The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-07-20
Petition for Charter.

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ISuperior Court Of Said County: The
petition of Ethelbert Belknap, of the
county of Westchester, state of New
York, j. A. Horsley, of the county
of Terrell state of Georgia, and 9TH
ers, respectfully shows:
LIST, That they desire for them
| selves, their associates, successors
| and assigns, to become Incorporates
under the name and style of DAW-
son DEVELOPMENT COMPANY.
End. The term for which petition
ers ask to be incorporated is twenty
years, with the privilege of renewal
at the expiration of that time.
3rd. The capital stock of the cor
poration is to be twenty-five thou
sand dollars, divided into shares of
one hundred dollars each. Petition
ers, however, ask the privilege of
increasing said capital stock from
time to time not exceeding in the
aggregate the sum of one million dol
lars.
4th. The whole of said capital
stock of $4,000 has already been
actually paid in.
9Th. The object OF the proposed
corporation is pecuniary profit and
gain to its stockholders The pur-
poses for which said corporation is
formed and the Particular business
which they propose to carry on is to
acquire lands by purchase, lease or
otherwise; to dig or drill wells or
develop the same for the purpose of
obtaining oil, petroleum, gas, or 9TH
er natural products of the earth, and
to refine and develop the same; to
erect buildings and improvements on
said land; to sell or lease lands
owned by the company, or to sell or
lease any interest in lands, and to
hold, own, mortgage, sell or other
wise dispose of and trade IN lands;
to acquire and undertake the good
will property rights, assets and liza
bilities of any person, firm, associa-
ton or corporation engaged in bust
ness of the same general nature, and
to pay for the same in cash, stock or
bonds of this corporation, or other
wise; to acquire the capital stock or
bonds of any association or corpora
ton engaged in the business of the
same general nature, and to dispose
of the same and to issue in exchange
this cOmpany's stock or bonds or 9TH
er obligations, and to guarantee the
stock, bonds or other obligations of
any corporation engaged in business
of the same general nature; to enter
into, make, form and carry out con-
tracts which may be necessary in
carrying on it's business with any
ton, exception, however, that said
corporation shall not be deemed to
possess the power of carrying on the
business of discounting notes, bills
or other evidences of debt, or receiv-
ing deposits or buying gold or silver
bullion, or foreign coin, or buying
and selling bills of exchange or 9TH
er evidence of debt for the circula-
tion of money; to borrow or raise
money without limit as to amount, by
the issue of, or upon warrants, bonds,
debentuTes, and other negotiable or
transferable instruments, or other
wise; to purchase, hold and reissue
shares of it's capital stock; to conduct
business and have one or more Offices
in any of the states, territories, COLO
MES or dependencies of the United
States or the District of Columbia,
or in any and all foreign countries,
and therein to hold, purchase, lease,
mortgage and convey real and per-
sonal property without limit as to
amount, but always subject to local
laws, and to do any and all things
herein set forth to the same extent
as natural persons might or could do
in any part of the world BY the
foregoing enumeration it is not de-
sired to restrict or limit in any man
ner the powers of the corporation,
but it is desired that said corpora
ton be permitted to carry on any
other business in connection with the
! foregoing of the same general nature
which is not prohibited by law,
whether manufacturing or otherwise,
and to have and exercise all the pow
ers conferred by law upon corpora
lions by the laws of the state of Geor-
gia.
9th. The principal office and place
| of business of the proposed corpora.
/ ton shall be in the city of Dawson
county of Terrell, state of Georgia.
Wherefore petitioners pray to be
made body corporate under the
name and style aforesaid, and as such
entitled to the rights, privileges and
immunities and subject to the liabil-
tiles fixed by law This July 18th,
1910. H. A. WILKINSON,
Petitioners Attorney.
Georgia, Terrell County,, w. S.
Dozier, clerk of the superior court
of said county, do hereby certify that
the foregoing is a true and correct
copy of the application for charter of
the Dawson Development Company
as the same appears of file in this
office. Witness my official signature
and the seal of said court this 18th
day of July, 1910. w S. DOZIER,
Clerk Superior Court Terrell County
Georgia