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~i~l f.L i~ ~ MINUTES -REGULAR MEETING ~ of the ~] LA PORTE CITY COMMISSION, LA PORTE, TEXAS January 18, 1865 7:00 PM MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION PRESENT: Mayor H. P. Pfeiffer, Commissioners Frank G. Baker, W. A. Stabs, Jr., Tom W. Osburn and Russell Shepherd. MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION ABSENT: None. OTHER CITY OFFICIALS PRESE[~T: City Attorney C. L. Pitman, City Clerk Clovis D. Mann, City Engineer H. Carlos Smith, Chief of Police Herbert Freeman and Water Superintendent Lyman Cunningham. PRESIDING: Mayor H. P. Pfeiffer. + + + 1. Minutes of the Regular meeting of January 4, 1865, were ® read and approved. + + + 2. Attorney Will Sears, representing Mr. Bert Brandt, ! appeared before the Commission requesting that Donaldson j • ~ Avenue be recognized as a Street, and that it be opened by removing a fence that had been construc ted in the alleged street. W ~ Mr. Sears stated that there was no question, legally, Q about the existence of a dedicated street; that the City W Zoning map shows the street; that it did not make any ~- difference as to whether the dedication was ever filed for d5 record; that "Lowrance" owned the land at the time and ~ sold Lots 5 and 6 according to the dedication. CL' Mr. W. H. Gray, 716 S. Blackwell, stated to the Commission o that when he bought his property on S. Blackwell, that the ® purchase was made with the understanding that the street ~ was open to the Bay. Attorney John McDonald, representing the Morrow heirs, stated that his law firm represented the Morrow heirs at the time the tract under question was purchased; that a search of the records revealed that at the time the dedicator filed the dedication for record, the dedicator did not own the land; that the City had never accepted any supposed dedication or acted thereupon. City Attorney Pitman stated that there had been neither use, nor proper dedication of the supposed street; that he could not recommend that the City spend tax money in a suit for determination. 26'7 APPROVAL OF MINUTES OPENING OF "DONALDSON AVE.