The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-09
NOTICE OF SPECIAL. ELECTION
For Drainage District. and to Issue Bonds
to Make Such Improvements, Etc.

Under and by virtue of the laws OF
the State of Texas, in such cases made
and provided, and in accordance with
and in conformity to, the orders thereto
of the Honorable Commissioners court
of Cameron county, Texas, made, res
pectively, OIL Wednesday, the fourteenth
"a day of November, A. D. 1905, at
the regular November, A. D. 1905, term
of said court, and thereafter, as supple
mented on the twenty-seventh (27 dav
of November, A. D. 1905, at the special
session of said court then held, notice is
hereby given that a special election will
be held on Wednesday, the twelfth az
day of December, A D. 1905, within
all that certain territory, part or portion
of Cameron county embraced within the
following metes and bounds, towit:
Beginning in and at the center of the
bed of the resaca de la Guerra, at the
point where the East line of partition
share number one ~ of the ''Espiritu
Santo" grant, Jose Salvador de la Cara,
original grantee, as surveyed and fixed
in and by the final decree of partition of
said whole 'Espiritu Santo'' grant, in
the district court of this, the said county
of Cameron, in cause No. 1916, NJ. Ken
edy, R. King, ct al, versus Thomas
Carson, administrator of the estate of
Maria Josefa Cavazos, deceased, ct al, D."
Ito which decree reference is now here
made and it is made part hereof for
greater certainty of description crosses
or intersects the center line of said re-
SAGA, thence, easterly, with the meanders
of the center of the bed of said resaca,
to its intersection with the East line of
partition share number twenty-nine (29)
of said ''Espiritn Santo" grant; thence,
northerly, with and along said East line
of said partition share number twenty
nine go, to its intersection with the
center of the bed of resaca Rancho Vieio;
thence, with the line of the center of the
bed of said resaca Rancho Viejo, to its
point nearest approach to the East line
of partition share number tlirty-two
(32) of said 'Espiritu Santo'' grant;
thence, due East, to the East line of
said partition share number thirty-two
(32); thence, northerly, with and along
said East line of said partition share
number thirty-two 1927, to a point due
East from the middle of the present
Cameron county bridge crossing the re-
/ SAGA de los Fresnos, upon the main pub
lie Alice and Brownsville county road;
thence, due, West, to the center of the
bed of the said resaca de los Fresnos,
under and at the center of said county
bridge; thence, Westerly, with the center
of the bed of said resaca with its mean
behring's, to its intersection with the East
line of said partition share number one
ID of said ''Espiritu Santo" grant;
thence, Southerly, with and along said
East line of said partition share number
one ID, to the place of beginning, known
as, and designated by said order of said
commissioners court as the First
Drainage District of Texas" for the
purpose of submitting to vote of all the
property tax payers who are qualified
electors of said proposed drainage dis
trict under the laws of the state of Tex
as, and actual residents within the limits
thereof, whether or not said proposed
drainage district shall be, in all things,
established, the Improvements therein
made, and bonds to the amount of fifty
seven thousand (57, 100000 dollars, bear
ing interest, payable semi-annualIy, at
the rate of FIVE and one half Is III per
cent per annum, said bonds payable for
ty (40) years after date thereof, and re-
deemable, at the option of the commits
sioners' court of Cameron county, at any
time after twenty (20) years after date
thereof, be issued to pay for the con
struction of said drainage bitches and
the maintenance of such said drainage
system, as contemplated in, and provid-
ed for by, said orders of said commits
sioners' court.
Said election to be held within the
hours prescribed by law, at the store
house of Charles Lindsey at and in the
Town of Olmito, within the limits of
such proposed drainage district in Cam
eron county, Texas, and the following
persons have been designatedby said
order of said commissioners court as the
officers and clerks of said election, to
wit: P. E. Blalack, presiding officer;
Charles Lindsey and Tomas Cortez,
judges; and Emiliano Cortez and Charles
Volz, clerks.
Witness my hand at Brownsville, Tex
as, this, the p day of November, a. D.
1905. JNo. BARTLETT,
= County Judge, Cameron County,
Texas.
Attest: JOSEPH WEBB,
Clerk, County Court, Cameron
J County, Texas.