The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-01-24
PETITION FOR CHARTER
GEORGiA-Ben Hill County.
TO THE SUPERIOR COURT
OF SAID COUNTY:

Of Ben IIill county, Georgia, and
Morris Layine and Alexander
Marcus, OF Baltimore, Maryland
respectfully shows:
|. That they desire, for them
selves and associates, successors
and assigns, to become incorpo-
rated under the name and style of
II. CARRIER COMPANY.
Z. The term for which petit
TONERS desire to be incorporated
is a period OF twenty (20) years,
with the privilege of renewal, to
take effect at the expiration of
that time, as is provided by sta
tutc.
3. The capital stock of the pro-
posed corporation is to be the
sum OF Twenty-one Thousand
and Nine Hundred Dollars (S21,-
100000, to be divided into shares
OF One Hundred Dollars (SlOO)
each, but petitioners desire the
privilege of increasing the said
capital stock at such time or
tunes as by appropriate action
they may do, to an amount not
exceeding in the aggregate the
sum OF Fifty Thousand Dollars
(S5O,0OO.OO).
4. Your petitioner represents
that the whole OF the said capital
stock has been actually paid in
and IS now in the hands of the
proposed incorporators.
). The object OF the proposed
corporation is pecuniary gain and
profit to its shareholders.
3. The kind of business which
petitioners propose that the cor
poratlon shall carry on is a gen
cral merchandise business. They
propose that the said corporation
shall buy and sell both for cash
and on credit dry goods, notions,
clothing, shoes, household goods
millinery, and the like, embracing
all such articles and things as are
Usually handled in the general
merchandise business, not includ-
ing groceries, as we'll as all such
articles and things as may be
protitably handled and sold in
connection Herewith. They pro-
pose that the said corporation
shall act not only on its own ac-
count, but also as general or
special agent for other persons
or companies, in the selling and
handling Of any articles appropri-
ate to such business, or usually
or conveniently handled in con
nectlon Herewith, and to make
all such contracts and to exercise
all such powers as are usual and
customary with corporations of
like character, and as are neces-
sary and proper in the conduct of
a retail business in such articles
of merchandise as are hereinbe-
fore enumerated and referred to.
I. The principal office and
place OF business OF the proposed
corporation is to be in the CITY of
Fitzgerald, Ben Hill county, Ga,
but petitioners pray that the said
corporation may lie given the
power to establish such branch
Offices and places of business as
its Board of Directors may by
appropriate action agree upon
and determine to be profitable to
its shareholders.
g. Petitioners desire that its
charter shall be such that each of
its said incorporators shall be not
only shareholder but a director
in said corporation.
WHEREFORE PETITION
Frs PRAY to be made a BODY
corporate under the name and
style aforesaid, entitled to the
| rights, privileges anG lmmunltleS,
and subject to the liabilities fixed
by law. This the 18th day Of
January, 1917.
O. II. ELKINS.
Attorney for Petitioners.
GEORGIA-Ben Hill County.
! Oihce of Clerk of the Superior
Court.
I, D. w. NJ. Whitley, Clerk of
the Superior Court of Ben Hill
County, Georgia, do hereby certi-
fy that the above and foregoing
is a true and correct copy of the
application for charter for the
corporation to be known as
H. CARRIER Company, made by H.
CARRIER, ct al, and now of file in
this office.
Witness my hand and the seal
OF my Office, this the 18th day of
| January. 1917