The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1898-09-21
Petition for Charter

III ShOI GCIs
Georgia, Terrell County.-To The sn.
perlor Court of said county: The nett
ton OF b. B. Perry, j. M. Bell. T, @
" hltchard and j. r. Mercer, all of said
county, and g. Willis and G, A. Cole Of
Early county, Georgia, respectfully
l. That they desire for themselves
their associates, successors and ASSIGNS
to become incorporated under the name
and style of The Variety Works Com.
pany.
2. The term for which petitioners
ask to be incorporated is twenty wears
with the privilege of renewal at the end
of that time.
3. The capital stock of the corpora
ton aforesaid is to be Ten Thousand
Dollars (seventy-five per cent of which
has been paid in) divided into shares Of
one Hundred Dollars each. Petitioners
ask the privilege of increasing said cant
tai stock from time to time to an amount
not to exceed Twenty-Five Thousand
Dollars.
4 The object of the proposed cor
poration is pecuniary profit and gain to
the stockholders by means of CARVING
on the business hereinafter set forth.
5. The particular business to be car
ried on by said corporation is to manu-
facture and sell sash, doors, blinds, man.
tells, boxes, crates, builders supplies,
and all kinds of products made of wood
or metal, or both; to contract for the
construction of buildings or for improve
ments thereof and any and all sorts of
machinery; to buy and sell lumber
shingles, brick, lime, hardware and any
and all kinds of material or articles
usual or proper to the business of gen.
eral Variety Works; to act as agents for
other persons or companies in selling or
handling any of the products or articles
above herein enumerated or other goods,
and to operate foundry and machine
shops.
6. The principal Office and place of
business of said corporation will be in
the city of Dawson. Terrell county,
Georgia, but petitioners desire the right
to establish branch works or offices at
such other places throughout said state
or the United States, as they may desire.
Wherefore petitioners pray to be made
body corporate under the name and
style aforesaid, with power to contract
and be contracted with; to sue and be
sued; plead and be implicated; to make
bylaws and rules for the government of
said corporation, it's officers, agents, en-
ployees and to change the same at will;
to borrow money for corporate purposes
and to secure the same by mortgage,
deed or other wise; to purchase, lease,
rent, own and improve real estate and
erect buildings thereon; to take stock in
other corporations if it shall be deemed
advantageous to do so; to make notes
and accounts n the usual course Of bust
ness; to appoint all officers and agents
for the management of said business
and to employ all servants, workmen
and all other persons useful or needful
to the proper conduct of the business of
said corporation; and to have and enjoy
all other rights, powers and privileges
conferred by law upon corporations of
like character in the state. And petit
TONERS will ever pray, etc.
JAMES G. PARKS,
Petitioners Attorney.
Original filed in Office Sept. ID, 1898.
w. s. DoZIER, Clerk.
Georgia, Terrell County, hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true copy
of the application this day filed in my
office for charter of the Variety Works
Company. Witness my official signature
this Sept. Is, 1898.
w. S. DOzIER, Clerk S. c. T. :.