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CHARTER
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Acts Twenty-Ninth Legislature
An Act to incorporate the City of Paris and to grant it a new charter; to
define its powers and to prescribe its duties and liabilities; and to de-
clare an emergency.
Be it enacted bN- the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Corporate Name.
Section 1. Tl~at all the inhabitants of that part of Lamar
CountI~, as hereinafter desiynated by metes and bounds
and their successors, shall be and are hereby created and
coiistituted a bociy politic and corporate under and to be
known hY the name and designation of "The City of Paris,"
with all tlie rights, powers, privileges, immunities and du-
ties lierein yranted and ciefined.
Boundaries.
Sec. 2. That said "Citv of Paris" shall comprise, include
and embrace all tliat part of the CountY of I.amar, Texas,
boiindecl aud described as follows:
Iii Laiuar County, Texas, beginning 240 rods NN-est of a
poiirt 400 rocls south of the center of the public square, as
no«• kno-,vn and clesignated in the "City of Paris", ttie same
being the southwest corner of the corporate liuiits hereto-
fore esisiing; tlience east 570 rods to a post; thence north
640 rods to a post; ttience west 570 rods to a post; tlience
soutli 640 rods to the place of beginning.
T1ie Citv Couiicil mav by a foui•-fifths vote of all the al-
<lei•inen elected, at an-v regular ineeting, admit into tliis
corporation auv additional territory ad.joining that set out
above in this section of this Act, wheu a«,ritten request
tlierefor signed br at least tivo-thirds of the resident voters
who are owiiers of land in sucli territory slia]1 be preserited
to the Citv Council, and any new territory thus admitted
sha11 constitute a part of this corporation the aame as the
territory liereinbefore in this section set out by metes and
botinds.
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