Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-07-09
LEGAL AID NO 2O3
GEORGIA-Sumter County.

GEORGIA-Sumter County.
To the Superior Court of Said
County:
The petition of j. C. Smith,
of Cleveland County, North
Carolina, J. F. Alexander, of Ruth
erford County, North Carolina, W. H.
Mendenhall, George Mountcastle and
w. o. Burgin, of Lexington City,
North Carolina, and Joe S. Burgin, of
Chattahoochee, County, Georgia,
would show unto tho court rs follows:
list. That they for themselves and
associates desire to engage in business
under the name and style of SMITH
BURG1N LUMBER COMPANY, as a
corporation for the term of twenty
years with the privilege of renewal
of their charter at the end Of said
period.
End. The capital stock of said cor
poration to be Fifty Thousand dollars
divided int shares of One Hundred
dollars each, and with the privilege
of increasing said capital stock to
not exceeding One Hundred Thousand
dollars.
3rd. The whole of said capital
stock of Fifty Thousand dollars has
already been subscribed and paid in.
4th. The object of said corpora
ion is pecuniary gain to its stockhold-
ers. Petitioners propose to carry on
general lumber and sawmill business
as manufacturers, wholesalers and re-
tailers of lumber, shingles, laths, etc.
and in connection herewith to deal in
all such products as are usually con-
nected with a general lumber and saw
mill business; to manufacture lumber
themselves; to contract with others to
manufacture such lumber for it; to
buy and sell lumber and timber of all
kinds, other at wholesale or retail,
to buy, own, install and sell saw
mills, planning mills, single mills, dry
kilns, and all kinds of machinery and
tools necessary to carry on said bust
ness, and to own and operate saw
mills, planning mills, single mills, dry
kilns and machinery to build tram
roads and to establish logging camps,
to own and lease timber lands, to
buy and own and sell real estate and
personal property suitable and nee
essary to the purposes Of said cor
poration; to execute notes, bonds, and
to secure the debts of said corpora
ton by mortgage, security deed or
other form of security and to &C
cept the same in the course and con-
duct of said business Of said corpor-
alton; to contract and be contracted
with, to sue and be sued; to plead and
be implicated, and to do anything that
is necessary and proper for the con-
duct of said business within the pur-
view and intention of the law, and
generally to do anything and to en-
gage in any business not inconsistent
with the laws of the State of Georgia.
9Th. Petitioners show that the
principal office and place of business
of said corporation shall be in the
City of Americas said state and coun-
ty but they desire that said corpora
ton shall have the right to establish
branch offices anywhere in the state
Of Georgia,
Wherefore petitioners pray that
Smith-Burgin Lumber Company be
made a body corporate under the
name and style aforesaid, and with
the rights, privileges and immunitles
granted to and enjoyed by corpora
lions OF like nature and character I'M
der tie laws of the State of Geor-
gia, subject to all OF the restrictions
aud liabilities fix ID BY law.
MAYNARD g WILLIAMMS,