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• i • ~ MINUTES - REGULAR MEETING ~. LA POR~~3 C TTY COMMISSION -Jai VARY 12 , 195© 10:00 A. M. Regular meeting of the City Commission was called to order by Mayer H. J. Pfeiffer, with the following members and city officials present; Commissioners Jas. S.Crate, Jr., and Wm. P. Jones, Wm. R~aness, representing 'Myatt C. Hedrick, City Engineer, Raleigh Erwin, Supt. of Public 1Yorks, and J.E. P:4uldoon, City Clerk. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Mr. Geo. Counts, ~~'. Bartley, Geo. Sharp, Jr., John Iiolman, Rex Brewer and J. H. Baker, representing the La Porte Independent School District, appeared before the Commiss ian and requested them to annex certain territory comprising a portion of the present School Listriet, for the reason that it appeared imminent that the City of Houston was considering annexation of such territory. If the City of Houston did annex this property, then the territory so annexed would automatically beecQn.e the territory of the Houston Independent Soh®ol District. They urged the City to help them protect the Sohool District and in the event of ax~y litigation they personally would vote to recommend the School District to pay one half of the attorney's fees. The Commission unanimously agreed to help the Ia Porte Independent School District '~ and instructed the City Attorney to draw an ordinance and have ready at the next regular meeting, and to include the following field notes in same, as follows% BEGINNING at a point where the East right-of-way line aP Red Bluff Road, Harris County, 'Texas, intersects the Vest boundary line of the La Forte Independent Sohool District, as established by an act of the 36th Legislature, at its second called session, being effective July 15, 1919, and such act appearing of record ~~'~'"`~~• in the Laws of Texas, Volume 19, t~i.ge 55 3 THENCE, in a Southwesterly direction with said West boundary line of said La- Porte Independent Soho®1 District and continuing with said boundary line to a point where it intersects the shore line of Galveston Bay, Harris County, Texas; THENCE, in a northwesterly direotion with said shore line and continuing along said shore line to a point where it intersects an imaginary line running parallel to, 2500' distant from and on the South side of, the center of the Houston Ship Channel; THENCE, in a N®rthwesterly direotion with said imaginary line to a point where it intersects the North right-of-moray line of `T'exas State Highway ~1LFb. Carried. Motion by Jones, second by Crate, instructing the City Clerk to have published in the city's official newspaper, Ordinance No. 387, dated September 13, 1949• Carried.