (Seal) PAUL c. SMITH.
Notary Public, State OF Florida
Y commission expires Septembe