The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-02-23
FOR
RENEWAL OF CHARTER
GEORGIA. COBB COUNTY.

GEORGIA, COBB COUNTY:
To the Superior Court of said county
The petition of George F. Gober,
Eva Clarke, Hattie D. Cleveland, An
ME S. Burnap, Sallie Camp Keller,
A. V. Cortel you, Morgan L. McNeel,
Mabel Cortelyou, ]. L. Turner, Aug
usta S. Graham, and their associates
as corporators of the SARAH FREE
MAN CLARKE LIBRARY ASSOCIA-
TON, shows:
1. The said association was iucor-
porated by an order Of said court at
the March term, 1898, "for the pur-
pose of establishing and maintaining
a public library in the City of Mariet-
ia in said county," and not for indiv-
idual pecuniary gain, its principal of
flee to be in said city. Said order as
entered on the minutes of said court
| is in Book of Charters, pages 81 to
81, in the office of the clerk of said
court. The five petitioners first ma
med above are the sole surviving ORR
ginal corporators of said association.
The said George F. Gober and Eva
Clarke were at the time of orgaRiZa-
ton of said corporation made perma-
nent trustees thereof, and al the
trustees thereof are included among
the above-named corporatoPs and
join IN this petition as such trustees.
2. The charter granted as afore-
said was accepted and the association
was duly organized by the corpora
tors under said charter upon the
granting thereof, and the association
has continued in operation ever since
re MI nd
real and personal property and erect
ed "a building and established and
maintained library, all of which it
owns and has used continuously and
now uses for the purposes of a pub
he library in the city of Marietta.
3. The term of Incorporation Of
SAID association, towit twenty wears,
has expired, and the association has
continued in operation in ignorance
OF such expiration. The petitioners
desire that said corporation shall be
revived for the same purposes for
which it was created and oparated.
They desire also that the charter as
revived be amended so as to author
lie the said corporation to hold and
possess realty and personally to any
amount necessary or proper for the
purposes of the association, this am
endment being intended to strike out
the limit stated in the original char
ter as to amount.
Whereas petitioners pray that said
court pass an order reviving said cor
poratlon and confirming the acts and
doings of said association in the per-
iod between the date of expiration
and the date of revivor, and holding
them to be the acts and doings of the
original corporation so revived, and
extending the term of incorporation
for a period of twenty years from
the date of the order of revivor, and
declaring that the corporation 50 re-
vived shall stand clothed with all the
powers and possessed of all the prop
erty and other rights, and be subject
to all the debts, liabilities, and bur
dens of the old corporation which is
revived in it, as provided by the Code
of Georgia of 1910, section 1925, as
amended by act approved August ID,
1921 Georgia Laws of 1921, page
112), and that said revived charter
be amended by granting the addition
al powers specified herein.
George F. Gober, Jno. NJ. Graham,
Attorneys for petitioners.
Filed in office this the 18th day OF
February, 1922.
D. H. COLLINS, Clerk.
GEORGIA, COBB COUNTY;
l, d. H. Collins, Clerk of the Super
Tor Court Of said county, hereby GER
tify that the FOREGOING is q true and
correct copy of the application for
revivor of the charter of Sarah Free
man Clarke Library Association, as
the same appears of file in this Of
flee. Witness my signature and the
seal of said court. this February IL,
1922. d. H. COLLINS,
Clerk Superior Court, Cobb County
Georgia.