ORD CC 10/05/65 - Granting HISD AnnexationAN ORDINANCE GRANTING THE PETITION OF HUNTSVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
DISTRICT TO ANNEX CERTAIN LANDS CONTIGUOUS AND ADJACENT TO THE EAST
BOUNDARY LINE OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE IN WALKER COUNTY, TEXAS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS:
WHEREAS, by petition of the Huntsville Independent School
District duly filed herein for more than five days and less than
thirty days, for the annexation of certan land having less than
three qualified voters, solely owned by the Huntsville Independent
School District and which petition is hereby granted.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Huntsville,
Texas, that the land situated in Walker County, Texas, adjacent
and contiguous to the City Limits of the City of Huntsville, Texas,
described as follows:
BEGINNING on the east boundary line of the City Limits of
the City of Huntsville, Texas, at the center line of Old Colony
Road as it intersects the north boundary line of U. S. Highway
No. 190:
THENCE following the center line of Old Colony Road with the
abutting property of the Huntsville Independent School District
land, easterly as the abutting property line is described as follows:
BEGINNING east at 10C feet from the intersection of the Old
Colony Road and U. S. Highway No. 190, also being the northwest
corner of a 1.83 acre tract of School property;
THENCE S 82° E with Old Colony Road and the north line of the
School property, 247.8 feet to a stake in said 1.83 acre tract;
THENCE north 10 feet with said lines, stake for corner;
THENCE N 85° E with said line, 156.7 feet to stake in said
lines;
THENCE N 74° E with said lines 386.7 feet to a stake in said
lines;
THENCE N 88° 30' E with said lines, 306.4 feet to stake for
corner at northeast corner of a 9 acre School tract;
THENCE N 88° 30' crossing a 60 foot private road dividing
the Huntsville Independent School District property to a stake
for corner in the south line of Old Colony Road and north boundary
line of the School property;
THENCE south with an extension of the School property east
line to the northwest corner of a 1 /4th acre tract belonging to
Joitt :,1 -Le Mae Johnson at a northeast corner of the School property;
THENCE continuing south 124.2 feet with the west line of said
Johnson tract, and the east line of the School tract to the south-
west corner of the Johnson tract;
THENCE east 132 feet with the south line of said Johnson
tract and a 1 /4th acre tract belonging to the St. James Lodge
and the north line of the School tract to stake for corner;
THENCE south 1$6 feet to corner in Gulf States Utilities
Company right -of -way line;
THENCE N 61° E 373 feet to northeast corner of said School
property, and being also the northwest corner of a Gibbs Brothers
& Company tract;
THENCE south 1048 feet to the southeast corner of the Hunts-
ville Independent School District property at a concrete monument
on the north bank of a large branch for southeast corner of said
School property;
THENCE in a westerly
said north bank of branch
point on the east side of
for corner;
direction following the meanders of
in all, 834 feet, more or less, to a
a private road above mentioned, stake
THENCE south with the east line of said road and the west
line of Gibbs Brothers & Company tract, 142 feet to the north
line of U. S. Highway No. 190, at the southeast oorner of the
School pffperty, and confining to the center line of said U. S.
Highway No. 190;
THENCE N 53° 30' W following the center line of U. S. High-
way No. 190, abutting the south line of Huntsville Independent
School District line to intersect the east line of the present
City Limits of the City of Huntsville;
THENCE north with said east City Limit line to the place of
beginning; said boundary including 26.21 acres of land belonging
to the Huntsville Independent School District, plus to the Center
line of Old Colony Road on its north and the center line of U. S.
Highway No. 190, abutting the School property along its southwest
boundary line;
be and it is decreed that said petition is granted and said
territory above described is received and hereby annexed as a
part of the City of Huntsville, Texas.
PASSED this 5th day of October, 1965, at a regular meeting
of the City Council of the City of Huntsville, Texas.
ATTEST:
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KATE BARR ROSS, SECRETARY
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THE STATE OF TEXAS, 1
COUNTY OF WALKER. I, KATE BARR ROSS, CITY SECRETARY OF THE
CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, hereby certify that the above and fore -
`dng petition executed by Huntsville Independent School District,
dated September 15, 1965, and the ordinance of the City Council
of the City of Huntsville, annexing the land described therein,
is a true and correct copy of the petition and ordinance as the
same "t cars in the Minutes of the City Council of the City of
Hunts►iilW, Texas.
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