HomeMy WebLinkAbout0130_0002AN ORDI,TANCB ESTABLISHING A PUBLIC BURYING GROUND FOR THY
BODrRS OF DECEASED PERSONS IN THIS CITY, AND PROVIDING FOR TED
SALE OF LOTS_ MMBIN, AND PRBSCRIBING REGULATIONS FOR TIM BURIAL
OF SUCH BODIES THBRBIN.
HB IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of George-
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Section 1. The following described tract of land, to -wits -
All that certain tract or parcel of land, lying and being situated
in Williamson County, Texas, being a part of the J.P. Pulsifer
1/3 League, and which is more particularly described as follows
to -wits Beginning at the S.H. corner of Block No. -2, a stone
mound on the South line of said Puliifer survey 475 varas N. 71
B. from the S.W. corner of said Pulsifer survey. Thence N. 19 W.
267 varas to a stake that is 40 feet S. 19 A. from the North
line of the Georgetown and Liberty Hill, road, Thence S. 85J B.
252 varas to a point that is 40 feet from the North line of said
road. Thence S. 77* H. 315 varas to a stake that is 40 feet
from the North line of said resod and on the South line of said '
Pulsifer survey. Thence S. 71 W. with said South line 499 varas
to the place of beginning, containing 12 7/10 acres of land,
and being the same land which was conveyed by Mrs. M.L.Dimmitt
to the City of Georgetown by deed dated December 18th, 1905,
and recorded in Vol. 117 p. 173 of the Deed records of said
County* is hereby not apart as a public graveyard for the bur-
ial of the bodies of deceased persons, but no bodies shall be
buried therin except as is in this ordinance hereinafter provided.
Section 2. Pour and one-half acres of the above described
tract of land, and which is described as follows, to -wits
Beginning at the Bast corner of the tract of land described in
Section ke hereof, a stake in the South line of the Georgetown
and Liberty Hill road. Thence S. 71 W. 307 4/10 varas to stake
for the S.W. corner. Thence N. 19 W. 181 8/10 varas to a stake
in the South line of said rand. Thence with the South line of
said road to the place of beginning, is hereby not aside as a
burial place for persons of African descent, and shall be used
for no other purpose, and the bodies of no other persons shall
be buried therein and it shall be known as The Oak Hill Cemetery,
Section 3. Said 4* &ores shall be fenced by the City se-
parately from the balance of said tract of land, and a plat of
same as now laid off and surveyed shall be recorded in the
Deed Records of Williamson County, Texas, and the Mayor to hereby
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