The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-10-22
Legal Advertising
Petition for Charter.

i The petition OF J M. cannon, X. 3
Pryor, B. F. Cassels, Holley Tyler, and
II. L. Long, all Of said county, respect
July 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
its membership on the subjects Of diver
1 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. +"
/ 4-The principal Office Of said corpora
ton shall be in Lee county, Ga.
5-Petitioners pray that said corpora
ton may come into active existence inn
mediately 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 q
Secretary and Treasurer. the offices
of Secretary and Treasurer may be COM
bined and conferred upon one person,
who need not be Director These Di-
rectors shall be authorized to receive
members into said corporation who own
land capable OF producing cotton, and
which said owner cultivates, either III
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 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 members
hereof, bylaws shall be adopted provid-
ing for the corporate action OF said com
pany as to ordinary business affairs, and
4 especially providing for the restriction OF
| the number Of acres which shall e.plant-
ed in cotton by the members Of said cor
poration, and fixing the amount of dues
for membership in said coporationfor the
season intervening between said meeting
and the succeeding annual meeting Of
said membership In all membership
meetings, each member shall be entitled
to one vote.
/ THE first annual meeting OF said
association after its organization here
under shall be held on the third satur-
day in September, 1915, and annually
thereafter on said date.
! S-When said bylaws are adopted,
they shall be assented to in writing By
each member Of the association, and shall
| be binding on said member as his writ
ten contract with said corporation and
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
in the absence of resignation, member
4 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 payment OF the amount
Of his dues assessed against him under
the bylaws of said corporation.
9-For the planting season Of the year
| 1915. no member Of this corporation, or
any branch thereof, either by himself or
through tenants and troopers, shallcul-
tivate or permit or allow to becultivated
IN cotton more than 10 acres of his said
land to each pillow used incultivating 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.
1O-No bylaw ofsaid corporation shall
ever be construed to mean that its mem
ship shall be controlled or restricted Or
in any manner interlered within theme
thods Of eultivating their respective
Hands, save and except the acreage res
ltruction above referred to, and each
member shall be and remain at full IL
berty to exercise his own skill and judi
ement relative to such cultivation. Said
| acreage restriction shall be fixed by the
members Of said corporation, at each
annual meeting beginning with the yeal
lI9l5, 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 throu-
ghout the State OF Georgia, and this g.