Americus times-recorder., 1902-10-11
Application for Charter.
GEORGIA-SUMTER COUNTY.

GEORGIA-SUMTER COUNTY
To the Superior court of said county: T1e
petition of E, H, Ferguson, R G, Waggener
and E. B. Martin, of Louisville, Kv ana
M, s Harper, of Sumter county, Ca. respect
fully showeth
That they desire for themselves, their as.
socrates, successors and assigns, 10 be lncOr-
porated under the corporate name and stvIa
Of the "Richland Oil Company"
The term for which your petitioners askto
be Incorporated is twenty years with tbe
privilege OF renewal at the expiration of
that time.
The object of the proposed corporation is
pecuniarY gain and profit to its share hold
ers. Petitioners propose to carry on a gen
eral business of buying, selling or eXChang-
ing OF cotton or CottOn'seed, or any of the pro
ducts of either to gin seed cotton tor the
public or otherWtSe; to manufacture, sell,
barter or exchange any of the products of
cotton or cotton seed, suCh as cotton seed
oil, crude or refined. cotton seed meal or
cake, cotton seed hulls, linters, etc. in any
way that the said corporation may deem de-
s1rable; to do all usual, necessary and proper
acts which pertain to, or are connected with
the ginning of cotton, or manufacturing of
cotton seed into any OF their known pro.
ducts or dealing in any of the articles nam
ed 70 convert crude cotton seed Oil by re-
fning or manipulating into any of its known
products; TO manipulate meal with other in
gradients and make feed stuffs, or CONNER
clal fertilizers and dispose OF same by SAFE
or otherwise; to own or establish ware
houses wherever desired; to buy, fatten, sell
or exchange cattle, and to do all such things
as are necessary in or incident to the CON
duct of such business; and to generally en-
gage in all such emplOymentS and lines OF
business where cotton or cotton ICED or any
of the products of either are utilized wholly
or in part: also the leasing or owning OF
tanks. cars, manufacturing barrels and
casks and all other commodities IN cOnnec-
tiOu with said business, The principal Dusl-
ness of said corporation is to be the manu-
faCture and sale of cotton seed oil, meal
hulls, and linters, and incident thereto. the
utilZing and sale of all products OF SEED cot
ton and cotton seed
",
| The capital stock of said corporation is to
be Fifty Thousand Dollars (S50O0J) divided
into snar es OF one hundred dollars eacn.
Petitioners ask, however, that the pLlNIeSe
be given of increasing said capital STOCK
! from time to time hereafter to any sum not
| exceeding Two Hundred Thousand Douarss
provided that the holders OF a majority o5
the stock in value shall assent thereto anu
they further ask to be so incorporated lndt
no stockholder shall be bound for any aeoI
or liability of said corporation oeyonu !ne
amount of his unpaid SUBSCRIPTION 10 Iue
capital stock of said company. .4sGa
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of Fifty Thousand Dollars has actually oeeA
paid in.
VI.
Petitioners desire that said corporation
shall have the right to purchase, Ie@se, aoap,
own and control any real or personal proper,
ty, or any interest in the same tnat ma! ~
necessary and proper TOR the leglt!Ln4se %ap
convenient TRANSACTION OF ltS DueIut % 9,suT Ir
in said county or else where wherever ues4t~
ed, and to dispose of any or It's pTopeIsy U-
effects, so acqu red or manutdctuIeHua Nv gs
deed, bill of sale, lease, mortgage, eHCnf@aS fass
or otherwise. to borrow money u - -
bonds and secure the same by deed or mon
gage upon its corporate properly,
VII
The principal office and Place OF busln5ss
of the proposed corporation Will DC ~ ~ ~
city of Americus said state anu C4uHsy qI ya ne
they ask that said corporation sIdll Il q lsh
right to carry on its business OF e esd GO-tsI a.
branch of1ces and agencies WneIeN01 ~
sired.
Petitioners desire that said corpor@IIlloca1 Ilc1
shall have the right to sue and pesuSu,to " Ia IN
and use a common seal;to make py-I@W+9 Iaas yt-1
ing its own members and alter same d. P-'g is
ure in any way not inconsistent w. w. he
charter, or the laws of this State OF oIay- U. I
United States; to appoint, elect OF III 81 gon
all officers 2nd agents, and mahe mahe a. atfl5r+Te
tracts that may be deemed neCessAL5 IA n -5r.
carrying ont Of the purposes of the salu 20
pOration: and to have all o'heL af
usually granted by law TO cOrpo1S'l0-'
like character.
wherefore your petitioners pra5y, 10 and nd
made body corporate under the LaN,gj Nrjg6ts.
style aforesaid, entitled to al t1e ~ the
privileges and immunities subject y t5,c6f
Tia btlities fixed by law. This 5yI4 M SS'
August, 1902 ES;.,t4i+in-ers y; Fl me
GEORGIA-Sumter County.
T,C.A A. Chambliss, clerk of the s2IeIfgI.- Is ,sI.-
court of Sumter county, Ga, do neISo5 trne
tify that the above and foregoing .itti9r T. for
charter of the Richland Oil Co. flee ,.lsl ID a-y
office as clerk of the Superior court WI @5sTT'f Of
my hand and official signature anu SO'-
office. This 30th day OF August Iyy5' HTIr res
clerk Superior Court