Letter Patent The State of Florida.
To All Whom These Presentas Shall Come.  Greeting:
Whereas, Jay Thompson, W.H. Pelham, Florida Jones,
W.H. McAllister, B.J. Jones, W.N. Knight, W.J. Jones,
L. Fayeete Goodwin, D. Marshall, and M.W. Ivey
on the twenty-seventh day of February  A.D.  1912 filed
in the Office of the Secretary of State a proposed charter
of a corporation to be known as
     The American Business Conclave
with a capital of Five Thousnd Dollars ($5,000.00)
dollars, for the purpose of uniting under such laws,
rules and regulations as may facilitate the exercise
of the influences of the best element of its members, over
the less enterprising and morally weaker one, for the
betterment of (their and) their (neighbors) environments in
their respective communities, to restrain any habitual
influence or practice that may be directly or indirectly
productive of vice, poverty or crime, to build in them
that degree of moral religious, economic and civic
pride that will make of them recognized factors to
the support of the law in its guaranty of the peace
and safety of their several localities, to encourage
thrift, industry, and economy in the various agri-
cultural and other pursuits wherein they are now
or may hereafter be engaged, by advice, example
and abetment, or either as may be deemed necess-
ary and by creating a fund, the surplus of which
shall be distributed for the aid of worthy members, by
loans without interest or in dividends as prescribed
in the by-laws of the corporation, which fund shall be
created and maintained by fees, subscriptions, sale
of stock of the corporation and the legitimate purchase
for use, sale or exchange of anything for profit to
the corporation, where such purchase for use, sale
or exchange may be lawful, and to engage in
agricultural, mechanical, manufacturing and any
or all other lawful pursuits for profit, whereby it 
may give employment at lawful wages to persons
seeking a livelihood who may be deemed worthy
by its authorized officers, and have published
due notice thereof, and have otherwise complied
with the statute for such case made and provided;
Therefore, The State of Florida hereby Incorportes
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
     The American Business Conclave
and grants unto them full authority to exercise
the powers and privileges of a corporation for the
purpose above stated, in accordance with their