The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-05-23
Petition For Charter
Georgia, Ben Hill County.

To The Superior Court of said County
The petition of L. A. Gaines of Ben
Hill County, Ga. and off, U. Gaines of
Ben Hill County Ga. respectfully shows:
First: They desire for themselves,
their associates, and successors, to be in
corporated and made body polite I'M
der the name and style of Gaines Broth
ers Company, for the period of 90 years.
Second: The principal office of said
company shall be in the City of Fitzgerald
state and county aforesaid, but petition
ers desire the right to establish branch
offices within this state, or elsewhere
whenever the holders Of majority of
the stock may so determine.
Third: The object of said corporation
is pecuniary gain to itself and its share
holders.
Fourth: The business to be carried on
by said corporation is that of general dry
goods merchants, the corporation propos
ing to purchase and sell atretail dry goods,
notions, hats, shoes, and ladies and gents
furnishings, millinery, and all other arti-
Giles as are ordinarily carried in retail
dry goods store.
Fifth: The capital stock OF said cor
poration shall be seventy five hundred
[$7500.o0] dollars. with the privilege of
increasing the same to the sum of ten
thousand [S1o,ooo.ool dollars by ma
jority vote of the stockholders, said stock
to be divided into shares of $4,000 each.
The whole of said capital to be employed
by petitioners has been actually paid in
in money, and in dry goods taken at a
fair value.
Sixth: Petitioners desire the right
to sue and be sued, to plead and be i'm
pleaded, to have and use common seal,
to make all necessary bylaws and regu-
lations and to do all other things that may
be necessary for the successful carrying
on of said business, including the right to
buy real estate and personal property
suitable to the purposes of the corpora
ton, and to execute notes and bonds as
evidence of indebtedness incurred or
which may be incurred in the conduct of
the affairs of the corporation and to secure
the same by mortgage, security or
other form of lien, under existing laws.
Seventh: They desire for said incor-
poration the power and authority to apply
for and accept amendments to its char
ter Of either form or substance by vote
of majority of its stock outstanding at
the time. They also ask authority for
said corporation to wind up its affairs,
liquidate and discontinue its business at
any time it may determine to do so by a
vote of two thirds of its stock outstand-
ing at the time.
Eighth: They desire for the said in
corporation 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 permis-
sable under the laws of Georgia.
Wherefore, petitioners pray to be in
corporated under the name and style
aforesaid with the powers, privileges ard
immunties herein set forth, and as are
now, or may hereafter be allowed cor
poration of similar character under the
laws Of Georgia.
Elkins & Wall ane Alex Koplin
Petitioners Attorneys.
GEORGIA, Ben HILL COUNTY:
Id. w. M. Whitley, Clerk of the SUPERB
or Court OF said county, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is true and correct
copy of the application for charter OF
Gaines Brothers Company as the same
appears of file in this Office.
Witness my official signature and the
seal of said court this the Is day OF
April 1918.
D. w. M. Whitley, Clerk,
S. c. Ben Hill Co. Ga.