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, . ORDINANCE NO. 899 . AN ORDINANCE DECLARING THE INTENTION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE TO INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS TO ANNEX CERTAIN TERRITORY; CALLING A PUBLIC HEARING AT WHICH ALL INTERESTED PARTIES SHALL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD; PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF SUCH HEARING BY THE PUBLICATION OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE: Section 1. The City Commission of the City of La Porte hereby declares its intention to institute annexation proceed- ings, to annex the following described territory to the City of La Porte by the passage of an ordinance of annexation extending the general corporate limits of the City of La Porte e. for all purposes to include within such territory all of the following described territory now situated within the exclusive extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of La Porte. As used herein, the term extraterritorial jurisdiction shall have the same meaning ascribed to it as is ascribed to it in the Municipal Annexation Act of 1963, compiled as Article 970a, Vernon's Annotated Texas Statutes: ... BEING a tract of land out of the Richard Pearsall Survey A-625 and the Enoch Brinson Survey A-5, Harris County, Texas, and being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows: BEGINNING at the Northeast corner of the La Porte Municipal Airport said point being a corner in the present city limit of the City of La Porte, said point also bei~g situated in the South line of the present city limits of the City of Lomax; THENCE, South 890 36' East with the South line of the abovementioned city limit line of the City of Lomax to the Southeast corner of the City of Lomax; THENCE, North with..the East city limit line of the City of Lomax to its intersection with the North right-of-way line of the T.&N.O. Railroad, said point being in the South line of a present 100' strip annexation of the City of La Porte; . THENCE, Southeasterly with the North right-of-way line of the T.&N.O. Railroad and the South line of the abovementioned City of La Porte 100' strip to its intersection with the West right-of-way line of North Second Street said point also being a corner for the present city limits of the City of La Porte; THENCE, South with the West right-of-way line of North Second Street and a West line of the city limits of the City of La Porte to its intersection with the South right-of-way line of the T.&N.O. Railroad said point also being a corner for the present city limits of the City of La Porte;