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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 Lumber Manufacturing Company,as filed
in this Office and recorded in Book No. 28, Articles of Incorporation
on pages 287 - 290.
Given under my hand, and the Great Seal of the State of Florida at
Tallahassee the Capital this the first day of June  A.D.  1911
     (seal)              H. Clay Crawford
                              Secretary of State
Filed June 3  1911       S.H. Wienges     Clerk
Recorded June 6 1911     Per E. Wimberly     D.C.

                    Letters Patent
          The State of Florida.
     To All Whom these Presents shall come - Greeting:
          Whereas, F.B. Godfrey, J.M. Powell, W.F. Smith and
W.R. McGregor on the ninth day of May  A.D.  1911 filed in the Office of the
Secretary of State a proposed charter of a corporation to be known as -
     Alachua Live Stock and Vehicle Company - 
with a capital of Sixteen thousand ($16,000.00) dollars, for the
purpose of buying, selling, leasing and renting of live stock of all
kinds, vehicles of all kinds, including automobiles of all kinds, automobile
accessories and supplies, the buying and selling, renting and
leasing, of real and personal property of any and all kinds the acting
as agents for others in any of the above named businesses, the operating
and conducting of a livery sale and feed stable of automobile garages
mercantile business of any and all kinds and to do any and all things
necessary for the conducting and carrying on of said business, or to
protect and advance the interest thereof and to have and possess all
the rights benefits, privileges and immunities incident to and
given under the laws of the State of Florida and have published
due notice thereof and have otherwise complied with the statute
in such case made and provided.
     Therefore the State of Florida hereby Incorporates the above named
persons their associates and successors into a body politic and
corporate in deed and in law by and under the said name of
Alachua Live stock and Vehicle Company and grants unto them
full authority to exercise the powers and privileges of a corporation
for the purpose above stated in accordance with their said charter
and the Laws of this State.
In Witness Whereof These presents have been attested with the Great
Seal, and signed and countersigned by the Governor and Secretary of
State of the State of Florida, at Tallahassee, the capital, this the
Nineteenth day of June  A.D.  1911
     (seal)         Albert W. Gilchrist
                         Governor - 
                    H. Clay Crawford - 
                         Secretary of State.
Transcribed by Sharon Wheeler 4 January 2011
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