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DAKIEL CARVER
TO	STATE OP MISSISSIPPI,
A. L. STOKOE.	HANCOCK COUilTY........
This contract made and entered into by and between Daniel Carver
andA. L. Stokoe. witnesseth:
The said Carver for the consideration of $1.00 (one dollar ) cash in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, and the undertakings hereinafter set out, does hereby lease unto the 'said Stokoe for fifty years, from this date, the land in the City of Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, Mississippi!!, described as Fourteen feet on the north side of Lot 240 of the Third Ward. per the Hnederson map of said city, for the purpose of enabling the said Stokoe to erect in front thereof a wharf extending from the shore to the channel, or' such distance as will enable schooners and boats to receive and discharge freight. The said lessor,Daniel Carver reserving the right to erect two bathhouses and connect same to said wharf, for the use of himself and family, and guests.
The said Stokoe agrees to immediately begin the construction of said wharf, of such character that it may be used for receiving and discharging freight, and extending same to' a sufficient depth of water that schooners and other vessels may come along side and discharge and receive freight; and does agree that the said lessor shall have the right to connect to the said wharf two bathhouses which he may erect for the use of himself,family and guests, without compensation, and they may fish from said wharf without charge.
It is understood and agreed by the lessor and lessee that the lessee, or his assigns, shall have the right to construct bath houses and warehouses not to come within Seven Hundred feet of the shore in front of that part of said Lot 240 not herein leased.
If said wharf should be dqstroyea by storm, the said Stokoe, or his as signs, shall have one year in whdeh to replace same,,and a failure to do so for one year,
shall inso facto terminate this lease, and should the said Stokoe, or assigns fail to Iceep said wharf in repair and suitable condition fo- the uses aforesaid, then this contract shall cease and be at an end, after si;-: months from the. time said wharf becomes unsafe or unfit.
Witness our hands in duplicate, this 29th day of March,A.D. 1917.
Daniel Carver A.L. Stokoe.
STATS OF MISSISSIPPI,
H AIT COCK COUl'TY......
Personally anpe^red before the undersigned authority, the within Daniel Carver and A.L.stokoe, who severally acknowledged that they signed and delivered the foregoing instrument on the day and year it bears date.
Given under my hand ana official sell, this 29th day of March, A.D
1917. \)
M.ii.Ansley,
(seal)	Notary Public Beat $ 5,/
The instrument of which the foregoing is a redord w.-.s delivered to :ne to bs recorded at