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~~~ ~~ ~ i Sewer Job Mot£uon by Johnson, second by Roark, that the City accept the accepted sevrer job of Brown &' Root, Inc. Carried. Assistant The following applications for the position of Assistant City City Secre- Secretary vrere presented; Firs. Dorothy Allen, Mrs Berti.e Siefert, tart' Itilary Edith Pierce. Motion by Roark, second by Johnson, that P~Tary~Edith Pierce be employed by the City as Assistant City Secretary, to begin at a salary of X75.00 per month, as of October 29, 1943 • Carried. Resolution P.iotion by Johnson, second by Burgin, that the following resolution be adopted; ~REg.S, the City of La Porte has heretofore passed. and. approved Ordinance No. 261, regulating traffic upon the public streets of the City of Ie. Porte; and 1'YHEREAS, such Ordinance provides that the City Council shall, by resolution, determine and designate the character of all official traffic signs and signals and shall designate the location where the same shall be installed; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of La Porte, Texas has determined, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic in- vestigation that the maximum reasonable and prudent speed over and along that section of 4~est Main Street, between the intersection of Broadway Street and 1~test P,iain Street, is Twenty(20) miles per hot~r, taking into consideration the vaidth, condition of the pavement and the amount of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, over, along and across suoh section of West main Street; NOV'r, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLti~ED BY T?-IE CITY COUNCIL OF ~;;~: THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS THAT: The operation of a motor vehicle or any other vehicle, hovrever propelled, over and along Weat Madn~Street, between Broadway Street and Tenth Street, at a speed in excess of tvrenty miles per hour is prhhibited and that such section of l~'Test Ydlain Street shall be a "20 mile per hour" zone for traffic. The Police Committee is hereby authorized and instructed to plane 20 mile speed signs at the intersection of ti7est Main Street and Broadway Street and at the intersection of l~~fest Pain Street and Tenth Street. Carried. Resolution Illotion by Burgin, second by Johnson, that the following resolution be adopted: GlI~EREAS, the City of La Porte has heretofore passed and approved Ordinance No. 261, regulating traffic upon the public streets of the City of La Pore; and irHEREA.S, such Ordinance provides that the City Council shall,by resolution, determine and designate the character of all official traffic signs and signals and shall designate the location where ttie same shall be installed; N01~, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOL~rED BY THE CITY COi1TTCIL OF TTY CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS THAT: Traffic moving over and along South Fourth Street in a Northerly direction shall stop before entering the South crosswalk of the intersection of such Street with 11Yest ruin Street; is Traffic moving in a Northerly direction over and along South Seventh Avenue shall stop before entering the South cross- walk of such Street with East Main Street. The Police Committee is hereby authorized and instructed to property mark and sign, with"stop" signs, the hereinabove mentioned intez•sections at the proper places. A Carried.