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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 1.14.40-44 - Letter

   Letter dated 10/25/1929 to the Editor of the Baldwin County News from Anne B. Call responding to a 10/17/1929 article in the newspaper in which R. F. Powell made negative statements about the financial affairs of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Mr. Powell contends that the new lease application which was adopted December 1, 1925 has wrought havoc on the financial affairs of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Call disagrees with him and att...

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7. 30.12.17 - Correspondence

   Letter to Capt. Ed Roberts dated Feburary 20, 1929 from E. B Gaston, discussing the lease form used by the FSTC. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

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8. 30.14.1-29 - Correspondence

   Papers of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated February 1929. Included is the Treasurer's Report for that month, resignation letter of A. E. Schalkenbach as a trustee of the FSTC and Secretary E. B. Gaston's response, official report of the annual FSTC elections, a petition and notice about a referendum election concerning the application for FSTC leases, a Statement to Members of Fairhope Single Tax Corporation concerning the amendment, a ...

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