The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-10-29

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Petition for. Charter.

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Pryor, b. r CasseIs, Holey Tyler, and
II. 1. Long, all Of said county, respect
fully shows:
Petitioners desire for themselves,
their associates and successors, to be in
corporated for twenty years as an edu-
cational aud social organization, not for
pc uniary gain, and without capital
stock.
| 2-The name Of said corporation shall
be COTTON GROWERS, A5sOCIA- 4
TI0N.
3-The object and particular business
Of said corporation is to promote the 50
cial welfare Of farmers, and to educate
its membership on the subjects Of diver
styling crops, improving farm methods,
and restricting the amount Of cotton
acreage throughout the onproducing
section OF the United States, on what
will be known as the Lee County Plan"
1.-The principal Office Of said corpora
Hon shall be in Lee county, Ga.
5-Petitioners pray that said corpora
ton may come into active existence inn
medately upon the grant OF the order
OF incorporation hereop, your petitioners
to be the first BOARD Of Directors Of said
corporation and as such authorized to
elect from theirnumber Chairman and
a Vice Chairman, and by appointing a
Secretary and Treasurer. the Offices
OF Secretary and Treasurer may be COM
binei and conferred upon one person,
who need not be Director. These Di-
rectors shall he authorized to receive
members into said corporation who own
land capable OF producing cotton, and
which said owner cultivates, either IN
person or. through tenants or troopers,
As soon as the owners OF rs per cent, Of
the cotton lands in said county have be-
come members Of said corporation, said
t members shall be called in meeting and
shall be authorized to elect permanent
! Board OF Directors for the further con
duet OF the affairs OF said corporation,
: consisting Of one member from each mi
J Iitia district Of said county.
S G-At said meeting OF the members
hereof, by laws shall be adopted pfovid-
ing for the corporate action Of said com-
pany as to ordinary business aaairs1and
: especially providing for therestrietion Of
. the number Of acres which ahaIl-be plant
n ed in cotton by the members Of said cor
t poration, and fixing the amount Of dues
! for membership sailcoporationfor The
season intervening between said meeting
and tie succeeding annual meeting Of
y said membership In all membership
! meetings each member shall be entitled
Y to one vote,
! THE first annual meeting Of said
association after its organization here
!. under shall be held on the third Batur-
! day in September, 1918, and annually
. thereafter on said date.
6 8-When said by laws are adopted,
! they shall be assented to in writing By
each member Of the association, andshall
be binding on said member as his writ
g ten contract with said corporation and
S with the other members thereof, and no
! resignation Of said membership shall be
, effective to release the Obligations, ofsaid
contract until 10 days before the next
annual meeting Of said membership, and
: III the absence of resignation, member
ship once acquired shall continue so long
as dues are paid and said bylaws com.
; Piled with. No member Of thiscorpora-
ton shall be liable in any sum whatso
ever, beyond the paymentof the amount
Of his dues assessed against him under
] the bylaws Of said corporation.
q-F6r the planting season OF the year
1915, no member OF this corporation, or
any branch thereof, either bY himself or
through tenants and troopers, shalleul-
,tiyate or permit or allow to becultiyated
in cotton more than 10 acres OF his said
/ land to each plow used in cultiyating the
same. The word 'splow'' shall mean
each horse or mule used, in the edltiya-
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 cultiVating their respective
lands, save and except the acreage res
truction above referred to, and each
member shall be and remain at full liz
berry to exercise. his own skin 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
El95, whether in the home county or in
branches OF said corporation, but the
amount SO fixed shall be subject tochan-
ge to the amount agreed upon by the
majority OF branch organizations tbrou-
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