ALEXANDER SCHOOL LEASE
CONTRACT
1910
ON BAR CAMP ISLAND
I RAN ACROSS THIS LEASE CONTRACT WHILE DOING RESEARCH ON THE OLD CEMETERIES .
TINA EASLEY
LEASE CONTRACT
ALEXANDER AMBERG & CO.
TO
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 71
THIS CONTRACT MADE AND ENTERED INTO BY AND BETWEEN ALEXANDER , AMBERG AND COMPANY AS PARTY OF THE FIRST PART AND JESSE , MCKINNEY , J.M. MICHAEL AND JOSEPH -WOOD , DIRECTORS OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 71 IN THEIR REPRESESNTATIVE CAPACITY AS PART OF THE SECOND PART , WITNESSESS:
THAT FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION OF THE PREMISES HEREINAFTER MENTIONED .AND SET FORTH THE PARTY OF THE FIRST PART HEREBY LEASES UNTO THE PARTIES OF THE SECOND PART AS DIRECTORS OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 71 , AND THEIR SUCESSORS IN OFFICE . ALLOWING ESTATESITUATE ON BAR CAMP ISLAND , GREENE COUNTY , ARKANSAS .
FOR A PERIOD OF TWENTY YEARS .THIS LEASE IS MADE IN CONDITION THAT THE SAID PROPERTY SHALL BE USED BY SAID AND ITS DIRECTORS FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL ; THAT THEY SHALL CONSTRUCT ,AND MAINTAIN A GOOD AND LAWFUL WIRE FENCE AT ALL TIMES DURING THIS LEASE .
THAT THEY SHALL KEEP THE GATES TO SAID ENCLOSURE IN GOOD CONDITION , AND AT ALL TIMES , AND THAT THEY SHALL KEEP THE GROUNDS AROUND SAID SCHOOL HOUSE CLEARED FROM VEGETATION , BRIARS AND BUSHES AT ALL TIMES.
IT IS FURTHER UNDERSTOOD THAT SHOULD THE FIRST OR THE SECOND PART FAIL TO KEEP THE PREMISES CLEARED OF THE GROWTH AS HEREIN MENTIONED OR SHOULD THE DIRECTORS OF SAID SCHOOL DISTRICT ABANDON SAID PREMISES FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES OR SHOULD THE DIRECTORS OF SAID DISTRICT FOR ANY CAUSE ALLOW STOCK TO TRESSPASS THRU SAID PREMISES ON TO THE LANDS OF ALEXANDER , AMBERG AND COMPANY .
THEN IN EITHER OF EVENTS THE PARTY OF THE FIRST PART SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO CANCEL THIS CONTRACT AND HEREIN LEASES SHALL REVERT TO ALEXANDER , AMBERG AND COMPANY , TOGETHER WILL ALL THE STATEMENTS MADE THEREON .
SIGNED - OCTOBER 1910
ALEXANDER , AMBERG AND COMPANY
BY : MRS. R.L. ALEXANDER - AGENT
J.L. MCKINNEY
JASPER HAZLEWOOD
J.M. MICHAELS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE AND FOREGOING IS A TRUE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL INSTRUMENT FILED FOR RECORD IN THIS OFFICE APRIL 21, 1911 AT 5:10 O'CLOCK P.M.
BY FRED WATSON D.C.
J.P. CATHEY