Letters Patent
The State of Florida
To all Whom These Presents shall Come- Greeting.
Whereas, J.W. McDowall, A.C. Reid, and C.H. Lloyd,
on the twenty-ninth day of April  A.D.  1912 filed in
the office of  the Secretary of State a proposed charter
of a corporation to be known as McDowall-Lloyd
Company wih a capital of Thirty Thousand
($30,000.00) dollars, for the purpose of doing any and
all of the things set forth to the same extent as natual
persons might or could do, that is, to engage in and
carry  on the business of mining and preparing phos-
phate and phosphatic materials for market and to
manipulate and manufacture the same into fer-
tilizers and other products; to buy, sell, own, hold and
dispose of real estate, interests in lands and to buy
own, hold, sell, leases and mineral rights for phos-
phate, clay, fullers' earth, limestone and other min-
eral deposits.  To build, own, operate, tram roads, or ways
for its own use in connection with the business of
the corporation, but not to operate said roads or trams
as a common carrier.  To buy and sell and manu-
facture and manipulate lumber, coal and fuel of any
kind.  To operate stores and commissaries and buy
and sell general merchandise at wholesale and
retail.  To enter into, make and perform and carry out
contracts of every kind and description with any
person, firm, association or corporation and to
have all the rights and powers of a corporation under
the laws 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 McDowall-
Lloyd Company and grants unto them full au-
thority to exercise the powers and privileges of a cor-
poration for the purpose above stated, in accordance 
with their said charter and the Laws of this State
                    In Witness Whereof, These presents have been at
                    tested with the Great Seal and signed and coun-
                    tersigned by the Governor and Secretary of State
                    of the State of Florida, at Tallahassee, the
                    Capital, this the third day of June  A.D.  1912
     (Seal)              Albert W. Gilchrist
                              Governor
                         H. Clay Crawford
                              Secretary of State