The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-03-24
PETITION FOR CHARTER

GEORGlA-Ben Hill County.
To the Superior Court of said coun,
ty:
/ ne petition Of J. F. Bishop, G. E.
Davis and Eldridge Cults, of said
county, respectfully shows:
l: They desire for themselves
their associates and successors 10 be in
corporated under the name of Bishop
Automatic Fire Alarm Company, for
the period of twenty years.
2. The principal Office of said cor
poratlon shall be in the city of Fitz-
gerald, Ben Hill County. Georgia, but
petitioners desire the right to estab-
fish branch offices in said state or
elsewhere whenever a majority of the
stockholders shall so determine.
3. The object of said corporation
is pecuniary gain to itself and it's
stockholders.
4. The business of said corporation
shall be to manufacture, buy, sell
lease, rent, of otherwise deal in auto
matte fire alarms, and other fire
alarms, automatic or electrical de-
vices, appliances, novelties, patent
rights or accessories and do whatever
else is deemed necessary or incident
to such business.
5. The capital stock of said cor
poration shall be seven thousand five
hundred dollars $7,50000) divided in
shares of one hundred dollars each,
with the privilege of increasing the
same from time to time up to fifty
thousand dollars. Petitioners desire
the right to have such stock paid in
money or property at a reasonable
valuation. More than ten per cent OF
said capital has been paid in.
6. Petitioners desire for said cor
pOrat1on the right to sue and be sued,
to plead and be implicated, to have and
use common seal, to make all ncces-
sary bylaws and regulations and to do
all other things that may be necessary
for the proper carrying on of said
business. including the right to buy,
own, hold, and sell real and personal
property, suitable to the purposes of
the corporation, to execute notes and
bonds as evidence of Indebtedness in
Cured IN, the conduct of the affairs
OF the corporation and to secure the
same by mortgage, security deed or
other form of lien under existing laws.
They desire for said corporation pow
er and authority to apply for and &C
cept amendments, either of form or Of
substance, to its charter by vote of a
majority of its stock; also to have
authority to wind up its affairs, liqui-
date and discontinue its business at
any time it may determine to do SO
by vote of two-thirds Of its stock
outstanding at the time
I. They desire for said corpora
ton the right of renewal when and as
provided by the laws of Georgia, and
that 1t have all such other rights, pow
ers, privileges and imunities as are
incident to like corporations or per-
mlssable under the laws of Georgia.
Wherefore, petitioners pray to be
Incorporated under the name and STYLE
aforesaid, with powers, privileges and
nmunitles herein set forth and as
are now or may hereafter be allowed
a corporation of similar character I'M
der the laws of Georgia.
ELDRIDGE QUITS,
Petitioners Attorney
Filed in office March 18th. 1910
d. w. M. WHITLEY, Clerk
Ben Hill Superior Court
GEORGIA-Ben Hill County.
|: D. w. M. Whitley, Clerk Of Bcr
Hill Superior Court, do hereby certi-
fly that the foregoing is a true and
correct copy of the application for
charter of Bishop Automatic Fire
Alarm Company, as the same appear.
Of file in this office
Witness my official signature and
the seal Of said court, this the Is day
of March, 1916.
D. W. M. WHITLEY, Clerk
Ben Hill Superior Court, Georgia
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