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<br />- <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />.e . <br /> <br />e e. <br /> <br />. <br />. . <br /> <br />wHEREAS, The City of La Porte has heretofore adopted a Home <br />Rule Charter authorizing it to annex territory and to extend the corporate <br /> <br />limits of said City by action of the City Commission; and, <br />hHEREAS, the hereinafter described land is adjacent to the fires. <br />ent city limits of the City of La Porte and the members of the City Commis. <br />sion of the City of La Porte have concluded that said area should be annexed <br /> <br />and made a part of. the City of La Forte, Texas; <br /> <br />NOV\-, TIiEREFORE, BE IT ORD1.INED BY nIB CITY COl\.fMISSION <br />OF WE ~ITY OF L} fCRTE, TEXAS, THAT: <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />SECTION 1. That the following described territory be and the <br />Sar.1e is hereby annexed to the City of La Porte, Texas, and the boundary <br /> <br />limits of the City of La Porte be, and the same are hereby extended' to in- <br />clude the following described territory within the city limits of the (;ity of. . <br /> <br />La Pone, and the same shall hereafter be included within the territorial <br /> <br />limits of said City, and the inhabitants thereof shall hereafter be entitled <br />to all rights and privileges of other citizens of the City of La Porte, and <br />they shall be bound by the acts., ordinances, resolutions and regulations of <br /> <br />said City. ~~-'~e territory to be so annexed is more particularly describ- <br />ed as follows, to-wit: <br /> <br />BEGINNING on the present City Limit line of the City of <br />La Forte, at the intersection of the center line of West <br />Madison Street (formerly known as North D Street) and <br />the West right-of-way line of North Second Street; <br /> <br />THENCE in a Northerly direction along the Vvest right- <br />of-way line of North Second Street to the point where <br />the V,est right-of-way line of said North Second Street, <br />extended in the same direction, intersects with North <br />right-of-way line of the T. & N. C. Railroad (also <br />known as the G. H. & S. }... Railroad); <br /> <br />THENCE in a Northwesterly direction along the North <br />right-of-way line of the said T. & N. O. .Railroad to the <br />point where the same intersects with the East boundary <br />line of the Town of Lomax, Texas; . <br /> <br />TH EN C:C ' In a Northerly direction along the East boundary <br />line of the Town of Lomax, Texas, to the Northeast cor- <br />ner of the said Town of Lomax; <br /> <br />THENCE in a v~esterly direction along the Northernmost <br />boundary llne of the said Town of Lomax extended, to the <br />point where the same intersects with the Northerly right. <br />of-way line of Texas State Highway 225 (also known as <br /> <br />- 2 - <br />