By Hinojosa H.B. No. 3184
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of The University of
1-3 Texas System to acquire by purchase, exchange, gift, or otherwise
1-4 certain properties to be used for campus expansion and university
1-5 purposes in The University of Texas System.
1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-7 SECTION 1. The Board of Regents of The University of Texas
1-8 System is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase, exchange, gift,
1-9 or otherwise, for campus expansion and for other University
1-10 purposes, all or any part of the land described as:
1-11 1. A tract of land containing 64.16 acres more or
1-12 less, in the City of Edinburg, Texas, being all of Lot 10, the West
1-13 20 acres of Lot 9, and the East 361 feet of the South 659 feet of
1-14 Lot 14, all in Section 242, Texas-Mexican Railway Company Survey,
1-15 per map recorded in Volume 1, Page 12, Deed Records of said County,
1-16 together with all street, alleys, alleyways, railroads,
1-17 thoroughfares, whether or not vacated lying within or adjoining
1-18 said 64.16 acre tract of land, specifically including but not
1-19 limited to all those portions of Schunior, Garner and Chapin
1-20 Streets, and Sugar Road.
1-21 2. A tract of land containing 10.5 acres, more or
2-1 less, out of Lots 1 and 4 Block A, Section 242 as shown on Edinburg
2-2 Original Townsite Map, recorded in Volume 1, Page 3, Map Records of
2-3 Hidalgo County, Texas, said 10.5 acre tract of land being that
2-4 certain portion of land in said Lots 1 and 4 lying West of the
2-5 centerline of First Avenue together with all streets, alleys,
2-6 alleyways, railroads, thoroughfares, whether or not vacated lying
2-7 within or adjoining said 10.5 acre tract of land, specifically
2-8 including but not limited to all those portions of Schunior,
2-9 Chavez, Cooper, Smith, and Garner Street, and 1st Avenue.
2-10 3. A tract of land containing 26.7 acres, more or
2-11 less, in the City of Edinburg, Texas, being Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of
2-12 Block Ninety Four (94), Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Block One Hundred and
2-13 Twenty Seven (127), Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Block One Hundred and
2-14 Thirty Eight (138), Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Block One Hundred and
2-15 Seventy One (171), Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Block One Hundred and
2-16 Eighty Two (182), Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Block Two Hundred and
2-17 Fifteen (215), Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Block Two Hundred and Twenty
2-18 Six (226), all of Blocks One Hundred and Fifty Nine (159), One
2-19 Hundred and Seventy (170), One Hundred and Eighty Three (183), One
2-20 Hundred and Sixty Nine (169), and the North 280 feet of Block One
2-21 Hundred and Eighty Four (184), all in Edinburg Original Townsite
2-22 Map, recorded in Volume 1, Page 23, Map Records of Hidalgo County,
2-23 Texas; together with all streets, alleys, alleyways, railroads,
2-24 thoroughfares, whether or not vacated lying within or adjoining
2-25 said 10.5 acre tract of land, specifically including but not
3-1 limited to all those portions of Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth
3-2 Avenues, and Schunior, Van Week, Lovette, Peter, Loeb, Kuhn,
3-3 McIntyre and Harriman Streets, and the Southern Pacific Railroad.
3-4 4. A tract of land containing 6.29 acres, more or
3-5 less, situated in the City of Edinburg, Texas being a portion of
3-6 Lot 10, Section 273, Texas-Mexican Railway Company Survey, recorded
3-7 in Volume 1, Page 12, Deed Records of Hildago County, Texas, said
3-8 6.29 acre tract of land being all those certain tracts of land
3-9 described in deeds recorded as Document Number 320467 and in Volume
3-10 3215, Page 282, Records of said County, and all of Lots 3 and 4,
3-11 and the East 38.00 feet of Lot 2 of the Maurer Subdivision recorded
3-12 in Volume 14, Page 3, Map Records of said County, aid 6.29 acre
3-13 tract of land more particularly described as follows:
3-14 BEGINNING at the Northwest corner of said Lot 10;
3-15 THENCE, South 80 55' East, along the North line of said Lot
3-16 10, also being the centerline of University Drive (State Highway
3-17 107) a distance of 500.00 feet.
3-18 THENCE, South 08 59' West, a distance of 55.60 feet to the
3-19 South right-of-way line of said University Drive POINT OF
3-20 BEGINNING;
3-21 THENCE, along said South right-of-way line, South 80 55'
3-22 East, a distance of 367.74 feet for the Northeast corner hereof;
3-23 THENCE, South 08 59' West, a distance of 614.00 feet for the
3-24 Southeast corner hereof;
3-25 THENCE, North 90 55' West, a distance of 619.74 feet for the
4-1 Southwest corner hereof;
4-2 THENCE, North 08 59' East, a distance of 192.00 feet for an
4-3 inside corner hereof;
4-4 THENCE, South 80 55' East, a distance of 252.00 for an inside
4-5 corner hereof;
4-6 THENCE, North 08 59' East, a distance of 422.00 feet to the
4-7 POINT OF BEGINNING, containing 6.29 acres, more or less.
4-8 Together will all streets, alleys, alleyways, railroads,
4-9 thoroughfares, whether or not vacated within or adjoining said 10.5
4-10 acre tract of land, specifically including but not limited to all
4-11 that portion of University Drive (State Highway 107).
4-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
4-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
4-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
4-18 passage, and it is so enacted.