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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER
TO PURCHASE A TRACT OF LAND SITUATED AT THE
INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY N0. 9.AND ELMORE
DRIVE FRONTING 40 FEET ON HIGHWAY No. 9 AND
26.66 FEET ON ELMORE DRIVE OUT OF LOT 15, OF
THE WOODLAWN AUDITION TO THE CITY OF CORPUS
OHRISTI, NOECES COUNTY, TEXAS,. AND PROVIDING
PAYMENT FOR SAME IN THE SOM OF $1,500,00 BE
MADE OUT OF FOND NO.. 295 IMPROVEZNT BONDS
1918 CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET INPROVMENTS);
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the City is now engaged in a program of widening and im-
proving Highway No. 9 as eu extension to Leopard Street in the City of Corpus
Christi, Nueces County, Texas, and in addition a tract of land fronting
26.66 feet on Elmore Drive at the intersection of said Elmore Drive vd th
Highway No. 9 and fronting 40 feet on said Highway No. 9 and being out of
Lot 15 of the Woodlawn Addition to the City of Corpus - Christi, Nueces County,
Texas, and particularly described as follows:
Beginning at the southwest corner of Lot 15, of
the Woodlawn Addition to the City of Corpus Christi;
Thence N 299 121 E along the west line of said
Lot 15, a distance of 26.66 feet to a point which is
the southwest corner of a tract of land previously
conveyed by the grantor to the State of Texas by deed
dated the 1st day of November, 1945, and recorded in
Vol. 315, Page 305, of the Deed Records of Nueces
County;
Thence S 890 %0' E along the south .line of the
said previously conveyed tract of land, a distance of
40.0 feet to a point;
Thence S 470 04, W a distance of 49.26 feet to a
Point in the south line of Lot 15;
Thence N 580 10, W along said south line of Lot
15, a distance of 20.16 feet to the place of beginning;
Said strip or parcel of land contains 0.0216 Acres,
more or less,
and,
WHEREAS, said property can be purchased for the sum of Fifteen
Hundred Dollars ($1000.00) from the owner, LaMesa Land & Cgttle Company, a
corporation, having its business office in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas;
NOW, TID;REFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEAS:
SECTION 1. That the City Manager of the City of Corpus Christi be,
and he is, hereby authorized and directed to purchase from the owner and ob-
tain a proper conveyance thereof to the City for the Sum of $1,500.00 payable
out of Fund No. 295 Improvement Bonds 1948 Construction Fund (Street Improve-
ments) and pay such title expense in addition thereto as may be incurred and
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to execute the necessary contracts and agreements to complete said
purchase.
SECTION j. The fact that the State Highway Department is
cooperating with the City in the establishment, construction and widen-
ing of said Highway No. 9 at the location of the property hereby
authorized to be purchased and is reac]y to proceed with the construc-
tion work immediately on and adjacent to said property oreatea 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 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 ouch 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 ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this �I day of October, A. D. 1949.
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APPR04ED AS TO LEGAL FORCQ: City of Corpus Christi, Texas
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Corpus Christi, Texas
( N , 1949
TO THE XWEHS 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
resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, sad
that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the
City "Mails 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 Couttoil.
Respectfully,
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City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the lbllowing vote
Leslie Wassermatt
Jack De Forrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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The above ordinance was passed by the
following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman