Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-12-19
Petition for Charter.
alton.
IORGIA, Sumter County:

dIlu Lester WlllldulS, SHOWS
1. They desire for themselves and
their associates, successors and as
signs, to be incorporated and made a
body polite, under the name and style
of Americas Public Service Com
pany,"
II. The term for which your petit
TONERS ask to be incorporated is (20)
twenty years, with the privilege of re-
newal at the expiration of that time
III. The capital stock of the cor
poration is to be twenty-five Hundred
and Fifty ($225O.OO) Dollars, divided
into shares of ore ($1OO) Dollar each,
subject to the terms and conditions
as may be provided therein.
vi. The whole of said capital stock
of twenty-five Hundred and Fifty
| ($2250.00) Dollars has been subscrib-
ed and actually paid in, and is to be
employed in carrying on said business.
V. The object of the proposed cor
poration is pecuniary profit and gain
for its shareholders.
vi. The principal business to be
carried on by said Americas Public
Service Company, are as follows:
(a) To own and operate gas plants
in the City of Americas; to manufac-
ture and sell gas for Illuminating and
fuel purposes, and for that purpose to
distribute same through the streets,
alleys and ways of the City of Ameri-
Gus, with the right to lay it's mains
and pipes in and along the streets OF
Americas, and to this end to exercise
the right of eminent domain.
(b) To own and operate electric
plants in the City of Americas, for the
purpose of generating and selling cleo
tricity for lighting and power pur-
poses, and for all other purposes for
which electricity may be employed,
with the right to erect poles and wires
in, upon and along the streets of the
City Of Americas, and upon the public
roads of Sumter county, and to put in
all other fixtures and apparatus nee
essary for the operation of said PLAN
(c) To have and own steam heat
ing and water plants, for the purpose
Of distributing through the streets of
the City of Americas steam and hot
and cold water for heating buildings,
ETC., and for other heating purposes,
and for furnishing power for running
small plants, etc, and to charge there
for reasonable rate.
VII. Petitioners pray that they
may be incorporated, and in said cor
porate name may have the right to
sue and be sued; to secure franchise
of the City of Americus; to have and
use corporate seal; to make bylaws
binding upon it's members, not incon>
sistent with the laws Of the state of
Georgia and Of the United States; to
have perpetual succession; to have
the right and power to purchase, hold
and sell real estate and persona.
property, stocks and bonds, notes and
chooses in action; to subscribe to ami
own stock In other corporations;
create a sinking fund with which to
retire and pay off bonds of the COM
pany; to enter into and have partner
ships with individuals or other corpo-
rations in the furtherance of its bust
ness; to consolidate or merge with any
other corporation Of like character;
to take over properties of other plants
of like character and business, and
pay for same with bonds issued by this
company; to borrow money; to issue
bonds in the sum Of Two Hundred and
enty-five Thousand ($225, 100000
n0llars, and secure the same by deed
OF trust, conveying any or all Of its
property for that purpose; and to pro-
ae for the appointment of the neces-
soy Trustees to look after the inter-
est of the bondholders; also Trustee or
Trustees to manage and operate said
plant and business Of the company, and
10 carry out the terms and conditions
O said Deed of Trust; and to have
use and enjoy all property, real and
/ personal or mixed; acquire franchise
and privileges OF the City of Americas
that may be convenient or necessary
to the transaction of its business; to
appoint officers, agents and trustees for
the management of its business, and
generally to have and enjoy all and
singular, the rights, powers, privileges
and immunities conferred by the law of
this state upon corporations of like
character.
! VIII. The principal Office and place
of business of the proposed corpora
ton shall be in the City of Amertcus,
said state and county. The Board of
Directors shall consist of not more
than FIVE; said board shall be selected
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