Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-06-18

/ State and County, respectfully shows:
1. That they desire for themselves
( and their associates, successors and
assigns, to be incorporated and be
made a body polite, under the name
and style OF HODGES LUMBER CON-
PANY."
,. The term for which your petition
' ers ask to be incorporated is 600
twenty years, with the privilege of re-
,newal at the expiration of that time.
3. The capital stock of the corpora
ton is to be $3.50, OO0OO) Thirty Thous-
and Dollars, divided into shares of
500 each, with the right and privilege
of increasing its capital stock 20
! ESQ., 100000 Fifty Thousand Dollars.
J 4. The whole amount of said capital
stock of Thirty Thousand Dollars has
been subscribed and actually paid in,
and is to be employed III carrying IN
said business.
). The object of the proposed cor
poration is pecuniary profit and gain
for its shareholders.
6. The principal business to be car
ried on by said Hodges Lumber Com
pany is the lumber saw-mill and tur>
pentine and naval stores business, the
buying, selling and manufacture Of
lumber of all kinds, operation of saw
mills and machinery of all kinds per-
tanning to the saw-mill business; the
buying, selling and manufacturer of
i turpentine, rosin and naval stores, the
operation of tuTpentine stills and ma
chinery of all kinds pertaining to the
turpentine business; the buying, sell
ing and operating of machinery of all
kinds pertaining to its business, IN
Guiding tramways, boats, engines, etc,
the buying, selling, renting and leasing
timber, timber lands and real estate Of
all kinds pertaining to its business;
the buying and selling of merchandise
of all kinds and the operating of a
commissary in connection with its
business.
T. Petitioners pray that they may
be incorporated and in said corporate
name may have the right to sue and be
sued; to have and use a corporate seal;
to make bylaws binding upon Its
members, not inconsistent with the
laws of this State and of the United
States; to have perpetual succession;
to have the right and power to pur-
chase, hold and sell real and personal
property, stocks and bonds, notes and
chooses in action; to subscribe to and
own stock in other corporations; 20
borrow money; to issue bonds and Sc
cure the same by deed or mortgage
conveying any or all of its property for
that purpose; and to have, use and en-
Joy all property. real and personal or
mixed that may be convenient or nee
essary to the transaction of its bust
ness; to appoint officers and agents for
the management of its business; and
generally to have and enjoy all and
singular, the rights, powers, privileg IS
anG immunities conferred by the law
of this State upon corporations of like
character.
s. The principal Office and place Of
} business of the proposed corporation
shall be in the City of Americas, sale
State and County, with the right and
privilege to establish and maintain
branch offices or business elsewhere
WHEREFORE, Petitioners pray 10
be made body corporate under the
name and style aforesaid, entitled 70
the rights, privileges and immunities,
and subject to the liabilities fixed by
/, law.
This the 90th day of May, 1911.
E. IA. HAWKINS,
Attorney for the Petitioners.