Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-29

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taken BY said directors. were filed
with the county clerk of Cameron
County, Texas, to be by said officer
recorded rs required by law, as will
more fully appear from the copy of
tn proceedings filed herewith and
made a part hereof, and that Geo.
E. Phillips was duly appointed and
duly qualified to fill the vacancy
created by the failure and refusal
of the said r. Lee Kempner to quail
ify and serve a such director as
will more fully appear from the
copy of the proceedings OF the board
of directors filed herewith and made
a part hereof.
That each of the person elected
as officers of your petitioner, was at
the time of his election, and so re-
manned at all times while serving as
such officer, a resident of the State
of Texas, and the owner of lands
subject to taxation within said Wa
ter Improvement District; and at
the time of such election was over
twenty-one years of age; and each
of them were, and while acting as
such officers, have at all times since
been duly qualified in all respects
to act as such officers of your PEE
titioner.
That after the election and quail
ification of said board of directors,
said board, as provided by law, held
its first meeting in Harrington, Tex
as, on the 9th day of November A.
d. 1928, and duly organized by
electing Wimberly Mcleod as presi-
dent, j. G. Woodwork as secretary,
H.. H. Roddy as president pro tenn,
and Geo. e. Phillips as secretary pro
tenn; said board further provided
and ordered that a seal TO rsaid dis
trict should be procured, all as
shown in the transcript Of the min
utes of the said board of directors
filed herewith, and made a part
thereof.
That an order was duly made and
entered adopting the prior survey
Of the boundaries of said district
and the markings Thereof, the said
boundaries and markings being al
ready established, and j. M. Kopp
was appointed as assessor and col
lector for said district.
That Immediately after the quail
ification of the said assessor and
collector, as provided by law, be en-
tered upon the discharge of his Of
fetal duties, and at once proceeded
to make an assessment of all the
taxable property, both real, person
al and mixed, in said district, upon
blanks provided by the directors of
said district, and in the manner
provided and required by law.
That the directors of said district
on the 18th day Of January, 1929,
in accordance with the provisions
Of law, duly appointed three COM
missioners. viz: Kurt Nauman, r.
A. Rose and j. l.. Board, each be-
Ing a qualified voter and a resident
property owner in said district, who
were styled the board of equaliza-
ton for the year 1929; and said
board of directors duly entered an
order designating the 18th day of
February, 1929, as the time for the
meeting of said board, for the year
1929; all of which is shown in the
transcript of the minutes of said
board filed herewith and made a
part hereof.
That at the time fixed for its
first meeting said board of equal
ization met, and thereafter from
time to time examined, equalized,
passed upon and approved the said
assessment, and thereafter the as
SesSed rolls were duly made and re-
turned by the assessor, and ap-
proved by the board of directors of
said district, all as required by law.
That after the establishment of
said Water improvement District,
at the time and in the manner pre-
scribed by law, the board of direc-
tors of said district appointed one
r. S. F~eSsenden, who was duly quail
flied, as engineer for said district,
whose duty it was to make a COM
plete survey of the lands contained
in said district and to perform such
other duties as is required of said
engineer by law, which is shown
in the copy of the proceedings filed
and made a part hereof.
That said r. S. FeSsenden, ap-
pointed as engineer of the district:
proceeded to discharge the duties
required OF him by the board of
directors of the district, and in due
time made and filed with the board
OF directors of the district maps,
profileS, specifications and estimates
as required by law, together with
a written report showing the esti-
mated amount necessary to secure a
contract from Cameron County Wa
ter Control and Improvement Dis
trict No. Six, whereby said district
will pump and deliver through it's
pumping plant and irrigation sys-
tenn water from the Rio Grande
river to some point at or near the
boundary of this district, is the sum
of S25,625, and the amount neceS-
sary to make the necessary connec-
tionS thereto, and to construct the
necessary pumping plants, canals,
reservoirs and other improvements
proposed to be made in Cameron
County Water Improvement Dis
trict No. Twelve is the sum of $94,-
375, or a total of $120, 900.
That IN the 10th day of Febru-
airy, 1929, at a meeting of the board
of directors of your petitioner came
on to be considered by said board
the matter of the issuance of bonds
for said district in the sum of $780,
900 for the purposes aforesaid; and
it appearing to the satisfaction of
the board that said district had
heretofore been duly and regularly
laid out, defined and established,
and that the directors and officers
thereof had heretofore duly quail
flied as such, and the assessor and
collector of said district had there
tofore made an assessment of all
taxable property within said district,
which had been duly passed upon
and approved by the boar dof equal
ization of said district, and that
assessment rolls had been duly
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