The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-08-30
PETITION FOR CHARTER.

SOuALJf
To the Honorable Superior Court of
Said County:
The petition of G. W. Wilson, w. A.
Tucker, ]. T. Anderson, of Ben Hill
County, Georgia, c. H. Bell, of Crisp
County, Georgia, r. M. Mays, T. P. Por-
ter and M. H. Hooks of Sumter Coun'
ty, Georgia, bring this their petition
for charter under the laws of said
state and show
1. That they desire for themselves
and associates and successors to be
Incorporated under the name and style
of the Supreme Lodge Of the Bright
Star of Bethlehem.
2. Petitioners show that said organ
zation is purely benevolent and has
no paid in capital stock.
3. That said organization desires
he power to extend its work through
out the state of Georgia and wherever
t is within the power Of this court
TO grant the same authority to operate.
q. Petitioners aver that the object
If this corporation is to organize and
operate state grand and subordinate
lodges for the purpose of relieving the
sick and afflicted and burying the dead
md for the purpose of raising such
sums of money as will be necessary
for the relief of its widows and or
3hans or other dependent relations OF
It's deceased members.
5. The petitioners desire to have
he right to prescribe charters, ritu-
ais, general laws for governing said
organizations, pins, buttons, and such
other lodge parap hernalia as will be
suitable for such lodges wherever they
may be established.
G. Petitioners desire to own real es-
tate and personal property have com
mon seal and have the right to sue
and be sued in all matters pertaining
20 its business.
7. Petitioners desire to be incor-
tied for a period of twenty years with
he right of renewal at the end of that
Eime." wa"
8. Petitioners further say that they
Iesire the principal office and place
If business of the supreme lodges shall
be located in Crisp County, Georgia,
but desire the right to remove the
principal office and place of business
to any town or city IN the state OF
Georgia when so determined by two
third majority of the supreme lodge
at it's annual meeting.
9. The petitioners desire the right
to apply for and accept amendments
to it's charter; also to ask authority
for said corporation to wind up It's al
fairs, liquidate and discontinue its bus
mess at any time it may be so deter
mined by it's members, and all such
other rights, powers, immunltles, PRIV
ileges as are inciden, to like corpora
tions 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 set forth and as
are now or may hereafter be allowed
corporation of similar character un'
der the laws of Georgia
This Sth day of August, 1916.
JAS. H. BROWN,
Petitioners Attorney.
GEORGIA, Crisp County.
/. J. A. Littlejohn, clerk of the Su,
perior Court of said County do hereby
certify that the above and foregoing is
true and correct copy of the applica'
ton for charter of the supreme lodge
of the Bright Star of Bethlehem, as the
same appears ON file in this office.
Witness my Official signature and
seal of said court this Sth day of Au
gust, 1916.
J. A. LITTLEJOHN,
33-4t Clerk Crisp Superior Court.