Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-07-27
APPLICATION FOR CHARTER
OF the Maddox CannerieS Company,

GEORGIA-Sumter County.
To the Superior Court of Said County:
The undersigned petitioners, Waite
J. Ware and Howard P Williamson Of
Dayton, Ohio, hereby make application
to the said Court for charter for d
corporation to be known as The Mad
dox Canneries Company, and your Pc
titioners respectfully show:
First: That they for themselves,
their associates, successors and as
signs, desire to be constituted a body
corporate under the name and style of
/ The Maddox Canneries Company, for
! the term of twenty (20) years, with
the privilege of renewal at the expira-
ton of said time.
| Second The object of the proposed
corporation is pecuniary gain to its
stockholders.
Third: The petitioners desire that
said corporation and body corporate
possess the right, power and authority
to sue and be sued. to have and use a
common seal, to make bylaws for it's
government, to elect directors for the
management of its affairs, and confer
upon them the right to elect officer
and appoint agents and employees, to
buy, sell, hold and incumber and other
wise dispose of real and personal
| property necessary and advantageous
ito the purposes of said corporation, to-
gether with all other rights, powers
and privileges incident usual or nee
essary to like corporations under the
said State of Georgia
! Fourth: The particular business pro-
posed to be conducted and carried on
| by said corporation is to own, operate,
run and manage a canning factory, for
the purpose Of canning and preserving
fruit and vegetables, and to own and
| mold by lease or otherwise farming
| ands from which to produce and raise
such articles, vegetables and fruit; and
! to furnish and supply farmers and
| gardeners and such laborers and work.
men with seed and seeds of such veg
! etables and fruit, with which to grow
and produce such vegetables, fruits
and produce to be sold, canned and
preserved, and to deal in canned goods
! of its own product and to buy and sell
IaIl such canned goods generally and 10
sell and dispose of all by-products
made and resulting in the operation Of
! such canning factory and doing all
things necessary and proper in run
ling and operating such factory.
Fifth: These petitioners would show
that the capital stock of the proposed
corporation shall be One Hundred
Thousand Dollars divided into Ten
thousand shares of Ten Dollars each,
and they further show that Fifty-One
Thousand Dollars thereof, which isl
more than ten per cent. of the said
proposed capital, has been paid.
Sixth: Your petitioners would fur
Their show that they desire that said
corporation shall have the right to in
crease said capital stock to any amount
not exceeding Four Hundred Thousand
Dollars, whenever the holders of al
majority Of the stock may so determ-
Inc, and which increase shall be dis
posed of as the stockholders may de-
.termine.
Seventh; The general office and
principal place of business of said
proposed corporation shall be at the
city of Americas, in the County of
Sumter, State of Georgia: but these
petitioners would further show that
they desire that said corporation may
have the right to establish branch Of |
fees or agencies at other places, both .
within and without the said State of
Georgia. as the holders of a majority
Of the stock may determine upon.
Wherefore these petitioners pray
that after the filing and publication of
this petition as required by law, that
an order be entered by this court de-
laring these petitioners body corpor-
ate, under the name and style afore-
said. and granting to said corporation {
all the rights, powers and privileges as
set out aud prayed for herein, or ]