Fayette County GaArchives News.....Petition for Charter February 22, 1907
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The Fayetteville News February 22, 1907
Georgia, Fayette County.
To Superior Court of said County:  The petition of R. E. L. Fife, E. P. Mize, 
G. H. Guy, J. T. Adams and W. A. Turnipseed, all of said State and County, 
respectfully shows: 
First.
That they desire for themselves, their associates, successors and assigns to 
become incorporated under the name and stayle of "Fife Mercantile and Hardware 
Company."
Second.
The term for which petitioners ask to be incorporated is twenty years, with the 
privilege of renewal at end of that time.
Third.
That the stock of said Corporation is to be Ten Thousand Dollars, divided into 
shares of One Hundred Dollars each.  The petitioners however, ask the privilege 
of increasing said capital stock from time to time as they may see proper to an 
amount not to exceed in the aggregate of Fifty Thousand Dollars.
Fourth.
The whole of said capital stock of Ten Thousand Dollars has already been 
actually paid in.
Fifth.
The object of the proposed corporation is pecuniary profit and gain to its 
stockholders.  Petitioners propose to carry on a retail dry goods business and 
to deal in dry goods, notions, shoes, hardware and all other goods usually 
carried on in a general mercantile business at wholesale and retail.  Buying 
and selling for cash or on credit all such articles and things as may be 
profitably handled, bought and sold in connection therewith; acting as general 
or special agents for other persons or companies or corporations in selling or 
handling any articles or class of articles of merchandise as they may see 
proper in connection therewith, or usually or conveniently handled, and to make 
contracts to act as such agents and to exercise usual powers as do all usual 
necessary and proper acts which pertain to or may be connected with the 
business afore said mentioned, including business in a general millinery line.
Sixth.
The petitioners further ask for the right and power to buy and sell real 
estate, mules, or any other kind of real or personal property that they may 
desire to buy and sell and handle in connection with said business aforesaid 
mentioned.  Further ask for the right to have a common seal, sue and be sued, 
and do all other things allowed by law to incorporation of this kind.
Seventh.
The principal office and place of business of the proposed corporation will be 
in the city of Fayetteville, Fayette County, Ga.
Eighth.
Wherefore petitioners pray to be made a body corporate under the name and style 
aforesaid, entitled to all the rights, privileges and immunities and subject to 
the liabilities fixed by law for incorporations of this kind and character 
under the laws of Georgia.  
This January the third, nineteen hundred and seven. J. W. Wise, Petitioners's 
Attorney.
Clerk's Office, Fayette County, Ga.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original 
petition filed in my office and a true extract from the minutes of Superior 
Court of said County.
J. W. Graham, C. S. C.

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