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/ RESOLUTION ~,0. 2848 RES0~UTION SE~LING AND DIRECTING CONVEYANCE OF REAL PROPERTY TO HAROI. D S. HAM~, ET UE WHEHEAS~ the City of Santa Aha ha~ acquired from the County Tax Collecto: of the County of Orange, a deed to the hereinafter described property, and WHEREAS, the Grantee herein has agreed to cause the owner of the fee title to said hereinafter described property~ prior to the sale of said property to the State of California~ to convey to said City by deed sufficient to clear the record title to said property and place the title thereto in said City free of all encumbrauces of every nature, except rights of way~ easements, condittons~ restrictions a~ reservations of record, and WREREAS, the City has been unable to acquire a clear record title to said property except by virtue of the efforts and considerations put forth by Harold S. Hams and Mary P. Hams who have been instrumental in obtaining quitclaim deeds from the original owners of said property, and by so doing have removed a possible or apparent cloud against the title to said property and without such aid and assistance and consideration, this City would be required to expend considerable money and incur expense in clearing such record title, and WHEBEAS, the said record owners have heretofore conveyed said property to the City of Santa Aha; NOW, THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Santa Ana resolves as follows That it is the opinion and Judgment of the City Council that the con- sideration hereinafter referred to for the purchase of the real property herein- after described is in all respects fair, Just and adequate, and that the best interests of said City will be served by the execution and delivery of a deed to said property from the City of Santa Ana, and that the said City of Santa Aha has no. use f~r said real property so proposed to be sold hereunder, and that it is for the benefit cf said city that said property be sold; NOW, THEREFORE, the Mayor and City Clerk of the City of Santa Aha are hereby directed to exeeut~ and deliver to HAROLD S. HAMS and MAEY P. HAMS, a deed to that certain real property situate in the City of Santa Aha, County of Orange, State of California, more particularly described as follows, to-wit: Lot Five (5) in Block Twenty (20) of Tract No. 352, as per map thereof recorded in Book 15~ pages 15 and 16 of MiscellAneous Maps~ Records of Orange County, California~ upon receipt by the City of the sum of Two Hundred Twenty-five Dollars ($225.00) as full consideration for the said deed. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Santa Aha this 7th day of October, 1940. E. L. Vegely City Clerk By: Er~.a Keeler~ Deputy Fred C. Rowland Mayor (SEAL).