Eastern Shore Gas Company
company
Took a twenty-year lease from the Mayor and City Council of Ocean City on 21 March 1941, engrossed and certified on 26 March, of a town-owned lot at the northwest corner of Philadelphia Avenue and North Fourteenth Street — fifty feet of frontage on the west side of Philadelphia Avenue by an even hundred feet westward along the south side of North Fourteenth Street, part of Lot 7 in Block 53 North on the plat of the Sinepuxent Beach Company of Baltimore City — for a storage gas tank, at $100 a year payable semi-annually in advance. A 'Mr. Wolf' appeared for it before the council. The council had first discussed the offer on 12 March and reconvened after adjournment on the night of 21 March to settle it.
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1941 · 1941-03-21
The town leased a corner of its own land at Philadelphia Avenue and North 14th Street to the Eastern Shore Gas Company for a storage tank — twenty years at a hundred dollars.
On 12 March 1941 a gas company's offer to lease city property on the 14th Street side for a tank was discussed at $100 a year. On the evening of Friday 21 March the council met, granted Cullin S. Jenkins his building permit, heard a Mr. Wolf 'in interest of leasing 50 x 100 ft on city land' for a storage gas tank, adjourned at ten — and then, the clerk records, 'After adjurning Council went in Session again & recommended leasing City [land] for storage tank to Eastern Shore Gas Co. and lease and Resolution was prepared & signed.' The engrossed resolution, certified by the secretary on 26 March 1941, recites a quorum present and voting on Friday 21 March at 7:30, and authorises a lease to Eastern Shore Gas Company 'for a certain lot owned by the town, situated at the northwest corner of the intersection of Philadelphia Avenue and North Fourteenth Street... having a frontage of 50 feet on the west side of Philadelphia Avenue and an even depth westerly of 100 feet along the south side of North Fourteenth Street, and being a part of Lot No. 7 in Block No. 53 North as shown on the plat of the property of the Sinepuxent Beach Company of Baltimore City, for a term of twenty years at an annual rental of one hundred dollars ($100.00), payable semi-annually in advance.' A resort that had bought its light from a company that burned down in 1925 was now selling twenty years of its own ground for a bottled-gas tank, and the sixty-six-year-old Sinepuxent Beach Company plat was still the instrument that described where.
Clifford P. CropperRobert Lee CropperHarold J. RayneWilliam H. Scott
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