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1. 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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2. 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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3. 1.14.54-55 - Resolution

   Resolution to transfer the public parks along Marshall and Stack's gullys owned by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to the Town of Fairhope with reservations which will assure that they will always be used for park purposes only and that the members have an opportunity to express theri wishes with regard to such action by referendum.

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4. 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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5. 1.14.72-73 - Letter

   Letter dated 8/11/1930 to A. E. Shalkenbach from Anne B. Call. Both are Trustees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, and Call is writing Shalkenbach about FSTC business because he is away from Fairhope tending his sick mother. The issue has to do with "Mr. Gaston's latest idea" to "deed the parks to the town and get rid of that much property to pay taxes on." Call wants Shalkenbach's opinion on whether he thinks a constitutional amendmen...

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6. 1.14.74 - Letter

   Letter dated 8/15/1930 to Anne Bellangee Call from A. E. Shalkenbach in Chicago, Illinois (where he living temporarily caring for his sick mother). Both are Trustees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, and are continuing their discussion about whether the FSTC should giving Corporation owned parklands to the Town of Fairhope. Shalkenbach's opinion is that no transfer should take place for two reasons. First, he thinks the Town of Fairhope...

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7. 1.14.75 - Letter

   Letter dated 8/21/1930 to A. E. Schalkenbach in Chicago, Illinois from Anne Bellagee Call in Fairhope. Both are Trustees of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, and Call is continuing her correspondence while Schalkenbach is away from Fairhope tending his sick morther. The issue is the proposal to transfer the parklands from the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to the Town of Fairhope. She is urging Schalkenbach to consult with single tax l...

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8. 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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9. 1.15.101-102 - Letter

   Letter dated 5/29/1931 to Mrs. Robinson from Anne Bellangee Call discussing the matters of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The FSTC "passed a resolution to deed the parks to the town" the previous evening without a vote of the members and without an amendment to the constitution allowing such. Call fears the worst - that this starts movement towards dissolution of the Colony. Futher she believes the current mayor of Fairhope is actively ...

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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 1.15.33-34 - Letter

    Statement of Anne B. Call outlining four reasons why she believes the park lands of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation should remain the property of the Corporation rather than deeded to the Town of Fairhope. She cites sections of the Constitution of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to support her opinions.

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16. 1.15.35-38 - Letter

    Letter written to the Executive Council of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from Anne B. Call explaining why she is opposed to deeding the park lands to the Town of Fairhope.

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17. 1.15.43-48 - Letter

    Letter dated 1/26/1931 to the Members of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation from the Trustees ( A. E. Schalkenbach, Anne B. Call and Delia Knowles Bancroft) criticizing the Executive Council on a number of issues. They feel that there has not been strict adherence to the Constitution of the Corporation, that the method employed of appraising the annual rental value was inconsistent with the method prescribed in the Constitution, they feel that...

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18. 1.15.50-53 - Reports

    Reports of Secretary & Trustees, to Members of Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, at Annual Meeting, 1/26/1931. E. B. Gaston, Secretary reported that land speculation necessitated the increase in rents making it more difficult for lessees to pay their rents. The State Tax Commission proposed nearly doubling the Corporations assessment leading the Secretary to see that holding so much bay frontage for use as park lands as a liability for the Corpora...

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19. 1.15.67-69 - Deed

    Copy of a deed dated 6/1/1931 prepared for the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation by J. H. Webb, attorney, for the conveyance of the park lands and the wharf belonging to the Corporation to the Town of Fairhope. Deed has not been executed.

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20. 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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