The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-06-14
PETITION FOR CHARTER.

RI HON FOX CFAh En-.
STATE OF GEORGIA County of
Glynn.
To the Superior Court of said County.
The petition and application of R.
~. Smith, A. c. Tharin and M. A. Girar-
deau, each of Glynn county, Georgia,
respectfully shows:
/. That they desire for themselves,
their associates and successors to be
Incorporated and made body polite
under the name and style of United
Supply Company" for the period of
twenty years, with the right of re-
newal when and as provided by the
laws of Georgia. leif
2. The principal office of said cor
poration will be in the city of Bruins
wick, Georgia; petitioners desire the
right and privilege, however, to have
and establish such branch houses,
places of doing business, offices and
agents at any place or places in this
state or elsewhere.
3. The object of said corporation is
pecuniary gain to itself and it's stock
holders.
| A. The principal business to be car.
ried on and conducted by it is:
a. Manufacturing buying and sell
| ing as jobbers or retailers or both,
general mill supplies, engines, boil
ers, machinery and appliances of all
kinds, classes and description, and,
| to that end, to purchase, lease, own,
operate and sell sawmill and other
manufacturing plants, timber. tim!
Der lands, live stock and to do each
and every other thing necessary to
properly carry out this line of said
business.
b. Manufacturing buying and sell
/ ing, as jobbers or retailers or both.
hardware and builders supplies of all
kinds and description, and to that end
to generally deal in each and every
article or thing usually kept, handled
and sold by wholesale and retail
merchants.
C. To carry on the business OF
warehousing in all OF its branches; to
receive on consignment, or otherwise,
to store, sell and distribute goods on
commission or other basis.
d. To apply for register, purchase,
lease or otherwise acquire, and to
hold, use, own, operate and introduce
and to sell, assign or otherwise dis
pose of any trademarks, trade names,
patents, inventions and processes
used in connection with or secured
alton shall be fifty thousand ($50,000)
pelpunu 9Ag oluI pep!Alp 'sIeIop
shares of the par value OF one hun
dred ($100) dollars each; of such to-
tai authorized capital stock, three
hundred shares amounting to thirty
thousand dollars, will be common
stock, and two hundred shares
amounting to twenty thousand dol
lars, will be preferred stock.
From time to time the preferred
stock and the common stock may be
increased to not exceeding in the ag-
gregate the sum of two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. and may be is
sued in such amounts and proportions
as shall be determined by the board
of directors, and as may be permit
ted by law.
The holders or the preferred stock
ihri be entitled TO receive when and
rs declared, from the surplus or net
profits of the corporation, yearly divi-
dends, at the rate of eight 90 per
cent per annum, payable annually, on
dates to be fixed by the bylaws, and,
after. d like dividend of eight 81 per
eentum shall have been lpaid%to the
holders of the common stock, all 9th,
or funds set aside for dividends shall
be equally divided between the two
classes of stock. The dividend on
the preferred stock shall be cumu-