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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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P.H. Rolfs,     President.
Andrew Sledd,   Vice President
C.L. Crow,      Secretary and Treasurer; and
P.H. Rolfs, Andrew Sledd, and C.L. Crow as Directors
Such officers and directors shall be elected on the
first Tuesday in May in each year.
                    Article 6.
     The highest amount of indebtedness or liability
to which said corporation can at any time subject itself
is Eight Thousand ($8,000.00) Dollars.
                    Article 7.
     The said corporation shall adopt a corporate seal
and may adopt bylaws for the government of its
affairs not inconsistent with the articles of incorpora-
tion of the laws of the State of Florida and the said
bylaws may be amended or repealed and others
adopted from time to time as may be provided
in said bylaws.
                    Article 8.
     The names and residences of the incorporators of
said corporation, and its subscribers to stock thereof,
with the number of shares of its capital stock
subscribed for by each, are as follows:
P.H. Rolfs-       Gainesville,   Florida.     Ten shares.
C.L. Crow-        Gainesville,   Florida,     Ten shares.
John M. Scott-    Gainesville,   Florida.     Five shares.

State of Florida     }
County of Alachua    }     Personally appeared before me
P.H. Rolfs, C.L. Crow and John M. Scott to me well
known as the persons who executed the foregoing
Articles of Incorporation of the Orange Ridge Grove
Company, and who each severally and duly
acknowledged that he executed the same for
the purposes therein expressed.
     In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and official seal this twenty-second day
of January  A.D.  1910.
     (Seal)         K.H. Graham,
                    Notary Public, State of Florida at large
                    My commission expires  Oct. 9-  1913.

State of Florida          }
Office Secretary State    }SS
     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 Orange Ridge
Grove Company, as filed in this office, and recorded
in Book No. 23, Articles of Incorporation, on pages 186-
189.  Given under my hand, and the Great Seal
of the State of Florida at Tallahassee, the Capitol,
this the ninth day of March  A.D.  1910.
     (Seal)         H. Clay Crawford     Secretary of State
Transcribed by Sharon Wheeler 30 December 2010
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