Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-07-13
APPLICATION FOR CHARTER
OF the Maddox Canneries Company

}. Ware and Howard p. Williamson of
Dayton, Ohio, hereby make application
to the said Court for a charter for a
corporation to be known as The Mad
doX Canneries Company, and your pc
Ititioners 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 600 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 its
government, to elect directors for the
management of its affairs, and confer
| upon them the right to elect officers
and appoint agents and employees, to
Ibuy, sell, hold and incumber and other
wise dispose of real and personal
property necessary and advantageous
to 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
hold by lease or otherwise farming
lands from which to produce and raise
such articles, vegetables and fruit; and
to furnish and supply farmers and
gardeners and such Iaborers 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
all 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
ming 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 is
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
mot exceeding Four Hundred Thousand
Dollars, whenever the holders of a
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 sale
proposed corporation shall be at The
city Of Americas, in the County oil
Sumter, State of Georgia; but these
petitioners would further show tha
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 o.
Georgia. as the holders of majority
of the stock may determine upon.
Wherefore these petitioners pray
that after the filing and publication o.
this petition as required by law, tina
an order be entered by this court de
laring these petitioners a body corpor
, ate, under the name and style afore
said, and granting to said corporation
all the rights, powers and privileges q!
set out aud prayed for herein, o,
which may be incidental, usual ant
necessary under the laws of the Stat,
of Georgia, for the purpose of thei
incorporation
WALTER J. WARE,
HOWARD P. WILLIAMSON.
Petitioners.
Americus, Ga, June It'll, 1911
, Filed in Office June It'll, 1911.
S. R. HEYS, Deputy Clerk S. C.
Clerks Office Sumter Superior Court
Americas, Ga, June It'll, 1911
], S. r. Heys, Deputy Clerk Of thu
! Superior Court in and for the Count.
; of Sumter do hereby certify that tn
! above and foregoing application TO
? charter Of the Maddox Canneries Com
pany is a true copy Of the original fl
, ed in office this day and now of file il
this Office
Witness my Official signature ant
seal of said Court, this the day ant
year above written. 11-4t-pd
S. R. HEYS, Deputy Clerk S. c.