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Incorporation Book No 1
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subscribed to the same for the purpose of obtaining
Letters Patent and Charter of the Archer Land and
Improvement Company from the State of Florida
and the other purposes therein expressed.
Witness my hand and official seal, this 20th day
of March  A.D.  1912
     (Seal)         C.W. Baldwin
                    Justice of the Peace

                    State of Florida              }ss:
                    Office Secretary of 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
Archer Land and Improvement Company, as filed
in this office, and recorded in Book No. 32,
Articles of Incorporation, on pages 308 - 313.
                    Given under my hand and the
                    Great Seal of the State of Florida,
     (Seal)         at Tallahassee, the Capital, this
                    the thirteenth day of May  A.D.  1912
                         H. Clay Crawford
                              Secretary of State
Filed May 17th  1912
Recorded May 18th  1912
                    S.H. Wienges     Clerk
                    By Mattie Boulware     D.C.


                    Letters Patent
     The State of Florida.
To all Whom These Presents shall come = Greeting:
Whereas, Robert F. Brush, Mrs. O.B. Bailey, and
M.H. DePass, on tne fourth day of May  A.D.  1912
filed in the Office of the Secretary of State a proposed
Charter of a corporation to be known as Bailey
and Brush Company with a capital of Ten Thousand
($10,000.00) dollars, for the purpose of buying and
selling of any and all kinds of merchandise,
at wholesale and retail; to buy, sell, mortgage
or release real and personal property, to do a
general mercantile and contracting business and
to do any and all things necessary in the fur-
therance of any of the above mentioned businesses,
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 suc-
cessors into a body politic and corporate in
deed and in law by and under the said
Transcribed by Sharon Wheeler 10 January 2011
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