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RUPERT T. PICKENS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SECURITY NATIONAL BANK BUILDING
HIGH POINT, N. C.

December 20, 1943

Mr. J. W. Hiatt
Harris & Covington Hosiery Mill
308 Oak Street
High Point, N. C.

Dear Mr. Hiatt:

With reference to the Harris land matter with the
City of High Point, I have received from the City
a deed concerning the strip conveyed to the City
by Mrs. Florence W. Harris and J.W. Harris on
November 26, 1920, together with the City's check
for Seven Hundred ($700.00) Dollars payable to Mrs.
Elizabeth H. Covington and J. Welch Harris. I am
enclosing herewith the check for delivery to the
payees, and I am having the deed recorded in the
Register of Deeds office, Greensboro.

I believe I have heretofore delivered to you a copy
of the deed executed by Mrs. Covington and Mr. Harris
to the City in connection with this transaction, which
deed conveys to the City a base or qualified fee to
the property traversed by North Hamilton Street as it has
been opened, with provision for a reversion of the titile
to the grantors in the event the land should ever cease
to be used for street purposes. I have also delivered
to you a certified copy of a resolution adopted by the
City Council on December 9 concerning this transaction.

As I have previously stated to you and to Mr. Harris,
the title which Mrs. Covington and Mr. Harris have re-
ceived from the City of High Point to the 30-foot strip
previously conveyed by their father and mother to the
City is not entirely free from question. As you will
recall, this matter came into my hands after a contract
had been entered into between Mrs. Covington and Mr.
Harris and the City. This contract, as set forth in

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