The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-28
PETITIONS FOR INCORPORATION

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STATE OF GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY
- To the superior Court OF said county; The
LAT. JULIUS COILAT and THEODORE COL
LAT respectfully showeth: That your petition
ers have associated themselves together and
desire a charter constituting themselves and
such others as may hereafter unite with them
private corporation under the corporate name
COLLAT BROTHERS SHOE, HAT AND
CLOTHING COMPANY.
That the obiec Is of their association and the
particular business they propose to carry on
are the buying and selling OF and dealing IN
shoes. hats trunks, clothing. dry-goods,
notions gentlemen's furnishing goods. ladies'
furnishing goods. furniture. pflea orac, Jew.
elry, and ali other articles of merchandise of
whatsoever kind, character or description, and
the carrying ON OF a general wholesale and
retail business therein. - =,
have authority to enter into contracts Of Co
partnership or of association with other cor
porations or with individuals. and 10 act as
further have the power to purchase, hire,
charter, SELL mortgage, lease ana otherwise
acquire, use and dispose OF laads, machinery,
warehouses. elevators, wharves ana oener
structures, mules, horses, wagons, carts, yes
sells and other vehicles, franchises, patents,
trade marks, easements, stocks, 0onus anu
securities of all kinds, and all kinds Of property,
real personal and mixed, that SAID company
use or dispose of in pursuance of, or in con
nection WITH its said business or otherwise.
And your petitioners further Show that lie
amount of capital to be employed by them
actually paid in is fiftysfive thousand dollars
(S55, 000), and that they desire the privilege OF
increasing the capital stock OF SAID corporation,
in the discretion of its board q directors, from
time to time, to any sum not TO exceed five hun
dred thousand dollars $500 0O0l and TO decrease
said capital stock In the discretion of its said
board of directors, from time TO time, similarly,
TO a sum. however. not less lAan sald nity-nye
be divided into shares of one. hundred dollars
(Sl00) each.
And your petitioners further show that their
place of doing business will be 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 ana
agencies and to do business In any other county
in this 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 sucll
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 it may also have and exercise
all the powers incident to corporations under
the laws of this state, Including the right 20
have a corporate seal, borrow money and secure
the same by collaterals, personal security, deed,
pledge. mortgage or otherwise, and to issue
notes, bonds or other obligations therefor, t.
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 its own
government, and for the conduct of its business
as may be deemed proper and as are not incon-
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 acts of said
corporation, except to the extent of unpaid
stock subscriptions.
And your petitioners will ever pray, etc.
DEN MARK, ADAMS & ADAMS,
Petitioners Attorneys.
Petition for incorporation filed in Office and
recorded this 9Th day of May, 1890.
JAMES K Z. CARR,
Clerk S. c. G. G., Ga.