The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-03-14
APPLICATION FOR CHARTER.


GEORGIA, COBB COUNTY:
To the Superior Court of said County
The petition of j. j. Black, G.. T.
Black, John P. Cheney, G. A. Griffin.
w. A. Sans, E. C. Gurley, F. West,
T. w. Read, Gordon Gam, J. T.. And
erson, S. c. McEachern, C. w. DuPre,
all of Cobb County, Georgia, respect
fully shows:
:. 1. That they desire for themselves,
their associates and successors, to be
incorporated under the name and
style of THE BLACK BUILDERS
SUPPLY COMPANY for the period
of twenty years, with the privilege of
renewal at the expiration of said
period.
2. The principal office and place
of business of said company shall be
in the City of Marietta, State and
County aforesaid.
3. The object of said corporation
is pecuniary gain to itself and it's
shareholders.
4. The business to be carried on by
said corporation is that of buying
and selling of all kinds of lumber,
shingles, laths, paints and oils, hard
ware, lime, blinds, sash, doors, man
tells, CRATES, thing, cement, plaster
and all kinds of building material
building and contracting to build
houses and all other kinds of struc-
ture, all kinds of contract work, in
.cluding the operation of planning mill
saw mills and all kinds of machinery
necessary and incident to lumber and
building business, the buying and sell
ing or exchanging timber and timber
rights and real estate deemed necess-
airy to the welfare of the corporation
ETC.
5. The capital stock of the COM
pany shall consist of two hundred
(2OO) shares of the par value of one
hundred dollars ($1OO.0O) per share
and fifty (5O) shares of preferred
stock of the par or face value of one
hundred dollars ($10O.OO) per share.
The rights of holders of preferred
stock shall be set forth and determin-
ed by the bylaws to be adopted by
the corporation at it's first meeting
held for organization. Such parts of
said bylaws as relate to the rights
of preferred stockholders shall not
thereafter be altered, amended. or re-
scinded without the unanimous con-
sent of all of said preferred stock
holders present and voting at such
meeting. Ten per cent of the amount
OF capital to be employed by them has
actually been paid in.
Petitioners desire the right to have
the subscriptions to said capital stock
paid in money or in property To no
taken at fair valuation.
Petitioners further desire the right
to issue preferred stock in such nro-
portions as the stockholders NAV de-
termine by resolution of a majority
OF all the stockholders, each share to
be entitled to one vote.
Petitioners desire the right to ono
and be sued, to plead and be implead-
ed, 10 have and use a common seal
TO make all necessary bylaws and
regulations and to do all other tbinos
that may be necessary for the suc-
cessful carrying on of said business
including the right to buy, hold and
sell real estate and personal Dronartv
suitable to the purpose of the cornor-
atlon, and to execute notes and honds
Tor Indebtedness incurred. or which
may be incurred, in the conduct of
the affairs of the corporation and 70
secure the same by mortgage, securi-
~ deed, or other form of lien, under
existing laws.
s. They desire for said incorpora-
tloh that 1t have such other rights
powers privileges and immunities as
are incident to like interpretations or
permissible under the laws of Georgia
WHEREFORE. Petitioners prav to
De incorporated under the name and
style aforesaid with the powers, priv
iieges and immunities herein cot
iorth' and as are now, or may here
after be, allowed a corporation Of
similar character under the laws of
Georgia.
JOHN p. CHENEY,
Attorney for the Petitioners
flled in office this March Sth.1s1a
VIRGIL McCLESKEY,
Clerk SuDerior Co,r. C,L.