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Incorporation Book No 1 Page 135
Form 9              Letters Patent  ==
                    The State of Florida
To All Whom these presents Shall Come Greeting:
Whereas W.R. Thomas W.M. Dale and E.E. Voyle on the fifteenth
day of December A.D. 1904 filed in the Office of the Secretary of State
a proposed Charter of a corporation to be known as the
Gainesville Company with a Capital of Fifty Thousand ($50,000.00)
Dollars for the purpose of to deal in buy and sell mortgage and
lease real estate and personal property, subdivide and lay out tracts of
land and improve the Same conduct a Naval Stores business
lay out and operate Sewerage build and erect houses and
buildings of every description collect rents and act as agents for
parties owning lands or property advance and loan money on
lands or personal property subscribe for purchase receive
own hold sell and dispose of Stocks Shares bonds Securities or
obligations of other corporations wherever located being and Sell
lease own and use machinery and appliances Supplies and
personal property of whatever nature necessary for the
carrying on of the business and this corporation shall have
power generally to do and perform have hold acquire and
enjoy all other property powers and things as shall be incident
necessary or expedient for the conducting the necessary ope-
ration of the business and generally to be vested and have all
the powers granted or which may herafter be granted to
corporations for profit under the laws of the State of Florida
and have published due notice thereof and have otherwise
complied with the Statute 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 Gainesville Company 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 attested with the
Great Seal and signed and countersigned by the Governor and
Secretary of State of the State of Florida at Tallahassee the
Twelfth day of January  A.D. 1905.
                                         N.B. Broward
                    (Seal of)                 Governor
                    (the State)          H. Clay Crawford
                    (of Florida)              Secretary of State

                    =Notice of Incorporation=
Notice is hereby given that we the underigned intend
to apply to the Governor of the State of Florida for
Letters Patent to be issued to The Gainesville Company
a proposed corporation under the Laws of the State of
Florida of which company the following shall be the
Articles of incorporation.
This notice is given pursuant to the requirements of the
Transcribed by Sharon Wheeler 26 September 2010
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