Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, application for land

1.14.2 - Letter

Letter dated 1/28/1929 to the Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from E. B. Gaston, Secretary submitting to them a full report of preceedings at a special meeting held on 1/26/1929. Prior to the meeting, on 1/21/1929, a petition was presented to the Council calling for a referendum election to vote on whether the present form of application for lease be discontinued and the form which was used previously should be reinstated. At a ...

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1.14.26-29 - Letter

Letter written to the Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Anne B. Call and Delia K. Bancroft, Trustees is presenting some facts for them to consider for the referendum election which will take place on June 1, 1929, regarding applications for land. The issue at hand seems to be that the Corporation made changes to the land application and the lease which the petitioners feel that they did not have the right to make. (see 1.14....

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1.14.35 - Letter

Statement read by E. B. Gaston, Secretary, at a meeting of members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, 5/28/1929, which by motion instructed to have printed and sent to every member. Gaston states that the new application for land form is needed to protect the Corporation and its lessees. There is currently a petition for referendum by some members to revert to the old application for land.

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1.14.36-37 - Letter

Letter to the members ot the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Anne B. Call and Delia k. Bancroft, Trustees presenting them with some facts to consider at the referendum election which will take place on June 1, 1929 regarding the application for land. The Corporation has been using a new form for the application for land which some members feel is unconstitutional. There is a petition to revert back to the old form of application. (see 1.1...

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1.14.38 - Ballot

Official Ballot of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Referendum Election, June 1, 1929 asking the question: Shall the present form of Application for leasehods of the Corporation lands be discontinued and the old form of application which was in use for about twenty years, prior to December 1, 1925, be readopted?

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3.10.28-29 - Letter

Letter dated 6/13/1930 to E. C. Wolcott, editor Fairhope Courier newspaper from E. B. Gaston explaining that the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation had rejected the application of Jason McClantoc for land because they feared he would not keep up with the rent and he would likely be a charge on the community, as one of his brothers had already been. A petition stating that the undersigned certify that they are personally acquainted with Mr. McClan...

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