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__._ l~~n xuIri UTF,S - REGULAR ".~EF.'TIIuG LA PJRTE CITY COMNfISSIC~i - OCTOEEit 19,1950 10:00 A. hi. Regular meeting of the City Commission was called to order by Mayor H. J. Pfeiffer, with the following memb ers and city officials present: Commissioners Jas. S. Crate, Jr., And YPm. P. Jones, City Attorney Carl C. Patrick, Supt. of Public forks Raleigh Erwin, and J.E. ?~uldoon, Gity Clerk. Minutes of the last meetings were read and approved. Cdr. C. J. Lefferty, District .Manager, and W. E. Hornbucklc, Jr., representing the Southwestern .Bell Telephone Company, appeared before the Commission in con- nection with their application for an increase in their telephone rates. After much discussion, the Commission instructed the City Clerk to have p~iblished a legal notice for a public hearing on the matter at their next r egular meeting November 2, 1950, at 10:00 o'clock A. M. Mr. Carl C. Patrick, City Attorney, read a: letter from the. Bureau of the Cen- sus, in which the City of Houston relinquished that part of the Spencer Highway strip East of Center Street, and ?"lest of the G. H. and S. A. Railroad. The Ccmmissior. ordered this letter ~~rritten into the minutes, and letter filed. DEPARTMENT OF COPJIltRfftCE BUREAU flF T?3E C `y 'SUS ?VASHINGTON 25 October 13, 1950 Mx. Carl C. Patrick La Ports City Attorney Pasadena, Texas Dear hex. Patrick: You will recall that last week Mr. ?Yilliam T. Fay of the Geography Division of the Bureau of the Census called you concerning the .conflicting information ire had received relative to the status of that part of the so-ca11~d Spencer Highway Strip east of Genter Street and west of the G. H. ;u S. A. R. R. You gave Mr. Fay additional information concerning this strip axed asked that we inform you of our final findings in regard to this `arc a. On the basis of the information furnished Nr. Fay by you and by ".4r. Herman ~. ~.riead, an Assistant Gity Attorney for the City ofriouston, we are crediting the area described above to the city of La Porte, and the inhabitants of this area will be counted as residents of La Porte in the final Census publications. This decisian is based upon the following information: 1_uir. Mead advised lair. Fay that the claims of Houston to the Spencer High;rray Strip extended on the east to Center Street and not beyond. ~A.r. ".Read stated that under Texas laws. the first of tPro cities taking legal action to acquire ar. area (legal action includes first passage of the ordinance annexing the area) acquires,