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~-"'" . -..-...... . ~.- --"" .. ' --.... .,-_.~....... . '. , ORDINANCE NO. tIJ 7 AN ORDINANCE FIXING THE BOUNDARY LTh1ITS OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS, AND ENLARGING AND EXTENDING THE BOUNDARY LIMITS OF SAID CITY AND ANNEXING ADDITIONAL TERRITORY LYING ADJACENT TO SAID CITY WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE TERRITORY AND THE INHABITANTS ANNEXED; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION OF THE ORDINANCE AFTER ITS INITIAL INTRODUCTION AND PASSAGE BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF SAID CITY; RESERVING AND PRESERVING ALL RIGHTS, POWERS AND DUTIES UNDER ALL ORDINANCES HERETO- FORE ADOPTED BY THE CITY COMlVlISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE; AND PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE. WHEREAS, under and by virtue of Section 2, Article 1175, of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, of 1925, as amended, and Section 10 of the Home Rule Charter of the City of La Porte, the said City ....., is authorized and empowered to fix the boundary limits of said City, and to provide for the extension of said boundary limits and the annexation of additional territory lying adjacent to said City, with or without the consent of the territory and the inhabitants annexed; and WHEREAS, the City Commission of the City of La Porte, after due and careful consideration, has determined that it is necessary to more carefully define the outer limits of the City of La Porte; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMIS- SION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS, THAT: Section 1. The boundary limits of the City of La Porte, Texas, be and hereby are established, enlarged and extended, as hereinafter set out, so as to include within the boundary limits of said City all that terri'" tory lying adjacent to said City within the following described limits, without the consent of the territory and the inhabitants annexed, to"'wit: BEGINNING at a point in the East Boundary Line of the Original Corporate Boundaries of the City of La Porte, said point being located at the intersection of the East Right-of- Way line of Donaldson Street with the South Right-of- Way line of East Main Street; THENCE, in a Southeasterly direction following the present East boundary line of the City of La Porte along the East Right-of"'Way line of Donaldson Street and Southeasterly along a projection thereof to a point of intersection with the waters of Galveston Bay a dis. tance of 3, 250 feet, more or less;