The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-10-15
Legal Advertising
Petition for Charter.
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Pryor, B. f. Cassels, HoIley Tyler, and
II. L. Long, all Of said county, respect
fully shows:
1-Petitioners 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 AsSOCIA-
TON"
3-The object and particular business
Of said corporation is to promote the so
ciaI 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 cotton producing
section Of the United States, on what
will be known as the Lee County Plan. "
1.-The principal Office OF said corpora
ton shall be in Lee county, ia.
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 Chairman and
Vice Chairman, and by appointing a
Secretary and Treasurer. the offices
OF Secretary and Treasurer may be COM
binef and conferred upon one person,
who need not be a 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 IN.
person or through tenants or choppers.
AS soon as the owners OF rs 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
especially providing for therestriction OF
the number of acres which shall be plant
ed in cotton by the members Of said cor
poration, and fixing the amount of dues
for membership insaidcoporationfor 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, andshall
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
ship once acquired shall continue so long
as dues are paid and said bylaws com
Piled with. No member ofthiscorpora-
tion 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-
fivate or permit or allow to becultivated
in cotton more than 10 acres OF his said
land to each pillow used incultiyating the
same. The word "plow' shall mean
each horse or mule used in the cuItiya-
ton of cotton, and shall constitute the
unit OF cultivation, now commonly en-
ployed among planters, to guage the ex-
tent of their operations.
l0-No bylaw of said corporation shall
ever he construed to mean that its mem
shin shall be controlled or restricted or
in any manner interfered within theme
thods of eultivating their respective
lands, save and except the acreage res
truction above referred 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 so fixed shall be subjecttochan-
-ce to the amount agreed upon by the
majority of branch organizations throu-
-gbout the State Of Georgia, and this a
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