The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-29

Wallace, to the State Auxiliary Joint
Stock Company, with accompanying re-
solutions, which were unanimously adopt
ed,
Whereas, on the 14.h day Of March,
Kenzie, then Mayor of the city of Co.
the City Council of date tho 9th of
March, Anno Domini 1870, under and by
virtue OF o deed executed by him as
Mayor, on behalf of the said city, with
various conditions, powers and trusts,
conveyed to John B. Palmer, John P.
Tuomas and William Wallace, as Trustees
of the State Agricultural and Mechanical
Society, tat that time an unincorporated
body, but now body politic and corpo.
rate under legislative charter, by the
name of the South Carolina Agricultural
and Mechanical Society,) oil that tract of
land owned by the city of Columbia,
known as the Fair Groudds; and where
as, under the direction and request of
the said "South Carolina Agricultural
and Mechanical Society,"" the said John
B. Palmer, John P. Thomas and William
Wallace have conveyed to the Estate
Auxiliary Joint Stock Company" (also g
body polite and corporate under O le-
gislative grant, all their right, title and
interest, by virtue of tho said deed of
John Mckenzie, Mayor, in and to the
said Fa. Grounds; subject, nevertheless,
to all the trusts, duties and powers in
said deed contained; therefore. be it
Resolued, by the Mayor and Aldermen
of tho city Of Columbia, in Council
assembled, That the city of Columbia
acquiescos in and recognizes the expe-
diency and lawfalness of tLo deed OF the
Hon. John Mckenzie, Mayor, to John
L. Palmer, John P. Thomas and William
Wallace, Trustees, of date of the 14th
DIarch, Amno Domini 1870, and of the
deed of the said John B. Palmer, John
p. Thomas and William Wallace, Of the
Fair Grounds, to the Estate Auxiliary
Joint Stock Company" on the 9th day
OF June, 1878: Prorieled, ho,oecer, That
all the trusts, duties, powers and condi.
tions in favor CT the said city of Colum.
bia embraced in the said deeds respect.
lively shall be faithfully observed and
fulfilled by the said bodies polite and
corporate: And prOoideI further, That
my substantial failure in tho premises oi
the said bodies polite and corporate, OF
either of them, shall operate q forfeiture
in favor OF the said city of Columbia OF
bodies polite and corporate, in and ia
the said Fair Grounds acquired and now
vested III the same or either of them,
under and by virtue of the deeds herein
before referred to and recognized ns
| valid.
Resotoel. That these preamble and
| resolutions be cngrosscd by the City
Clerk and be signed by his Honor The
Mayor. who shall cause the corporate
seal of the city of Columbia to be
affixed thereto, in the presence OF the
City Clerk, who shall attest the same
and thus signed, sealed and atteste1, tha
| copies thereof be forthwith furnished :.
| each of the said corporate bodies
certified to by the said Clerk as correct
by his Official hand and the said corpo.
rate seal.
The STATE OF SoCru CARoL1SA-R1cu
LAND CoUNTY.-John e. Palmer, Johr
P. Thomas and William Wallace to ..The
State Auxiliary Joint Stock Company.
Deed Of Fair Grounds.
Whereas. the following deed, on the
day and under tho authority in the Same
mentioned, Was duly executed by John
Mckenzie. then Mayor of the city OF Co.
lumbia, to US, the above-named John B.
Palmer, John P. Thomas and William
Wallace, for the uses and upon the trusts
therein declared, which deed is still OF
recognized lawfulness-that is to say:
Know all men by these presents, that
l. John Mckenzie, Mayor of the city OF
Columbia, by resolution adopted by the
City Council, on the 9Th day of March,
A. D. 1870, and in pursuance of the
same, and in consideration of 81, to be
paid by John B. Palmer, John P. Thomas
and William Wallace, (the receipt where.
OF is hereby acknowledged, have grant
cd, bargained, sold ard released, and by
these presents do grant, bargain, sell and
release, unto the said John Is. Palmer,
John 2. Thomas and William Wallace,
and the survivors or sarvivor, and the
heirs of the survivor of them, all that
tract of land situate. lying and being in
the County of Richlsnd and State afore.
said, containing thirty acres, moro or
iess-bounded North by lands of Dr.. A.
". Kennedy; East, by lands OF the said
DR.. A. w. Kennedy and J. L. Bearden
South, by Upper street, of tho said city
Of Columbia; and West, by lands OF
Ihc mas J. Robertson-together with all
and singular tho rights. mombers, here