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. 3~'7 MINUTES -REGULAR MEETIPIG LA PCRT'E CITY CO~-''~B:SSI~T - agAY !~, 1956 4:3o P. a4. Regular meeting of the City Commission was called to order by Mayor M.D. Burgin, with the following members and city officials preser~ : Commis sion- ers L. R. Rigby and H. P. Pfeiffer, Supt. of Public e~orks W.A. Az~thur, Special Counsel Jno. S. Kiibler, and City Clerk Frank G. Baker. Also preserrt were Ernest L.Bravn, Jr., and a4rs. l'~. A. Stabs, Sr., reporter. fl~inutes of the last meetin were read and approved. Mercer D. B~xrgin, Mayor, and L. R . Rigby and H. P. Pfeiffer, Commis siore rs, were administered the Oath of Office by Frank G. Baker, a Notary Public. motion by Pfeiffer, second by Rigbg~ that Ordinance No. 1197, be adopted as read. Carried. The caption of such Ordinance reads as follows: AN OF,DINANCE FIXING TNF BOUIdD.AHY LLT~PS OF THE CITY OF L4 PATE, TEXAS, AND ENLARGIldG AND EKT33D~i G THE BOUNDARY LIa~S t~' SAID ,CITY AND ANNEXING A~ITICNAL TEftRITt~iY LYING ADJACENT TO SAID CITY ~'92THOUT THE CONSENT OF THE TERRITCfftY AND THE INHABITANTS ArdNEXED; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATI CN OF THE ORDIr19NCE AFTFR ITS INITIAL INTRODUCTION AND PASSAGE BY Th'E CITY COMf~ISSICfl~1 OF SAID CITY; PROVIDING THAT ANY CITIZIIJ OF THE SAID CITY ~ OF THE TERRITORY TO BE ATfiTEXED SHALL HAVE THE ~CGHr TO CONTEST SUCH ANNEXATION AND BE GTJEN AN OPPCI'~TtTNITY TO RE LARD; AMID PRO- VIDING ASAVINGS CLAUSE. ORDINANCE CALLING FC13. BOND ELr;CTION THE S'ffl'1TE OF TEXAS ~ No. 198 COUNTY OF HA~R.IS CI'1.'Y OF LA, PORTS ~ tJ1V THIS the 4th day of May, 1956, the City Commission of the City of La Porte, Texas, convened in regular session at the regular meeting place thereof in the CITY HALL with the f ollowi.ng ~ tubers pre serif , to-i~.t ; M. D. BI.k~GIN L. R. RIGBY H. P. PFEiFF~Z FRANK G . BAKER M aydr , Commissioner, Commissioner, City Clerk, when, aaong other proceedings had, were the following: