Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-02-25
Petition For Charter.
rgla. Rem Hin County:

Georgia. Ben Hin County:
To the Superior Court of said County.
The petition of T. A Mcmillan and r. II
Calhoun Of the county Of Ware and said
state. and Dl 8. GGog and j H. Googe of the
county OF sen Hill and said state respect
fully shows:
i. That they desire for themselves, then
associates, SUCCESSORS and assigns 10 become
incorpora cd under the name and style OF
TIL Googe Lun Der Company.
g The object of the proposed corporation
is pecuniaTy Pre- fit and gala TO its stock
holders
8. The term for which petitioners ask to
DO incorporated is twenty years with III,
privilege of renewAl as provided by law AT
the end OF that timo.
4. The principal Office aud pla OF bust
ness will be in Fitzgerald, Be Hill county
Georgia, but petitioners desire thu privilege
of establishing and operating branch Offices
and places of business any whore in sato
state and Ia any state in the Tn ted statesse
they may by corporate ton deem TO be t.
tho interest of the stock holders
g. The capital stock of the corporation
shall be We Thousand dol ars, divided int,
shares ofone hundred dol ars each but petr
tioners ask the PRIVILEGE OF increasing sait
capital stock from time to time not exec ed
ing in the aggregate twenty thousanc
dollars.
6. PETIT toner's show that more than ten PEI
cent OF said capital stock has already beer
paid in.
q Petitioners propose to carry on general
lumber Business and to deal in lumber, lath'
crossties shingles Mt wholesale and retail t.
I,,Y, u Inn c,.Il
for cashier on credit and for commission q,
otherwise all such material, and things Il
are1usa8lly embrace in the Wholesale and
retail ii Ii 55s BIZ business, and all such M
ferials aud things as may be probably hauo.
led and go n connection there With; acting
as general or spe al agents for other persons
or companies in selling or handing any ma
terra or other class OF property appropriate
TO general lumber business or usually OF
convenient connected herewith, ana Il
make Contracts to aCt as such agent and
exercise the usual powers nm to do ali usua
necessary aud proper acts which pertain Il
or maybe connected with business of thu
kind
They also desire to purchase. own, no
and convey lumber and turrentine lands nn'
TO rent anu leas' such property to lend or
borrow money and to issue bon IL. notes am
other negOiiab evidences OF debt and to Sc
cure The same 10y M rtRage, pledge, truS
deed or otherwise, and 10 provide for thu
payment thereof. and 10 dn and perform
every act and thing which NAV pe necessary
or convenient for III" carrying N OF thu
business of tue corporation 10 the best in
tereSts of the stock hOlders thereof.
That m addition to the powers ane
privileges of doing the things hereinbefor
recited, p-tition'rs desire and pray that
said corporation be clothed and vested with
al the powers md privileges usual and in
cident to c,rporatio s in general AID in ad'
dition thereto the following powers ano
privileges; to sue and be sued. 10 nave an'
use a corp rate seal. and that tn" tXec ttv
powers of SAID COZ poratton shall be vested in
such officers as may be elected by the stock
holders # said corporation with the privilege
ofadoptiux such rules, regulations and by
laws as may be necessary for the carrying
on OF said business not in conflict with the
Constitution and laws Of this state and OF
abe United states.
10. Petitioners desire that no share holder
Of said corpora ion shall be liable individual
~ TO the creditors Of the corporation, except
TO the extent of any unpaid balance due OIL
his stock subscription.
Wherefore, petitioners pray that they and
theiraSsociates. successors and assigns may
be Incorporated under the name and style
aforesaid and for the time and pur ose Afort
said and with ali the powers, p'ivi egeansd
iEnfnunities aforesa d. 3. j. REID
Attorney for Petitioners.
Georgia, Rem Hill County.
once If the Clerk of superior Court. |. n
W. Sd Viii ley Clerk of the superior Court
of Ben Hill County. do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing is a true and exact copy
of.xhe original petition for charter now on
Ma in this Office ia the matter Of the Googe
Lamber Company.
Witness my hand and official signature,
thik 5th, day of February, 1908.
d. W. NJ. Whitly,
Tge,k Superior Court, Ben Hill County, Ga
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