The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-05-10
Application for Charter

GEORGIA. Crisp County:
To the Superior Court of Said County:
The petition of F. H. Bland. Sr., a
resident OF said state and county. and
F. F. Norman of Duval county, state of
Florida. and B. L. Wood of Stewart
county. Ga, respectfully shows:
l.
That they desire for themselves,
heir associates and successors TO be
Incorporated and made body polite,
under the name and style of COR
DELE TRADING COMPANY, for the
period of twenty 600 years.
H.
The principal office of said company
shall be in the city of Cordele, state
and county aforesaid. but petitioners
desire the right to establish branch
offices within this state or elsewhere,
whenever holders OF majority of the
stock may so determine.
III.
The object of said corporation is pc
cuniary gain for itself and its share
holders.
The business to be carried on by
said corporation is that OF doing gen.
eral wholesale and retail supply bus
mess: handling all kinds OF merchan-
disc suitable to a general supply bus
mess for both wholesale and retail
trade.
V.
The capital stock OF said corporation
shall be $5,00000. with the privilege OF
increasing same to the sum of $40 ,000.-
90 by a ma ority of the stockholders;
said stock to be divided into shares
OF $4,000 each; ten per cent. OF the
amount of the capital to be employed
by them has been actually paid in Pc
titioners desire the right to have the
subscriptions to said capital stock paid
in money or property to be taken at a
fair valuation.
VI
Petitioners desire the right to sue
and be sued; TO plead and be implead-
ed: to have and use common seal;
to make all necessary bylaws and
regulations, and 10 do all other things
that may be necessary for the sue
cessfuI carrying on of-.said business;
including the right to buy, hold and
sell real estate and personal property
suitable to the purpose of the corpor-
alton; and to execute notes and bonds
as evidence of Indebtedness incurred.
or which may be incurred IN the con-
duct of the affairs of the corporation;
and to secure the same by mortgage,
security deed or other form of lien I'M
der existing laws
VII
Petitioners desire for said corpora
ton the power and authority TO apply
for and accept amendments TO its char
ter. of either form or substance, by q
vote of ma jority of it's stock oIlLSand-
ing at the time; they also ask authorl-
~ for said incorporation to wind up
its affairs, liquidate and discontinue
it's business at any time it may deter
mine to do so by vote of two-thirds
of its stock outstanding at the time.
VIII.
Petitioners desire for the said cor
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 immu-
mites as are incident to like corpora
lions. or permissible under the laws
of Georgia.
WHEREFORE. petitioners pray to
be incorporated under the name and
style aforesaid, with the powers, priv
ileges and immunities herein set forth,
and as are now or may hereafter be al
lowed q corporation of similar charac-
ter under the laws OF Georgia.
CRUM & JONES,
Petitioners Attorneys.
Filed in Office, this the 18th day of
April. 1916.
j. 4. LITTLEJOHN, Clerk.
GEORGIA. Crisp County.
I. ]. A Littlejohn, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is true and cor
rect copy OF the application for char
ter of the CORDELE TRADING COM
PANY. as the same appears on file in
this office
Witness my official signature and
the seal OF said court, this the 18th day
of April, 1916.
J. A. LITTLEJOHN,
Clerk Superior Court, Crisp County, Ga
sat