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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE N0. 2463, PASSED AND
APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE 1ST
DAY OF FEBRUARY, A. D. 1949, PROVIDING
FOR THE PURCHASE OF LOT NO. 11, IN BLOCK
NO. 109, BROOKLYN ADDITION FROM MESOG V.
DONIGAN, ET AL, FOR TEE SUM OF FOUR HUN-
DRED DOLLARS ($1400,00); PROVIDING THAT
PAYMENT FOR TIM PURCHASE OF SAME SHALL
BE PAID FROM STRE2T IMPROVEIZNT BONDS
1948, CONSTRUCTION FUND; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, by Ordinance No. 21463, passed by the City Council on
the 1st day of February, A. D. 1949, the City Manager was authorized to
purchase Lot No. 11 in Block No. 109, Brooklyn Addition from Mssog V.
Donigan, Parrot V. Donigan, Zareh V. Donigan, -Mrs. Lucy V. Welch, and
Mrs. Nectarine V. Walker and husband, for the sum of Three Hundred
Dollars ($300.0o); and,
WHEREAS, the City of Corpus Christi was unable to acquire title
to said property for the price of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00);
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Ordinance No. 2463, passed and approved by the
City Council on the 1st day of February, A. D. 1949, is hereby amended
so that Section 1 shall read as follows, to -wit: That the City Manager
is hereby authorized and directed, for and on behalf of the City, to pur-
chase Lot No. Seven (7), in Block No. One Hundred (100), Brooklyn Addition,
from King Ranch, Inc, for the sum of Nine Hundred Dollars ($900.00); Lots
Nos. One (1) and Three (3), in Block No. One Hundred and Nine (109),
Brooklyn Addition, from Edward R. Kleberg for the sum of Five Hundred
Dollars ($500,00); Lot No. Eleven (11), in Block No. One Hundred and Nine
(109), Brooklyn Addition, from Mesog V. Donigan, Parrot V. Donigan, Zareh
V. Donigan, Mrs. Lucy V. Welch, and Mrs. Nectarine V. Walker and husband,
for the sum of Four Hundred Dollars ($100.00); and Lot No. Seven (7), in
Block One Hundred and Eight (108), Brooklyn Addition, from Francis M.
Jones for the sum of $200.00; all of said lands to be used for right -of-
way purposes for U. S. highway No. 181 in the City of Corpus Christi.
SECTION 2. The fact that it is necessary to obtain proper right-
of-way in order to proceed with the construction of U. S. Highway No. 181
within 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 Mgyor having declared that such
public emergency and imperative 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 SO
PASSED AND APPROVED this_ day of April, A. D. 1949-
ATTEST: Ci �
l at, of Corpus Christi, Texas
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
Ci jr torneV
e etant i y A orney
Corpus Christi, Texas
April_, 1949
TO THE MagRS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
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 resolu-
tion 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 require-
ment and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at
the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
City of CW pus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
,Barney Cott
.��Jaok DaForrest ---CAL
Sydney E. Herndon_
George L. Lowman a ,L
The above ordinance was passed by the following votes
',Leslie Wasserman
Barney Cott
JR4 DaForrest
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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