O62-03L EDALE ORDINANCE NO. 62-3
AN ORDINANCE RECEIVING AND ANNEXING
TERRITORY ADJACENT AND CONTIGUOUS TO
THE CITY OF.KENNEDA LE, TEXAS; PRO-
VIDING. THAT SUCH AREA SHALL BE NAME
A PART OF SAID CITY AND THAT_ TEE
OWNERS AND INHABITANTS.THEREOF. SHALL
BE ENTITLED TO ALL THE PRIVILEGES OF
OTHER. PROPERTY OWNERS AND_CITIZENS OF
SAID CITY AND SHALL BE BO i BY THE
ACTS AND ORDINANCES NOW IN EFFECT AND
TO. BE HEREAFTER ADOPTED; FURTHER PRO-
VIDING. FOR, AMENDING. A CORRECTING
THE .OFFICIAL BO rARIES _ OF SAID. CITY
AS HERETOFORE ADOPTED, A"'y FOR AN
EFFECT ! DATE . _
WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of Art. 974—g,
Texas Revised Civil Statutes of 1925, as amended, Jack M.
,I ngdon, Walter H. Clarke, Dennis R. Rose and James C.
Estes, of Tarrant County, Texas, being all of the ox,ers
of the real property hereinafter described, have 'ade
application as by law provided to the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of the City of Kennedale, Texas, requesting annexation
to said City of the_area situated in the County of Tarrant,
State of Texas, described as follows, to -wit:
BEING a part of the E. C. Cannon Survey,
Abstract No. 378, and the R. C. Richey Survey, Abstract
No. 1327, in Tarrant County, Texas, and described by
metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at the point of intersection of the
south line.of,the J. Ba Renfro Survey, Abstract No. 1260,
and the easterly right-of-way line of the H. & T. C.
Railroad (also known as the T. & N. 0. Railroad), said
point being in the present south corporate limits of the
City of Kennedale, Texas, and being the northwest corner
of a tract of land deeded to Bessie Sloan by Warranty
Deed recorded in Vol. 3073, at page 348, of the Tarrant
County Deed Records;
THENCE west with the south line of said J. B.
Renfro Survey and the north line of E. C. Cannon Survey,
Abstract No. 378, to the northwest corner of said Cannon
Survey;
THENCE south along the west line of said
Cannon Survey to a point in said west line 833.33 feet
north of the southwest corner of said Cannon Survey,
same being the northeast corner of a tract of land
deeded to Jack Elliott and wife by warranty deed recorded
in Volume 3322, at_page 312, of the Tarrant County Deed
Records;
THENCE west with fence line along the north line
of said Elliott Tract 785.27 feet to an iron pin in the
east line of the.Kennedale-New Hope Road, said point being
in the present corporate limit line of the City of Kenne-
dale, Texas;
THENCE south 0 deg. 45 min. east with said east
line of said road 501.35 feet to an iron pin at the south-
west corner of said Elliott Tract;
THENCE west along the south line of said Elliott
Tract, same being an existing corporate limit line of the
City of Kennedale, Texas, 384.5 feet to a point for corner,
said point being a northeast corner of the area annexed to
City of Kennedale by and described in Ke edale Ordinance
No. 61-6, recorded in Vol. 3568, at page 110, of the
:Tarrant County Deed Records;
THENCE south 0 deg. 45 min. east on a line
parallel to and 384.5 feet east of the east right-of-way
line of said Ke :edale-New Hope Road, said line being an
existing corporate limit line of the City of :annedale,
Texas, 84 feet, more or less, to a point for corner in the
south line of a 1.486 acre tract of land conveyed by
Agnes O. Oldham, et vir,, R. T. 0ldha , to the undersigned
petitioners;
THENCE south 89 deg. 41 min. east along the south
line of said tract conveyed by the Oldhams to the under-
signed petitioners to the southeast corner of said tract
in the west line of the said E. C. Cannon Survey, said
point being 246.6 feet north of the southwest corner of
said Cannon Survey;
THENCE south along the west line of said Cannon
Survey to the southwest corner of said survey;
THENCE east along the south line of said E. C.
Cannon Survey, Abstract No. 378, to the southeast corner
of said Cannon Survey;
THENCE north along the east line of said Cannon
Survey and the west line of the F. Wood Survey, Abstract
No. 1628, 49 varas, to a southwest corner of the presently
existing corporate limits of the City of Kennedale, Texas,
as described in that certain territory annexed to Kennedale
by Kennedale Ordinance No. 60-8, recorded in Volume 3484,
at page 162, of the Tarrant County Deed Records;
THENCE north and northwesterly along the present
city limit line of the City of Kennedale, Texas, as described
in said Kennedale Ordinance No..60-8, (being the westerly
boundary line of the territory a7i,exed_by said Kennedale
Ordinance No. 60-8), to the point of intersection of said
present corporate limit line with the north line of the
E. C. Cannon Survey, Abstract No. 378;
THENCE west with the north line of said Cannon
Survey to a point 413.56 feet, more or less, east of the
easterly right-of-way line of U. S. Highway No. 287, said
point being the northeast corner of a tract deeded to
J. S. Compton by warranty deed recorded in Volume 3129,
at page 406, of the Tarrant County Deed Records;
THENCE southeasterly along the northeast boundary
lines of said Compton Tract, of a tract deeded to Trinity
Valley Seminary by warranty deed recorded in Volume 3596,
at page 534, Tarrant County Deed Records, and of a tract
deeded to John P. Elrod by warranty deed recorded in
Volume 2906, at page 58, Tarrant County Deed Records,
350.8 feet, more or less, to the northeast corner of said
Elrod Tract;
THENCE southwesterly along the southeast
boundary line of said Elrod Tract 310.4 feet, more or
less, to the easterly right-of-way line of U. S. Highway
No. 287;
THENCE northwesterly along the east right-of-
way line of said U. S. Highway No. 287 to the north line
of said E. C. Cannon Survey;
THENCE west along the north line of said Cannon
Survey to the westerly right-of-way line of said U. S.
Highway No. 287;
THENCE southeasterly along the westerly right-
of-way line of said U. S. Highway No. 287, 858.2 feet,
more or less, to the southeast corner of a tract deeded
to Elmer Atkins by warranty deed recorded in Volume 2901,
page 477, Tarrant County Deed Records;
• THENCE southwesterly along the southeastern
boundary line of said Atkins Tract 564.78 feet, more or
less, to the southwest cornerof said Atkins Tract in the
easterly right-of-way line of the H. & T. C. Railroad
(also known as the T. & N. O. Railroad);
THENCE northwesterly along the easterly right-
of -way line of said railroad to the north line of said
E. C. Cannon Survey;
THENCE west along the north line of said Cannon
Survey to the place of beginning;
SAVE AND EXCEPT, that portion of the hereinabove described
tract included in said H. & T. C. Railroad right-of-way,
and a tract of land included in said above described
property as described in warranty deed to G. L. Cayce,
recorded in Vol e 3383, at page 141, of the Tarrant Courr
Deed Records, said Cayce Tract abutting the east side of
U. S. Highway No. 287 and.the south line of said E.C. Cannon
Survey. (It is the intention to herein describe for annexa-
tion all_of the land owned by the said petitioners, Jack M.
Langdon, Walter H. Clarke, Dennis R. Rose and James C. Estes
in the E. C. Cannon Survey, Abstract No. 378, which land
was acquired by said petitioners by warranty deed from
H. R. French, recorded in Vol. 3628, at page 483, of the
Tarrant County Deed Records, and also to include all of the
land owned by said petitioners in the R. C. Richey Survey,
Abstract No. 1327, and acquired by separate warranty deeds
from Jack Elliott and Agnes 0. O1dha,T, et vir., insofar as
such land is not already within the heretofore existing
corporate limits of the City of Kennedale, Texas,` plus all of
U.S. Highway No. 287 lying within the said E. C. Cannon Survey.)
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Kenne-
dale, Texas, as provided by law, at a regular meeting on
this 1st day of March, 1962, (which is more than five and
less than thirty days since the filing of said petition
with the City), duly and legally considered the said peti-
tion, hearing_the arguments for and against such annexation,
and it appearing to the City Council that all statutory
requirements in connection with said application and petition
have beer fulfilled and that all of said area, on which less
than three qualified voters reside, is adjacent and contiguous
to the present existing boundaries and limits of the City
of Kennedale, Texas, and is not «ore than"one-half wile in
width, all of which the Council so finds; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
KE DALE, S
Section 1. That the property hereinabove
described lying adjacent and contiguous to the present
existing boundaries and limits of the City of Kennedale,
Texas, be, and the same is hereby annexed and brought
within the corporate limits and made an integral part of
the said City of Kennedale, Texas.
Section 2. That the owners and inhabitants
of the area herein annexed, be,, and they are hereby
declared entitled to all the r: fiats and privileges of
other property owners and citizens of the said City of
Kennedale, Texas, and shall henceforth be bound by all
the acts and ordinances of said City of Kennedale which
are now in force and effect, and which may be hereafter
adopted.
Section 3. That the official map and boundaries
of the City of Kennedale, Texas, as heretofore adopted and
amended, be corrected and aHeded, so as to ielude the
above described area and territory as a p-.r' of the City
of Kennedale, Texas.
Section 4. That this ordinance is adopted
subsequent to the adoption of Kennedale Ordinance No. 62-2,
and all of the land and territory herein described and
hereby annexed is included within the boundaries of the
land and territory described in and annexed to the City of
Kennedale by said Kennedale Ordinance No. 62-2. The
annexation by Kennedale Ordinance No. 62-2 was pursuant tG
Art. 974, Texas Revised Civil Statutes of 1925, as amended,
and the sole purpose of adopting this ordinance subsequent
to the adoption of Kennedale Ordinance No. 62-2 is pre-
cautionary, and in order to effect the annexation of the
hereinabove described territory pursuant to Art. 974-g,
in the ever.,t that the prior annexation of said territory
by Kennedale Ordinance No. 62-2 should be held ineffective
for. any reason.
Section 5. That this ordinance shall become
effective from and after its passage and approval by the
Mayor, duly attested by the City Secretary.
ADOPTED AND APPROVED this the 1st day of March,
A. D. 1962._
APPROVED:
M-. <•r, C y o ennedale, Texas
ATTEST:
THE STATE OF TEXAS:
CO
OF TA
CITY OF KE
NT:
DALE:
1, Susie A. Langford, City Secretary of the
City of Kennedale, Texas, hereby certify that the above
and foregoing is a true and correct copy of Kennedale
Ordinance No. 62-3, unanimously adopted by the City
Council of the City of Kennedale, Texas, at a regular
meeting held in the Kennedale CituHall on the 1st day
of March, 1962, at which meeting a quorum was present,
as is reflected by the minutes of said Council.
TO CERTji WHICH witness my hand and the
official seal of the City of Kennedale, Texas, this
1st day of March, A. D. 1962..
Kennedale, Texas
,!:17.;j1324.3
PETITION FOR ANNEXATION
TO THE HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENNEDALE, TEXAS:
We, the undersigned, Jack M. Langdon, Walter H.
Clarke, Dennis R. Rose and James C. Estes, of Tarrant
County, Texas, being all of the owners of the herein-
after described land and territory lying contiguous and
adjacent to the existing corporate limits of the City of
Kennedale, Texas, hereby petition the Mayor and City
Council of the City of Kennedale, Texas, to institute
all proceedings and to adopt all ordinances and do all
things necessary to annex said hereinafter described
land and territory and make the same a part of the
City of Kennedale, Texas, said land and territory being
more particularly described as follows, to -wit:
BEING a part of the E. C. Cannon Survey,
Abstract No. 378, and the R.C. Richey Survey, Abstract
No. 1327, in Tarrant County, Texas, and described by
metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at the point of intersection of the
south line of the J.B. Renfro Survey, Abstract No. 1260,
and the easterly right-of-way line of the H. & T. C.
Railroad (also known as the T. & N.O. Railroad), said
point being in the present south corporate limits of the
City of Kennedale, Texas, and being the northwest corner
of a tract of land deeded to Bessie Sloan by warranty
deed recorded in Vol. 3073, at page 348, of the Tarrant
County Deed Records;
THENCE west with the south line of said J.B.
Renfro Survey and the north line of E. C. Cannon Survey,
Abstract No. 378, to the northwest corner of said
Cannon Survey;
NCE south along the west line of said
Cannon Survey to a point in said west line 833.33 feet
north of the southwest corner of said Cannon Survey,
same being the northeast corner of a tract of land
deeded -to- Jack Elliott and wife by warranty deed recorded
in Volume 3322, at page 312, of the Tarrant County Deed
Records;
T;INCE west with fence line along the north line
of said Elliott Tract 785.27 feet to an iron pin in the
east line of the Kennedale-New Hope Road, said point being
in the present corporate limit line of the City of Kennedale,
Texas;
THENCE south 0 deg. 45 min. east with said east line
of said road 501.35 feet to an iron pin at the southwest
corner of said Elliott Tract;
TI CE west along the south line of said Elliott
Tract, same being an existing corporate limit line of the
City of Kennedale, Texas, 384.5 feet to a point for corner,
said point being a northeast corner of the area annexed to City of
Kennedale by and described in Kennedale Ordinance No. 61-6,
recorded in Vol. 3568, at page 110, of the Tarrant County,Deed
Records;
CE south 0 deg. 45 min. east on a line parallel
to and 384.5 feet east of the east right-of-way line of
said Kennedale-New Hope Road, said line being an existing
corporate limit line of the City of Kennedale, Texas,
84 feet, more or less, to a point for corner in, the south
line of a 1.486 acre tract of land conveyed by Agnes O.
Oldham, et vir., R. T. Oldham, to the undersigned petitioners;
T 1mi CE south 89 deg. 41 min. east along the south
line of said tract conveyed by the Oldhams to the under-
signed petitioners to the southeast corner of said tract
in the west line of the said E. C. Cannon Survey, said
point being 246.6 feet north of the southwest corner of
said Cannon Survey;
THENCE south along the west line of said Cannon
Survey to the southwest corner of said survey;
THENCE east along the south line of said E.C.
Cannon Survey, Abstract No. 378, to the southeast corner
of said Cannon Survey;
THENCE north along the east line of said Cannon
Survey and the west line of the F. Wood Survey, Abstract #1628,
49,varas, ;o a southwest corner of the presently existing
corporate limits of the City of Kennedale, Texas, as
described in that certain territory annexed to Kennedale
by Kennedale Ordinance No. 60-8, recorded in Volume 3484,
at page 162, of the Tarrant County Deed Records;
THENCE north and northwesterly along the present
city limit line of the City of Kennedale, Texas, as des-
cribed in said Kennedale Ordinance No. 60-8, (being the
westerly boundary line of the territory annexed by said
Kennedale Ordinance No. 60-8), to the point of intersection
of said present corporate limit line with the north line
of the E. C. Cannon Survey, Abstract No, 378;
CE west with the north line of said Cannon
Survey to a point 413.56 feet, more or less, east of the
easterly right-of-way line of U.S. Highway No. 287,said
point being the northeast corner of a tract deeded to
J. S. Compton by warranty deed recorded in Volume 3129,
at page 406, of the Tarrant County Deed Records;
THENCE southeasterly along the northeast boundaxv
lines of said Compton tract, of a tract deeded to Trinity
Valley Seminary by warranty deed recorded in Volume 3596,
at page 534, Tarrant County Deed Records, and of a tract
deeded to John P. Elrod by warranty deed recorded in
Volume 2906, at page 58, Tarrant County Deed Records,
350.8 feet, more or less, to the northeast corner of
said Elrod Tract;
-2-
THENCE southwesterly along the southeast boundary
line of said Elrod Tract 310.4 feet, more or less, to the
easterly right-of-way line of U.S. Highway No. 287;
THENCE northwesterly along the east right-of-way
line of said U.S. Highway No. 287 to the north line of
said. E.C. Cannon Survey;
CE west along the north line of said Cannon
Survey to the westerly right-of-way line of said U.S.
Highway No. 287;
THENCE southeasterly along the westerly rigtt-of-
way line of said U.S. Highway No. 287, 858.2 feet, more
or less, to the southeast corner of a tract deeded to
Elmer Atkins by warranty deed recorded in Volume 2901,
page 477, Tarrant County Deed Records;
T CE southwesterly along the southeastern
boundary line of said Atkins Tract 564.78 feet, more
or less, to the southwest corner of said Atkins Tract
in the easterly right-of-way line of the H. & T. C.
Railroad (also known as the T. & N.O. Railroad);
THENCE northwesterly along the easterly right-
of-way line of said railroad to the north line of
said E.C. Cannon Survey;
T.I CE west along the north line of said
Cannon Survey to the place of beginning;
SAVE AND EXCEPT, that portion of the hereinabove des-
cribed tract included in said H. & T. C. Railroad right-
of-way, and a tract of land included in said above des-
cribed property as described in warranty deed to G. L.
Cayce, recorded in Volume 3383, at page 141, of the
Tarrant County Deed Rec rds, said Cayce Tract abutting
the east side of U.S. Highway No. 287 and the south line
of said E.C. Cannon Survey.
It is the intention of the undersigned petitioners
to herein describe all of the land owned by thei, in the
said E. C. Cannon Survey, Abstract No. 378, which land
was acquired by warranty deed from H. R. French by
warranty deed recorded in Vol 3628, at page 483, of the
Tarrant County Deed Records, and also to include all of
the land owned by them in the R. C. Richey Survey, Ab-
stract No. 1327, and acquired by warranty deeds from Jack
Elliott and Agnes O. Oldham, insofar as such land is not
already within the present corporate limits of the City of
Kennedale, Texas.
Petitioners hereby represent and show to the said
Mayor and City Council of the City of Kennedale, Texas,
that the above described property is contiguous and adjacent
to the present city limits of the City of Kennedale,
Texas, is less than one-half mile in width, is not
now a part of any other municipal corporation, and
that less than three qualified voters reside on said
land and territory, and in fact that said territory
is uninhabited.
WITNESS OUR HANDS this day of February,
1962.
/,-ac • ng on P Walter H. Clarke
/ /
enn s
• ose
THE STATE OF TEXAS:
COUNTY OF TANT:
Before me, the undersiv,ed authority, on this
day personally appeared Jack M. Langdon, known to me
to be the person whose name is subscribed to the fore-
going instrument, and acknowledged to me that he exe-
cuted the same for the purposes and consideration
therein expressed.
Given under my hand and seal ofoffice this/A
day of February, 1962.
ub r c N0ta
Tarrant County, Texas
THE STATE OF TEXAS:
CO OF TARRANT:
Before me, the undersigned authority, on this
day personally appeared Walter H. Clarke, known to me
to be the person whose name is subscribed to the fore-
going instrument, and acknowledged to me that he exe-
cuted the same for the purposes and consideration
therein expressed.
Given under my hand and seal.-6f-bffice this
day of February, 1962.
o ary 711.r c n an or
Tarrant County, Texas
THE STATE OF TEXAS:
CO
OF TA NT:
Before me, the undersigned authority, on this
day personally appeared Dennis R. Rose and James C.
Estes, known to me to be_the persons whose names are
subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged
to me that they executed the same for the purposes and
consideration therein expressed.
Given under my hand and seal -Of office this
of February, 1962.
THE STATE OF
COUNTY OF TA
CITY OF KE
S:
NT:
DALE:
, -
Notary Public liaa;(1:f for
Tarrant County, Texas
I, Susie A. Langford, City Secretary of the City
of Kennedale, Texas, hereby certify-: that the foregoing
Petition for Annexation was filed in my office on the
of February, 1962, and thereafter was dilly pre-
en ed by the Mayor, Norman T. Childres, to the City
Council of the City of Kennedale, Texas, for hearing and
action on the day of , 1962, at a
meeting of sa.d City Council.
WITNESS MY HAND and the official seal of the City
of Kennedale, Texas, this of 1962.
fr
Susie A. Langford,
City Secretary, Cityof
Kennedale, Texas.
City Seal)