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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 646-1940 - Dedication Of May Addition To The City Of Lubbock - 05/09/1940) THE STATE OF TEXAS. ~~ COUNTY OF LUBBOCK. OS-os ... /.9Lfo CITY OF LUBBOCK. I I On this the 9th day of May, A.D. 1940, the City Commission of the City of Lubbock,Texas, convened in regular session at the regular meeting place thereof in the City Hall Building, in Lubbock,Texas, with the following members present viz: c.E.Slaton, Mayor and Presiding Officer W.B.Priee Commissioner W.G.:VeMillan Commissioner Hub Jones Commissioner Garland Hewsom Commissioner Lavenia Williams, City Secretary and among other business. transacted, the following ordinance was passed: AN ORDINANCE ACCEPTING THE DEDICATION OF "MAY ADDITION" TO THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, IN LUBBOCK COUNTY,TEXAS,BEING A SUBDIVISION OF A PART OF THE NORTHWEST ONE-FOURTH OF THE NORTHEAST ONE-FOURTH OF THE SOUTHWEST ONE- FOURTH OF SECTION SEVEN (7), BLOCK "B",IN LUBBOCK COUNTY,TEXAS, AS SURVEYED AND ESTAB- LISHED ON THE GROUND BY THE CITY ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK. WHEREAS, by instrument of dedication, dated May 9th, 1940, and recorded in the deed records of Lubbock .. County, Texas, A.W.May of Lubbock County,Texas, has subdivided a tract o£ land situated within the City limits of the City of Lubbock and described a~ follows, to-wit2 Being a part o£ the Northwest one-fourth o£ the Northeast one-fourth of the Southwest one~gourth of Section Seven (7), in Block "B 11 in Lubbock County1 Texas and described by metes and bounds as follows2 Beginning at a point wh 1520 feet East and 2640 feet South of the Northwest corner o£ said Section Seven (7), Block "B", for the Northwest corner of this addition, which is also the intersection of Twenty-sixth (26th) Street and Avenue "L", in the City of Lubbock; HENCE, East, a distance of tour hundred fifty-three teet (453') for the Northeast corner of this addition; THENCE, South, a distance of four hundred fifty-eight feet {458') to a point in the Northwester~y line of the Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway Company right-of-w3y1 for the Southeast corner of this addition; THENCE, Southwesterly, along said Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway Company right-o£-w3y to an intersection with a line running due south from the place of beginning, for the Southwest corner of this addition; THENCE, North, approximately eleven hundred thirty feet (1130•) to the place of beginning; and WHEREAS, the said A.W.May has thereby formed •MAY ADDITION" to the City of Lubbock, in Lubbock County,Texas, and has b~ said instrument dedicated to the use of the public the streets and alleys as shown upon the official map or plat of said "MAY ADDITION" as surveyed and established on the groun by the City Engineering Department of the City of Lubbock; and WHEREAS, the City Commission of the City of Lubbock finds that the said streets and alleys of said subdivision are in all respects laid out and established in accordance with the existing plans of said City of Lubbock and in accordance with the ordinances and resolutions of this body and therefore such dedication of the streets and alleys of said subdivision should be accepted, approved, ratified and 'onfirmed by said City Commission: UBBOCKt That the subdivision of said tract ot land and the ormation thereby of "MAY ADDITION" to the City of Lubbock,Texas e and the same is hereby accepted,approved,ratified and by the City Commission of the City of Lubbock and the • thereof which is attached to said dedication be and the is hereby accepted and established as the official plat of "MAY ADDITION"• ... That the dedication of the streets and alleys of said "YAY ADDITION• as shown by said official map or plat be and the same are hereby accepted by the City Commission for use of the public of the City o£ Lubbock and the same is hereb7 approved~ ratified and confirmed. The tact that it becomes necessary that the dedication of •HAY ADDITION• be approved and accepted by the City Commission before the sponsor of said addition can begin the construction of improvements theredn; and that said addition is primarily intended for construction ot reasonably priced residences and that there is an immediate need for the commencement of the building program in said addition in order to meet the demand and need in the City of Lubbock for the kind of re~idences to be constructed in said addition~ creates an emergency and public necessity~ demanding that the rule requiring the reading of this ordinance on more than one day before final passage, be suspended, and such rule is hereby suspended, and it is ordained that this ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its passage and approval. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED, day of May, A.D.l940 Attest 1 City Secretary, City of Lubbock (CORP. SEAL). THE STATE OF TEXAS. COUNTY OF LUBBOCK. CITY OF LUBBOCK. I I f I I, the undersigned, City Secretary of the City of Lubbock 1 a municipal corporation of the County of Lubbock and State of Texas~ do hereby certify that the above and foregoing instrument is a true and correct copy ot an ordinance passed by the City Commission o£ said City of Lubbock at its session on Yay 9th, 1940 1 as the same now appears o£ record in volume 2 at pages 4 "5 et.seq., of the minutes of said City Commission. Witness my hand and the seal o£ said City of Lubbock, on this the 9th day ot Kay, A.D. 1940. City Secretary, City o£ Lubbock