The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-06-12

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE UN-
DERSIGNED WILL APPLY TO THE HON.
0RABLE PARK NJ. TkAMMELL. COVER
NOR OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA. ON
THE TwENTY-F0URTH DAY or JUNE. A.
D. 1916, FOR LETTERS PATENT or
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ARTICLES OF incorporation OF
PENlNSULAR 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
tcles Of Incorporation:
ARTICLE
The name OF the corporation is PENINSU-
LAR INVESTMENT CORPORATION, and its
principal place of business shall be in the
City Of Lakeland. Florida and 1t 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 bust
nesses Of the corporation shall be, and II
shall have the powers following, to-wit:
To deal In, import, export, purchase, manu-
facture, acquire, sell, mine, quarry. concen-
trate, smeit, 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
sand operate, groves orchards, farms and gar
dens 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 works, ice plants.
cold storage plants and refrigerator plants, for
public and private use; to acquire, construct,
maintain and operate, irrlgating plants, heat
ling" plants. rice mills, oil mills, sugar mills,
fiber factories, fruit and vegetable canneries
and factories, ana deal In the products there
Of to dig, mine. quarry, dredge and remove
phosphate rock, soft phosphate or pebble phos.
Ephate, 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 OIL
any other manner Of transaction. and to main.
tain and operate, a tramway or tramways
railway or railways, vessels or other means
Of navigation, and any other manner Of
transportation necessary or convenient for tia
effectuation 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 for th'
transformation Of inaoluble phosphate into
soluble phosphate, and the union Of phos
phate with any other element or elements, Of
lcombination Of elements. where admission
may properly be had under the laws Of sucf
state or country.
To acquire by purchase, concession, ex
lchange, lease or otherwise, and TO construct
erect operate. hold, maintain and manage, al
offices, warehouses, elevators, factories, stores
shops mills, machine shops, power plants, lie
pots, wharves, boats, vessels. rolling stock
hotels, lodging houses, houses Ct amusement
lcommissaries, and any other structures anS
directions necessary or convenient for the car
lrying on Of Its business, and ell other prop
Ierty, real or personal necessary CT useful 10
the carrying on Of any Of the purposes Of III
corporation, and to lease. sell or oSherwis
dispose Of the same.
To acquire or undertake the whole or an!
part Of the business. property, liabilities O
assets Of any individual, partnership or cor
,porstion carrying on any business which III
company is authorized to carry on. and L
issue paid up shares or bonds or both for III
payment Of the purchase price thereof; an
to subscribe to, buy and in any manner &C
quire, or hold and own, TO trade, transfer
sell and in any manner dispose Of, stock 4
other corporations bonds. mortgages, or o;hc
manner Of securities.
To receive and hold franchises for any pur
ipose.
To invest, pledge, cucumber or mortgage
real or personal property held In any man