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Charter and Revised Ordinances of Lake City Florida (1912) Gillen & Hodges
APPENDIX
CONTRACT—CLOSING ESCAMBIA
STREET 223 223/257
(Extract from the Minutes of City Council.)
This agreement made this 17th day of August,
A. D. 1881, between Joseph F. Baya, Mayor of
Lake City, in the County of Columbia, State of
Florida, of the first part, and Samuel B. Thompson
and Ambrose B. Hart, partners doing a milling
business under the firm name and style of Thomp­
son & Hart, of the same place, of the second part:
JPitnesseth, That the said Joseph F. Baya, as
Mayor of Lake City, Florida, by virtue of the
authority vested in him by law, and the Board of
Aidermen of Lake City, Florida, and in consider­
ation of the sum of the covenants on the part of
the parties of the second part hereinafter contained
doth covenant and agree for and on the part of the
corporation of Lake City, to and with the said
parties of the second part, that the part or portion
of Escambia Street commencing at a point on Col­
umbia Street and running west 210 feet to Alachua
Street, between Block 67 and 68, the same now
occupied by the said Thompson & Hart as a mill
yard, be discontinued as a street, and by the terms
of this contract be leased to the aforesaid Thomp­
son & Hart for the period of ninety-nine years, and
that the same shall not be opened as a street by the
said corporate authorities of the corporation of
Lake City or their successors in office, for the above
mentioned period. Provided, That during said
period of ninety-nine years the said described land
shall be used only for milling or manufacturing
by the said Thompson & Hart, their heirs or suc­
cessors in business. And that the said parties of
the second part, their heirs or successors, shall not

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