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AN ORDINANCE
CANVASSING RETURNS AND DECLARING THE RESULTS OF THE
SPECIAL ELECTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING A MAYOR
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI HELD NTH D
JUNE 1954; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, HERETOFORE ON THE 12TH DAY OF MAY , 1954, THE
MAYOR PRO TEM OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI CAUSED TO BE PUBLISHED A PROCLA-
MATION ANNOUNCING THE SPECIAL ELECTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING A MAYOR
TO BE HELD ON THE 5TH DAY OF JUNE, 1954; AND
WHEREAS, NOTICE OF SAID ELECTION WAS ACTUALLY GIVEN AS REQUIRED
BY LAW AND AS DIRECTED IN THE SAID PROCLAMATION, AS IS SHOWN BY AFFIDAVIT
PROPERLY FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY SECRETARY; AND
WHEREAS, SAID ELECTION WAS DULY AND LEGALLY HELD ON THE 5TH DAY
OF JUNE, 1954, IN CONFORMITY WITH THE ELECTION LAWS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS,
AND THE RESULTS OF SAID ELECTION HAS BEEN CERTIFIED AND RETURNED BY THE PROPER
JUDGES AND CLERKS THEREOF; AND
WHEREAS, THIS COUNCIL HAS TODAY CONSIDERED THE RETURNS OF SAID
ELECTION HELD ON THE 5TH DAY OF JUNE, 1954; AND
WHEREAS, IT APPEARS TO THE COUNCIL AND THE COUNCIL SO FINDS THAT
THE SAID ELECTION WAS IN ALL RESPECTS LAWFULLY HELD; AND
WHEREAS, IT APPEARS TO THE COUNCIL AND THE COUNCIL 50 FINDS THAT
THE CITY SECRETARY HAS TABULATED THE RESULTS OF SAID ELECTION AND CERTIFIED
SUCH TABULATION TO THE COUNCIL, AND THAT SUCH TABULATION IS CORRECT:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT THE TABULATION OF VOTES CAST IN THE SPECIAL ELECTION
FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING A MAYOR OTTHE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI HELD ON THE 5TH
DAY OF JUNE, 1954, MADE AND CERTIFIED TO BY THE CITY SECRETARY OF THE CITY OF
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CORPUS CHRISTI, A COPY OF WHICH IS ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF, BE
AND THE SAME IS HEREBY ADOPTED AS THE OFFICIAL TABULATION OF THE VOTES CAST AT
SAID ELECTION AND THAT SAID TABULATION BE FILED AND,RECORDED IN THE OFFICIAL
RECORDS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI AS THE OFFICIAL CANVASS OF SAID ELECTION.
SECTION 2. THAT THE SAID OFFICIAL CANVASS OF THE RETURNS OF
SAID ELECTION REFLECTS THAT P. C. CALLAWAY WAS DULY ELECTED MAYOR FOR THE BALANCE OF THE
UNEXPIRED TERM BEGINNING APRIL 12, 1953 AND THAT HE IS HEREBY DECLARED SO
ELECTED.
SECTION 3. THE NECESSITY OF MAKING AN OFFICIAL CANVASS OF VOTES
CAST IN THE AFORESAID SPECIAL ELECTION AND DECLARING THE SAID RESULTS OF
SAID ELECTION 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 ORDI-
NANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY
COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR, HAVING DECLARED SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY TO EXIST,
REQUESTING THE SUSPENSION OF SAID CHARTER RULE 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 OR-
DAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE DAY OF JUNE, 1954.
MAYOR L. _
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
ATTEST;- -
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CITY SECR TARS
APP VED AS T LEGAL FORM.
CITY ATTORNEY
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FOR MAYOR
PRECINCT NO. AND VOTING PLACE
LEE SCOTT
P. C. CALLAWAY
FRANK HUDGIN
ABSENTEE
42
228
5
N0.
3 -
ARTESIAN PARK
79
86
26
N0.
2 -
SOLOMON COLES SCHOOL
254
79
4
No.
3 -
CROSSLEY SCHOOL
92
158
9
N0.
4 -
OAK PARK SCHOOL
74
140
6
N0.
5 -
DRISCOLL JR. HI SCHOOL
82
38o
25
N0.
6 -
LEOPARD STREET FIRE STATION
348
48
9
ND.
7 -
GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH
45
260
14
N0.
8 -
FURMAN SCHOOL
264
92
14
N0.
9 -
WIGGINS HOMES
362
57
10
ND.
10 -
DE ZAVALLA SCHOOL
435
41
9
ND.
11 -
STEPHEN F. AUSTIN SCHOOL
333
13
6
ND.
12 -
CROCKETT SCHOOL
544
27
5
N0.
13 -
NICHOLSON REALTY COMPANY
151
246
24
N0.
14 -
TRAVIS SCHOOL
125
255
15
N0.
15
- DEL MAR COLLEGE
36
246
10
NO.
16
- ELIZABETH STREET SCHOOL
120
161
15
ND.
17
- MENGER SCHOOL
49
429
8
NO.
18
- ST. MARKS PARISH HALL
69
473
13
No.
19
- LOUISIANA STREET FIRE STATION
55
414
11
No.
20
- SAM HOUSTON SCHOOL
54
421
19
ND.
21
- PARKSIDE CHURCH OF GOD
54
181
23
NO.
22
- CARROLL LANE SCHOOL
34
351
22
NO.
23
- H. D. THOMPSON NURSERY
30
412
5
N0.
24
- WINDSOR PARK SCHOOL
47
202
11
TOTAL VOTES. . . . . . . . . .
. 3,778
5,400
318
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF NUECES ]
1, T. RAY KRING, CITY SECRETARY OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS, DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE ATTACHED IS A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF
THE TABULATION OF RETURNS MADE OF THE SPECIAL ELECTION HELD JUNE 5, 1954,
FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING A MAYOR FOR THE BALANCE OF THE UNEXPIRED TERM
BEGINNING APRIL 121 1953, OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS.
EXECUTED THIS -L. OF JUNE, 1954.
T. RAY INCj, CITY SECRETARY
CITY OF CO Kl US.CHRISTI, TE
Corpus Christi, Texas
, 1954,
TO THE MEMBFRS OF THE C11"k' MWIL
Corpus Chrl ti, Texas
Gentlemen-
For the reas*ns net forth in the emergency clause of the
fetegoing ordinance, a public eunergenoy ahsal icnjrerative nezessity exist
far the suspension Of the Charttz ruide 8i ttequltrmtnt that no ordinance
or resolution shall'be, passed fbialJUy in the date it is introduced,
and that such ordinance of resolutizau yhal2 he read at three meetings
of the City Council; 1, 'fterefere, (bess:Uj ,Lvgi�est that you suspend said
Charter rule or requirement and nass this ordinance fanally on the date
it is introduced, or at the pa:esent meeting of the City Council,
Respectfully,
3M Y(A? d A
arlT`' 'IF C;QkBPi?5 CHRISTI, TEXAS
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