The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-18
PETITIONS FOR INCoRpoRATIoN.

NTAFE OF GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY
~ To the Superior Court of said county: The
petition of LOUIS COLLAT. ISIDORE COL
LAT, JULIUS COlLAr aud THEODORE COL
LAT respectfully showeth: That your petition
ers have associated themselves together and
desire charter constituting themselves and
SUCH Others AS may hereafter unite with them a
private corporation under the corporate name
COLLAT BROTHERS. SHOE, HAT AND
CLOTHING COMPANY.
That the objects of their association and the
particular business they propose to carry on
are tho buying and selling of and dealing in
shoes hats trunks, clothing, dry-goods
notions, gentlemens furnishing goods, ladies'
furnishing goods, furniture, bric.a brac Jew
cry, ana all other articles of merchandise OF
whatsoever kind, character or description, and
the carrying on of a general wholesale and
retail business therein
That they desire that said company shall
have authority to enter into contracts of CO.
partnership or of association with other cor
porations, or with individuals and to act as
agent or broker for others, and that it shall
Iurtner nave the power to purchase hire,
charter, cell, mortgage lease and otherwise
acquire, use and dispose of lands machinery
warehouses; elevators, wharves and other
structures, mules, horses, wagons. carts yes
sels ana other vehicles, franchises, patents,
ueue marks, easements, stocks, bonds aud
securities OF all kinds, and all kinds of propertv
real, personal and mixed, that said company
may hnd IL convenient or desirable to acquire.
uSo vi hlsDoS6 OF IN pursuance OF. in
nection with, its said business or otherwise
And your petitioners further show that the
amount OF capital to be employed by them
actually paid in is fifty-hve thousand dollars
!Soo,OOO), and that they desire the privilege of
increasing the capital stock of said corporation
In the discretion of its board of directors, from
time 10 time, TO any sum not to exceed five hun
dred thousand dollars $500, OOO and to decrease
said capital stock, In the discretion of its said
board of directors, from time to time, similarly
10 sum. however. not less than said fifty-flye
thousand dollars 1885, 000) said capital stock to
be divided into shares of one hundred dollars
$1,000 each.
And your petitioners further show that their
place of doing business will DO in Chatham
county, in said state of Georgia, and that their
principal place of business will be located in the
city OF Savannah, in said county, but they de
sire the power TO establish branch houses and
agencies and to do business in any other county
IN TINS state and in any other state or territory
of the union and elsewhere,
And petitioners ask that in addition to the
powers and privileges hereinbefore specified
said corporation may have and exercise such
other powers and privileges as are incident
proper or necessary to the execution of those
expressly conferred, or to the carrying on of its
business, and that IL may also have and exercise
all the powers incident to corporations under
the laws OF this state, including the right to
have a corporate seal, borrow money and secure
the same by collaterals, personal security deed
pledge, mortgage or otherwise, and to issue
notes, bonds other obligations therefor to
sue and be sued, to make contracts of any kind
whatsoever for the furtherance OF its business,
and to make such rules and bylaws for it's own
government, and for the conduct Of its business
as may be deemed proper and as are not fncon-
sistent with law
Wherefore your petitioners pray that they
and their associates may be Incorporated for
the purposes aforesaid, under said corporate
name for term of twenty (20) years, with the
privilege of renewal at the expiration of that
time, with the usual provision as TO the non
liability OF stockholders for debts or acts Of said
corporation except to the extent of unpaid
stock subscriptions.
And your petitioners will ever pray, etc
DENMARK, ADAMS & ADAMS,
Petitioners Attorneys.
Petition for incorporation filed in office and
recorded this 9th day of May, 1890
JAMES X u. CARR,
Clerk s. G. G. O. On