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' °'? T r"4 fiTiTG LA TORTE CI`T'Y COI':~?:'ISSIOiI - Ayl-tIL 17, 1952 10:00 A. INT. Regular meetil~g of t lZe City Comir3.ssion Vras called to order by liayor Pro-Tem ,'`'Tm. P. Jones, tFrith the folloziri.ng members ~.d city officials present: Commissioner T~1. D.1;tmgin, Gity Attar~ney Carl C. Patrick, Supt. of Public i'iorks <~. A. ~irthur, and City ClErk J. 1;. I:iuldoon. T~:nutes of the last meetins ~rere read and approved. I~s. Carroll LePris appeared before the Commission ~Trith clra~~ri.nbs of a. proposed subdivision out of the Staashen S/D, and requested the Commission to help them get a railroad crossing; to theix° subdivision, from the Te;~as & ideU~r Orleans Rail- road Compaamyy. The Com~r.ission asserted they :'uo~t`l.d cooperate ~~~.th him in this connection, and referred this matter to the City ".ttorney. I.ir. Loti^rell Lambert appeared before the Commission asp. informed the Comrri.ssion that the La Porte Chamber of Commerce had employed hire to compile a street map o~' the City oi" La Porte, and asTted the cityt s cooperation in this ~rork. The Chamber z~oul.d comperes^te him for his rvrork, but he ~rrould need maps and other help f~~om trc city. I.-0tion by ~ix'gin., second by Jones, to give the eity~ s full coopcr~tion in the compiling of such a map. Carried. I~~iotien by I3urgin~ second by Jones, to ratify the issuance of check i~To. 7055, dated April 9, 1952, in the amount of <~5,000.00, to J. T:1. fhite ~ Sons. Carried. I~:Totion by Bu~•gin, second by Jones, to recess t'ris meeting until x.:30 0~ clock P, Isl., April 1F3~ 1952, at rr'ruch ti me they ~~uld act on a ~~i~~?urL-i.cipal Construction A~eement", <:nd a T~lunicipal Ordinance covering the cons-ti^t?ction ar~d maintenance of the South approach to the La Porte-I3<~yta,m Tunnel, from the G. H. & S. A. CJnderpass PJortxn~.-est of La Porte to the South Portal. of the turmel. Carried. Recessed at 12:30 P. I:l., 1',pri1 7.7, 1952. t1Pn1L 18, 1952 2~:3o P. ll. I;layor Pub-Tem ~vTm. P. Jones, in the absence of I~layor H. J. Pfeit'fex, called. to order the meet;s~ ~vllich ryas recessed at 12:30 P. I:l., April 17, 1952, ~~.th the foLlovring