Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-11-05
PETITION FOR CHARTER.

| Georgia, Irwin County
| To The Superior Court of Said County.
! The petition of Paulk Hardware Co, NJ.
Ruice, B. Z, Wilcox. n. W. Howell, H. NJ.
Warren, K. V. Handley, H. O. Tisdel, j. e.
| Powell, ]. NJ. Mcdonald, E. N. Davis, Jno. A.
Phillips, r. Matthews and others of said state
and county, and Garbutt Lumber Co., of
Wilcox county, said state, respectfully shows
!, That they desire for themselves, their
| associates, successors and assigns to be i'll
corporated under the name and style CT Fitz-
geaald Compress Company.
2. The teIm for which petitioners ask to be
Incorporated is twenty years, with privilege
OF renewal at the expiration of that time
/ ). The capital stock of the corporation is
be Sl5,0O0.00 divided into shares of $4,000 each.
petitioners ask the privilege of increasing
said capital stock from time to time to an
amount not to exceed S5N0C0.00.
4. More than 10 per cent of the capital
stock (S15.00O.0W has already been actually
paid in.
5. The object of the proposed corporation
is pecuniary Sain to it's stockholders. Petit
toner's propose to carry on a Cotton Compress
business, to buy and sell ana store cotton in
said county and state and olher STATES, to
articles that may tend to promote the welfare
OF the corporation. 70 act as general and
special agents for other persons, firms or COR
porations in buying, selliug, storing or COM
pressing cotton; to make contracts to act as
such agents and to exercise the usual powers,
and to do all usual, necessary and proper
acts, which pertain to or may be connected
with the buying, selling, storing and COM
pressing CT cotton.
&. Petitioners desire to be empowered to
bny and sell, and make improvements on
real estate, to receive and execute deeds to
the same; TO buy and sell and operate anv
and all kinds of machinery, to buy and sell
and erect any and all kinds of buildings that
may be necessary or beneficial for the carrv-
ing on Of the business of said corporation.
To take and give mortgages and otner liens
allowed by law to secure debt, and to exercise
all other rights, powers and privileges as are
under the laws of Georgia and of the United
States granted to debtors and creditors.
seventh. Petitioners desire to have and
use corporate sea! and to be empowered to
sue and be sued. plead and be implicated. and
to eject such officers and directors and make
such rules and by laws as may be necessary
ior proper management Of the said Com.
press Co., under its proposed charter
5. Petitioners desire the privilege of cstab-
fishing cotton congresses, warehouses, gin
neries and agcncies in any and all towns and
cities in this state or other states as they may
deem necessary or convenient for the carry
ing on of the business of said oorpc ration.
g. The principal office and place of bust.
ness Of the proposed corporation will be in
the city of Fitzgerald, county of Irwin, state
of Georgia.
Wherefore petitioners pray to be made s.
body corporate, under the name and .style
aforesaid, entitled to the rights, powers. priv
ileges and immunities prayed for, subject to
the liabilities fixed by law.
This October 30th, 1893
/, W. MEAKIN,
ll-5-t4 For the petitioners.