ORD CC 08/07/1951 - release of easement to Gibbs Bros.1.
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AN ORDINANCE AUTHORI7ING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE AND THE
CITY SECRETARY TO ATTEST A DEED RECONVEYING TO GIBBS
B= OTHERS & COINTANY A CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND
WITHIN THE CORPORATE LI'P'ITS OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE,
TEXAS, TOGETHER WITH EASEMENT RIGHTS UPON ADJOINING LOT,
THAT WERE DEEDED TO THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE BY SAID
GIBBS BROTHERS & COMPANY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRILLING
AND MAINTAINING A WATER WELL WHICH HAS BEE:" FOUND TO BE
USELESS FOR THAT PURPOSE AND FOR WHICH THE CONSIDERATION
HAS NOT BECN PAID.
WHEREAS, the City of Huntsville entered into an agreement to
purchase from Gibbs Brothers & Company a certain lot or parcel
of land within the corporate limits of the City of Huntsville,
together with easement rights upon adjoining lot, for the purpose
of drilling and maintaining a water well and line; and
WHEREAS, it has been determined that said property is useless
for the purpose for which it was intended and has been abandoned
as such by the City of Huntsville; and
WHEREAS, the consideration for said lot has not been paid
by the City of Huntsville to the said Gibbs Brothers & Company,
and the City Council deems it advantageous and to the best
interest of the City to reconvey said property and easement
rights to said Gibbs Brothers & Company in lieu of the payment
of the consideration therefor: Therefore
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Huntsville,
Texas in regular assembly this the 7th day of August 1951, that:
Section 1: The Mayor is authorized and directed to execute a deed
and relinquish of easement rights and the Secretary of the City
of Huntsville to attest the same reconveying to Gibbs Brothers &
Company, a partnership firm, of Walker County, Texas, all that
certain lot and premises and the easement mentioned and described
in that certain deed from Gibbs Brothers &. Company to the City of
Huntsville, Texas dated July 11th, 1951 and recorded in Volume 137
page 313 of the Deed Records of Walker County, Texas wherein said
lands and easement are more fully described by metes and bounds,
which said deed and conveyance shall be in lieu of and in
cancellation of the consideration contemplated for said deed from
Gibbs Brothers & Company to the City of Huntsville, Texas.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 7th d of August, 1951. �
Mayor, City of HlIntsville, Texas.
ATTEST
City Secretary, City of Huntsville, Texas.
THE STATE OF TEXAS,