Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-01-30
Petition For Charter.
&c rgia-Bcn Hill County.

To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of r. II. Beall, OF the county
of Wilcox and said state; n. r. Beatl, Of the
county of i}errien and said state, and L. vi
Beall, j. w. Beall, B. Harrod Bea!l and NJ
Garbutt, of the county OF Ben Hill coun~
ty and said state, respectfully shows the fol-
lowing facts, to-wit:
]. That they desire for themselves, their
associates, successors and assigns to become
INCORPORATED under the name and style Of The
BeaIl Grocery Company.
@ The object of tho proposed corporation
is pecuuiary profit and gam to its sto X
holders.
8. The term for which petitioners ask to be
Incorporated is the period of twenty years.
with the privilege of renewal, as provided bT
law, at the expiration OF that tine.
f. The principal o. CO and place or Dusl-
ness shall he in Fitzgerald. Zen Hill county,
Georgia, but petitioners desire the privilege
of establishing branch offices and places OF
business ia SAID state, or in any state OF the
United States as they may by corporate ae-
ton deem to be to the best interest OF tho
stockholders.
s. The capital stock of said corporation
shall be Ten Thousand Dollars, divided lite
shares of one Hundred Dollars each, but pc
titioners desire the right to increase SAID
capital stock from time To time not exceed
ing in the aggregate Fifty Thousand Dollars
g. Petitioners snow tn 1T seven Thousand
Five Hundred Dollars has been paid in.
T. Petitioners propose to carry on and OF
crate q wholesale and retail grocery business
and to deal in groceries, including dry goods,
household and kitchen furniture, hardware,
bugges and wagons, farming implements,
lime, cement aud builders supplies at whole
sale and retail; buying and selling for cash
or ON credit and for commission or otherwise,
all such articles and things as are us 4ally
embraced in the wholesale and retail grocery
business, and all such articles and things as
may be protitably handled and sold in con-
nection herewith; acting as general or spec
iai agents for other persons or corporations
Ill selling or handling any articles orclass OF
articles appropriate 10 u general business VI
a corporation Of this kiud or usually or con-
veniently connected Herewith, and to make
contracts to act as such agent and to Aer'
else tne usual powers and to do all usual,
necessary and proper acts which pertain TO
or may be connected with the business OF
wholesale aud retail dealers in general
BUSINESS of this kind
s. They aiso desire to purchase, own, / =
prove h Old and conveyand to rent or lease all
klnus of property, whether real or personal;
to Ii nd or borrow monSy and to issue bonds,
notes or other negotiable evidences of debt,
aud to secure the same by mortgage, pedge,
trust deed or otherwise, and to provide for
the payment thereof, and to do ANA perform
every act and thing which may be heUess Try
or G.. nvenlent for the carrying on OF the
business If the corporation to the best inter
ests OF the stockholders tLcreJf
8, That in addition to the powers Id
privileges of doing tho things herenhefo"e
recited, petitioners desire and pray ttat said
corporation be clothed and vested with all
the powers and privileges usual and incident
to corporations in general and In addition
thereto the following powers and privileges:
TO sue and be sued to have ana use corr or
ate seal; and that the executive powers Of
said corporation shall be vested IN such OIL
GERS as may be elected by the stockholders of
said corporation with the privilege Of adopt
ing su h rules, regulations aud bylaws as
may be necessary for the operation Of said
business not in conflict With the constitution
and the laws of this state aid of the United
States,
II, Petitioners CeSlfe tnaG no Snaren0fOef
of said corporal on shall be liable iDdivid
ually to the cre6i ors of the corporation, ex
cent to the extent of any unpaid balance due
on his stock subscription.
IL. Petitioners desire that said corporation
be authorized to accept and receive in pay
ment for its capital stock, real estate and
personal property, of any kind.
Wherefore petitioners pray that y and
their associates, successors and assigns may
be Incorporated under the name and style
aforesaid, entitled to the rights, PRIVILEGES
and immunities and subject 10 the liabilities
fixed by law. IL }. REID,
Attorney for Petitioners.
Georgia Ben Hill County. !
|, u. w. NJ. Whitley. Clerk of the Supetior
Court of Ben Hill county, do hereby certify
that the above and foregoing is a true and
exact CODY of the original petition for char
ter now on f'e in this office in the name of
the SeaM Grocery Company
Witness my hand and official signature,
this the 3rd day of January. 1908;
d. w. NJ. WHITLEY,
Clerk Superior Court of Ben Hill County, Ga
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