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1. ld <br />":1' :,irk' �r 9. t i. r }? 1 / � •al. � .:�, ... <br />RESOLUTION NO. 68- 30 <br />The Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, <br />Florida, resolves: <br />1, That this Board is and has been for a long period of time <br />greatly concerned with respect to the sale of the bottom lands lying within the <br />area of the public navigable waters of this state which are held in trust for the <br />benefit of the people of the State of Florida as the practice has existed for <br />many years and it hereby expresses its disapproval of the indiscriminate sale <br />of any of such lands and hereby expresses the opinion that no lands lying below <br />the ordinary high water mark of the navigable waters of the State of Florida <br />should be sold excepting only when it is evident and apparent that a sale of a <br />part thereof should be made to either (a) permit thefilling of the portions <br />thereof constituting marsh lands as distinguished from lands lying under the <br />open waters and .even then not beyond the line of vegetation; or (b) when done <br />to settle and confirm uncertain questions of the boundary of ownership between <br />the private upland owner and the public lands; or (c) to permit the elimination <br />of minor irregularities in the shore line; provided, however, that shore in- <br />dentations should not be permitted to be straightened out except .if the same <br />may be done by following cords 1,n a straight line from the outermost point to <br />the innermost point, provided the cord does not have a length of more than <br />300 feet. <br />2. This Board does herewith express its intent to oppose thesale <br />of any of the sovereign lands of the State of Florida not clearly falling within <br />the exceptions hereinbefore enumerated and does herewith respectfully request <br />the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida to adopt <br />a like policy, which policy would in the opinion of this Board permit the <br />development of marsh and swamp lands and at the same time preserve the <br />open waters and the bottom lands of the open waters for th 'benefit of the <br />people of this state . <br />3. A certified copy of this Resolution shall be forwarded by the <br />Clerk to said Trustees. <br />guilt . =r4 [237 <br />Smith, Heath, Smith & O'Haire, Attorneys At M.aw, P. 0. Box 518, Vero Beach, Florida 32960 <br />MAY 8 )968 <br />