The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-03-17
PETITION FOR CHARTER
GEORGIAZBen Hill Gounty:

GEORGIA-Ben Hill Gounty:
To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of R. J. Spell, Gussie
B. Williams and J. G, Williams, of
Ben Hill County, Georgia, respect
fully shows:
l, That they desire for themselves,
their associates and successors, to be
incorporated and made body polite
under the name and style of the Spell
Live Stock Company, for a period of
twenty years.
2. The principal office of said
Company shall be in the City of Fitz-
gerald, Georgia and county aforesaid
but petitioners desire the right to
establish branch Offices within the
State or elsewhere, whenever the
holders of majority of the stock
may so determine.
3. The object of said corporation
is pecuniary gain to itself and its
shareholders.
a. The business to be carried on
by said corporation is that of gen
eral live stock buggy and wagon bus
mess; to b&y and sell live stock, barn
ess, vehicles of all character, auto
mobiles, and other property.
S. The capital stock of said cor
poration shall be $15,OOO0e. Privi-
lege of increasing same to 100000.
All of the amount of capital stock to
be employed by them has been actu-
ally paid in.
g. Petitioners desire the right to
sue and be sued, to plead and be i'm
pleaded, to have and use a common
seal, to make all necessary bylaws
and regulations, and to do all other
things that may be necessary for the
successful carrying on of said bust
ness, including the right to buy, hold,
and sell real estate and personal prop
erty suitable to the purposes of the
corporation, to loan money and buy
notes and accounts in connection with
said business, and to execute notes
nd bonds os evidence of indebtedness
incurred, or which may be incurred in
the conduct of the affairs of tie c.
poration and to secure the
mortgage, security-deeG, or ,ther
form OF lien, under existing laws.
l. They desre for said incorpora-
ton the power and authority to ap-
ply tor and accept amendments to its
charter of either form or substance
by a vote of majority of its stock
outstanding at the time. They also
ask authority for said incorporation
to wind up its affairs liquidate and dis
continue its business at any time it
may determine to do so by a vote of
two-thirds of its stock outstanding at
the time.
8. They desire for the said incor..
poration the right of renewal when
and as provided by the laws of Geor
gia, and that it have all such other
rights, powers, privileges and immun-
ities as are incident to like corpora
tons or permissible under the laws
of Georgia.
Wherefore, petitioners pray. to be
incorporated under the name and STYLE
aforesaid with the powers privileges
and immunities herein setforth, and as
are now, or may hereafter be, al
lowed corporation of similar char
acter under the laws of Georgia.
D. B. NICHOLSON, Jr.,
Attorney for Petitioners
Filed in office this the 9th day of
March, 1916.
D. w, NJ WHITLEY,
Clerk
GEORGIA-Ben Hill County
I, D. w. NJ Whitley, Clerk of the
Superior court of said county, do
hereby certify that the foregoing is
a true and correct copy of the appli-
cation for charter of R. ]. Spell, Gas
sic B. Williams and J. G. Villa MS, as
the same appears on file in this of
flee.
Witnes my official signature and
seal of said court, this 9th day of
March, 1916.
D. w. N. WHITLEY,
Clerk of the Superior Court Ben Hill
County, Georgia.
This 9th day of March.