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~ ,~. RT;r':LR x/13/58 1:8 CONTEST OF PHILLIP~LEUM CC~PANY TO THE HONORABLT.~ CITY COT'~'NiISSION OF THE CITY OF LaPORTE, TEXAS Phillips Petroleurrt Company is the owner of some 500 acres of land located and situated immediately north and immediately south of the existing plant site of Celanese Corporation of America, which 500 acres of land is also located with- in the territory proposed to be annexed to the City of LaPorte pursuant to and in accordance with said City's Ordinance TJo. 5~5, approved and attempted to be passed by the City Commission of the City of LaPorte upon first reading on the 2nd day of July, 1g58, and as such owner of said lands, Phillips Petroleum Company objects to and contests said proposed annexation in so far certainly as said proposed annexation ordinance undertakes to include within the city limits of the City of LaPorte said lands or any part thereof belonging to this protesting party, and in support of this protest and contest would show; I All of the lands above mentioned and owned by Phillips Petroleum Company are vacant and unimproved, and used only for grazing and pasturing cattle, with no one residing thereon. Said lands lie a distance of some two to three miles from the present limits of the City of LaPorte and are not adaptable to or necessary for the municipal needs of the City. II That it is not practicable, feasible or within the contemplation of the City of LaPbrte to make, and said City will not make, available to Phillips Petroleum Company or to the property owned by Phillips~etroleum Company all or any of the municipal entitlements, rights, privileges and services available to and provided for citizens of the City of LaPorte and their property. That the purpose of the proposed annexation and the inclusion of the property owned by Phillips Petroleum Company within the territory prooosed to be annexed is to control said property and subject same to taxation by the City of LaPorte without corresponding benefits to said property or to Phillips and such purpose is not in the interest of public safety, health or welfare and such proposed annexation is an arbitrary and unreasonable exercise of the legislative pottilers vested in the governing officials of the City of Laporte and will result in