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r~ • ORDIN~-NCE N0. 558 tiS NP.IENllE'D AN ORDINANCE EXTENDING THE CITY LIMITS OI' THE CITI' OF LA PGR9'i~ TO YNCLUDE ALL LANDS AND ARLA ~IITHIN CERTAIN LIMITS AND BOUNDARIES AND ANNEXING TO THE CIY"1 ON LA PORTE ALL OF THE ARE:4 FIITIIIPJ Sf~iD Li~IITS ANJ B'BUNDARIES, EXCLUDING SUCH LANC~S OR AREAS (4HICIt IT IS NOT tNIT1IIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE CITY OF LP.. !'OR'fE 1'0 AN- IVEX; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION OF TtiE ORDIIVaNCE AFTER I'fS INITIAL INl'RODUCTION AND PASSAGE BY THE CITY COt4t8ISSI0PI OF 'fHE SAID CI'T'Y; PROVIDING 'fHA'" ANY CITI;~ETI OF THE SAID CITY OR OF THE TERRITORY TO 9E ANNEXED SHALL HAVE THE RIGH'1' TO COII- 1'EST SUCH ANNEXATION AND BE GTVEPI AN OPPORTUNT'fY "i'O BE HEARD; PROVIDING THAT THE INHABI"IANTS OF THE TERRITORY HEREBY ANNEXED SHALL BE ENTITLED 'fO THE RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF OTHER CITIZENS OF THE CI'T'Y OF LA Pt7R1'E AND SHALL BE BOUND BY THE ACTS, ORDIN;aNCES, ETC., OF SAID CITY; AND PROVIDING A SAVIPIGS CLAUSE. i~tIEREASI under and by virtue of Section [., Article 11'75, of the Bevis • Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, 1925, as amended, and Section lO oi' the Home Rule Charter of the City of La Porte, said City is authorized and empowered to fix the boundary limits of said city, and to provide for the extension of sai boundary limits and the annexation of additional territory lying adjacent to sai City, with or r~itiiont the consent of the territory and the inhabitants annexed; and tt>HEREAS, the City Commission of the City of La Porte apprave~~t and i passed, on first reading, on October 1't, 1958, Ordinance No, 558, extensiog the ~~, City Liraits of the City of La Porte to include all lar~cls and area t~lithin certain; limits and boundaries and annexing to the City of La Porte all of the area ~aithit~ ~ ... said limits and boundaries, as fully described therein; and I'dHl?REAS, ttte said Ordinance i=aas published in full in The l,a Porte Lib~rw al, the official newspaper as theretofore adopted by the City Commission, in then City of La Porte, one (l) time, on the 24th day of October, 1958; and t~HERE!':S, certain written protests and objections to the said annexatitn proposed in said Ordinance Ido, j58 were duly filed; and ~ C9HEREAS, all citizens of the City of La ?urta and of the cerrit;oi~y pr~- posed to be annexed by said Ordinance No, 558 were given an opportunity to be heard by the City Commission of the City of. La Porte, at sevQn o'olock F, ~g, on December J, 1958, at vrlticfr ti,ue a public hearing rias held by tae City Commission of the City of La Porte, at the City Hall, in said City, and at which time ar,d place all citizens arho apl;earecl were heard; and ~tHEItEAS, alter such citizens had been given an opportunity to be hear . • as aforesaid, the City Co-nmission of the City of La Porte, in its judgment.: de- termined that Grdiuance No. 558 shouler be finally passed, in tiie •~mendea iornt as hereinafter set forth; a~iu