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1. 1.10.107 - Statement

   Statement saying that the resident members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation are desirous of extending to non-member leasees every privilege of participation in the administration of Corporation affairs.

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2. 1.11.10 - Newspaper Article

   Undated newspaper clipping from unidentified newspaper discussing a myriad of issues about Fairhope, including Dr. Harris Greeno's membership application to the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, the fate of the steamer "Fairhope," quotes from Henry George, the need for a "real newspaper in Fairhope that will report the news in a non partisan manner," and the ongoing issues between the "Royalists" and the "Patriots." The Royalists are the Fairhope...

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3. 1.11.9 - Letter to the Editor

   Letter to the editor (probably of the Daily Item newspaper in Mobile) dated August 1905 responding to an article about the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation in that newspaper. The writer (unsigned, but likely James Bellangee), defends the FSTC and reminds the readers that the Corporation now allows non members to participate in how rent revenues are used. From the papers of Anne Bellangee Call.

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4. vi.1.76-78 - Letter

   Letter (probably a draft) dated 3/19/1906 to James Webb, an attoney in Mobile, Alabama. The letter is handwritten on Fairhope Single Tax Corporation letterhead. The penmanship indicates the writer is most likely E. B. Gaston, but the letter is unsigned. The letter discusses the matter of a proposed amendment to the constitution of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Gaston refers to a meeting (conference) in Bienville in Mobile, in which h...

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5. vi.4.54-55 - Letter

   Letter dated 7/16/1906 to E. B. Gaston from R. F. Powell in Philadephia, Pennsylvania. Powell writes that both his daughters have recovered from their illnesses, and that he and his wife are deciding where they will send their children for the coming winter. Powell asks Gaston about Gaston's hopes to enlarge the printing plant for both the Fairhope Courier and additional printing jobs. Powell tells Gaston to write exactly what the needs ar...

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6. vi.5.43-45 - Letter

   Letter dated 6/15/1906 to Daniel Kiefer from Alfred J. Wolf who expressing his concerns about the Fairhope Single Tax Colony. He feels that the Fairhope Colony is cut off in a business sense, the steamboat companies do not run there frequently enough and have raised their freight rates. He feels that in order for the businesses in Fairhope to be a success they need to have direct communication with Mobile and reasonalble freight rates. He...

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7. vi.5.4-5 - Letter

   Letter dated 4/19/1906 to R. F. Powell from Elliott Rickarby, an attorney in Mobile, Alabama representing a group of lessees suing the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for more say so in Corporation administration. Rickarby has received a letter via attorney James H. Webb, written by E. B. Gaston, in which, according to Rickarby, Gaston refutes an agreement to support an amendment to the Corporation allowing the lessees to have imput in how ren...

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8. vi.5.6-7 - Letter

   Unsigned, draft letter dated 4/24/1906 to Elliott G. Rickarby in Mobile, Alabama. The letter is likely written by R. F. Powell, but could have been ghost written by E. B. Gaston. Rickarby is an attorney in Mobile, Alabama representing a group of Fairhope Singe Tax Corporation lessees (largely non-memebers of FSTC) who want more authority in the Corporation. Powell is responding to Rickarby's letter saying Gaston and others have gone back...

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9. x.3.13-17 - Bylaws

   Establishment of a Board of Review for the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1975 to be made up of 3 members in good standing whose purpose is to consider and rule upon any and all complaints addressed to it by any lessee of the corporation with respect to rent charges levied against such lessees by the corporation or any other matters with respect to rents or the payment thereof.

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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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