Mohave County miner., 1899-09-02

ertles FOR the purpose of increasing
the taxes to be paid by said railroad
company or an effort or attempt to in
any way increase or make an unfair
proposition of taxes to be paid by said
railroad company.
The Santa Fe Pacific railroad com
pany for and i'm consideration of the
herein above recited agreements, and
other divers and good considerations,
AS and for compromise of the contro-
versy existing between the said county
and itself, concerning the exemption
of its right of way from taxation, and
as to the assessed value of its land
grants, agrees to pay the county
treasurer of said Mohave county with
{ in thirty days of the date of the exc
cution of this agreement the sum of
5,65941S as the full and complete bal
ance due to said county for any and all
taxes which may have been levied upon
any of its property therein during and
for the year 1899.
| That it will hereafter this year and
for the year 1900 pay all legal taxes
levied in said county upon the assess
ment of all of its property which the
Territorial Board of Equalization has
assessed under the present territorial
statutes, on the basis of levy upon
valuation of 2,5OOO0S per mile upon its
right of way, which shall be accepted
and received by the county aud its
municipalities in full payment for the
taxes levied on it, the Santa Fe Pacific
railroad company.
SEVENTH
That the second party will promptly
pay and at the times required by law
all legal taxes assessed upon an assess
ment of its lands, in said county, pro-
vided said assessment is not above
twenty cents per acre in value on all
lands other than city and town lots
III VI way.
EIGHTH
1t is further mutually agreed by and
between the parties hereto, that this
compromise shall not in any case, or
under any circumstances, or at any
time or place, be constructed or
deemed a waiver on the part of the
Santa Fe Pacific railroad company of |
any of its legal right, or the right to |
claim for itself complete and entire
exemption of its right of way and sta |
tion grounds and other property ex-
empted by the second section of the |
act of congress approved July 27, 1866, |
upon the failure of the board of su-
pervisOrs to keep any of its promises !
and agreement herein contained, and |
at the end of the year 1900 herein pro-
vided for when this contract shall
cease, that the Santa Fe Pacific rail
road company shall not be deemed by
the county of Mohave, or its Board of
Equalization, or any one of them, or on
its behalf, to have in any degree or in
the slightest way waived its right to
exemption as claimed by it, and as
herein above stated and set forth, but
that this agreement shall be considered
simply and only compromise of dis
puted legal rights on each behalf for
the period named to avoid litigation
during that period, and il, at the end
of the year 1900, each party has kept
and performed its agreement herein.
or has broken the same in whole or
in part, no future rights or liabilities
shall be predicdted upon this agree
ment for or on behalf, or against either
party.
And it is further stipulated and
agreed that the party OF the second
part valves all right and claim for any
money or monies paid by the said party
of the second part to the parties of the
first part, specified in the conditions
OF this contract or compromise.
TENTH
1t is mutually agreed by and be-
tween the parties hereto, that this
agreement is mutual and based upon
the promises and agreement of the
other, and that violation by either
party of the agreement herein con-
tained shall give to the other party the
right to repudiate aud rescind this
contract, and to treat it as though it
had never been.