Resolution 052-1963
RESOLUTION NO. 52 -1963
WHEREAS, at the regular session of the Legislature of the State of
Florida for the year 1963, Chapter 63-1601, Laws of Florida, Acts of the
Legislature Year 1963, was passed concerning the incorporation of the
City of Marathon, Florida, which said law contained provisions requiring
a freeholders I referendum election to be held in the areas to be incorporated
hereinafter described in Monroe County, Florida, to determine if said law
shall become operative, and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County,
Florida has been requested to hold said freeholders I referendum election in
said hereinafter described areas in Monroe County, Florida on the 20th day
of August, A. D. 1963, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the Board of County Commissioners of
Monroe County, Florida to call and conduct said freeholders I referendum
election, and to give notice of said election as required by the Laws of
Florida, now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, that a freeholders r referendum election
be held in the following described territory located in Monroe County, Florida,
to -wit:
Commencing at the Northwest Corner of Section 32, T. 65 S. ,
R. 32 E., said Corner also to be known as the Point of Be-
ginning of the area hereinafter described, bear South for a
distance of twenty-six thousand four hundred (26,400) feet to
a point; thence East for a distance of twenty-six thousand four
hundred (26,400) feet to a point; thence North for a distance of
ten thousand five hundred (10,500) feet to a point; thence East
for a distance of five thousand two hundred eighty (5,280) feet
to a point; thence North for a distance of seven thousand nine
hundred twenty (7,920) feet to a point; thence East for a dis-
tance of two thousand nine hundred (2, 900) feet, more or les s,
to a point; thence North for a distance of seven thousand nine
hundred eighty (7,980) feet to a point; thence West for a dis-
tance of thirty-four thousand five hundred eighty (34,580) feet,
more or less, back to the Point of Beginning, containing eighteen
thousand three hundred ninety-three (18,393-) acres, more or less.
The above description is intended to take in Knight1s Key,
Hog Key, Boot Key (east and west), Vaca Key, Crawl Key
No. 1 and the adjacent small fringe Keys, together with
adjacent and contiguous submerged lands in the various
bays, straits, cuts, inlets, etc.,
on August 20, 1963, to determine whether or not the following law passed
at the 1963 session of the Legislature of the State of Florida shall become
operati ve, to -wit:
Chapter 63-1601, Laws of Florida, Acts of the Legislature
Year 1963, entitled:
"An Act to create and establish a municipal corporation in
Monroe County, Florida, by and under the name of the City
of Marathon; fixing and describing its boundaries, providing
for its form of government, prescribing the jurisdiction,
the duties, functions and powers of its governing body, to
provide a charter for the carrying into effoct the provisions
of this Act, and repealing all laws in conflict herewith; pro-
viding for a referendum; providing for effective date. 11
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY SAID BOARD that notice of holding
said freeholders I referendum election be published as required by said
Chapter 63-1601, Laws of Florida, Acts of the Legislature Year 1963.
Dated August 9th, 1963.