HomeMy WebLinkAboutMIN 04.23.1890 CC-R TypedTOWN OF GEORGETOWN CHANGED TO CITY OF GEORGETOWN
Georgetown,Texas. April 23rd,1890,
Town Council met in regular meeting in Council Room with
the following members present:
Mayor W.Y.Penn and the full Board of Aldermen, viz J.L.Brit-
tain, George Irvine, J.R.Roberts and J,W,Whittle;
The council was duly called to order when the following
business was transacted and proceedings had, viz: -
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The following resolutions were presented by Aldermen J.L.
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Brittain and seconded by Alderman George Irvine, viz:
BE IT RESOLVED by the Town Council of the Town of George.
town, at the regular meeting thereof, held this April 23rd, 1890,that
the provisions of Title Seventeen of the Revised Statutes of Texas
and the Amendments thereto made from time to time heretofore by the
Legislature of said State in reference to Cities and towns be accepted
in lieu of the existing charter of this town approved March 8th, 1871,
and this town be hereafter known as the City of Georgetown, and that
the said provisions of Title seventeen and amendments thereto in refer-
ence to cities and towns be accepted as the charter of said city with
it
limits as set out in said special charter of said town, to -wit: -
BEGINNING at a stake that is one-half mile due east from
the center of the court house (as it then stood). Thence due south one.
half mile; Thence due west one mile to a stake for the southwest corner
of this corporation; Thence due north to the middle of the channel of
the south San Gabriel. Thence down the same with its meanders to a
. a
point that a line due south would strike the place of beginning;.Thence
due south to the place of beginning.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the foregoing resolutions be
entered`&n, the Journal of the proceedings of said Town Council and that
a copy ofti%same signed by the Mayor and attested by the Secretary
under the corporate seal of said town of Georgetown be filed and
recorded in the office of the Clerk of the County Court of Williamson
iR wig C'eto jE "4#ppr'MN `Iy `t
County asrequired by the Act of the Legislature of the State of Texas,
approved Larch 27th, 1885,
And said resolutions being read and fully understood the
ayes and nays were taken on the adoption of the same, when the follow-
ing members of the Town Council of the town of Georgetown voted in
favor of the adoption of said Resolutions, viz:- Mayor W.Y.Penn and
Alderman J.L.Brittain, George Irvine, J.R.Roberts and J.W.Whittle,
whereupon it was declared that said resolutions had been adopted by
the unanimous vote of the council.
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF WILLIA?ISON, I, W.Y.Penn, Mayor of the town of Georgetown.
in said County and State, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true copy of the resolutions presented and adopted by the town council
of the town of Georgetown at their regular meeting held on the 23rd
day of April, A.D.18901 by the unanimous vote of said Council upon
call of the ayes and nays as shorn, and that the same together with
the action of said council in adopting the same was entered upon the
journal of the proceedings of said Town Council as required by law.
TO CERTIFtNiHICH,+ I hereto sign my name and cause the
foregoing to be attested by the Secretary under the corporate seal
of said town of Georgetown, this the day and date above written.
W.Y.Penn, Mayor of the Town of Georgetown.
(L.S.).
ATTEST: J.W.Whittle.Town Secretary,
FILLD ALPRIL 24" 1890, AT 2 P.M. RECORDED APRIL 28TH, 1890.
J.W.HODGES,, C7LeRK,COUNTY COURT. WILLIAMSON CO.TEXAS.
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF WILLIAA50N. I, R.E.Moore, Clerk,County Court of Williamson
County,Texas, do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing is a true and correct copjg9fhe Certified proceedings
relative to incorporation of Georgetown as a City and adoption of reso..
lutions therein shown, as the same appears now of record in my office
in Vol, 53. pages 56 to 58 of the MmunAms Deed Records of said County.
TO CERTIFY WHICH, Witness my hand and the seal of said court
at office in City of Georgetown,Texas, this the 6" day of Jan.A.D.1926.
R.E.MOORE, CLE,RK,COUN`PY COURT.
WILLIA' 0 UNTY,XES,
BY,�' DEPUTY.