The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-10-08
Legal Advertising
Petition for Charter.

Inc peIlion 81 y NJ. Cannon, II. .
Pryor, B. F. CasseIs, HoIIey Tyler, and
H. L. Long, all Of said county, respect
fully shows:
Practitioners desire for themselves,
their associates and successors, to be in
corporated for twenty years as an edu-
cational and social organization, not for
pecuniary gain, and without capital
stock.
2-The name Of said corporation shall
be COTTON GROWERS ASS0CIA-
TON"
| 3-The object and particular business
Of said corporation is to promote the So
cial welfare of farmers, and to educate
tsanembership on the subjects Of diver
styling crops, improving farm methods,
and restricting the amount Of cotton
acreage throughout the cottonproducing
section OF the United States, on what
will be known asthe Lee County Plan. :
1.-The principal Office Of said corpora
ton shall be in Lee county, Ga.
Petitioners pray that said corpora
tion may come into active existence inn
nediately upon the grant Of the order
Of incorporation hereon, your petitioners
to be the first Board OF Directors of said
corporation, and as such authorized to
elect from theirnumber a Chairman and
a Vice Chairman, and by appointing
Secretary and a Treasurer. the offices
OF Secretary and Treasurer may be COM
bined and conferred upon one person,
who need not be Director. These Di-
rertors shall be authorized to receive
members into said corporation who own
land capable of producing cotton, and
which said owner cultivates, either i'll
person or through tenants or troopers.
As soon as the owners Of 70 per cent. Of
) the cotton lands in said county have be
come members of said corporation, said
members shall be called in meeting and
? shall be authorized to elect a permanent
! Board of Directors for the further con
duct Of the affairs of said corporation.
] consisting Of one member from each mi
litia district OF said county.
6-At said meeting OF the memEeri
9 hereof, bylaws shall be adopted provid
ing for the corporate action OF said com
pany as to ordinary business affairs, anC
. especially providing for the restriction 0
the number Of acres which shall be plant
: ed in cotton by the members of saidcor
poration, and fixing the amount Of due
for membership in said coporationforth'
season. intervening between said meeting
and the succeeding annual meeting O
said membership, In all membership
meetings, each member shall be entitled
to one vote.
THE first annual meeting of sale
association after its organization here.
under shall be held on the third Satur.
day in September, 1915, and annually
thereafter OH said date.
S-When said bylaws are adopted
they shall be assented to in writing BY
each member Of the association, andshal
be binding on said member as his writ
ten contract with said corporation ant
with the other members. thereof, and nj
resignation of said membership shall BE-
effective to release the obligations ofsaid
contract until 10 days before the mex
annual meeting Of said membership, anc
in the absence of resignation, member
ship once acquired shall continue SO Ions
as dues are paid and said bylaws com
Piled with. No member of this corpora
ton shall be liable in any sum whatso
ever, beyond the payment OF the amount
OF his dues assessed against him under
the bylaws Of said corporation.
9-For the planting season of the yeal
1915, no member of this corporation, OF
any branch thereof, either by himself OF
through tenants and troopers, shall cul-
tivate or permit or allow to becultiyated
| in. cotton more than 10 acres of his said
land to each pillow used in cultivating the
same. The word ''plow" shall mean
| each horse or mule used in the cultiya-
ton of cotton, and shall constitute the
unit of cultivation, now commonly en-
ployed among planters, to guage the ex-
tent of their operations,
10-No bylaw ofsaid corporation shall
ever be construed to mean that its mem
ship shall be controlled or restricted or
in any manner interfered within theme
thods Of cultiyating their respective
lands, save and except the acreage res
truction above refened to, and each
member shall be and remain at full IL
berty to exercise his own skill and judi
gment relative to such cultivation. Said
acreage restriction shall be fixed by the
members of said corporation, at each
annual meeting beginning with the year
1915, whether in the home county or in
branches of said corporation, but the
amount 50 fixed shall be subject tochan-
ge to the amount agreed upon by the
majority OF branch organizations throu-
ghout the State OF Georgia, and this a.