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e . - 2 - WHEREAS, The City of La Porte has heretofore adopted a Home . Rule Charter authorizing it to annex territory and to extend the corporate limits of said City by action of the City Commission; and, WHEREAS, the hereinafter described land is adjacent to the pres- ent city limits of the City of La Porte and the members of the City Commis- sion of the City of La Porte have concluded that said area should be annexed and made a part of the City of La Porte, Texas; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COlVIMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS, THAT: SECTION 1. That the following described territory be and the same . is hereby annexed to the City of La Porte, Texas, and the boundary limits of the City of La Porte be, and the same are hereby extended to include the following described territory within the city limits of the City of La Porte, and the same shall hereafter be included within the territorial limits of said City, and the inhabitants thereof shall hereafter be entitled to all rights and privileges of other citizens of the City of La Porte, and they shall be bound by the acts, ordinances, resolutions and regulations of said City. That the territory to be so annexed is more particularly described as follows, to-wit: . BEGINNING on the present City Limit line of the City of La Porte, at the intersection of the center line of West Madison Street (formerly known as North D Street) and the West right-of-way line of North Second Street; THENCE in a Northerly direction along the West right- of-way line of North Second Street to the point where the West right-of-way line of said North Second Street, extended in the same direction, intersects with North right-of-way line of the T. & N. O. Railroad (also known as the G. H. & S. A. Railroad); THENCE in a Northwesterly direction along the North right-of-way line of the said T. & N. O. Railroad to the point where the same intersects with the East boundary line of the Town of Lomax, Texas; THENCE in a Northerly direction along the East boundary line of the Town of Lomax, Texas, to the Northeast cor- ner of the said Town of Lomax; . THENCE in a Westerly direction along the Northernmost boundary line of the said Town of Lomax extended, to the point where the same intersects with the Northerly right- of-way line of Texas State Highway 225 (also known as Houston - La Porte Road);