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J.K. "Jess" Irby, Esq. - Clerk of the Court
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Incorporation Book No 1
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     W.J. Priest          Clark     Fla          10 Shares.
     S.A. Hussey          Newberry  Fla           8 Shares
     C.D. May             Newberry  Fla          10     "
     Pearce Hdw. Co.      Newberry  Fla           5     "
     J.F. Ruff            Newberry  Fla           7 1/2 "
     S.P. Getzen          Newperry  Fla           7 1/2 "

State of Florida } Personally appeared before me C.N. McArthur
Alachua County   } W.J. Priest and S.A. Hussey, to me well known
and who being first duly sworn, each for himself makes oath
that he subscribed for the number of shares of stock in this
corporation as set opposite his name in the foregoing Articles
of Incorporation, and for the purposes therein expressed.
Sworn to and subscribed before                }
me on this 24th day of January  A.D.  1911     } C.N. McArthur
     (seal)     John G. White  Notary Public  }    W.J. Priest
                My Com. Expires Nov. 18 - 1912}    S.A. Hussey


State of Florida        }
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 Newberry Machine and Motor
Company, as filed in this office, and recorded in Book No. 29
Articles of Incorporation on pages 43 - 47.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State of Florida
at Tallahassee, the Capital, this the first day of March  A.D.  1911.
                    H. Clay Crawford
     (seal)              Secretary of State
Filed 6th March 1911. Recorded 29th March 1911. S.H. Wienges Clerk

                    Letters Patent
  The State of Florida - To All whom These Presents Come: Greeting
Whereas, G. Henry Davis, C.W. Hill and Marjenhoff on the
fourth day of March A.D. 1911 filed in the office of the Secretary
of State a proposed charter of a corporation to be known as
Gainesville Motor Car Company with a capital of five thousand
($5,000.00) dollars for the purpose of manufacturing, buying,
selling, renting, exchanging, repairing, storing, and caring
for automobiles, bicycles, motorcycles and aeroplanes, and
other machinery of any and every description; to manufactur-
ture, buy, sell, and deal in automobiles, bicycles, motorcycles,
and aeroplanes, fixtures, accessories, byproducts, and parts
of every nature and kind whatever; to manufacture, buy, sell
and deal in gas and gasoline engines, marine engines
and electric motors and dynamos; to buy, own, and sell
stock securities or obligations of other corporations, to hold
buy, convey, and mortgage any and all property neccessary
or required to accomplish the purposes above set forth; to have
agencies and employ agents at such places as may be in the
opinion of the officers of the corporation neccessary or expedient
and to do all things neccessary or advisable for the 
successful transaction and conduct of the business of the
Transcribed by Sharon Wheeler 3 January 2011
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