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specific limitation shall be imposed only by an affirmative 

 vote of two-thirds of all members at a special meeting called 

 for that purpose. 



The balance between what is communal and what is in- 

 dividual activity is provided for in the following section: 



Activities of the unit as a whole shall concern only those 

 affairs which from time to time by vote of the members shall 

 be deemed to serve better their economic or social good than 

 can be achieved by individual activity alone. 



In order to prevent speculation in land, possession of 

 the homesteads is based upon a leasehold, the terms of 

 which are made a part of the constitution. The following 

 is the lease agreement: 



This agreement made this day of 



A.D. 19 . . , Witnesseth, that 



hereinafter collectively called the lessee, leases or lease jointly 

 from the Board of Directors of the First Homestead Unit of 

 Dayton, Ohio, Inc., the plot of land situated upon its lands 

 in Jefferson Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, which is 

 designated on its official community plan as Homestead Num- 

 ber , containing about square feet, at a rental 



of $ until January first, next, and thereafter at such 



yearly rental, payable in advance on the first day of January, 

 as shall be assessed against it by the Board of Directors of 

 the Unit, subject, however, to appeal to the membership of 

 the Unit within one month at any regular meeting of the 

 Unit; this said assessment to equal as nearly as possible the 

 full annual rental value of the land excluding improvements 

 thereon. 



All rentals so collected from the leaseholders shall be ex- 

 pended, first, in the payment of all taxes levied by any au- 

 thority of Ohio upon the real estate and upon any tangible 

 property located thereon, so that all leaseholders shall be 

 exempt and free of all such taxation; secondly, in the pay- 

 ment of the interest upon the purchase mortgage upon the 



