HomeMy Public PortalAbout19440727SCMeetingTown of Savannah Beach a deed transferring and quitclaiming all
of the right, title and interet of the std Municipality in and
to that portion of the Strand abutting said Beach Lot Number Fifty-
four (54) , Ward Two (2) , eastward.ly to a line eighteen (18) feet
west of said sea w l;
BE IT THEREFOREF :SOLVED by the Mayor and Councilmen of the Town
of Savannah Reach, Tybee Island, Georgia., -in Council assembled, and
is herby resolved, that the Mayor of said Town be, and he is here-
by, directed to execute said deed to said Mary G. Stovall, and the
Clerk of Council be, and he is herby, directed to attest the same
ad affix the seal of the Corporation thereto.
Councilman Young moved that a; ouanity of the new plumbing ordin-
ances be printed in book form at a cost of not over 1,100.00.
Councilman Slotin seconded and the motion passed.
There being no further business, Council adjourns subject to the
call of the Mayor.
Savannah Beach, Tybee Island, Ga.
July 27, 1944
A special meeting of Council "PS held today , July 27, 1944 at
7 :00 P. M. in the Council Room ^nd teas attended by the Mayor, who
presided, and Councilmen Walsh, Young, and Hdsti and °also Mesters
T. S. Chu, T. B. McCarroll, J. A. Brown and W. H. Haar.
The meeting was called to conduct the following business:
1. Meeting with representatives of business interett, to dis-
cuss Doff Limits" biy order prohibiting service men from
bathing at Savannah Beach - issued by the several Armk
Posts adjacent to the island, and to devise ways and means
of meeting the situation.
2. Authorize paying expenses of engineer to come to Savannah
Beach and inspect Sewerage system.
3. Authorize construction of additional room at Convict Camp
to house white prisoners.
4. quit claim part of old Central Railroad right of way near
Lazaretto Creek to Tybee Rea.ch.00.
.Discussion of means was invited es to the "Off Limits Order" pro -
hibiting service' men from bethink in the surf due to Contamination,
Hr. Brown stated that every business place had suffered a tremendous
loss of business since the order had been issued and something
should be done to offset this bad situation. The Mayor informed
the group :1t representatives of the Georgia Department of Pub-
lic Helath had been taking samples vg water from the surf daily
and were sending the samples to they abatory to be analyzed,
Mr. Brown stated that all had agreed to contribute to a sum for
the purpose of advertising the Island and asked the Town make a
contribution of $100.00 to the fund. Councilman Walsh moved that
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the town contibut:4100.00 and that it be made payable to Mr. J. A.
Brown, Chairman of a Special committeeto advertise Tybee, Counecil-
manHosti seconded and the motion passed.
Mayor Dutton stated that he had endeavored to have some Engineers
out of town inspect the Sewerage System, but had been unable to
get any. A Jacksonville firm agreed to send an engineer if the
Town would pay his expenses. Whereupon Councilman Young moved t
that for the purpose of inspection and reporting on the sewerage
system chat the expenses of an engineer be paid. Councilman
Walshseconded and the motion passed.
The Mayor informed Council that Judge)?Houlihan and Kelly Burns
had informed him that if the Town would construct a room and pro -
vide plumbing facilitiesP that some white prisoners would be sent
down for work on cleaning maw ditches and so forth, Councilman
Hosti moved that the-work be authorized and the Mayor be empow-
ered to act. Councilman Young seconded and the motion passed.
Councilman Walsh moved that the following resolution Quit claim-
ing a. part of the old Rai1wayci. of .the Central Railroad near
Lazaretto Creek to the Tybee Beach Company be authorized. Coun-
cilman Young seconded and the motion passed.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS the Tybee Beach Company has leased to the UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA certain property lying immediately notth of the right of
way of the Central of Georgia Railway Company, and on the east side 0
of Lazaretto Creek, said property consisting of a dock and the ad-
joining property;
AND WHEREAS. the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA does not have access to
said property from the paved highway between Savannah and Savannah
REach, and said Tybee Reach Company desires to own the. property here-
inafter described so that its lessee may have such access;
AND :1HEREAS it is for the benefit in general of the Town of Sav-
annah Beach that Tybee Beach Company be placed in a position where it
can provide such access to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and Councilmen of. the
Town of Savannah Beach, Tybee Island,.Georgia, in council assembled,
that said municipal corporation quitclaim to Tybee Beach Company
all of its right, title and interest in and to the following des-
cribed property, to -wit : -
All that certain lot, tract or parcel of land situate, lying and
being in'the State of Georgia, Countly of Chatham, on Tybee Island,
being that portion of the abandoned right -of -way of the Central
of Georgia Railway near Lazaretto Creek described as follows: -
Beginning at a pipe marker two hundred eighty -five (2g5) feet
east of the intersection of the southern boundary line of the
old Central of Georgia Railway right -of -way with Lazaretto
Creek, thence in an easterly direction along the southern bound-
ary line of said right-of-way a distance of twelve hundred sixty
and three - tenths (1260.3)feet, more or less, to a point; thence
North eighteen degrees forty -five minutes West across said
right -of -way a distance of one hundred (100) -feet, more or less,
to the Northern boundary line of said right -of -way;
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thence westwardly along the northern boundary line of said
right -of -sway a distance of twelve hundred sixty and three
tenths (1260.3) feet more or leas, to a. pipe marker placed
et the eastern boundary of that portion of the abandoned right -
of -way of the Central of Georgia Railway conveyed by quitclaim d
deed from the Town of Savannah Beach to A. C. Carter by deed
dated March 10, 193; thence South seven degrees, fast across
said right-of-wry a distance of one hundred (100) feet, more
or less, to the point of beginning.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor of said Town of Savannah
Peach, Tybee Island, ^ eorgia , be authorized to sign a deed
cuitclaiming said property, and that the Clerk of Council be
authorized to attest the same and affix the seal of said town th
thereto.