The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-01

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PETITIONS FOR INCORPORATION
STATE OF GF0RG16 CaET4SN
COUNTY.-To the Honorable the supe-
rior court of Said County: The petition of
Charles A. Stone and Edwin s. Webster
OF the city of Boston, state Of Massa-
chusetts, and George J. Baldwin of tho
county of Chatham, state of Georgia, re-
specially sheweth:
That they and such persons as they may
associate with them desire to become in
corporated and be and exist as a body pol.
itic under the laws of the state Of Georgia,
with the name and for the objects and
exercising the rights, privileges and
powers, as follows.
Section 1. The corporate name and styIe
OF this corporation shall be the EDISON
ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING conf
PANY or SAVANNAH" by which nans
1t shall be known, contract and be con-
tracted with, sue and be sued.
Sec. ?. The said company shall exist for
the period Of twenty C20 years from
the date of Its Incorporation, and shall
have the privilege of renewal at the eX-
pratlon of said period
Sec. 8 The principal place Of business
OF said company viii be in Chatham
county, Georgia. but said company shall
have the right to establish branch Offices
in such other places within the state OF
Georgia, or the United States as its
board of directors may from time to time
determine.
Sec. 4. (a) The amount of capital stock
to be employed by said corporation actual
ly to be paid in will be the sum of Ono
Hundred Thousand 100000 Dollars, d.
vided into shares of one Hundred 600
Dollars each, of which all may be com
mon stock, or part common and pare
preferred, as may be determined by the
board of directors; and the company shall
have the privilege Of increasing its cap
ital stock from time TO time in the dis
erection of the board of directors TO any
sum not exceeding Five Hundred Thou
sand G50000O Dollars.
(b) Subscriptions may be made to the
stock of the company in money. labor.
services or property.
Sec 5. The objects OF said corporation
and the particular business which tho
company proposes to carry on are:
(a) To do a general business In the man.
ufacture, production, purchase and sale
or lease of power In any form, and for use
in any manner or for any purpose by
means of electricity, gas, steam, water,
compressed air or otherwise, by any pro-
cess or method now known, or which may
hereafter be known.
% To do a general business in lighting,
heating and ventilating, and in manufac-
turing by use of electricity, gas or other
power by any process or method now
known, or which may hereafter be known.
(c) To do a general business as a dis
trbutor OF power in any form, either by
or through wires pipes, storage reservoir,
conduts or otherwise
I'd To do a general business In the pur-
chase. sale or leasing Of machines, appa-
ratus, Instruments, appliances, materials
and supplies of all kinds appurtenant TO
It's business.
Sec. 8. Said corporation shall have tho
following powers:
(a) The right and authority to purchase
or lease and own real estate, and to pur-
chase lease or build, own and operate
power plants and factories, with all APP
purtenances incident to the same in Chat
ham county and at such other places In
Georgia or the United States, as may DO
determined by its board of directors, and
the same to SELL lease or mortgage, or
otherwise dispose Of
% The right and authority to construct.
own and maintain on and through the
lanes and streets of municipalities, per-
mission from the proper authorities hav-
ing first been obtained, wires pipes ana
or conduits and storage reservoirs for the
transmission or storage and distribution
of power, light and heat.
(c) The right and authority to buy, sell,
and or lease, patents and processes for
use In the manufacturing or transmission
of power.
(d. The right and authority to SELL
lease assign or transfer its stock, prop
erty and franchises to, or TO consolidate
the same with those Of any other company
chartered for similar or kindred purposes,
or to purchase lease. consolidate with,
absorb, and merge into itself the stock,
property and franchises OF any other such
company; and to issue and use It's bonds
and stock for the purpose OF paying and
exchanging the same for. or retiring any
bonds or stock issued by It, or such other
power company 80 merged purchased or
consolidated with, TO the amount author
lied by its charter, ard TO secure ths
same, In case Of bonds, by mortgage or
deed of trust upon the entire properties
so merged and consolidated.
(e). The right and authority to borrow
money or incur debts, and to evidence its
indebtedness by coupon bonds, or other
obligations in writing, and to secure the
same by deeds OF trust or mortgages to
and on all its properties and franchises.
~. The right and authority to buy and
sell and own stocks, bonds and other Sc
curltes, whether national, state, NUM-
cipal or corporate.
(g). The right and authority TO have
corporate seal and TO make bylaws, and
20 prescribe In said bylaws the place
where the stockholders and directors may
respectively hold their meetings, and al
lOwance to vote at such meetings BIZ
proxy, the officers Of the company, their
titles and their term OF office.
(h). The right and authority 10 exercise
and enjoy in addition to the powers here
inbefore set out, all other powers and priv
iieges incident to private corp )ritions for
business purposes as are prescribed by
the laws Of Georgia.
Wherefore. your petitioners pray that
they and their associates may be incor-
porated under the name aforesaid for the
period and purposes aforesaid, and with
the rights, privileges and powers afore-
said.
CHARLES A. STONE.
EDWIN s. WEBSTER.
GEO. j. BALDWIN.
l hereby certify that the foregoing Is a
true copy of the original petition for in
corporation filed in the clerks Office Of
the superior court of Chatham county, this
sixteenth day OF April 1897.
JAMES X. p. CARR,
Clerk S. c.. c. c. Ga