Notice of Incorporation
To Whom it May Concern:
                    Notice is hereby given that on the 3rd
day of January  A.D.  1906, application will be made to his
Excellency N.B. Broward, Governor of the State of Florida for
Letters Patent for the organization of a corporation, known
as the Crescent Manufacturing Company, with its princpal
office at Gainesville, in Alachua County, Florida.  We submit
herewith the proposed charter of the said corporation
     This 1st day of December,  A.D.  1905.
                    L.J. Clyatt,
                    J.B. McDonald
                    L.B. McDonald,
                    W.W. Hampton
                    B.F. Hampton
                    F.W. Shands
                    Antoine Paul

Proposed Charter of the Crescent Manufacturing Com-
pany.
     The parties whose names are signed hereto have,
and do hereby form and organize themselves into a cor-
poration under and pursuant to the laws of the State
of Florida; and submit these Articles of Incorporation.
                    Article I.
    The name of this corporation shall be The Crescent
Manufacturing Company.  The principal office of said
corporation shall be at Gainesville, in Alachua County
Florida.  This corporation shall have the right to es-
tablish other places of business within the State, where
it may secure property, or desire to conduct business.
                    Article II.
     The nature of the business to be transacted by
this corporation shall be to buy, hold, and sell real
estate, and personal property; to buy and sell tim-
ber, and timbered lands; and naval stores; to man-
ufacture, deal in, and sell naval stores, lumber and
lumber supplies, and to deal generally in naval stores,
and to conduct a mercantile business in connection
therewith; and when necessary for the purposes of
the corporation it may build, equip and operate
railroads, may dig canals, may equip and op-
erate steamboats, and other means of transpor-
tation, neither of which shall be used as a com-
mon carrier.
                    Article III.
     The capital stock of this corporation shall be
Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) to be divided
into five hundred shares of the par value of One
Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per share.  One hundred
and fifty shares shall be issued at once to the