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

", Texas.
In the District Court Of Cam
eron County, Texas, 103rd Judicial
DISCREET; 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
= the return day hereof, you sum-
N all parties interested in Cam
IN County Water Improvement
lkxrct Number Twelve, in Cam
IL County, Texas, to be and
appear 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
provernent 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 vtr-
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
provement Districts, and having
the following boundaries, to-wit:
Eleven hundred twenty and six
tenths (1120.6) 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 partt-
tioning said grant rendered by the
District Court of Cameron County,
Texas, May 6, 1889, in Cause No.
1346. entitled M. 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. IL OF the E5plr-
itu Santo grant, where said line
in~tersectS the center line OF the
Freenos resaca; said point being
the northwest corner Of Block IL
of a subdivision of shares NOS. II,
20 and % of the Espiritu Santo
Grant, made by the FreSnoS Land
and Irrigation company, as shown
on a map of said ubdivision OF
record on page 9 of ol. 3, Of the
Map Records of Cam, 'on County,
Texas: thence with tn west line
of said Share No. II, N. z degrees
z. 9819N feet, more or less, to the
northWes5 corner of a certain 1906
acre tract out Of share No. II,
originally conveyed by San Benito
Land and Water company to Lon
C.. Hill, by deed dated August %,
1912, and Of record on pages 1895,
of Vol. Is. of the Deed Records OF
Cameron County, Texas, and being
the southwest corner of a certain
SIT acre tract Of land in said
Share No. IL conveyed to P. w.
Samuel, Trustee, by r. E. Brooks
by deed dated March 10. 1927, and
recorded in the Deed Records OF
said County, on pages 314-316, of
Vol. 1853, of said records; thence,
with the dividing line between said
Hill and Brooks tracts, S. 50 de-
erees So minutes E. 4604.5 feet to a
point on the east line of said Share
No. IL, the northeast corner of said
Hill tract and the southeast cor
ner Of said Brooks ract; thence
with the east line of said share No.
IL, S. 6 degrees 26 minutes w. TO-
664.9 feet to its intersection with
the center line of said Fresnos
Resaca, a point on the north line
of block 9 Of said Fresnos Land and
Irrigation company's subdivision,
hereinbefore referred to; thence In
q westerly direction up the CEN
ter of said Resaca, following the
north line of blocks g, 10, IL and
IL of said FresnoS Land and Irr1-
CATION company's subdivision to the
northwest corner of said block II.
the place of beginning, and con-
tanning within tn said metes and
bounds 1905 acres. more or less"
That said district was created
under Section SO Of Article Is, OF
the Constitution of the State OF
Texas, and the statutes enacted IN
pursuance thereto and is now a
Conservation and Reclamation
District organized and operating
under said Section SO Of Article Is,
of the Constitution Of Texas.
That at the first election for d.
fectors Of your petitioner, H. H.
Roddy, Wimberly McLead, D. B.
Trexler, j. C. Woodwork, and R.
Lee Kempner were duly elected. and
thereafter all of said directors ex-
cept the said r. Lee Kempner
qualified as such directors and or
ganized by electing Wimberly Nc
Leod as president, J. G. Woodwork
as secretary, and II. H. Roddy as