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• It2IIu'UTES LA PORTS CITY COUNCIL ~'IEETING '~'~ FEBRUARY 28,1938, 8 :00 P.I+~. • Meeting was celled to order by Mayor Sharp, with the following Aldermen responding to roll call: C.M. Agge, P.L. Benson, J.J. Roark,Fred R. Ruff. Minutes of the last regular meeting on February lla. and special xeetings on February 20, 21 and 26 were read. and approved. - Ho.L•Ps P The Mayor presented a letter fror. the Houston Lighting and Power Co. check together with their check No.252~~5 in the amount of X391.36 represent- ing the proportion of net earnings alloted to the City of La Porte by the Houston Lighting & Power Co. for the year 1937. Ald. Agee offered a motion, second by Ruff, that the City Council ac- cept the check and write a letter of ackn~7.edgement and appreciation to the Coxpany for sane. Carried Burroughs Motion by Agee second by Benson, that a warrant be drawn in favor of the Burroughs Adding Machine Co. in the amount of X22.32, being the amount of the payment due on the new adding machine Mash lst,1938• Shabi The City Secretary reported that the ratter of ad~ustxent of taxes on car~cel- certain lots owned by Jos.P. Shabi had been presented to the Tax Coya- latien xittee. The value of the lots referred to had been erroneously set up on the Tax Roll for the year 193~.and upon the recoxmendation by the Tax Coxmtittee Ald. Roark made a xotion, second by Ruff, that the Tax C lleotor be authorized to cancel taxes in the amount of $1.50 on Lots 2~ to 28, Block 982, La Porte, assessed in the name of Jos. E. Shabi for the year 193l~. Carried Election The Mayor read the following order for calling an election: order Be it ordered by the Mayor and CitSr Council of La Porte, Texas, that .the anr_ual election be held at the City Ha11 Building in said City of La Porte, on the 5th day of April, 1938 for the purpose of electing the Mayor, two x~embers of the Board of Aldermen, the City Secretary and Treasurer and the City Marshall of said City. It is further ordered that said election be held:'' in the ~~nt:.er, prbscrl3ed by..°law for holding such elections. It is further ordered that the returns of such elec- tion be delivered to the City Council of said City, in open session, as soon as practicable after the closing of the polls. It is further or- dered that proper xiotice of such election be published in the official newspaper. P:~otion by Agee, second by Ruff , that the order as read be passed. Carried. Alderman Ruff announced that the City had asked for bids on 2" galy- anized steel pipe and asked that the bids be opened at this tire. over