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. ! ~• ` • ~ • • • r • THE STATE OF TEXAS z ' COUNTY OF HARRIS ,X THAT,'TrVHEREAS,•by virtue of•the Municipal Annexation Act, House Bill No.~•13, Acts of the 58th Legislature, Regular Session, Chapter 160 [compiled by Vernon Law Book Company, and published by it, as Art. 970a, V.A.C.S.~, the Legislature of the State of Texas provided for the several incorporated cities of the State of Texas to exercise specified extraterri- torial jurisdiction over territory without, but contiguous to, ~:..% their respective corporate limits, the geographical extent of which is governed by the population of the particular incorporated- ' .f^ city;' and, ~ Y . . WHEREAS, .by virtue of its population, the City. of ..Pasadena, Texas, has an extraterritorial jurisdiction of all the contiguous unincorporated area, not a part of any other " . city,~within~three and one-half (3 1/2) miles of the corporate limits of the City of Pasadena, Texas; and, . WHEREAS, by virtue of its population, the City of La Porte, Texas, has an extraterritorial jurisdiction of all .. ~..' the contiguous unincorporated area, not apart of any other city, within one (1) mile of the corporate limits of the.~• City of La Porte; and, .~ WHEREAS, by virtue of the location of the corporate limits;of the cities of Pasadena,~,.Texas, and La Porte, Texas, ..~ .~ ~ the extraterritorial jurisdictions of the two cities overlap; .. and, WHEREAS,,by Section 3B, of the said Municipal Annexation Act, incorporated cities whose territories so overlap are .. ~authorized~to apportion such overlapped area by mutual agree- ment of the governing bodies of the cities concerned, 'such agreement to be in writing and to be approved by an ordinance