The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-12-04
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, OH Wednesday, the fourteenth
(14) 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 (2D day
of November, A. D. 1905, at the special
session of said court then held, notice is
hereby given that 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, "
Ito which decree reference is now here
made and it is made a part hereof for
greater certainty of description crosses
or intersects the center line Of said re-
SAGA, thence, easterly, with the nleanders
of the center of the bed of said resaca,
to IFS intersection with the East line of
partition share number twenty-nine (29)
of said 'Espiritu Santo" grant; thence,
northerly, with and along said East line
of said partition share number twenty
nine (29), to its intersection with the
center of the bed ofresaca Rancho Viejo;
thence, with the line of the center ofthe
bed of said resaca Rancho Viejo, to its
point nearest approach to the East line
of partition share number thirty-two
(52) of said 'Espiritu Santo" grant; /
thence, due East, to the East line OF
said partition share number thirty-two
(52); thence, northerly, with and along
said East line of said partition share
number thirty-two (32), 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
% of said "Espiritu Santo" grant;
thence, Southerly, with and along said
East line of said partition share number
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as, and designated by said order of said
court as the First
Drainage District of Texas for the
purpose of submitting to vote of all the
tax payers who are qualified
electors of said proposed drainage dis
.rict under the laws of the state of Tex
thereof, whether or not said proposed
drainage district shall be, in all things,
the Improvements therein
made, and bonds TO the amount of fifty
seven thousand Isl, 100000 dollars, bear
ng interest, payable semi-anuually, at
he rate of FIVE and one half Is 1-2) per
,ent per annum, said bonds payable for
v (40) years after date thereof, and re- I