FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
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ARTICLE I. 
The name of this corporation shall be 
the Florida Growers' and Shippers' 
League. 
article 2. 
The purpose for which said corpora¬ 
tion is formed, shall be the mutual co¬ 
operation of its members, for the purpose 
of advancing and protecting their inter¬ 
ests as growers, shippers and marketers 
of Florida agricultural products of all 
kinds. 
ARTICLE 3. 
The place where its principal business 
shall be transacted, shall be in the City of 
Orlando, Orange County, Florida. 
article 4. 
The term for which said corporation 
shall exist shall be fifty years from the 
date of the issuance of its Letters Patent. 
article 5. 
The number of directors of said corpo¬ 
ration shall be nine, but the Board of Di¬ 
rectors by a two-thirds vote of the mem¬ 
bers present at any regular or special 
meeting, may increase or decrease the 
number of said directors, provided that 
the number of such Directors shall never 
be less than three. The Board of Direct¬ 
ors shall be elected at the annual meeting 
of the members of this corporation to be 
held on the first Wednesday of May of 
each year, but the Board of Directors 
may change the date of any annual meet¬ 
ing, so as make it contemporaneous with 
the annual meeting of the Florida State 
Horticultural Society, by giving ten days 
notice thereof to all of the members. 
The Board of Directors, at its first 
meeting shall divide the State of Florida 
into three districts and no more than three 
Directors shall be elected from any one 
of said Districts. The Board of Directors 
at its first meeting, and at its first meeting 
after each annual election, shall select 
from among themselves a President and 
two Vice-Presidents, and the Board shall 
also have the power to appoint a secre¬ 
tary, and to designate a bank as Treasur¬ 
er of said corporation, and it shall also 
have the power to employ a general man¬ 
ager and prescribe his powers and duties. 
At the first annual meeting, three direct¬ 
ors shall be elected for one year, three 
directors shall be elected for two years and 
three directors shall be elected for three 
years, and thereafter at the annual election 
directors shall be elected to fill the offices 
of those three directors whose terms have 
expired. 
The names and residences of the di¬ 
rectors of said corporation selected for 
the first year, and until their successors 
shall be elected, and have accepted said 
office, shall be: 
L. B. Skinner, Dunedin, Fla. 
J. H. Ross, Winter Haven, Fla. 
J. C. Chase, Jacksonville, Fla. 
H. C. Schrader, Jacksonville, Fla. 
H. E. Heitman, Fort Myers, Fla. 
B. L. Hammer, Tampa, Fla, 
H. J. Drane, Lakeland, Fla. 
W. C. Temple, Winter Park, Fla. 
J. R. Davis, Bartow, Fla. 
