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DAHIKl CARTER
TO	SCATS OP MISSISSIPPI,
A. L. STOKOE.	HAIiCOCK COUKTY........
This contract made and entered into by and between Daniel Carver
and A. 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, describeu as Fourteen feet on the north side of Lot 240 of the Third V/ard, 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 si*ch 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- saicl	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' ?5	without charge.
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j	It is understood and agreed by the lessor and lessee that the lessee,
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or his assigns, shall have the right to construct bath houses and warehouses not to come within Seven Hundred fert of the shore in front of that part of said Lot 240 not herein leased.
. . If said wharf should be dqstroyeJ. by storm, the said Stokoe, or his an signs, shall have one year in which to replace same,,and a failure to do so for ono year,
shall ipso faeto terminate this lease, and should the said Stokoe, or assigns fail to teep said wharf in repair and suitable condition fo? the uses aforesaid, then this contract shall cease and be at an end, after six months from the time said wharf becomes unsafe or unfit.
;	Witness our hands in duplicate, this 29th day of March,A.I). 1917.
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/	Daniel Carver
/	A.L. Stokoe.
-	STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
HAIICOCK COUUTY........
Personally amo^red before the undersigned authority, the within Daniel Carver and A.I.Stokoe, who severally ackno-.-led^ed t'hat they signer and delivered the foregoing instrument on the day and year it bears date.
Given under rn,y hand and official sell, this 29th day of March, A.ID
1917.
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M.^.Ansley,
(seal)	llotary Public Beat # 5/
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