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1.10.134 - Petition
Petition (likely written in 1904-05) of selected members of the Leaseholders Protective Union which is supporting an amendment to the constitution of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. These individuals are removing their names as being in favor of the amendment and say they "are satisfied with the present constitution" and "opposed to the useless and harmful agitation against" the FSTC. Signed by Fred Mathison, A. H. Mershon, C L. Mersho...
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1.10.65-66 - Letter
Letter dated 10/2/1906 to James Bellangee from Elliott G. Rickarby, lawyer from Mobile, Alabama enclosing a copy of an amendment to the constitution of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation: Article VII, Sec. 4, Upon petition of ten per cent of the resident lease-holders in good standing, any act of the Executive Council relating to the disbursement of funds realized from rentals in excess of the amount necessary for the payment of taxes under th...
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1.12.65-67 - Letter
Letter dated 1/25/1924 to the Editor of the Fairhope Courier from Fiske Warren giving his opinion on proposed amendments to the constitution of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation.
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1.13.12 - Petition
Petition to the Executive Council of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from the Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation calling for an amendment to the constitution of the corporation submitted by Fiske Warren and others to be voted on at the annual meeting on 2/4/1926.
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1.13.13 - Letter
Letter dated 4/13/1925 to E. Y. Cohen of Marblehead, Massachussets from Anne B. Call enclosing a letter she is sending Fiske Warren and a Fairhope Courier newspaper. She feels that Mr. Warrens provisions are to complicated for use in Fairhope.
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1.13.14 - Letter
Letter dated 5/15/1925 to Mrs. Comings from Anne B. Call regarding Fiske Warren's proposed amendment to the constitution which she opposes.
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1.13.15-16 - Letter
Letter to the Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Anne B. Call regarding amendments to the constitution being proposed by Fiske Warren saying that Mr. Warren misunderstands the language used in the constitution.
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1.13.17 - Letter
Letter dated 5/18/1925 to Anne B. Call from J. W. Caldwell saying that the amendment to the constitution of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation requiring 3/4 majority is sound.
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1.13.4-6 - Letter
Letter dated 5/11/1925 to E. Y. Cohen of Marblehead, Massachussets from Anne B. Call telling him her reasons for being in opposition to amendments to the constitution of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation being proposed by Fiske Warren.
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1.13.7-8 - Letter
Letter dated 5/16/1925 to Anne B. Call from E. Y. Cohen of Marblehead, Massachussets thanking her for her letter regarding proposed amendments to the constitution. He agrees with her and will vote accordingly. He asks if the park land has been turned over to the municipality and when the deed will be signed and recorded. He asks if the annual pamphlet containing the list of lessees and assessments of ground rents has been printed. He thinks a map...
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1.13.9-10 - Letter
Letter dated 5/29/1925 to E. Y. Cohen from Anne B. Call about an amendment to the constitution of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. She says the matter of the parks being transferred to the municipality has not been concluded. Mr. Gaston does not feel there should be any stipulations as to their use but Call does not want there to be any loopholes that would allow for concessions along the beach. She says the town has granted the Ku Klux Klan ...
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1.15.108-111 - Letter
Letter dated 5/29/1931 to Anne B. Call, a Trustee in the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Samuel M. Johnston, an attorney in Mobile, Alabama. Call has asked several lawyers, including Johnston to give their opinions on whether the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation can transfer their parklands to the Town of Fairhope without either a referendum of the FSTC membership or an amendment to the constituttion. Johnston's opinion is that one of the t...
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1.15.112-113 - Letter
Letter dated 6/6/1931 to Anne Bellangee Call, a trustee for the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Samuel M. Johnston, an attorney in Mobile, Alabama. Johnston is further clarifying his previous letter in which he gives his opinion that the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation cannot transfer parklands to the Town of Fairhope without either a referendum of the membership or an amendment to the constitution. From the papers of Anne Bellangee Cal...
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1.15.119-120 - Letter
Letter dated 5/28/1931 to William H. Holly, an attorney in Chicago, Illinois, from Anne Bellange Call, a trustee of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Holly has, at Call's request, written an opinion stating that to transfer parklands from the FSTC to the Town of Fairhope, either a referendum of the membership or an amendemnt to the constitution is required. The FSTC lawyer, J. H. Webb, has issued an opinion to the contrary, and the motion to...
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1.15.31 - Letter
Letter to the Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from the Board of Trustees for the year 1930 (Albert E. Schalkenbach, Anne Bellangee Call and Delia K. Bancroft) discussing the proposal to deed the park lands to the Town of Fairhope. Petitioners to the proposed Constitutional Amendment to be voted on 5/12/1931 believe there are no powers in the present Constitution granting the right to give away any of the properties of the Corporati...
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1.15.75 - Letter
Letter dated 4/21/1931 to the Executive Council of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from the Trustees (D. K. Bancroft, Anne B. Call and Alice M. Smith) saying that a constitutional amendment would be necessary to effect the transfer the park lands of the Corporation to the Town of Fairhope. They have had two attorneys give this opinion. They ask, if the Council believes tthe legal advice to be erroneous why they haven't accepted the Trustees ...
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1.15.77 - Letter
Letter dated 4/27/1931 to A. E. Schalkenbach from Anne B. Call telling him of a special meeting of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to which she did not go as she had no notice. She tells him about the report of the Trustees (see 1.15.76) about the necessity of a constitutional amendment to effect the transfer of the park lands to the Town of Fairhope.She thinks it is E. B. Gaston's plan to defeat their amendment and then have the Council ma...
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1.15.78-80 - Letter
Letter dated 4/25/1931 to Anne B. Call from A. E. Schalkenbach enclosing a draft letter to the Mayor of Fairhope which he asks her to type and send for his signature. The letter to the Mayor deals with the transfer of parklands from the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to the Town of Fairhope. Schalkenbach is writing the Mayor to notify him that, in his opinion, without a change to the FSTC contstitution, such transfer of Colony property is ille...
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1.15.85 - Letter
Letter dated 5/13/1931 to A. E. Schalkenbach from Anne Belllangee Call on the topic of the transfer of the parklands from the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to the Town of Fairhope. Call is a FSTC Trustee and reports that the motion to consider an amendment to the FSTC constitution to allow transfer of Colony-owned property to other entities failed at the previous night's Council meeting. Call wants Schalkenbach, who is a former FSTC Trustee ...
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1.15.87-88 - Letter
Letter dated 5/14/1931 to William H. Holly, an attorney in Chicago, Illinois, from Anne Bellangee Call requesting his opinion on whether an amendment to the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation constitution is required before the FSTC can transfer parklands to the Town of Fairhope. From the papers of Anne Bellangee Call.
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