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and upon Motion of Commissioner Macdonald, seconded by Commissioner Hamilton and unanimously � carried, the Board requested that Attorney Smith publish notice of intention and prepare a legislative act whereby no municipality could be incorporated within a two mile limit of an existing municipality. Reed Knight appeared before the Board and requested that the County open up Lateral D-5 Ditch Road. He further stated this road was now opened from State Road 60 to the County line except for about a two mile stretch and that it would need a bridge over a ditch to com- pletely open it. The Chairman told Mr. Knight that he and the County Engineer would get with hi one day soon and look over the road and report back to the Board at the next meeting. Bob Jennings and Tom Miller, County Sanitarians were recognized by the Chair and gave a report on their trip to Jacksonville where they had been trying to secure some heavy equipment to maintain the county dumps with, but stated that they were unable to get any and that it would have to come under the jurisdiction of the Mosquito Control Board. They stated, however, that they were still working on it and would report any progress. Mr. Schmucker, County Engineer told the Board that he would like to hire a man to stay full time at the dump on Oslo Road to see that people dumped where they should and not in the road. The Board told him to see how much it would cost to hire a man for this job and report back later. The County Attorney reported that he had written to Representative Paul G. Rogers oto see what could be done about acquiring a parcel of land fronting on the Atlantic Ocean for a public park. This is the parcel of land that the County was advised by the Bureau of Land Management that the Department of the Air Force had requested withdrawing from its surplus status. Mr. Smith further stated that he had drawn up a resolution reciting all that we had been through to try to obtain this land and requesting that said land be restored to the surplus status and that the County's application for purchase under the terms of the Recreation Act be approved. Upon Motion made by Commissioner Macdonald, seconded by Commissioner Mc - Cullers and unanimously carried, the following Resolution was adopted: R E S 0-,L U T I 011-7N WHEREAS, on July 7, 1950, Indian River County, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, acting by and through it s Board of County Commissioners, was advised by the Burea of Land Management, Department of the Interior, through its Chief of the Lands Adjudication Se tion of the Eastern States Land Office, their file 5.21`sESLL BLM 046981, that a parcel of land fronting on the Atlantic Ocean had been declared surplus to the needs of the government an Iwas available to the County for application for its purchase and use a public park under the Recreation Act of the Federal Congress. Pursuant thereto, On October 3, 1950, said County adopted a resolution requesting the United States of America to convey this land to said County for public park purposes. On February 26, 1951, said County was advised by said Bureau that the application was being held pending settlement of certain questions of policy, and on March 6, 1952, said County was advised that the Department of the Air Force had requested that the land be reserved for its use and the County's application was rejected on July 22, 1952. In the year 1954, the County observed that only a small part of the total parcel of property was actually being used by the Department of the Air Force and the County again made application 0 1 L Cl 1 0 1 1 0