ORD CC 11-17-1916 - Annexation Vol. E•, P. 124
AN ORDINANCE
An ordinance extending the corporate limits Of the City of Huntsville on
certain defined territory adjacent to the City of Huntsville on the South
boundary line thereof.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITE' 00 HUNTSVILLE III COUNCIL
assembled that is having been made to appear that the following persons
to wit$ R- M- Woods, H. F. Estill, J. go Baldwin, L. Rix, Jtao. To Baldwin,
J. A. 19ynne, L. J. Justioe,_ F. N. Rix, George Willi,asns, J. N. Yiuddlestpn,
A. F. Bounds, W.T. Martino Jesse McCulloch, G. Eo Gillaspie?, tiro Eo Bailey,
E. To Earnest, C. Go Pate, J, IV, McAdams, Leonard Baldwin, J. W. Gille,spin,,
and J. Sam.Angei.r, are inhabitants of the territory hereinafter described and
constitutes a majority of the quallified voters for members of the State
Legislator residing in said. territory adjoining the limits of the City of
Huntsville, and that said territory does not exceed ones-half mile in width,
and that said persons so constituting a xatajority of the qualified voters
residing in said district have voted to accept the provisions of Title 22 of
The Revised Civil Statutes of the S'ta'te of Texas, and to beocotao a, part of
the City of Huntsville by having the corporate limits of said City extended
to Include the territory hereinafter described.
And its further being made to appear that three of the said persons,
squallified voters residing in said district have made affidav t to the effect
that a'majority of the gua;llified voters residing in said district have voted
to accept the provisions of Title 22 or the Revised Civil Statutes of the
State of Texas, and have voted to beoomse a part of the said City of Huntsville
by having the corporate limits of the said City extended to inoluate said terw
ri.tory.
It is therefore ordained by the City Council of the City of Huntavillo
that the territory hereinafter described shall be and the same is hereby an-
nexed to and made a part of the City of Huntsville, and the corporate limits
of the!said City of Huntsville shall be and the same are hers extended so as
to include the territory hereinafter descri.bed4
It is further ordained that from and after the taking effect of this
ordinance, the territory hereinafter described shall be a part of they City of
Huntsville, and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all the rights
and privil.ages of other citizens and shall be bound by the accts and ordinances
made in conformity theme to and passed in presence of Title 22 of the Revised
Civil Statutes of the State of Texas. That the territory dvsoribod in the
Petition signed by the said R, Mo Woods and twenty other persona constituting
a majority of the qualified voters residing in said district, is bound and
described in Exibit "A" to said petition, and here now described as follows
to wit✓!
Field notes of a. survey of 197.3 acres of band for an addition to the City
of Huntsville, lying adjoining and south of the present nor
p.orate limits of` the
City Of Huntsville, in Walker County, Texas, and a part of the P. Gray league.
Beginning at the Southwest corner of the presents corporate limits where
was found an iron stake from which a post oak 17" MD 1l T bra N 46-45t 9 16905
feet, another post oak 18" bra 9 42-15' W 16.76 ft. XW X T thence 8 1888.7 fto
a. stakes thence E 21619.23 feet (Passing H of Jessie MaCulloch's house) a stare
in E cadge of read to H. Y. Robinson's farm from which a sweet gm 10" lira N 63 1/4
E 12;1 feet MW Z thence N on E edge 'of said road 112.76 feet a stake near the
corner of Pars. ralea Langley's fence from which a sweret gum 20" bra N 72 W 27.2
feet MKD Xg
Them N on 8 edge of said read 164.243 feet, a stake at the Arad of a narrow
lane.
Thence N 20 Fu 386.07 feet a stake in said road West of Jack :Rhodes' stare
house,, from which a sweet gm 10" bra N 83 30 feet
Thence S 84 E juzat N of said store house 433.27 feet—to a stake from which
a sweet gum 18" = X bra N 4J re 30 feeti
Thence N 7C N 190®26- to a stake from which a sweet game 18" Yti1 brs 577 W
33 1/3 Feet
Thence E passing just N of the Barfield store house and crossing the Old
'Waverly roes near said store house continuing E crossing two branches about 30
feet above their Junction at 2015 fast a stake from which a pine 10" bra 8 53 L
22.22 feet a 'sweet gm 8" bra N 6 E 21.66 feet mKo
Thence N 1416 feet to the S E corner of the present corporate limits an iron
stake on $ edge of a ravine from which e pin oak 7" bra N 55 E 9 feet 0 X Tj
Thence W with 8 line of corporate limits of Huntsville $280 feet to place of
beginning,
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Rlei°erred to the �omnittee on ordine.nceea In Open Council this 17th day
of Xovember AD 19166
We the ComAttee did Ordinances of the City of Huntsville to wham the above
and foregoing ordinance has been reforred reocamiend that said ordinance be
adopted#
Lloba4 Ernst
B4 P4 Wilson
Z. N. Adi.okoo
Adoptod in Open Ocat eiil on this 17th day of November, 19164
Y*-N �lAphint
Cit- Secretary
Approvsd this 17th day of.' November AD, 1€16.
Mayor
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