Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1912-02-17
Petition for Charter
GEORGIA-BEN HILL COUNTY.

The petition of S. C. Brink of Ben
Hill County. Georgia, and W. II.
Woodbury. of Asheville, North Care
lima, respectfully shows:
/. That they desire for them
selves, their associates and success
ors, to be incorporated and made a
body polite, under the name and
style of CHEROKEE MARBLE
WORKS, for the period of twenty
years.
2. The principal Office of said
company shall be in the city Of Fitz-
gerald, State of Georgia and county
of Ben Hill. but petitioners desire
the right to establish branch offices
within this state, or elsewhere, when
ever the holders of the majority of
the stock may so determine.
8. The object of said corporation
is pecuniary gain to itself and its
share holders.
A. The business to be carried ca
by said corporation is to 1nannfac-
ture and sell tombstones, and for
the purpose Of carrying on this bus
mess they ask the right to buy, own
and hold lands, and erect buildings
thereon; to buy or otherwise secure
marble, granite and other stones,
and to buy and sell the same. both
in the rough and finished; to buy
and sell merchandise, build, erect,
convey, lease and rent houses and
lands; to borrow money and TO issue
bonds and other evidences Of debt,
and to secure payment of the same
! by deeds of trust, mortgages or 9TH
er like conveyanceS upon the prop
erty of the corporation.
5. The capital stock of said cor
poration shall be Five Thousand
Dollars ($5,00O. with the privilege
of increasing same to the sum OF
Twenty Thousand Dollars ($2O00O
by a majority vote of the stock hold
ers, said stock to be divided into
shares of One Hundred Dollars
| $100) each.
| 6. Petitioners desire the right
to sue and be sued; to plead and be
implicated; to have and use d com
mon seal; to make all necessary by
laws and regulations and to do all
other things that may be necessary
for the successful carrying on of said
business, including the right to buy, !
hold and sell real estate and person
al property suitable to the purposes
of the corporation and to execute
notes and bonds as evidence of the
Indebtedness incurred or which may
be incurred, in the conduct of the
affairs of the corporation, and to Sc
cure the same by mortgage, security
deed or other form of lien, under ex-
listing laws.
7. They desire for said incorporaA
ton the power and authority to rap?
ply for and accept amendments to
its charter Of either form or SUBJ
stance by a vote of a majority Gifts
stock outstanding at the time. They
also ask authority for said incorpo+
ration to wind up it's affairs, liqui-
date and discontinue its business at
any time it may derermine to do 80
by a vote of two-thirds of its stock
outstana. a. n, ii the time.
g.. They desire for the said incor-
poration the right of renewal. when
and as provided by the laws Of
Georgia, and that it have all such
other rights. powers. privileges and
immunities as are incident to like
interpretations or permissible under
the laws of Georgia.
WHEREFORE, petitioners pray to be
incorporated under the name and
style aforesaid, with the powers
privileges and immunities herein
set forth and as are now, or may
hereafter be, allowed a corporation
of similar character under the laws
of Georgia. MCDONALD & GRANTHAM,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
Filed in office, this February Sd,
1912. D. W. NJ WHITLEY,
Clerk Superior Court
GEoRGIA-Ben Hill County.
I, D. w. M. Whitley, Clerk of the
Superior Court of Ben Hill County
do hereby certify that the foregoing
is true and correct copy of the ap-
plication Of charter of Cherokee
Marble Works, as the same appears
on file in this office.
Witness my official signature and
sealof said Court, this, the 3rd day of
February, 1912.
D.. w. M. WHITLEY,
Clerk of Superior Court Ben Hill