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  1. 1.14.11-17 - Letter

    Letter dated 2/27/1929 to Anne B. Call from James H. Webb, attorney Mobile, AL responding to her letter of 2/23/1929 (see 1.14.3-5) in which she as Trustee of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation asked him to offer his interpretation and opinion on various Articles of the Constitution of corporation. Mr. Webb restates 16 questions and answers each one. He advises against the publication of his letter.

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  2. 1.14.33 - Letter

    Letter dated 3/19/1929 to Anne B. Call from James H. Webb, attorney, clarifying the role of the Trustees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation according to its Constitution.

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  3. 1.14.49 - Letter

    Undated letter to J. H. Webb, attorney from the Trustees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation asking him for his interpretation on various areas of their constitution. 1. Should the constitution be an instrument to define the powers that SHALL be exercised by the corporations officers or to define the powers that SHALL NOT be exercised, leaving the officers free to do anything not expressly forbidden? 2.Could the officers of theFairhope Sing...

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  4. 1.14.60-61 - Letter

    Letter dated 6/13/1930 to Anne B. Call from J. H. Webb, attorney putting into writing as per her request advice given to her concerning the affairs of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation.

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  5. 1.14.66-68 - Letter

    Unsigned response (likely Anne B. Call's) to communications, purported to be legal opinions, sent to the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation by J. H. Webb, attorney, and read before a meeting of the executve council by E. B. Gaston. Issues include: school site, waterworks, roads, streets, telephone system, park lands, natatorium, expulsion of members, police power and the wharf.

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  6. 1.14.69 - Letter

    Extracts from a letter from A. E. Schalkenbach commenting on legal opinions of J. H. Webb, attorney, on the constitution of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation pertaining to setting aside of park lands and to the supreme authority of the entire membership.

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  7. 1.14.76 - Letter

    Letter dated 8/28/1930 to Anne Bellangee Call from A. E. Schalkenbach writing from Chicago, Illinois, where he is tending his sick mother. Both are Trustess of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, and are corresponding about the issue of possibilty transferring the FSTC-owned parklands to the Town of Fairhope. Call has asked Schalkenbach to consult with single tax lawyers in Chicago (a prominent hub of the single tax movement) about whether...

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  8. 1.15.104-106 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/22/1931 to Anne Bellangee Call from William H. Holly, an attorney in Chicago who is writing an opinion on whether the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation can transfer their parklands to the Town of Fairhope without an amendment to the constitution or a general referedum. Call is a Trustee of the FSTC and has asked Holly for his opinion on the matter. Holly writes that the trustees and Executive Council are prohibited from selling FS...

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    1.15.104-106
  9. 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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    1.15.108-111
  10. 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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    1.15.112-113
  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 1.15.89 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/22/1931 to Anne Bellangee Call from William H. Holly, an attorney in Chicago, Illinois. Call has asked Holly to write an opinion on whether the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation constitution should be amended before FSTC-owned parklands are transfered to the Town of Fairhope.

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  15. 1.15.90-92 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/15/1931 to the Board of Trustees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation (Anne B. Call, Delia K. Bancroft and Alice M. Smith) from J. H. Webb, attorney for the FSTC in response to their query about certain constitutional issues. Among the questions is the matter of whether a constitutional amendment is required to allow the FSTC to transfer parklands to the Town of Fairhope. Webb says an amendment would not be necessary and neither...

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  16. 1.15.96 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/19/1931 to Samuel M. Johnston from Anne Bellangee Call. Call, a Trustee of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation is writing Johnson for his opinion on the legalities of transferring FSTC-owned parklands to the Town of Fairhope without a constitutional amendment. She and A. E. Schalkenbach, a former FSTC Trustee, would like Johnson's opinion. From the papers of Anne Bellangee Call.

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  17. 1.15.98-99 - Letter

    Letter dated 5/20/1931 to A. E. Schalkenbach from Anne Bellangee Call. Call is a current Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Trustee, and Schalkenbach is a former trustee, and they are corresponding about the constitutionality of the FSTC to transfer parklands to the Town of Fairhope. As a trustee with authority over elections, Call is concerned that an amendment to the constitution is necessary to avoid legal problems. Secretary E. B. Gaston and...

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  18. 1.16.11 - Letter

    Letter dated 6/10/1931 to A. E. Schalkenbach, a former Trustee of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, from Anne Belangee Call, a current Trustee. Both have been working on the issue of the constitutionality of the transfer of parkland from the FSTC to the Town of Fairhope, an issue which has passed the FSTC Council Call is updated Schalkenbach on the current situation in Fairhope, and says she has asked attorney Samuel M. Johnston to give her ...

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  19. 1.16.14 - Letter

    Letter dated 6/13/1931 to A. E. Schalkenbach from Anne B. Call letting him know how much Mr. Johnston, attorney, will charge to take their court case through the Circuit Court and before the Supreme Court of Alabama. This is in regards to their dispute as Trustee and previous Trustee with other Fairhope Single Tax Corporation council members with regards to the transfer of the park lands to the Town of Fairhope. They have received many legal opin...

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  20. 1.16.1-95 - Correspondence

    This folder is a continuation of the correspondence of Anne B. Call (folder 2 of 2) which pertains to the conveyence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation park lands to the Town of Fairhope and the dispute between the Secretary and the Trustees (see Report to Members 1.15.19-22 for a summary of both positions) and the actions that followed. Legal interpretations of the FSTC constitution were asked for and given by both sides. The transfer was ap...

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