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JUN 61984 kv BOOK 57 pnf_356 AGREEMENT THIS AGREEMENT made this day by and between Indian River County, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, herein- after called the "County" and Florida Land Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Florida, hereinafter referred to as "Land Company." WHEREAS, Jungle Trail is a public road established in the early 1900s and formally declared a fifty foot wide public road by resolution of the St. Lucie County Commission in regular session on June 2, 1925, as set forth in the official records of St. Lucie County Book 4, page 349 (then known as Orchid Road), and WHEREAS, members of the general public have continu- ously and uninterruptedly under claim of right traveled the road for at least the last sixty years and the roadway has been main- tained by County forces for at least the last twenty years, and WHEREAS, in 1976 the Board of County Commissioners approved and filed a maintenance map in the public records of Indian River County pursuant to Florida Statutes 595.361, and WHEREAS, a portion of Jungle Trail transverses land owned by the Land Company and runs along the shoreline of the Indian River, and WHEREAS, over the years the bank of the Inlian River ha -1 been changed by the forces of erosion to the extent that recent surveys show the right of way alignment set forth in the 1976 maintenance map extending into the river while at the same time showing portions of the current roadbed as traveled by the public extending onto Land Company property, and WHEREAS, the Land Company has made known its objec- tions to the road alignment as shown on the 1976 maintenance map on file in the County, and The Land Company has contested the width location and extent of the Right of Way, and WHEREAS, the County in the interim has applied to the State of Florida for permission to perform certain shore stabilization activities along the shoreline, and -1-