HomeMy WebLinkAbout0073_71N 88 0- 06' E 424.05 feet with fence to an iron stake at a fence corner;
S 42 0- 041 E 128.8 feet to an iron stake on the centerline of the north San
Gabriel River;
Dovrn the north San Gabriel River with the meanders of its centerline to its
confluence with the'South San Gabriel River, being approximately 300 feet to the
junction of the centerlines of said streams;
Up the south San Gabriel River, with the meanders of its centerline to the
point of beginning hereof, containing approximateltr 135 acres, more or less, the
bearings given being given with an allowance of 9 �- 451 E for the variation of
the magnetic needle, as surveyed March, 1954, by The MARVIN TURITER Engineers.
That the importance of prompt annexation of the said territory, creates an
emergency, and a public necessity, requiring that the rules prescribing that an
ordinance be read at three separate meetings before passage, be suspended; and
the said rules are hereby suspended, and that this ordinance is here and now finally
passed$ and it is ordered that it tale effect from and after its passage and
approval.
Passed and approved, this the 10th, day of May A- D- 1954.
Attests
.ayor,itly of GeortSotovm, 'Texas
City, Clerk, City of UeorCetovm,
Texas.
AN ORDIZ:ANCE OF THE CITY OF GEORC-PTOViN TZAS, EXTEI:DING
THE CORPORATE LITJITS OF THE SAID CITY, AiD INCORPORA-
TING INTO THE SAID CITY AS A PART THEREOF THE TERRITORY
THAT IS DESCRIBED IN THIS ORDINANCE, AND MAKING THE
PERSONS 1`J10 RESIDE IP1 T? SAID TERRITORY SO ANNEXED,
CITIZE"13 OF TATE SAID CITY, AND DECLARING AN K_7ERGKICY.
VMEREAS, all of the provisions of Art. 974, of the Revised Civil Statutes
of Texas, which prescribes the mode whereby territory mai* be annexed to and in-
corporated into a City of the Class of this City, has been fully complied with;
in that a petition in writing, and addressed to the City Council of this City, and
asking that the herein described territory , be taken into and be made a part of
the said City, was presented to a3ad circulated among the persons who reside with-
in the said territory, herein afger described, for their signatures thereto and
action thereon. Th.e said petition was headed, "PETITIO"T FOR TSE AIv??EKATION OF
TERRITORY " and i -mediately followed, with a column for the signatures of those
who were for annexation, said another column for signatures of those who were against
annexation. the said places for the said signatures being indicated. by the words,
" FOR AI�jNEXATION " and " AGAINST A,71L .ATION ", respectively. That the body of the
said petition clearly set out the purposes: -.thereof, together with a description of
the territory sought to be annexed. That all persons residing within the herein
after described territory, who were under the law qualified to vote for members of
the State Legislature, were given an opportunity to sign and each had the right
to sign, under the column " FOR 9,TITKUTION"or under the column, " AGAINST
A1NB ATION ", as he or she desired; and that in the manner above indicated, an
election was held'and the said qualified voters,by signing their names in the
oolumn, that they desired, did, in accordance with the separate wish of each voter
cast his or her vote, either for or against, the said proposition of annexation.
That the said Petition, so signed by the qualified voters of the said territory,
sought to be annexed, supported by the affidavit of three of the signers, thereto,
Wherein the said affiants, state that they each reside in the said territory, and
that facts set out in said petition, and pertaining thereto areffrug and that more
than a majority of the said qualified voters, residing in the said territory, did
in the manner aforesaid vote for the said annexation, was filed with the Ilayor of
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