The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-10-21
Petition For Charter

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Georgia, Terrell County.-To the
Superior Court of Said County: The
petition of j. A. Shields, T. c. Geise
and j. S. Lowrey, all of said state
and county, respectfully shows:
LIST. That they desire for them
selves, their associates and success
sors to be incorporated and made a
body polite under the name and
style of Shields-Geise Lumber Co. for
period of twenty years with the
privilege of renewal at the end of
that time.
End. The principal office of said
company shall be in the city of Daw-
son, state and county aforesaid, but
petitioners desire the right to estab-
lish branch offices within this state
or elsewhere whenever the holders
of a majority of the stock may so de-
termine.
3rd. The object of the proposed
corporation is pecuniary profit and
gain to it's stockholders.
4th. Petitioners propose to carry
on a general entertainments business,
including the manufacturing and the
buying and selling for cash or credit
any and all materials necessary for
building, altering, constructing,
erecting, improving, repairing and
ornamenting any and all buildings,
machinery or other structures; to
keep and have for sale at all times
any and all the various materials
and commodities which enter into
the building and completion of
homes, including any and all kinds
of fixtures, the building and repair
ing of sidewalks and other street i'm
provements; to build, construct, erect
and maintain dams, mill races and
bitches, and to do any and all other
things essential to the operation of
power plants, gins, saw mills, vari-
ETY. works, etc.; to remove buildings,
to make excavations and founda-
tions, to fill in, grade, sod, cultivate
and dredge whenever and wherever
the same is essential; to contract and
sub-contract for any and all works
necessary for the operation of their
business; to lease and release any
property they may desire; to act as
agents and to do any and all other
acts necessary for the legitimate eX-
ecution of their business.
5th. The capital stock of said cor
poration shall be fifteen thousand
C$15, 100000 dollars, with the privi-
lege of increasing the same to the
sum of thirty thousand $3.50, 0O0.G0)
dollars by a majority vote of the
stockholders, said stock to be divided
into shares of one hundred ($100.00)
dollars each. Ten per cent of the
amount of the capital stock to
be employed by them has actually
been paid in. Petitioners desire to
have the subscriptions of said capital
stock paid in money or property TAX
en- at fair valuation.
9Th. Petitioners desire the right
to sue and be sued, to plead and be
implicated, to have and use a 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 personal
property suitable to the purposes of
the corporation, and to execute notes
and bonds as evidences of indebted
ness incurred, or which may be in
Cured, in the conduct of the affairs
of the corporation, and to secure the
same by mortgage, security deed or
other form of lien under existing
laws.
7th. They desire for said corpor-
alton the power and authority to ap-
ply for and accept amendments to its
charter of either form or substance
by a majority of its stockholders
at the time. They also ask for au-
thority to wind up the affairs of the
corporation, liquidate and discontin-
ue its business at any time they may
desire to do so by a vote of two
thirds of it's stock outstanding at the
time.
8th. They desire 70" the said cor
poration the right CT renewal when
and as provided by the laws of Geor-
gia, and that it have all other such
rights, powers, privileges and i'm
munities. as are incident to like cor
porations or permissible under the
laws of Georgia.
Wherefore, petitioners pray to be
incorporated under the name and
style aforesaid with the powers, priv
ileges and immunities herein set
forth, and as are now, or may here
after be, allowed a corporation of
similar character under the laws of
Georgia. NJ. J. YEOMANS,
Petitioners Attorney.
Filed in office this End day of Oc-
tober, 1918. W. S. DOZIER, Clerk.
Georgia, Terrell County,, W. S.
/ Dozier, Clerk of the Superior Court
of said county, do hereby certify that
the foregoing is a true and correct
copy OF the application for charter
Shields-Geise Lumber Company as
the same appears on file in this office.
| Witness my official signature and the
seal of said court, this End day OF
October. 1913. w. S. DOZIER,
| Clerk Superior Court, Terrell County.
/ This 2nd day of October. 1913.