The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-02-25
TO GOVERN RELEASING OF
SIXTEENTH SECTION $
LANDS IN CITY OF
COLUMBUS.
COMMITTEE NAMED
Leases Will BE Renewed For
SO Years-LeaSes VIII BE
Approved And Passed
On BY Eawyers.

Decision as to Procedure on the part
OF the city in regard to Sixteenth Sec
ton leases has at last been reached
and definitely, it is hoped. The man.
ner is like tracing blood circulation o,
something like that, but is figured the
best and most logical way
Here is the way it is to be explained
by Mayor McClanahan and the finance
committee, consisting of Councilmer
&. Y. Banks and Joe B. Love, to which
was added Councilman l.. A. Vaughan
AT meeting Of the council last week
they were authorized to devise defin.
ite ways and means as to the pre-
cedure of releasing this property. and
empowered to act: The city is to fur.
nish lease blanks; leasc-holders are
to get them at She marshal's office
and fill them oU the best way they
can; leases as filled out by lease
holder to be returned to marshal's
office at city hall; committee of
abstract lawyers employed by the city
to take them and check with records;
committee of abstract lawyers must
approve each lease before city signs;
city signs and figures amount lease
holder is to pay; lease-holder pays
for a 99year lease at rate originally
leased and gets lease-dced All this
before August LIST, next, at which
time it is imperative that the trans
action be complete.
Lease blanks are now being printed
and will be in the city marshal's office
tomorrow, and holders Of Sixteenth
Section property SIRE not only request
ed, out urged, rof their own good as
well as TO better enable the city to
complete its part of this complicated
work, to get lease blanks and have
them filled out at once, in order that
there may be enough time to complete
check and re-check all the descriptions
1t is big job, and very intricate
and, Incidentally, very important. It
involves the handling Of nearly two
thousand different lease-decds. and in
many instances goes back TO lS21-99
years ago. These same records that
are to be made out now are to stand
for 80 years more and are renewable
forever.
The abtract committee employed by
The city to check, verify and approve
the descriptions as set forth in these
two thousand lcase-deeds consists Of
Colonel c. L. Lincoln, chairman; b
A. Lincoln, John f. Frierson, and the
firm Of SturdivaHt, owen and Garnet
After this is done, Mr.. NJ c. Van
diver, the city marshal and tax col
lcctor, must figure what it viii cost
each property holder to renew his OF
her Sixteenth Section lease. On ac-
count of property being divided since
original lease into many parts. this
also will be rather intricate. But as
the amounts are all small, no great
1iscord is expected 10 result if one
TO ten-cent mistake is made.
There is, however, considerable va
rance in the amounts originally paid
for leases. For instance, it will cost
Il. Hahn thirty cents to renew
'or ninety-nine years the lot
he Hirshman store stands on;
W. C. Beard will have to pay
about $500 for the ground where his
store is, and Nayfield's drug store
will, on August ! 1920, be called upon
% pay ten cents for a 90 year renewal
ease for the space it occupies. The
highest lease price in the city is the
Ed. Childers property, which j. $40.