Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-10-13
PETITION FOR CHARTER.
GEORGIA-Irwin county.

GEORGIA-Irwin county
10 the Superior court of said county:
The petition of ]. e. Mercer, r. A. Wilson
and A. j. Dixon of said state and county, re-
spectfully shows:
]. That they desire for themselves, their .
associates, successors and assigns, to be In
I corporated under the name and STYLE of Tho
PheniX Grocery Company
| O. The term for which petitioners ask 10
: be Incorporated is twenty coy years, with the
privilege OF renewal at the end of that time
D. Inc capital stock of the Incorporation is
10 De twenty-five Thousand (25,C00OW Dollars
divided into shares of One Hundred CSlO0OM
DollarS each. Petitioners, however, ask the
privilege of increasing said capital stock
from time to time, not exceeding in the ag-
gregate One Hundred Thousand (SlOO 200 .OOl
Dollars.
4. More than Eighty S0) per cent of the
SAID capital stock Of Twenty-Five Thousand
(25,OCOOO Dollars has already actually been
paid in.
b. The object of the proposed corporation
is pecun1ary profit and gain to it's stock
holders. Petitioners propose to carry on a
wholesale grocery business, and to deal in all
such articles and things as are usually en-
oraced in the wholesale grocery business and
all such articles and things as may be prof.
taoly handled and sold in connection here
with; buying and selling for cash or credit,
actlng as general or special agents for other
persons or corporations in selling or handling
any articles or class of articles appropriate
TO the grocery business, AID to make con-
tracts 10 act as such agents, and to exercise
the usual power, and to do all usual, necessary
and proper acts which pertain to or may be
connected with the wholesale grocery bust
ness; to manu- facture, buy and sell fertilizers
ana 90 general warehouse business.
o. Pet1tioncr desire TO be empowered to
buy and sell, and make improvements upon
real estate; TO receive and execute deeds to
the same; take and to give mortgages and
other liens allowed by law to secure debt: and
to exercise all other rights, powers and priv,
leges as are under the laws Of Georgia. and of
the United States, granite d to debtors and
creditors.
Z. Petitioners desire to have and to use a
corporate seal. and to be EN- bowed to sue and
be sued. plead and he impIeaded. and to select
such otfce1s and directors, and make such
rules and bylaws as may be necessary for u
proper management of SAID wholesale grocery
business under its proposed charter.
g. The principal office and place of bus
ness OF the proposed corporation will BIZ in
the city of Fitzgerald, county of Irwin, and
state Of Georgia. Petitioners desire. how
ever the Privilege of establishing stores aud
warehouses in any and all other OWLS cities
and counties of said state. as they may DEEM
necessary for the carrying on of said whole
sale business.
Wherefore petitioners pray to be made a
body corporate under the name and styIa
aforesaid, entitled to the rights, powers end
privileges pray ed for. subject to the liabili-
ties fixed by law. This Aug. 26th, 1903
d. b. JAY,
Attorney for petitioners
GEoRG1 irwin Cocnty:
This certifies thatthe foregoing is corr ect
copy of the original petition for charter i,y
The Phenix Grocery Company fled ia the
office of the clerk of the Superior Court of
irwin county, this September 18th, 1909. Wit.
ness my official seal this September Is, 1903.
J, p. You've,
Clerk