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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05314 ORD - 04/08/1959s JKH:II -7 -59 r � AN ORDINANCE CANVASSING RETURNS AND DECLARING THE RESULTS OF THE GENERAL ELECTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI HELD ON THE 7TH DAY OF-APRIL, 1959; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, HERETOFORE ON THE 4TH DAY OF MARCH, 1959, THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI CAUSED TO BE PUBLISHED A PROCLAMATION ANNOUNCING THE GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON THE 7TH DAY OF APRIL, 1959; 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 7TH DAY OF APRIL, A. D.19% IN CONFORMITY WITH THE ELECTION LAWS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, AND THE RESULTS OF SAID ELECTION HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED AND RETURNEDBY THE PROPER JUDGES AND CLERKS THEREOF; AND WHEREAS, THIS COUNCIL HAS TODAY CONSIDERED THE RETURNS OF SAID ELECTION HELD ON THE 7TH DAY OF APRIL, 1959; 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 $O 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 GENERAL ELEC- TION HELD ON THE 7TH DAY OF APRIL 1959 t , , MADE AND CERTIFIED 70 BY THE CITY SECRETARY OF THE CITY OF 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 i OFFICIAL CANVASS OF SAID ELECTION. E t • THAT SAID TABULATION OF VOTES REFLECTS ALL OF THE VOTES CAST AT SAID ELECTION EXCEPT oZ VOTES CAST IN CITY ELECTIONS PRECINCT NO. /(_// - f THE EXACT RESULTS OF WHICH ARE NOT KNOWN DUE TO MECHANICAL CONDITIONS AND CANNOT BE ASCERTAINED FOR SEVERAL DAYS BUT PRESUMING NONE OF SAID VOTES TO HAVE BEEN CAST FOR THE HEREINAFTER NAMED MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY, AND ALL OF THE SAID VOTES TO HAVE BEEN CAST FOR THE CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR RE- CEIVING THE NEXT HIGHEST NUMBER OF VOTES TO THE PERSON HEREINAFTER DECLARED ELECTE[, AND ALL OF SAID NUMBER OF VOTES TO HAVE BEEN CAST FOR THE CANDIDATE FOR COMMISSIONER RECEIVING THE NEXT HIGHEST NUMBER OF VOTES TO THE LOWEST OF THOSE HEREINAFTER DECLARED ELECTED, THE RESULTS OF SAID ELECTION WOULD NOT BE CHANGED AND THE DELAY WHICH WOULD BE OCCASIONED BY WAITING FOR THE EXACT DISTRIBUTION OF VOTES AMONG THE CANDIDATES IN SAID PRECINCT WOULD NOT CHANGE THE RESULTS. • SECTION 2. THAT THE SAID OFFICIAL CANVASS OF THE RETURNS OF SAID ELECTION REFLECTS THAT ELLROY KING WAS DULY ELECTED MAYOR AND THAT MRS. RAY AIRHEART, PATRICK J. DUNNE, JAMES L. BARNARD, JOSEPH B. DUNN, R. A. HUMBLE, AND GABE L. LOZANO, SR. WERE DULY ELECTED COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI FOR THE ENSUING TWO YEARS AND THAT THEY AND EACH OF THEM ARE HEREBY DECLARED SO ELECTED. SECTION 3. THE NECESSITY OF MAKING AN OFFICIAL CANVASS OF VOTES CAST IN THE AFORESAID 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 ORDINANCE 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 ORDAINED. PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE_5,45� DAt OF APRIL, 1959. ATTEST: 1 CITY SECRETARY APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM THIS THE 8TH DAY OF APRIL, 1959: CITY AtfoRNEY .0 THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS i s CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS I .1957 TO THE MEMBERS'OF THE CITY COUNCIL CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS GENTLEMEN: FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE'EMER6ENCY 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 SE PASSED'FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR'RESOLUT16N SHALL BE•READ AT THREE MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCILI �, THEREFORE, HEREBY REQUEST'THAT VOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT AND PASS THIS ORDINANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRO- DUCED, OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL. RESPECTFULLY, MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTED: FARRELL D. SMITH W. J. ROBERTS B. E. BIGLER MANUEL P. MALDONADO. CHARLIE J. AILLS ARTHUR R. JAMES 41!_ ODELL INGLE THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: !. FARRELL D. SMITH W. J. ROBERTS B. E. BIGLER MANUEL P. MALDONA DO CHARLIE J. AILLS ARTHUR R. JAMES ODELL INGLE