State of Michigan     }ss
Department of State   }     I Jos W. Selden Deputy Secretary of State of the
State of Michigan do hereby certify That the foregoing Notice was
received for record in this office on the 24th day of May  A.D.  1897
and is recorded in Record of Articles of Association No 32 on page
234
     In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
     affixed the Great Seal of the State of Michigan at
     Lansing this 25th day of May  A.D.  1897
(Seal)               Jos W. Selden
                          Deputy Secretary of State
     Filed May 21st  1904     Recorded May 28  1904
                          H.C. Denton     Clerk
                          pr S.H. Wienges  D.C. 

Form 9
     Letters Patent
                        The State of Florida
To all whom these presents shall Come -- Greeting:
     Whereas F.E. Williams, C.A. Williams, L.N. Pearce,
J.C. Bishop and A.R. Williams, on the 27th day of
August  A.D.  1904, filed in the office of the Secretary
of State a proposed Charter of a Corporation to be
Known as The Bank of Alachua with a Capital of
Twenty Five Thousand ($25,000.00) Dollars for the pur-
pose of a general banking business: the discounting
and Negotiating of promissory Notes, drafts, bills of
exchange and other evidences of debt; receiving deposits
buying and selling exchange, coin and bullion;
loaning money on personal and real security; to hold,
purchase and Convey real estate for all purposes
now or hereafter to be allowed by law, and generally
to do all things necessary and proper for Carrying on
said business, and for these purposes to have and
possess all the rights benefits, privileges and immunities
incident to, and given under the laws of this state to
be a Corporation of such character.  And have published
due notice thereof, and have otherwise Complied with
the Statutes in such Case made and provided.
     Therefore the State of Florida hereby incorporates the
above named persons, their associates and successors
into a body politic and corporate in deed and in law
by and under the said name of the Bank of Alachua,
and grants unto them full authority to exercise
the powers and privileges of a Corporation for the purpose
above stated, in accordance with their said charter
and the laws of this state.
                    In Witness whereof These presents have been
(Seal of the State) been attested with the great Seal and signed and Counter-
(of)                signed by the Governor and Secretary of State
(Florida)           of the State of Florida at Tallahassee, the