The Lexington advertiser., 1940-07-04
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AN ORDINANCE
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AN ORDINANCE
Contracting the Limits and Boundaries
or the City of Lexington, Mississippi.
of Sections IS and 36, Township Is
Range East Lying South of the
North Bank of Black Creek.
BE 1T ORDAINED by the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen of the City of Lex
ngton, Mississippi;
SECTION THAT the limits and
boundaries of the City of Lexington, Mis-
sissippi shall be and the same are here
by contracted by excluding therefrom !
the territory particularly described as !
follows: to-wit:
Begin at a point where the North |
boundary line of Black Greek inter- |
sects the Western boundary line Of
Section 35. Township 10, Range q
East, and run South along the Wes-
tern boundary line of said Section 35
to the South West corner of Section
80, Township 10, Range 2 East. thence
run East along South boundary line
of Section 35, Township IS, Range q
East and continue East along the
South boundary line of Section SO,
Township Is, Range East to the
Southeast corner of Section SO. Town
ship Is, Range East, thence run
North along the Eastern boundary
line of Section sc, Township Is, Range
East to the intersection thereof
with the North bank of Black Creek,
thence Westerly along the North bank
of Black Greek to the Western boun-
dary line of Section 35, Township Is,
Range East, the point of beginning.
SECTION 2.-That the corporate.limits
and boundaries Of the City of Lexington,
as changed shall be and the
same are hereby defined as follows, to-
witt
Begin at the Northeast corner of
SEA of SEA of SEA of Section %,
Township 15. Range East and run
West to the Northwest corner Of
SWA Of SWA Of SWA of Section
26, Township 10, Range 2 East, thence
South along the Western boundary
line of Section 26, Township Is, Range
East and continue South along the
Western boundary line of Section 35,
Township Is, Range 2 East to the
North bank of Black Creek, thence
East along the North bank of said
Black Greek to the Eastern boundary
line of Section SO, Township Is, Range
2 East, thence run North along the
Eastern boundary line Of Section 36,
Township Is, Range East and con-
tinue North along the Eastern boun-
dary line Of Section 25, Township Is,
Range East to the Northeast corner
of SEA of SEh Of SEK of Section
25, Township Is, Range East the
point of beginning.
The said corporate limits so defined
including therein are that part of Sec
tions 35 and 36 lying North of the North
bank of Black Greek and also the S11
of S1a Of S1a of Sections 25 and 26 all
in Township rs, Range East.
SECTION 3.-That this ordinance shall
be published for three consecutive weeks
in the Lexington Advertiser, a weekly
newspaper published in the City of Lex
ington, Holmes County, Mississippi, and
this ordinance shall become operative
one month after the date of its passage.
APPROVED.
E. T. NELSON, Mayor.
ATTEST:
C. A. GLOVER, Clerk.
re-
duced to writing was read and considered
by sections and each of said sections
was duly adopted by the folliwfng vote:
Aldermen Williams, Bealf, Kier, and El-
lison. voting YEA; those voting "Nay".
none.
On motion Of Alderman Williams, Sec
oned by Alderman Kier, said ordinance
was then put upon it's final passage as a
whole and passed as read with the fol-
lowing vote: Aldermen Williams, Beall.
kier, and Ellison voting "Yea"; those
voting Nay" none.
Thereupon the Mayor declared the
notion carried and the ordinance duly
passed, approved and adopted.
APPROVED:
e. T. NELSON, Mayor.
ATTEST:
;. A. GLOVER, Clerk. fO4t