Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-08-21
PETITION FOR CHARTER.

The petition of 8. B. Brown and J.
r. Whitehead of Dougherty County
said State. H. G. McFadden of Fulton
County said State, Thomas Nesbitt
of Crisp County said State and E. K.
Farmer of Irwin County said State,
respectfully shows:-
-1st.-
That they desire for themselves,
their associates successors and as
signs, to be incorporated under the
name and style of Fitzgerald Com
press g. Warehouse Company.
-2nd.-
The term for which petitioners ask
to be incorporated is twenty years,
with privilege of renewal at expira-
ton of that time.
-3rd.-
The capital stock of the corpora
ton is to be $15, 100000 divided into
shares of $4,000 each. Petitioners
ask the privilege of increasing the
Capital Stock from time to time to an
amount not to exceed $100,000.00
9Th
More than ten per cent of the CAPT.
tai stock has already been paid in.
9TH
The object of the proposed corpora
ton is pecuniary gain to it's stock
holders. Petitioners propose to car
ry on a Cotton Compress business;
to buy and sell and store cotton in
said County and State aud other
States; to buy and sell bagging and
ties and any other article or articles
that may tend to promote the welfare
of the corporation. To act as gener-
al and special agents for other per-
sons, firms or corporations in buying
selling, storing or compressing cot
ton; 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
buying, selling, storing and compress
sing of cotton.
9th
Petitioners desire to be empowered
to buy and sell and make improve
ments on real estate. to receive and
execute deeds to the same; to buy
and sell and operate all kinds of
machinery, to buy and sell and erect
any and all kinds of buildings that
may be necessary or beneficial for
the carrying on of the business of
said corporation; to take and give
mortgages and other liens allowed
by law to secure debts, and to exer-
else all other rights, powers and
privileges as are under the laws of
Georgia and of the United States
granted to debtors and creditors.
-7th.-
Petitioners desire to have and use
a corporate seal and to be empower
ed to sue and be. sued, plea and be
implicated, and to elect such officers
and Directors and make such rules
and by laws as may be necessary for
a proper management of the said
Compress Company under it's pro-
posed charter.
9Th
Petitioners desire the privilege of
establishing Cotton Congresses gin
neries warehouses and agencies in
any and all towns of this state and
other states as they may deem nee
essary an convenient for the carry
ing on of the business of said cor
poration.
9th
The principal office and place of
business for the proposed corpora
ton will be in the city of Fitzgerald,
County of Irwin, State of Georgia.
Whereof petitioners pray to be
made body corporate, under the
name and style aforesaid, entitled to
the rights, powers, privileges and
immunities prayed for, subject to
the liabilities fixed by law.
This August 9th 1905.
E. K, FARMER,
For the petitioners
GFoRGIA-IRwIN COUNTY:
], M. Luke Jr. Deputy Clerk of the
the Superior Court of said County.
do hereby certify that the foregoing
is true and correct copy of the
orig final application for Charter of
the Fitzgerald Compress & Ware
house Go. as the same appears on
file in the office of the Clerk Of the
Superior Court in said county.
Witness my official signature and
the seal of the court. This the 18th
day of August, 1905.