Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State of
Florida, at Tallahassee the Capital this the Seventh day of
February  A.D.  1906.
     (State)        H. Clay Crawford
     (Fla. seal)         Secretary of State

State of Florida }
Alachua County   } Before me the undersigned authority
personally approved E.E. Voyle who being duly
Sworn says:  That he is the Treasurer of the Lennon
Land Company and that ten per cent of its Capital
Stock has been subscribed and paid.
Sworn to and subscribed before     }
me this 25th day of May  A.D.  1907  }  E.E. Voyle
     (seal)   S.H. Wienges         }
              Clerk Circuit Court  }

Filed May 25th 1907  Recorded May 29th  1907
              S.H. Wienges     Clerk
              By M.S. Cheves     D.C.

Letters Patent - State of Florida
     To all Whom these Presents shall come Greeting:
Whereas, S.D. Rice, L.G. Connell, L.E. Tucker, R.S. Hudson,
J.A. Beach and J.D. Turner, on the twenty-sixth day
of April, A.D., 1907, filed in the office of the Secretary
of State a proposed charter of a corporation to be
known as the
     Alachua Trading and Improvement Company
with a capital of one Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00)
Dollars, for the purpose of doing any or all of the
things herein set forth to the same extent as natural
persons might or could do, that is, to establish, conduct
and maintain a general trading, mercantile,
supply and manufacturing business; to buy, sell,
pledge, handle and deal in and deal with all
kinds of merchandise and personal property; to buy,
sell, purchase, acuire, hold, use, lease and mortgage,
real estate, city or town property or every kind or
description; to buy, sell, rent and lease houses and
other buildings and structures; to buy, build, rent
and lease hotels, stores, commissaries and to establish
and conduct the same, and carry on the business
of general merchants; to engage in and carry on
the business of supplying gas, both natural and
artificial for heat, light and power; to engage in 
and carry on the business of supplying water for
private and public use, and to have and hold
pipe lines and pumping stations for carrying on
said business; to engage in and carry on the
business of manufacturing ice and refrigeration
for public and private use; to engage in and
carry on the business of manufacturing and