Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-09-13
PeaCOCk's Pharmacy
Phone 8,
PETITION FOR CHARTER.
GEORGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.

To The Superior Court of said County:
The petition of p M. Adams, J. NJ. Adams and
j. j. Rogers all of said state and county. respect
fully shows:
| l. That they desire for themselves, their as
sociates and successors, to be Incorporated and
made body polite under the name and style of
the "ADAMS-ROGERS HARDWARE COMPANY"
for the period of Twenty years.
2 The principal office of said company shall be
in the city of Fitzgerald. State and county afore
said, but petitioners desire the right to establish
branch offices within this State or elsewhere
whenever the holders of a majority of the stock
may so determine.
The object of said corporation is pecuniary gain
for itself and its shareholders.
A. The business to be carried on by said corpo-
ration is that of a general hardware and builders
supply business. Petitioners propose to sell by
wholesale and retail all articles of merchandise
usually handled and sold by general hardware and
builders supply merchants, including among
other things the following hardware, paints, oils,
doors, sash, blinds, lime, plaster, cement, brick,
mantels tinware. crockery. enamel ware, firearms
and ammunition.
Petitioners also propose for the successful Ope-
ration of its business to place bids and to accept
| COlllply lllCltNltl painting
plastering of buildings of any character and to
plrce bids and accept and comply there
with contracts for the hangingof wallpaper
or any work of interior decorations.
S. The capital stock of said corporation shall be
Five Thousand Dollars ($5OOOOO) with the privilege
of increasing same to the sum of twenty-five
Thousand Dollars ($25000O) by majority vote of
the stockholders, said stock to be divided into
shares of One Hundred ($1OO.OO) Dollars each. All
of said capital stock has been actually paid in.
6. Petitioners desire the right to sue and be
sued to plead and be implicated, to have and use a
common seal, to make all necessary bylaws and
regulations, and to do all other things that may
be necessary for the successful carrying of said
business including the right to buy, hold and sell
real estate and personal property suitable to the
purposes of the corporation, and to execute notes
and bonds as evidence of Indebtedness incurred,
which may be incurred in the conduct of the af-
fairs of the corporation and to secure the same by
mortgage security or other form of lien.
der existing laws.
7. They desire for said Incorporation the power
and authority to apply for and accept amendments
to its charter of either form substance by vote
of majority of its stock outstanding at the time
They also ask authority for said incorporation to
wind up its affairs, liquidate and discontinue its
business at any time it may determine to do so by
vote of twothirds of its stock outstanding at the
| time.
! s. They desire for the said incorporation the
right of renewal when and as eIovided by the laws
of Georgia. and that it have all such other rights
powers privileges and immunities as are incident
to like corporations or permissible under the laws
of Georgia.
Wherefore petitioners pray to be incorporated
under the name and style aforesaid with the
powers, privileges and immunities herein set forth
and as are now, or may hereafter be allowed
corporation of similar character under the laws of
Georgia.
CLAYTON JAY
Petitioners Attorney
GEoRGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.
Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court
| D. W. M. Whitley Clerk of the Superior Court of
county, do hereby certify that the above and fore
going is true and exact copy of the original pc
titOn for charter of file in this office by the
parties therein named in the matter of the Adams
Rogers Hardware Company"
Witness my hand and seal of this office this the
day of September, 1910
D. w. M. WHITLEY
Clerk Superior Court of Ben Hill County. Ga.