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10.19.1-34 - Legal Documents
Copies of iterations of the bills introduced to the Alabama State Legislature in Spring, 1979 to dissolve the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation.
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1903_Courier - Newspaper
Fairhope Courier newspapers for 1903. The paper was published on the 1st and 15th of each month. All editions are available. The December 15, 1903 paper has a four page supplement about "the Only Colony of Single-Taxers in the World" reprinted by permission from the Judge Publishing Company, October 8, 1903 edition of Leslie's Weekly. A new press was acquired for the Courier in 1903 resulting in more efficient and better quality printing. ...
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9.23.1-95 - Correspondence
Box 9.23 consists mostly of requests for reimbursement and accompanying receipts for officers of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation who made trips to Montgomery, Alabama in May, 1979, to support against legislation introduced to dissolve the Corporation. In addition, bills from the attorneys who worked the case are included.
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9.24.1-107 - Ballot
Trustee report and ballots of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation referendum held on 4/22/1979 to a) dissolve the Corporation as established in 1901 and b) to reestablish a new corporation under "the general law." Passed 101 to 1.
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9.25.1-51 - Correspondence
Miscellaneous correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1980-1985 involving the FSTC Education and Public Relations committees and a television mini series in development on Henry George. Other topics include the repercussions of the May, 1979 failed legislation to dissolve the FSTC, records of lease transfers and a letter (9.25.47-51) from attorneys J. Don Foster and Champ Lyons, Jr, representing Rudolph J. Rezner, Sr and the Fairh...
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x.3.18 - Letter
Form letter dated 9/8/1975 to Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Ruth E. Rockwell, secretary of the Corporation. A group of lessees has attempted to "influence the State Legistlature to introduce legislation aimed at only the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation which would place such restrictions on it as to ulitmately cause its death or certainly restrict its operation to such an extent that it would no longer be a single tax d...
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x.3.19 - Letter
Letter dated 11/25/1975 to Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Ruth E. Rockwell, secretary of the Corporation. "Very determined" lessees have made complaints about the Corporation to the Alabama State Legistlature, resulting in the formation of an Interim Committee to investigate the those complaints against the FSTC. Rockwell is notifying the membership of the time and place of the first meeting, and encouraging any member w...
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x.3.20 - Legal Documents
State of Alabama, Code of Alabama Title 10, Section 168. Recompiled 1968. Found in Fairhope Single Tax Corporation correspondence regarding leesee challenges in 1975.
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x.3.22-26 - Legal Documents
Bill to establish a rent control commission to regulate rents charged by and transfers controlled by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. This is likely 1975 or 1976 and is part of the ongoing complaints against the FSTC brought by leesees during that period.
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x.3.27-71 - Legal Documents
Presentation of Fairhope Single Tax Corporation before Joint Interim Legislative Committee of the Alabama State Legislature. Submitted by Norborne C. Stone, Jr, attorney for the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from the Stone and Partin law firm in Bay Minette, Alabama. Due to complaints from Fairhope Single Tax Corporation lessees, the Alabama State Legislature has established a committee of five representative (3 house representatives and...
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x.3.73 - Reports
Population Table for the City of Fairhope, Alabama, sourced by the U. S. Census Bureaus. 1910-1970. Likely prepared for the Interim Committee of the Alabama State Legislature studying the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation.
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x.3.74 - Reports
Assents to Mortgages by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1965-1975. Likely prepared for the Interim Committee of the Alabama State Legislature studying the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation.
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x.3.75 - Reports
List of Mortgagees Securing Loans on Improvements on Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Lands in 1975. The list includes a list of banks with whom lessees have mortgages. Likely this report was prepared to submit to the Interim Committee of the Alabama State Legislature studying the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation.
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x.3.76 - Reports
List of Expenditures for Imporvements by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1965-1975. Likely prepared for the Interim Committee of the Alabama State Legislature studying the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation.
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x.3.77 - Reports
Number of Leaseholds of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 1965-1975. Likely prepared for the Interim Committee of the Alabama State Legislature studying the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation .
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x.3.78-82 - Reports
Report of the Interim Committee on the Fairhope Single Tax Study dated 5/18/1976. The Interim Committee was formed by the Alabama State Legislature after complaints by lessees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The Committee makes recommendations about issues regarding arbitration for rent disputes, the viability of the FSTC as an entity, voting privleges and wants to be able to continue to observe the FSTC in the matter of lessees' d...
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x.3.83 - Letter
Letter dated 6/3/1976 to the Membership of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Ruth E. Rockwell, secretary. Rockwell reports on the 5/31/1976 advisory opinion by the Alabama Supreme Court in the matter of Alabama House of Representatives Bill 471. This bill, introduced by Baldwin County representative Daniel Kinsey, would have given full voting rights to Fairhope Single Tax Corporation lessees. The Alabama Supreme Court declared ...
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x.3.84-85 - Letter
Form letter to lessees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 6/1/1976, signed by Claude Arnold, vice-president. A questionnaire for the lessee to complete and return is at the bottom of the second page. The letter discusses the details of the legal action brought by certain lessees (most recently the bill of complaint in April, 1975), supplies background information on the situation, and reports the effects of the matter on the health ...
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x.3.88 - Letter
Letter dated 8/13/1976 to George C. Wallace, Governor of the State of Alabama, from Dr. C. A. Gaston, former secretary of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Gaston is writing Wallace asking him to "exercise such powers as you may have to prevent" the passage of certain bills in the House of Representatives and the Senate. This legislation will "dictate to the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation certain terms under which it may lease its lands...
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x.3.89 - Letter
Letter dated 8/15/1976 to George C. Wallace, governor of the State of Alabama, from Paul M. Gaston, Professor of History, University of Virginia, and grandson of E. B. Gaston. Gaston is writing about the bills currently in the House of Representative and the State Senate which concern the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, and urges Wallace to not sign them into law, should the "hostile legislation" pass.
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