Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-10-31
Application for Charter.
GEoRGIA-SUMTER COUNTY.

GEORtTlA-SUMTERI COUNTY.
70 the Superior c -urt of said county: The
petition of E, H, Ferguson, R. c, Waggener
and E. b Marun, OF LOulsvn e, Ky, and
NJ 5. Harper, Of sumter county, Ca, respect
fully showeth:
That they desire for themselves, their as
sOCtates, successors and assigns, 10 be incor-
pOrated under the corporate name and style
OF the ''RlChlanG Oil Company.
II
The term for which your dtioners ask to
be incorporated is twenty years, with the
privilege OF renewal at The expiration Of
that lime.
The object of the proposed corporation is
peCuniarY gain and profit to It's share mold
ers. Petitioners propose TO carry on gen
eral business of buying, selling or eXchanE-
ing of cotton or cOttOnseed or any OF the pro
duets of either: to gin seed cotton tor the
public or otherwi'e; to manufacture, sen.
barter or exchange any OF the products OF
cotton or cotton seed, suCn as cotton SEED
oil, crude or refined, cotton seed meal or
cake, cotton seed hulls, hnters, etc, in any
way that the said corporation may deem de-
sirabie: to do all usual, necessary and proper
acts which pertain TO, or are connected with
the ginning OF cotton, or 10 manufacturing OF
cotton seed into any OF their known pro
ducts or dealing in any of the articles nam
ed; 20 convert Grade cotton seed oil by re-
timing or manipulating into any OF ITS known
products. 10 manipulate Medl Will OLLGL III
gradients and make feed stutts, or CONNER
Cial fertilizers, and dispose OF same by sale
or otherwise; to own or establish ware
houses wherever desired; to buy, tdtten, 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 Gotten or cotton seed 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-
ton 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
utilizing and sale of all products OF seed cot
ton and cotton seed
",
The capital stock of said corporation is to
be Fifty Thousand Dollars $4,000 divided
into shares OF one hundred dollars each
Petitioners ask, however, that the privilege
be given of increasing said capital stock
from time to time hereafter to any sum not
exceeding Two Hundred Thousand Dollars,
provided that the holders of a majority of
the stock in value shall assent thereto. And
they further ask to be so incorporated that
no StoCkholder shall be bound for any debt
or liability of said corporation beyond the
amount of his unpaid subscription to the
capital stock of said company.
That the whole amount of the capital stock
of Fifty Thousand Dollars has actually been
paid in.
Petitioners desire that said corporation
shall have the right to purchase, lease, hold,
own and control any real or personal proper
ty, or any interest in the same that may be
necessary and proper for the Legitimate ana
convenient transaction OF Its business either
in said county or elsewhere wherever deslr-
ed, and to dispose of any of its property or
effects, so acqu red or manufactured by
deed, bill of sale, lease, mortgage, exchange
or otherwise! to borrow money, or issue
bonds and secure the same by deed or mort
gage upon its corporate property,
VII
The principal Office and pace of business
OF the proposed corporation will be in the
city OF Americas. said state and county but
they ask that said corporation shall have the
right to carry on its business or establish
branch ofices and agencies wherever de-
sired.
VIII.
Petitioners desire that said corporation
shall have the right to sue and besued,t to have
and use a common seal:tO make bylaws bind
ing its own members and alter same at pleas
ure in any way not inconsistent with its
charter, or the laws of this State, OF of the
! United States; to appoint, elect or emp oy
| all officers End agents, and make all con
tracts that may be deemed necessary Tor the
! carrying out OF the purposes OF the SAID cor
| pOration; and to have all o her powers
usually granted by law TO corporations OF
J like character.
Wher efore your petitioners pray to be
! made body corporate under the name anC
! style aforesaid, entitled to all tie rights
| privileges and immunities, subject to the
liza bilities fixed by law This 30th day OF
! August, 1907! r. g. LEE,
Attorney tor petitioners,
| GEORGIA-Sumter County.
1, c. A. Chambliss clerk of the Superior
court of Sumter county, Ga, do hereby Ger
! tify that the above and foregoing is true
and correct copy of the original petition for
charter of the RiChland Oil Co. filed in my
office as clerk of the Superior court. Witness
my hand and official signature and seal OF
office This 30th day of August, 1902.
! G. A CHAMBLISS,