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Home My WebLink About06389 ORD - 01/10/1962JKH:1 -5 -62 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER, FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TO ACCEPT A QUITCLAIM DEED FROM THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY BY WHICH SAID SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY DONATES AND QUITCLAIMS UNTO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI THAT PROPERTY KNO!JN AS THE OLD EPWORTH WYE PROPERTY ON CORPUS CHRISTI BEACH IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, CONSISTING OF 3.57 ACRES OF LAND TO BE USED FOR PANK ANU FLATUROUND PURPOSES, ALL AS MORE FULLY SET FORTH IN THE QUITCLAIM DEED, A COPY OF WHICH IS ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. THE CITY MANAGER BE, AND HE IS HEREBY, AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED, FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TO ACCEPT A QUITCLAIM DEED FROM THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY BY WHICH SAID SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY DONATES AND QUITCLAIMS UNTO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI THAT PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE OLD EPWORTH WYE PROPERTY ON CORPUS CHRISTI BEACH IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, CONSISTING OF 3.57 ACRES OF LAND TO BE USED FOR PARK AND PLAYGROUND PURPOSES, ALL AS MORE FULLY SET FORTH IN THE QUITCLAIM DEED, A COPY OF WHICH IS ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF. SECTION 2. THE NECESSITY TO ACCEPT THE AFORESAID QUITCLAIM DEED FOR THE PURPOSES THEREIN DESCRIBED CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR, HAVING DECLARED THAT SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY EXIST, AND HAVING REQUESTED THAT SUCH CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED, AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED THIS THE_/d7 DAY of JANUARY, 1962. A MAYOR CITY SECRET#kY THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TX AP TO LEGAL F THIS Y MOFANUARY, 1962: CITY TTO NEY THE STATB OF TSXAS COUNTY OF NUECES I KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: THAT, the Southern Pacific Company, a Delaware Cor- poration, hereinafter sometimes called `Grantor ", for and in consideration of the benefit to be derived from the development of a public park and playground by the City of Corpus Christi, a municipal corporation of the State of Texas, by these presents does Donate, Sell, Release and forever Quitclaim, unto the said City of Corpus Christi, all of its right, title and interest, in and to that certain tract or parcel of land situated at Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, and more particularly described as follows, to -wit: Being Grantor's old Epworth Wye property bounded on the West by a line that is twenty five feet (25') east of and parallel to the centerline of Grantor's fifty foot (500) main track right of way, on the South by the North boundary line of Epworth Place, on the East by the West boundary line of North Shoreline (Avenue A) and on the North by the old Epworth Encampment Grounds, as shown on map of Corpus Reach Hotel Addition of record in Volume 1, Page 51, of the Nap Records of Nueces County Texas, and containing 3.87 acres of land more or less. Grantor hereby reserves to itself, its successors and assigns,all of the oil, gas, sulphur and other minerals, 11im as well as unlike, in, on and underlying the herein described premises, without however, any right whatsoever to use the surface of the land herein described for arW purpose in connection there- with. TO RAVE AND TO HOLD the said promises hereinabore described, together with all rights, hereditaments and appur- tenanoes thereto belonging unto the said City of Corpus Christi, Its successors and assigns forever, so that nsithsr the Southern Pacific Company, nor any person or persons claiming under the Southern Pacific Company, shall, at any time hereafter, have or claim mW right, title or interest, in or to said premises, or any part thereof - IN T8S1°IMW WWWF, the said Southern Pmoifie CoclpWW -1- has caused these presents to be executed by its Vice President, attested by its Assistant Secaetal`Y, and the corporate sea or said Company to be hereunto affixed, on this the ` /�- ay or a A. D. lg6l, ATTE f, N PAQ- o AHD - sa a an c By ` ,oe re8 ent THE STATE 0$' TgS CO11M OF HAMUS "R, the undersigned a Notes Public, in and for Harris County, Texas, on this day pera®nsll- &PWared B. a' Slugs, Moe President of the Southern Pacific CoMP&W, known to eye to be the person whoae rase le subsoribed to the foregoing instru��, and aakr le�� to me that he executed the 108", it the and and for the pur- poses and considerations them,, stated, and us the act and deed of the Southern ftoirie CempwW . ,yZ 0 VZM under ear hand and seal of offlae, thle the = --—Qair of A . D. 1961. H. C. HOELTER or bias Oounty, CORPUS CHRIST TEXAS DAY OF n_ 1q L Q TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FORE- GOING ORDINANCE, A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR THE SUSPENSION -OF THE CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE MEE`T'INGS OF THE CITY ,COUNCIL] I-, THEREFORE, HEREBY REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT AND PASS THIS ORDINANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL. RESPECTFULLY, 7 r MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI EXAS THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTES BEN F. MCDONALD Tom R. SWANTNER DR. JAMES L. BARNARD JOSE R. DELEON M. P. MALDONADO W. J. ROBERTS JAMES H. YOUNG THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWI VOTES BEN F. MCDONALD TOM R. SWANTNER DR. JAMES L. BARNARD JOSE R. DELEDN M. P. MALDONADO W. J. ROBERTS JAMES H. YOUNG