The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-10-06
PETITION FOR CHARTER.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
COUNTY OF GLYNN.

To the Superior Court Of saia county:
Berry c. Walker, Lawrence R
Akin, ST., Julian P. Harrell and Henry
Gignilliatt, all Of Glyrn county, Geor-
gia, and all citizens of Georgia, pre-
sent this their declaration or petition
for incorporation, and thereupon they
respectfully declare, represent and
pray as follows:
Your petitioners wish, request and
pray that they, and their associates.
and the successors of them, be Gre
ated, established and founded a body
corporate and polite by virtue and
authority of the laws Of said state,
under and having the corporate name
of the Walker Grocery Company"
and having it's domicile in said coun-
" of Glynn in which it will transact
and carry on the business for which
incorporation is hereby sought, and
the object and purpose of such asso-
citation, Incorporation, being profit and
pecuniary gain to the members and
shareholders in such corporation,
through the pursuit and conduct of it's
mentioned;
And the particular business for which
incorporation is sought, and which
said corporation, when created ant
organized, purposes and intends to do
and will carry on, is that of general
grocer, engaging in the operation of
a general grocery store, in buying and
selling at retail and wholesale, both
and either, for profit and selling also
on commission as agent for others all
kinds of groceries, staple and fancy,
and as we'll foreign as domestic, and
any and all such other goods, wares,
commodities and merchandise as are
usually carried and kept for sale b
general grocers, all such goods and
merchandise as are usually kept for
sale in general grocery stores.
The capital stock, the amount of
capital to be employed by said cor
poration, is Three Thousand
($3,0O0.00) Dollars (unless increased
as hereinafter specified) divided into
shares of the par value of One Hun
dred ($100.00) Dollars EACH and
which amount is now ready to be paid
IN Immediately upon the grant of the
charter hereby prayed for and the
organization of the company and the
call for payment.
And it is further desired and re
quested that the shareholders of said
corporation be authorized and empow-
cred, at any time or times, and so
often and whenever they please, at
any regular meeting OF the Company,
the entire capital stock, then author
upon a vote OF three fifths $50 of
lied and subscribed for, whether the
original Three Thousand Dollars of
capital stock, or the amount to which
that shall have been raised previous
ly, to increase the capital stock of
said Company to any sum, from time
to time, desired, until the total CAPT.
tai stock, as so increased, shall not
exceed in the aggregate finally, Fifty
Thousand (s5O,O0O) Dollars. The
share of increased capital to be of the
par value of One Hundred ($100.00)
Dollars each
And these petitioners request that
said corporation have power to re-
oeive in payment for stock subscrip-
tons, whether such be to the original,
or the added or increased capital
stock, either real or personal property
which may be useful or necessary in
the operation of it's business, in the
discretion of and through it's board Of
directors.
And may it please the court, that
upon said corporation be conferred,
that it do and shall have. enjoy and
possess, in addition to those powers.
rights and privileges herein specifcal-
ly mentioned, all of those other rights.
powers and privileges recognized as
belonging to all corporations, termed
the common powers" and including
those enumerated and specified in
Section 2216 and Section 1929. clause
5, OF the Code of Georgia, adopted by
gust 18th, 1910, and the acts of the
Legislature amendatory thereof, as
fully and completely as II all such
were set forth and repeated herein
at length.
And your petitioners request and
pray the order and sanction of this
honorable Court granting this app,i-
cation and declaring them and their
associates, and the successors Of
them, Incorporated AMI Esde such
body polite under the said corporate
name, and with all of said r-wers
and privileges, those specially set out
and those referred to aud having sue
cession as such, for the term OF
| twenty years.
This September 18th 1911.
Respectfully submitted,
CORTLAND Sy nmes.
Petitioners Attorney