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219 MINUTES - SPECIAL MEETING LA FORTE CITY COMMISSION -DECEMBER 21, 1948 1Os00 A. M. Special meeting of the City C,o~mmission was called to order by Mayar H. J. FPeiffer, with the following members and city officials presents Ca®aiss- iaaaers Jas. S. Crate, Jr. and Jas. E. Stewart, City Attorney Jno. S. giibler, and City Clerk J. B. Muldoon. ;~, ,, Motion by Stewart, second by Crate, authorizing the City Clerk to order !~0 yards of shell Eras Norris & Stanford, to shell 200' vn 5th Street near "B", amount to be dedttoted from ~11~3.12 owed by city to Guy R. Hamilton. Carried. The Commission instructed the City Clerk to have Dan Runnaell haul the shell to looatkon marked by Guy R. Hamilton. Motion by Stewart, seaao~d by Crate, authorizing the City Clerk to issue a oheok to E. I. gavard., Jr., in the amount of =30.00 for patehing walls, cleaning, etc. Carried. Motion by Crate, second by Stewart, authorizing the City Clerk to issue a oheok for X25.00 to Oren Williams, for work performed on tax map. Carried. The Commission took up the matter of the population of the aity of La Porte, and after .discussion and oansfderat ion the following Resolution was unan- imously passed and approved, to-wits -~ RESOLUTION 11YBEREAS, the City Clerk reported. on the survey he had been instructed to make with the utilities in the City as follows City Water Department records show the number of .water eamn.ections in 19Li.0, the date of the last Federal oeasus, to be 527 and the number of water eonneotiaala in the City on December 1, 19l~8, to be 909; The Houstaa Natural Gas Corporation had 527 consumers in the City in 1s40 and on December 1, 19I~8 had 905 consumers; The Houston Lighting do Power Company on December 1, 1948 had 1073 consumers in the City; the exact number of consumers in 190 is not avail- able but the present number of oansumers is approximately double that of 1910;