Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-09-15
PETITION FOR CHARTER.
GEORGIA-Irwin county.


To the Superior court of said county:
The petition of J. 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
corporated under the name and style of The
Phenix Grocery Company.
g. The term for which petitioners ask to
be incorporated is twenty (2O) years, with the
privilege of renewal at the end of that time
g. The capital stock of the incorporation is
to be twenty-five Thousand (25, 600 00) Dollars
divided into shares of One Hundred (Sl00OM
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 SIOO,QO0. COZ
Dollars.
4. More than Eighty SO) per cent of the
said capital stock of Twenty-Five Thousand
25,OC0.00 Dollars has already actually been
paid in.
8. The object of the proposed corporation
is pecuniary 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-
braced in the wholesale grocery business. and
all such articles and thirgs as may be prof.
tably handled and sold in connection here
with; buying and selling for cash or credit,
acting as general or special agents for other
persons or corporations in selling or harding
any articles or class Of articles appropriate
to the grocery business and to make con-
tracts to act as such agents. and to exercise
the usual power and to do all usual, necessary
on 4 l. foI
connected with the wholesale grocery bust
ness; to manufacture buy and sell fertilizers
and do general " arehodse business.
s. Petitioners 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 deb! and
to exercise all other rights, powers and privi=
leges as are under the laws of Georgia. and of
the United States granted to debtors and
creditors.
z, Petitioners desire to have and to use a
corporate seal, and to be empowed to sue and
be sued plead and he implicated. and to select
such otfiders and directors, and make such
rules and bylaws as may be necessary for IL
proper management Of said wholesale grocery
business under it's proposed charter,
s, The principal office and place of bust
HeSS OF the pfOpOScQ corporation Will DC IN
the city of Fitzgerald, county of Irwin, and
state Of Georgia. Petitioners desire. how
ever. the privilege of establishing stores and
warehouses in any and all other towns. 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 O.
body corporate under the name and style
aforesaid, entitled to the rights, powers and
privileges pray ed for. subject to the liabili-
ties fixed by lay. This Aug, Goth, 1903
D. B, JAY,
Attorney for petitioners,
GEoRG irwin Cocnty,
Tbs certifes thatthe foregoing is correct
copy of the original petition for charter by
The Phenix Grocery Company fled in the
Office of the clerk of the Superior Court of
irwin county, this September 18th, 1903. Wit
ness my Official seal this September 15 1903
], Il. YOUNG,
Clerk.