Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-05

ty. Texas.
In the District Court of Cam
eron County, Texas, 103rd Judicial
District; April term, A. D. 1929.
THE STATE OF TEXAS
To the sheriff or any Constable
Of Cameron County, Greeting:
You are hereby commanded, that
by making publication of this Writ
in some newspaper of general cir
culation published in the county of
Cameron, Texas, once in each week
for two consecutive weeks previous
TO the return day hereof, you sum-
mon all parties interested in Cam
ere. County Water Improvement
District Number Twelve, in Cam
erot County, Texas, to be and
apfEar at the next regular term
of The District Court of Cameron
County, Texas. 103rd Judicial Dis
trict, to be holden at the Court
House thereof, in the city of
Brownsville, Cameron County,
Texas, on the third Monday in
April, A.. D. 1929, the same being
the 18th day of April, A. D. 1929,
then and there to answer a petit
ton filed in said Court on the 28th
day Of March, A. D. 1929, by Cam
eron County Water Improvement
District Number Twelve, in Cam
eron County, Texas, in a certain
|, action numbered on the Docket of
said Court, No. 1929, and styled In
Re: Cameron County Water I'm
provement District Number Twelve,
in Cameron County, Texas" said
petition alleging in substance as
follows:
That petitioner, Cameron County
Water Improvement District num-
Der Twelve, is a definite district
and municipal corporation, Great
ed and existing under and by VIZ
tue Of the constitution and laws
of the State Of Texas, have hereto
fore been organized and establish
ed as provided by Chapter 2, Title
128, Of the Revised Civil Statutes
of the State of Texas, Revision Of
1925, and acts amendatory there
of and supplementary thereto, au-
thorizing Commissioners Courts to
create and establish Water I'm
pTOVCLlGIlU blSJIlCIS, dlIl Having
the following boundaries. to-wit:
Eleven hundred twenty and six
tenths Q12o.6) acres. more or less,
situated wholly in Cameron Coun-
ty, Texas, and being a part OF
Share No. IL, of the Espiritu Santo
Grant, in Cameron County, Texas
as said share was allotted and set
apart by the final decree parti-
tioning said grant rendered by the
District Court of Cameron County,
Texas, May 6, 1889, in Cause No.
1886. entitled IN. Kennedy, r. King,
ct al, VS.. Thomas Carson, admins
traitor, ct al" and more particularly
described by metes and bounds, as
follows:
Beginning at a point in the west
line of Share No. II of the Esplr-
itu Santo grant, where said line
intersects the center line of the
Freenos resaca; said point being
Z the northwest corner of Block II
of a subdivision of shares Nos. II,
20 and % of the Espiritu Santo
Grant, made by the Fresnos Land
sad Irrigation company, as shown
II, a map Of said subdivision OF
scord on page 9 Of Vol. 3, OF the
oap Records Of Cameron County,
frYas; thence with the west line
said Share No. II, N. Z degrees
q. 9819.9 feet, more or less, to the
rthwest. corner Of a certain 38Oo
e tract -out of share No. IL,
...ginally conveyed by San Benito
ind and Water company to Lon
9 Hill, by deed dated August %,
S12. and Of record On pages 94-95,
Vol. IS, of the Deed Records OF
ameron County, Texas, and being
he southwest corner Of a certain
FIT acre tract Of land in said
t1are No. II conveyed to P. w.
samuel, Trustee, by r. E. Brooks
r deed dated March Is, 1927, and
.corded in the Deed Records of
sid County. on pages 314-316, of
rl. 1853, of said records; thence,
tn the dividing line between said
Ill and Brooks tracts, S. SO de-
,ees So minutes E. 4604.5 feet to a
pint on the east line of said Share
o. II, the northeast corner of said
Ill tract and the southeast cor
er of said Brooks ract; thence
18th the east line of said share No.
3, S. 6 degrees 26 minutes w. TO-
A.9 feet to its intersection with
I he center line Of said Fresnoa
ssaca, a point on the north line
block 9 of said Fresnos Land and
ltigation companyiS subdivision,
reinbefore referred to; thence IN
westerly direction up the cen
r of said Resaca, following the
s,rth line of blocks 9, 10, IL and
of said Fresnos Land and Irri-
ton company'S subdivision to the
rxhwest corner of said block II.
r, place of beginning, and con-
n ing within tn said metes and
" .nds 1926 acres, more or less"
That said district was created
h Ter Section SO of Article 16. of
n Constitution Of the State Of
xas, and the statutes enacted in
issuance thereto and is now a
Fl s observation and Reclamation
I. strict organized and operating
4 der said Section SO Of Article is.
4 the Constitution of Texas.
j That at the first election for d.
ctors Of your petitioner, H. H.
oddly, Wimberly McLead, D. B.
.exler, j. G. Woodwork, and r.
&c Kempner were duly elected, and
hereafter all of said directors eX-
.pt the said r. Lee Kempner
ualified as such directors and or
anized by electing Wimberly Nc
.eod as president. j. G. Woodwork
lis secretary, and H. H. Roddy as
foIresident pro tenn: that the said