The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-02-28
APPLICATION FOR CHARTER.

APPLICATION FOX CHAR Eff
GEORGIA, Crisp County:
To the Superior Court Of Said County.
The petition Of John Moore Walker,
f. L. Bartholomew, l.. A. Parker, r.
L. Huffman, J. M. Diffee, Chas. e.
Brown, Alex Martin, R. R. Harris, B.
S. Dunlap, Hugh Lasseter, w. W. Nc
Collum, all Of said state and county,
respectfully shows as follows:
1. That they are residents of said
state and county.
3 That they desire for themselves
and their associates, successors and
assigns to become incorporated UNI
der the name and style of CORDELE
ATHLETIC CLUB. lruHouat IN
3, The term for which petitioners
ask to be Incorporated is twenty years
with the privilege Of renewal at the
end of that time.
u 4. The capital stock of said cor
,poration is OF be $4,000 to be divided
into 1000 shares of the par value of
SO each.
5. Petitioners show that more than
ten per cent of said capital stock of
$4,000 has already been paid in.
6. Your petitioners show that the
object of said proposed corporation
is physical, mental and moral train
ing and development of its stockhold-
ers and members, and to provide and
maintain a place of amusement and
diversion for them, and those who
may be admitted to the privilege mem
bership, at some suitable place in the
City Of Cordele. Petitioners propose
to erect and equip a gymnasium, swim
ming pool, club house, reading rooms
and such other accessories, appliances
and things as may be necessary from
time to time in carrying out the OBJ
jects of this corporation. They ask
for the privilege Of buying, leasing,
renting or otherwise holding, real es-
tate for the purpose OF erecting and
maintaining thereon suitable build
ings for the purpose of carrying out
the objects of this incorporation, with
full power and authority to equip the
same with all such things and apDll-
ances, as from time to time, they may
deem advisable. To elect such officers,
prescribe their duties, emoluments
etc, to make such rules, regulations
and bylaws for the maintenance and
government Of said corporation as
they may deem necessary in carry
ing out the purpose OF the corporation
with full power and authority to ad-
nit uOn-stockholderS to the privileges
of said corporation upon such terms
as may be prescribed by the corporal
ton, and generally to exercise the US
ual powers and do all the usual, nee
essary and proper acts which pertain
to, or may be connected with, or may
be necessary to carry out the objects
of the corporation. The object Of the
corporation is not pecuniary gain to
it's shareholders, but in order to en-
large the scope of it's usefulness, pc
TONERS desire the privilege of admit
ting non-stockholding persons TO the
privileges Of any gymnasium, swim
ming pool, reading room, club room
that may be erected or maintained by
said corporation, and for this purpose,
they ask the privilege of prescribing
The terms Of admission and OF making
a reasonable charge for same.
z. Petitioners ask that in the name
aforesaid, they may have and use a
corporate seal plead-and be impleaded,
sue and be sued, and that the office
and site of said corporation shall be
in the City Of Cordele, said state and
county.
Wherefore, petitioners pray to be
made a body corporate under the name
and style aforesaid, entitled to the
rights, privileges and immunities and
subject to the liabilities fixed by law.
This February 20, 1917.
E. r. STROLLER,
Olaf Petitioners Attorney.
GEORGIA, Crisp County:
|, ]. A. Littlejohn, Clerk Of the Su-
perior Court of said county, do hereby
certify, that the within and foregoing,
is a true copy of the original applica-
ton for charter, filed by the Cordele
Athletic Club as now appears on file
in my office
Witness my official signature and
seal Of office. This February 27, 1917.
j. A. LITTLEJOHN,
91-4t Clerk Crisp Superior Court.
APPLICATION FOR CHARTER.
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