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. . . ORDINANCE NO. 836 AN ORDINANCE VACATING, ABANDONING AND CLOSING THE ALLEYS IN BLOCKS SIX HUNDRED NINETEEN (619), SIX HUNDRED FORTY-TWO (642), SIX HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE (655), SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY-EIGHT (678), AND A PORTION OF BLOCK SIX HUNDRED NINETY-ONE (691), TOWN OF LA PORTE; AND ALSO VACATING, ABANDONING AND CLOSING THOSE PORTIONS OF WEST ADAMS STREET, WEST TYLER STREET, MADISON 'STREET, NORTH "E" STREET, AND NORTH "F" STREET, ALSO KNOWN AS CREST LANE, BETWEEN THE WEST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF NORTH l8TH STREET AND THE EAST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF NORTH 19TH STREET, TOWN OF LA PORTE; RESERVING EASEMENTS FOR HOUSTON NATURAL GAS CORPORATION AND' THE CITY OF LA PORTE; REQUIRING A CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY AND SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY CO~~ISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE: WHEREAS, the City Commission of the City of La Porte has .' been requested by the record owners of all of the properties abutting the hereinafter described streets and alleys, to vacate, abandon, and permanently close said streets and alleys; and WHEREAS, the ~ity Commission of the City of La Porte has deter.mined,and does hereby find, determine and declare that the heJ:"einafter described streets and alleys are not suitable, needed, or beneficial to the public as public roads or streets, and" that the closi~g of the hereinafter described streets and alleys is for the protection of the public and for the publLc benefit, and that the hereinafter described .' I portions of said streets and alleys should be vacated, :abandoned, and permanently closed: Section 1. Under and by virtue of the power granted to the City of La Porte under its Home Rule Charter and Chap. 13, Title 28, Art. ll75, of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Tex~s, 1925, all of the alleys contained in Blocks Six Hundred Nineteen (619), Six Hundred Forty-two (642), Six Hundred Fifty-five (655), Six Hundred Seventy-eight (678), ..~ ~ and that portion of the alley in Block Six Hundred Ninety-one (691), situated North of the South property lines of Lot Six .<6) and Lot Twenty-seven (27), Block Six Hundred Ninety-one (691), all in the TOWN OF LA PORTE, Harris County, Texas, according to the map or pl&t thereof recorded in the office of the County Clerk of Harris County, Texas, are hereby