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RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE SALE OF THE ARMORY PROPERTY TO THE ARKANSAS NATIONAL GUARD
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WHEREAS: under date of September 20, 1939, the City of Jonesboro conveyed to the State of Arkansas, for the use and benefit of the Arkansas National Guard, a certain plot of land, hereinafter described, to be used as an armory site, by deed duly recorded in Deed Book 106, at page 632 in the Circuit Clerk and Recorder’s office in Jonesboro; and in said Deed it was stated that said land would revest in the City of Jonesboro when it ceased to be used by the National Guard as an armory “Provided further that the State of Arkansas may have the option to purchase the same from the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, at the time it shall cease to be used on an armory for Two Thousand Dollars free of this condition;” and
WHEREAS, The Adjutant General of the Arkansas National Guard has indicated to the City of Jonesboro his intention to discontinue use of the land involved as an armory and exercise the option given to the State of Arkansas in the aforesaid Deed, and has implemented this indication by tendering to the City of Jonesboro a State of Arkansas Warrant in the amount of $2000.00. receipt for such has been signed by the City Clerk of the City of Jonesboro and placed of recorded in Miscellaneous Record 4 at page 151 in the Recorder’s office in Jonesboro; and
WHEREAS, the City Attorney for the City of Jonesboro has, without the knowledge or consent of the City Council, obtained possession of the aforesaid State Warrant and returned it to the Adjutant General with a letter undertaking to reject or delay exercise of the State’s option to purchase the land involved and informing the Adjutant General, contrary to express policy established and pronounced by the City Council in its Resolution dated Jonesboro 23, 1961, that “a number of persons connected with the City still believing that acquisition of that site for City purposes in most desirable;” and
WHEREAS, under the provi...
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