The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-06-09

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l. v. HYSAk.
]. L. sAULs.
/ {. w. THOMSON.
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF
PENIRsULAR INVESTMENT CORPORATION
The undersigned and their associates here
by associate themselves together as a body
corporate under and in virtue Of the laws OF
the State Of Florida governing general cor
porations and do adopt the following ar
ticles Of Incorporation:
ARTICLE
The name Of the corporation Is PENINsU-
LAR INVESTMENT CORPORATION. and It's
principal place Of business shall be In the
City Of Lakeland, Florida, and II shall have
offices in In such other places as the busi-
ness Of the corporation shall require. TO b
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 u
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
soever 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
ano 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
in juices and extracts and other food proc
ucts 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-woTks, Ice plants
cold storage plants and refrigerator plants, Tor
public and private use; to acquire, construct
maintain and operate, irrigating plants, heat
ing plants rice mills, oil mills, sugar mills,
fiber factories, fruit and vegetable canneries
and factories, ana deal in the products there
fof TO dig, mine quarry, dredge and remove,
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 trace
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 MAIN
tain ana operate, a tramway or tramways,
railway or railways, vessels or other means
of navigation, and any other manner OF
Transportation necessary convenient for tho
efYectuation Of the purposes Of this corpora
ton, but not for public use.
To establish, maintain and operate, In any
state or country, plant or plants Tor the
transformation Of insoluble 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 acquire 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 ell other prop
erty, real or personal, necessary cr 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
poration carrying on any business which the
company is authorized to carry on, and to
issue paid up shares or bonds or both for the
payment Of the purchase price thereof: and
to subscribe TO, buy and In any manner ac-
quire. or hold and own, to trade, transfer,
sell and in any manner dispose of, stock in
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
per; TO cover assets or any operation OF the
corporation by a mortgage, and issue bonds
against the same Of character and denomi-
nation TO be determined by the board Of d.
rectors.
To sell, improve, manage. develop, exchange,
lease. dispose Of, turn to account, or other
wise deal with all or any part Of the property
and rights Of the corporation
To sell, improve, manage, develop, ex-
change, lease. dispose Of, turn to account, or
otherwise deal with real and personal prop
erty for others as agent
To invest or hold as trustee, or otherwise,
money.
To do all or any Of the above things as
principal, agent, contractor or otherwise, and
either alone or In conjunction with others
Notwithstanding the foregoing and without
limiting or effecting the scope thereof, to do
all matters and things and carry on all busi-
ness which may in any way now from the
lobiects for which Incorporation is sought, or
which may be necessary, convenient or al
vantageous to do or perform with a view to
varying on or enlarging the scope and in
tentions Of the company
ARTICLE III
The authorized capital OF this corporation
shall be two million dollars, divided into
twenty thousand shares Of the par value Of
one hundred dollars each;
The capital stock shall be paid in cash
property. labor or services, or by either or
any, al a Just valuation to be fixed by the in
Icorporators or by the board Of directors at a
meeting called for such purposes. Property,
labor or services may be also paid for with
capital stock at q Just valuation Of such
property, labor or services. to be nxed by the
board Of directors at a meeting called for
such purposes
| The capital stock Of this corporation may
at any time hereafter be increased or de-
creased as provided by the laws Of the State
Of Florida.
ARTICLE "
The period OF corporate existence shall be
perpetual and unlimited.
ARTICLE
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