The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1918-02-28
PETITION FOR CHARTER.
STATE OF GEoRGIA-County

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To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of H. P. Brown, of Sails
bury, N. c.; N. B. Baylor, D. H. Kirk
land, H. M. Hebener, all of Atlanta;
John w Greer, of Moultrie, Colquitt
County, Georgia, and w. R. Tucker,
OF Fitzgerald, Georgia, respectfully
shows:
l. That petitioners desire for them
selves, associates and successors, to
form and be made a body corporate
and polite under the laws of the said
State for term of twenty years,
with the privilege of renewal thereaft.
er in accordance with the law under
the corporate name and style of Geor-
gia Sea-Island Plantations.
2.-That the principal office of. said
corporation shall be at the City of
Brunswick, said State and County,
with the right to establish and have
other offices and places of business
elsewhere in the State of Georgia, and
countries
3. The objects and purposes of said
corporation will be pecuniary gain
and profit TO it's stockholders.
4. That the particular business in
which said corporation proposes to
engage and carry on and conduct is:
(aD To plant Sea-Island Cotton and
engage generally in farming; to raise
cattle; to buy own and hold the same;
to acquire, own, institute, assist and
promote farms and farming enter
prises, and to operate or rent the
same. To improve real property for
sale or rent or otherwise for profit
aud convenience. To engage in plant
ing, cultivating and selling any and
all agricultural products generally, to
buy, own, improve, cultivate, sell
lands, and generally to engage in ag
ricultural pursuits and develope and
improve lands in said County, and
in any other portion of said state.
OBJ Generally to buy, sell and deal
in all such property and things as ii
may be deemed desirable and profita
BILE, and to engage in merchandising
in connection with said business. To
borrow money and to secure theosame
by the issue of bonds, mortgages,
deeds of trust or any other character
of lien or mortgage covering any or
all of it's property.
s. To receive at fair market val
ne any and all property of any char
acter, i'll payment for shares of it's
capital stock
g. To make bylaws for the regula-
ton of its business not inconsistent
with law.
7. To fix the number and character
of its officers, prescribe their duties
and liabilities, and to authorize any
one person to hold any number OF such
offices. e,s III
8. To have all other powers grant
ed by the laws of Georgia to corpora
lions by the Superior Courts of said
State.
9. The capital stock of said corpora
ton shall he thirty-fve thousand
| ($35 100000 dollars, divided into
shares of the par value of one thou
sand ($1,000.00) dollars, each, with
the right by a majority vote of the
outstanding stock to increase the cap
ital stock to any amount not exceed
ing two hundred thousand $500,
O0000) dollars, and of decreasing the
same in like manner to a sum not
less than said original sum of thirty
five thousand 1855, 00000) dollars.
TO- That said corporation shall have
the right to sue and be sued, to have
the right to use a common seal.
Wherefore petitioners pray that
they and their associates may be in
corporated for the purpose aforesaid
under said corporate name, with the
capital and for the term aforesaid, and
that they may have conferred on them
all the privileges and rights as are
incident to such corporations.
A. ]. ,CROVATT,
Petitioners Attorney
Filed in office this 23d day of Feb
ruary. 1918. H. r. duBIGNON,
Clerk Superior Court, Glynn County,
Georgia.
STATE OF GEORGIA-County of
GlYnn-Clerk's Office, Superior
Court g
/ hereby certify that the foregoing.
application for Charteraof. the Georgia
SeaIlsIand Plantations was filed in
my office. this, the 23d day of Febru
airy. nineteen hundred and eighteen
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Witness my hand and official seal