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September 25, 1950
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AN ORDINANCE N0, fl
BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS, ADOPTING VOTING MACHINES
FOR USE IN THE OCTOBER 21, 1950, ELECTION
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WBE=S, the City of Corpus Christi has called an election
on October 21, 1950, for the purpose of determining whether or not
a contract should be entered into between the City of Corpus Christi
and the Lower Nueces River Supply District for the exploration and
development of an underground source of water supply to be produced
from subterranean geological formations through wells and for the
purpose of annexing certain territories adjoining the City of Corpus
Christi, and
WHEREAS, the Commissioners Court of Nueces County in special
session on June 30, 1950, has adopted, for experimental use, voting
machines as they may be available for Nueces County;
NOTE, TBEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TEE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That voting machines are hereby adopted for use
in an election to be held in the City of Corpus Christi on October 21,
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SECTION 2. That voting machines shall be used for the casting
of absentee votes at said election.
SECTION 3. The fact that it is necessary to adopt said
voting machines for use in the aforesaid election and the great public
importance of such election creates a public emergency and imperative
public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule providing
that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the day it is
introduced and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three
several meetings o£ the City Council, and the Mayor, having declared
such emergency and necessity to exist, having requested that said
Charter rule be suspended and that this ordinance be passed finally
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on the day it is introduced and that it take effect and be in full
force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO
ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, This the "_ day of September, A. D. 1950-
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THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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Z pusChristi, Texas
1949
TO THE AM ERA OF ME CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Chri sti, 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, and
that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the
City Counoil, 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 Counoil.
Respectfully,
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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