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State of Florida          } ss
Office Secretary State    } 
     I, H. Clay Crawford, Secretary of State of the
State of Florida, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true and correct copy of the charter of the National Odd Fel-
lows Sanitarium Association, as filed in this office and
recorded in Book No. 17, Articles of Incorporation, on pages
638-641.
Given under my hand, and the Great Seal of the State
of Florida, at Tallahassee, the Capital, this the eighteenth
day of November  A.D.  1908.
                    H. Clay Crawford
     (seal)              Secretary of State

State of Florida     }
County of Alachua    }     Before me personally came J.
Harrison Hodges, to me well known and who be-
ing by me first duly sworn, deposes and says that
he is the Secrtary and Treasurer of the National Odd
Fellows Sanitarium Association, and that $1000.00 said
amount being 10% of the Capital stock of said corpora-
tion, has been subscribed for and paid into the treasury
of the said National Odd Fellows Sanitarium Association
the capital stock of said Corporation being $10,000.00
Sworn to and subscribed before,     }
this --- day of November,  A.D.     }  J. Harrison Hodges.
1908.                               }
          Chris Matheson.           }
(seal)    Notary Public             }
          My commission expires     }
          Dec.  30,  1911           }
Filed Nov. 23,  1908.     Recorded Nov. 2,  1908.
          S.H. Wienges,     Clerk


                    Letters Patent
          The State of Florida
To All Whom These Presents Shall come = Greeting:
Whereas T.S. McManus, E.A. Turner and A. Turner on
the fifth day of November  A.D.  1908, filed in the office of
the Secretary of State a proposed charter of a corporation to be
known as The El Tony Cigar Company with a capital of
Five Thousand ($5,000.00) dollars, for the purpose of a dealer
in and manufacturer of cigars, cheroots, smoking tobacco, chew-
ing tobacco, cigarettes; the dealing in goods, wares, merchandise
of any nature and character whatsoever; to buy and deal in
buildings, to rent same, to receive the profits thereof, and to
do any and all the other acts and things which a corpora-
tion of like nature and character could lawfully do.
and have published due notice thereof, and have other-
wise complied with the statute in such case made and
Transcribed by Sharon Wheeler 7 December 2010
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