The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-08-18
DONATE LOT
\ FOR A HALL
Improvement Society will Have a
Splendid location.
LOTS WERE EXCHANGED
School Board Gets lot Between School
a House and Rver---Town Hall
North Of School.

Aspecial meeting of the town coun-
oil was held Tuesday evening to consider
the proposition of the Fort Pierce I'M
provement society, in which they asked
/ Yor'the donation Of a lot on which to
erect their town hall and club room.
0uaccOunt of the absence of a definite
, proposition in writing from the society,
the council adjourned until Wednesday
evening.
\ At this meeting President F. II. Fee
l presided, and in the absence of the
clerk Fred Fee acted in that capacity.
The president in brief address stated
i the object of the meeting,
Attorney G. Y. McCarty then pre-
|, sented the following communication
1 from the Improvement society.
!, To the Town Council of the Town of
Fort Pierce, st. Lucie County, Fla:
= The Fort Pierce Improvement club,
= an organization conceived and organ
lied solely for the good OF the town
: and surrounding country, submits the
following proposition to the town coun-
Gil of the town of Fort Pierce.
First. 1t is the desire and purpose
Of the improvement club to erect some
a., where in the said town of Fort Pierce
q substantial town hall to be used for
social, literary, educational and other
| gatherings, for sociables, entertain
ments, bazaars, etc, and for general
public purposes. To obtain this end it
has thought best to incorporate the
club, as it would give it more fixed
and permanent character, enable it to
sell stock and get funds for use on the
said building, to raise some money if
"A 3al tn do 70 b.,
and stability OF the club, and give it
: legalized officers and secure its perpet-
uty. In conjunction with its charter it
details Of membership, dues, etc.
While nomnally Il corporation for
profit, it is well understood by its ofli-
holders that it is nominal that there
will In all probability never be any div
1dends, and its stock holders are actu-
ated by benevolent motives only in
providing the funds for the erection of
the building. Its officers all serve
without salaries and none are provided
for anyone connected with it or work.
ing for or with it.
Second. For many reasons its Off
Gers and committees decided that the
lot north of the public school building
offered the most desirable location for
the town hall the improvement club
proposes to build, the committee on
site, of the club, called on the board of
public instruction of st. Lucie county,
Florida, and said board agreed to con-
Yaxvto the town of Fort Pierce the
Ioint of land north of the school house
On certain conditions, which conditions
ere contained in the proposition of the
school board now in the possession of
The, town council and to which reference
y made.
Third. If the arrangement above re-
terred to Is carried out between the
board of public instruction and the
town council of the town Of Fort Pierce,
the Fort Pierce improvement club |
makes to the latter the following prop
otition:
The Fort Pierce Improvement club
ereby agrees to pay the cost of grad
t1g3as provided by the proposition of
tie board of public instruction to the
t8wA council of the town of Fort
Pierce, Fla. This grading to be done
upder the supervision of the proper
c4mmittee Of the town council, and the
Improvement club paying to the town
tgerctual cost of the same. This con-
dkion the Fort Pierce Improvement
cub binds itself and its officers to per-
form.
Fourth. This cost of grading the
IMPROVEMENT club aforesaid contracts
and agrees to pay in consideration of
the conveyance to said Improvement
club by good and sufficient deed to pass
tn title of the town of Fort Pierce, by
tie town of Fort Pierce to said corpo-
ration of tract of land 60 feet wide,
facing west on Pine street, immediate
lyjeast of and abreast of the east end
Of Tsopical avenue and extending east.
Ward from Pine street a distance OF
100 feet.
NTH. In order to accomplish the
conveyance to the Improvement club
Aforesaid of the said lot, it becomes
necessary for the town council OF the
town of Fort Pierce to accept the offer
Of the board of public instruction of st,
Lucie county, Fla, and to take deed
from the said board of public instruc-
ticuto the triangular tract of land be-
longing to said board, lying northwest
Of the school house and to convey to
the board of public instruction the tract
designated in the proposition OF the
bQa1 Of public instruction to the town
cqOIcil This the improvement club
h1roby requests the town council to &C.
cdnplish and the said club hereby