HomeMy WebLinkAbout0122_0008TOW'D OF G�'ROEGTOWN CHANGED TO CITY OF GEORGETOtiVN.
Georgetown, Texas.
April 23rd, 1890.
Town Council met in regular meeting; in Council Room with the fol-
lowing members presents
mayor, Wo Y. Penn, and the full Board of Armen, Ui2:."s J. L.
Brittain, George Irvine. J. R. Roberts ani J. W. Whittle.
The Council was duly oalled to order when the following business
was transaoted and proceedings hal; viz:
The following Resolutions were presented by Alderman, J. L. Brit-
tain, and seoon&91 by Alderman, George Irvine, vizi
BE IT RE301VEMD by the Town Council of. Georgetown, at the regular
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meeting thereof, held this the hard. Apri1.1890, that the provisions
of TITLE Seventeen of the Revised Statutes of Texas and the Amendments
thereto made from time to time heretofore by the legislature of sail
State in reference to Cities and Towns be aeoepte3 in lieu of the ear-
ieting charter of this town approvel March 8th, 1871, and that this town
be hereafter known as the City of Georgetown, and that the sail provis-
ions of TITLE Seventeen an& amendments thereto in reference to Cities
and. Towne be aooepted as the charter of sail City with limits as set
out in said special charter of said town, towit:-
Beginning at a stake that is one-half mile due east from the cen-
ter of the Court House(as it then stood). Thence due soufh one-half
mile; thence due west one mile to a stake for the southwest corner of
this corporation; thence due north to the middle of the channel of the
South San Gabriel; thence down the same with its meanders to a point
that a Iiiae due south would strike the place of beginning}'4.ti d4'_-'
B3 IT tURTH R OLVF?�hat the foregoing resolutions be entered
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on the journal of the proceedings of said town council and, that a copy
of the same signed by the Mayor and attested by the Secretary under the
corporate seal of sail town of Georgetown be filed and recorded in the
office of the Clerk of the County Court of Williamson County as require&
by the Act of the Legislature of the State of Texas, approved. March
27th. 1885.
And said resolutions being read and fully understood the ayes and
nays taken on the adoption of the same, when following members of the
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