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{ AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, TO EXECUTE
FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY A LEASE WITH GUY
A. THOMPSON, TRUSTEE FOR THE SAN ANTONIO, UVALDE
AND GULF RAILROAD COMPANY FOR STORAGE TANKS SITE
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TEE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City Manager of the City of Corpus
Christi, Texas, be and he is hereby authorized and directed to execute
for anion behalf of said City a lease contract with Guy A. Thompson,
Trustee for the San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad Company, said
lease being dated March 26, 1947, and beginning as of October 1, 1946,
and covering the following described parcels of land located in Corpus
Christi, Nueces County, Texas, said leased premises to be used solely
as a site for Lessee +s storage tanks, and said lease having a rental
consideration of Forty Dollars ($40.00) per years
Parcel No. 1
Beginning at the point of interseotica of the southerly line
of Sam Ranken Street with the east line of Kelly Street, Corpus Christi,
Texas;
Thence Easterly, along Carrier's northerly property line and
crossing Kelly Street at right angles, a distance of 60 feet to a point;
Thence Southeasterly, and parallel to the oenterline of
Carrier's main line track, a distance of 85 feet to a point;
• point; Thence Southwesterly, at right angles, a distance of 95 feet to
Thence Northeasterly, at right,angles, adistance of 125 feet to
• point in the southerly line of Sam Ranken Street;
Thence Northeasterly, along the southerly line of Sam Ranken
Street, a distance of 50 feet to the point of beginning;
Containing 10,975 square feet, more or less.
Parcel No. 2
37ginning at a point in the southerly line of Sam Ranken Street,
Corpus Christi, Texas, this point also being 74.5 feet, measured at right
angles, northerly from the centerline of Carrier's main line track;
Thence Northeasterly, along the southerly line of Sam Ranken
Street, a distance of 15 feet to a point;
Thence Southeasterly, at right angles, a distance of 125 Feet
to a point;
s point; Thence Southwesterly, at right angles, a distance of 15 feet to
Thence Northwesterly, at right angles, a distance of 125 feet
to a point in the southerly line of Sam Ranken Street, or the point of
beginning;
Containing 1,875 square feet, more or less.
SECTION 2. The necessity for immediate securing of proper
sites for storage tanks in which to store asphalt which is needed for
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construction purposes in the City of Corpus Christi creates a public
emergency and public imperative necessity requiring the suspension
of the Charter rule 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 several meetings of the City Council,
and the Mayor having declared that such public emergency and imperative
necessity exist, and having requested that such Charter rule be sus-
pended, 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 SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this /7 day of June, A. D. 1947.
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
ATTEST:
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
�y AAD orney
Corpus Christi, Texas
June /% , 1447
TO THE ME13LRS OF TFM CITY COTTUCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set fortis in the emergency clause of the
foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and inperative 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 meetings 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,
-�:� Pa 1R
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Wesley L. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
John A. Ferris
R. R. Henry
Joe T. Dawson
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Wesley E. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr. C
John A. Ferris
R. R. Henry
Joe T. Dawson
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