The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30

will apply to the Honorable Park N. Tram
nell. Governor Of the State OF Florida, on the
NINTH DAY OF DECEMBER, A. D. 1915
tor Letters Patent Of the Interstate Land ant
H., estment Company
N. AGRESS
BERT E. BETS
J. J. HALDEMAN
VIM. H. SMITH
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE
INTERSTATE LAND AND INVEST
MENT COMPANY.
ARTICLE !.
The undersigned and their associates hereby
associate themselves together, as a body cor
porate under and in virtue Of the laws Of the
State OF Florida governing general corpora
tions, and do adopt the following articles Of
ARTICLE II.
The name of the corporation IS
INTERSTATE LAND AND INVESTMENT
business shall be in the city of LAKELAND
County Of Polk, State Of Florida; and it shall
have offices in such other places as the bus
mess Of The corporation may require, to be
determined by act Of the board Of directors.
and thereafter appropriately made Of record.
ARTICLE III.
The general nature Of the business or busi-
nesSes Of the corpoDtion shall be, and it
To acquire by purchase, lease or otherwise,
and to sell. mortgage or dispose Of in any
proper way. lands in the State OF Florida, or
other states Of the United States. To quarry.
mine and market minerals Of every kind and
character. To acquire by purchase, lease or
otherwise own, build and maintain, town sites
and towns. To buy and sell all kinds Of
goods and merchandise, either as principal
or agent To acquire. by purchase lease or
otherwise own and operate saw mills, plan
mi tr1rr pxtlIn
ducts thereof. To buy, sell and deal in ores
ana minerals, plants, machinery, tools, i'm
PIGMENTS, groceries. provisions, clothing, boots
and shoes. furnishing articles, hardware wood
en- and metallic ware, with all other articles
and things in any wise required or capable Of
being used in connection with timber, mining,
quarrying or land operations and to make and
manufacture such articles when required To
construct. carry out maintain, improve. equip.
manage, control and superintend any roads,
ways, bridges, private railways. private tram
ways. reservoirs, power plants, water courses
aqueducts. wharves. piers. docks, bulkheads
furnaces, mills. crushing. concentrating and
smelling works. hydraulic works. factories
dwelling houses and warehouses: to purchase
vessels or other means Of TRANSPORTATION ex-
cept railroads tother than private railroads) |:
10 buy. lease. operate and maintain deli, cry
routes between points In Florida and to euuip
and operate the same as required for the uses
anu purposes or this company; and also to do
X,
quarrying and timber operations To manu-
lacture, purchase, otherwise acquire to
hold, own. mortgage, pledge, sell, assign and
transfer, lease. cucumber or otherwise dispose
o. invest trade. deal In and deal with goods,
wares and merchandise, chooses in action rights
|'accounts. personal property Of every class and
description, In any part Of the world TO ac-
quire the good will, rights. franchises, grants
and property, and to undertake the whole or
any part OF the assets and liabilities Of any
Hrm iufi
pay for the same in cash. stock of this COM
pany, bonds or otherwise To apply for Dur
chase or Otherwise dispose Of, to grant, license
| IN respect OF, or otherwise turn TO account any
and all inventions. improvements, processes,
chemical or mechanical combination and rights
used in connection with or secured under Let
tiers Patent. trade marks and copyrights Of The
United Statess8or Of tany all foreign coun-
| tries; and with the view to developing and
marketing OF the same. to carry on any bus
mess, wherher manufacturing or otherwise
| which the corporation may deem calculated d.
| rectly or indirectly, to efYectuate these OBJ
| jects
r. enter into. make, perform, and carry out
contracts OF every kind, with any person. firm,
association or corporation, municipality body
| polite. country, territory, state or govern
men. and without limit as to amount: to draw.
make. accept, endorse, discount, execute and
issue promissory notes drafts, bills Of ex-
change, warrants, bonds debentures and other
l u.
secured by mortgage or otherwise, as well as
to secure the same. by mortgage or otherwise.
50 far as NAV be permitted by the laws Of the
State Of Florida
To have one or more officers to carry on all
OF any part OF Its operations and businesses
and without restriction or limit as to the
amount. to the same extent as natural per.
sons might or could do TO purchase or other
wise acquire. to hold. own, improve, mortgage
cucumber sell, convey, lease, or otherwise dis
class and description, in any state, district,
territory n colony Of the United States and in
any foreign country or place.
70 purchase, hold and Reissue the shares
OF It's capital stock. as far authorized by
paw TO guarantee. purchase. sell. assigns,
transfer, mortgage pledge otherwise dispose
OF the shares OF the capital stock, or an,
pohds' securities or evidence Of Indebtedness
created by any other corporation or corpora
lions OF the State OF Florida, or any other
state. country. nation or government. and
while the owner Of said stock, to exercise ali
the rights. powers and privileges Of ownership
including the right to vote thereon; subject
however, to the laws Of the State Of Florida.
In general. to operate any business or en-.
terprise. and to carry on any other business in
connection herewith. whether manufacturing
lor otherwise. and with all the powers con.
ferred by the laws Of the State Of Florida upor
corporations
The authorized capital Of this corporation
shall be twenty-five thousand dollars t$a5..
900 00), divided into twenty Ave hundred
t250Ol shares of the par value of ten dollars
$u0o0) each. The capital stock shall BIZ
paid In In cash property, labor services, OIL
Dy either or any at just valuation to be
nxed by the incorporatOrs or by the board Of
directors. Properly. labor or services NAV be
also paid for with capital stock, at q Just
valuation OF such property, labor or services
to be fixed bv the board OF directors Of the
corporation. The capital stock Of this cor.
poration may at any time hereafter be in.
creased or decreased In accordance with The
laws OF the State 4 Florida
ARTICLE "
The period of tn, corporate existence shall
ARTICLE vi.
The affairs Of this corporation shall be con.
Quoted by board Il directors, a president. a
, vice president. secctary and treasurer
VINO shall be elected annually on the second
Tuesday In January & each year.
The Following pers,ns shall constitute the
board OF directors. to~it: NJ, Agrees. Bert E
he,rs. j. Haldemai and W. II. Smith
and the officers Of the corporation shall be A.
follows
Presidential Agrees
vice-president and g,neral manager J. ]
Haldeman.
Secretary-Bert r Bets
Treasurer-wm. H. Smith
pending or until the rsCuar election OF dI.
rectors by the stockholders. which said regu
lar election shall be held on the second Tines
day in January in each nd every year.
ARTICLE VII.
The highest amount OF Indebtedness or LA
bility which this corporation can at any tim,
subject itself to, shall he Ave hundred thous
and dollars
ARTICLE VII.
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