Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-12-12
PETITION For CHARTER
EoRGtA-BEN HILL COUNTY.

| GEoRGTA-BEN HILL COUNTY.
To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of Lon Dickey and 7. ]. Dickey.
both of said state and county, respectfully
shows:
/. That they desire for themselves, their
associates, successors and assigns to become
| incorporated under the name and style of
| the Lon Dickey Lumber Company.
2. The term for which petitioners ask to
| be incorporated under said name and style is
| period of twenty years, with the privilege
of renewal, to take effect at the expira ton
of that time as is provided by law.
g. The capital stock of the proposed COR
poration is to be Fifty, Thousand Dollars. to
| be divided into shares of One Hundred Dol
lars each. Petitioners, however, desire tn e
privilege of increasing its capital stock from
! time to time to an amount not exceeding One
Hundred Thousand Dollars. Ten per cent of
said capital stock has already been paid in.
4. The principal Office and place of bust
| ness OF the corporation is to be at Fitzgerald,
said state aud county, but petitioners desire
| the privilege of establishing and operating
branch offices at any pace in the state of
Georgia and in any other place in the United
States, II they by corporate action shall so
elect.
S. The object of the corporation is to be
the pecuniary profit and gain of it's stock
holders.
6. Petitioners propose that said corpora
ton shall carry on the business of a lumber
broker and wholesale and retail lumber
and naval stores merchant. They desire for
6 aid corporation all of the powers necessary
and incident to such business and usually
exercised by those so engaged, to include,
among others, the power to buy and sell,
both on its own account as we'll as for others,
and to manufacture lumber, lathes, shingles,
wood, crossties, turpentine. rosin, and, in
short all the products add by-products of the
saw mill, crosstie and turpentine business
z. Petitioners desire that said corporation
shall have the power to buy. own, lease, rent
and convey both real estate and personal
property, and particularly timber aud tur-
pentine sites, leases and lands, and also saw
mills and turpentine stills and such perso l.
atty as is generally employed In their opera
ton. Petitioners desire also that said cor
poration shall be clothed with the POWER to
loan and borrow money and to take and give
mortgages and deeds to secure such indebt-
edneSs; to sue and be sued; to have and use
a corporate seal, and generally to exercise
such powers usual with corporations of like
C0&E4CIoE duO purposes
Wherefore. petitioners pray to be made a
body corporate under the name and style
aforesaid, entitled to therights, privileges
and inmunitieS and subject to the Liabilities
fixed by law:
This 18th day of November, 1902.
o. 81. ELKINS
Attorney for Petitioners.
GEoRG4A-BEN HILL COUNTY,
Id. w, NJ Whitley, Clerk of the Superior
Court of said county, do hereby certify IN
der nay hand and the official seal OF my Office
THAI the above and foregoing is a true and
correct copy of the application for the char
Ter of the Lon. Dickey Lumber Co.. which is
now of file in my of1ce.
This 18th day OF November. 1905.
d. W. III. WHITLEY,
Clerk Superior Court Ben Hill County, Ga.