Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-11-21
PETITION For CHARTER
GEORGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.
To the Superior Court of said County:

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To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition OF Lon Dickey and T. j. Dickey,
both of said state and county, res pectfully
shows:
I. 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
a period of twenty years, with the privilege
| Of renewal, to take effect at the eXpira ton
Of that time as is provided by law.
3. 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 the
privilege of increasing its capital stock from
time to time to an amount not exceeding One
Hundred Thousand Do lars. Ten per cent OF
said capital stock has already been paid in
l. 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 operatlngs
branch Offices at any pace in the state OF
Georgia and in any other place in the United
States, If they by corporate action shall so
elect.
5. The object of the corporation is to be
the pecuniary profit and gain of It's stock
holders.
6. Petitioners propose that said corpora.
tion shall carry on the business of a lumber
bI oler and a wholesale and retail lumber
and naval stores merchant. They desire for
lid corporation all OF the powers necessary
and incident TO such bus 'ness and usually
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among others, the power to buy and sell,
both on its own account as well as for Others
and to manufacture lumber lathes, shingles,
wood, crossties turpentine, rosin, and, in
short, all the products and by-products Of the
saw MILL crosstie and turpentine business
T. 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 and tur-
pentine sites. leases and lands, and also saw
| mills and turpentine stills and such person
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 COTporatiopS VI ike
character and purposes
Wherefore. petitioners pray to be made
| body corporate under the name and style
aforesaid, entitled to the rights, privileges
and immunities and subject to the Liabilities
| fixed by law.
This 18th day OF November, 1903.
| o. H. ELkINS,
Attorney for Ps tirioners,
| GEoRGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY
/, d. w. M Whitley, Clerk OF the superior
Court of said county, do hereby certify I'M
dor my hand and the official seal OF my ONCE
that the above and foregoing is a true ana
correct copy of the application for the char
ter of the Lon. Dickey Lumber Co., which is
now of file in my office
This 18th day of November, 1905.
| ID. w. M. WHITLEY,
Clerk Superior Court Ben Bill County Ca