The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-06-15

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE Uh-
DERsleNED WILL APPLY TO THE HON
oRABLE PARK N. TKAMMELL. COVER
NOR OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, ON
THE TwENTY-FOURTH DAY OF JUNE, A.
D. 1916. FOR LETTERS PATENT OF
"PENINSULAR INVESTMENT CORPORA
TON"
W. scHMIDTMANN
1. v. HYsAN.
~ J. L. SAULS.
& W. THOMSON.
ARTICLES or INCORPORATION OF
PENlNsULAR INVESTMENT Corporation
The undersigned and their associates here
by associate themselves together as body
corporate under and In virtue of the laws OF
the State Of Florida governing general cor
poratIons, and do adopt the following ar
tIces of incorporation:
ARTICLE l
The name Of the corporation is PENlNSU-
LAR INVESTMENT CORPORATION, and Its
principal place Of business shall be In he
City Of Lakeland, Florida, and II shall have
Offices in in such other places as the busi-
ness Of the corporation shall require, to be
determined by act Of the board Of directors
and thereafter appropriately made OF record.
ARTICLE II
The general nature OF the business or busi-
nesses Of the corporation shall be. and 1t
shall have the powers following, to-wit:
To deal In. import, export, purchase, manu-
facture, acquire, sell, mine. quarry, concen-
trate, smelt, reduce, distill, treat extract, re-
fine, prepare or produce In any manner what
soeyer, by any process whatever, any sub
stance whatever, simple, complex, compound,
whether mineral, animal. vegetable, metallic,
wooden, chemical, or in any physical condi-
ton. solid, liquid or gaseous;
To acquire, own, plant and operate. nurs-
cries for the propagation and sale of trees,
plants and shrubs; to acquire, own, maintain
,and operate, groves, orchards, farms and gar
Sens for the growing and sale Of agricultural,
horticultural and floral products; to manufac-
ture, buy and sell, lumber, lathes, shingles,
barrels. boxes and crates. and barrel, box,
crate and building material fertilizer and
fertilizer materials; to manufacture and trade
dn juices and extracts and other food prod
,icts from fruits and vegetables; to manu-
facture, buy, sell, erect and construct ma
chimes and machinery; TO acquire, construct,
maintain and operate, electric light and power
plants, gas plants, water-works, Ice plants,
cold storage plants and refrigerator plants, for
public and private use; to acquire, construct,
maintain and operate, irrigating plants, heat
ling plants, rice mills, oil mills, sugar mills,
fiber factories, fruit and vegetable canneries
and factories, ana deal In the products there
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phosphate rock, soft phosphate or pebble phos-
phate, earths, clays, marls. rock, gravel, min
eral, oils and other clay, fertilizer, paint, oil,
or mineral bearing substances, and TO trade
therein, and to manufacture and trade In
products therefrom; and to trade in general
merchandise.
To establish, by purchase. lease. charter or
any other manner Of transaction, and to maln-
tain and operate. tramway or uamways'
railway or railways, vessels or other means
Of navigation, and any other manner OF
transportation necessary or convenient Tor the
eRectuation Of the purposes Of this corpora
ton, but not for public use.
To establish, maintain and operate, In any
state or country, q plant or plants Tor the
transformation Of inaoluble phosphate into
soluble phosphate, and the union OF phoS-
phate with any other element or elements, or
combination Of elements, where admission
may properly be had under the laws Of such
state or country.
To Qequire by purchase, concession. ex-
change. lease or otherwise. and to construct,
erect operate, hold. maintain and manage, all
offices. warehouses, elevators, factories stores.
shops mills, machine shops, power plants. de-
pots wharves, boats, vessels. rolling stock,
hotels, lodging houses, houses Ct amusement.
commissaries, and any other structures and
erections necessary or convenient for the car
rying on Of Its business, and Gil other prop
erty, real or personal. necessary CT useful for
the carrying on Of any Of the purposes OF the
corporation, and TO lease. sell or Otherwise
dispose Of the same.
To acquire or undertake the whole or any
part Of the business. property, liabilities or
assets Of any Individual, partnership or cor
porstlon carrying on any business which the
company is authorized to carry on. and 10
issue paid up shares or bonds or both for the
payment OF the purchase price thereof; anc
TO subscribe to, buy and in any manner &C
uulre, or hold and own, to trade. transfer
sell and in any manner dispose OF, stock II
other corporations, bonds, mortgages, or other
manner Of securities.
To receive and hold franchises for any pur-
pose.
To invest. pledge, cucumber or mortgage,
real or personal property held in any man