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FORTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE-FIFTH CALLED SESSION. 205
LEASE ON TRAVIS COUNTY COURT HOUSE
SITE CANCELLED.
S. B. No. 37.] CHAPTER 60.
An Act cancelling and annulling the lease which Travis County holds
against the courthouse and jail property owned by the State of Texas,
the same being the North Half of Block No . (123) one hundred
twenty-three, in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas; fixing and
declaring the value of all improvements on said lot and providing for
payment to Travis County for said improvements by delivering a State
Patent to Travis County to one or the other of two certain blocks of
property located in the City of Austin, Texas, or cash, and herein described;
fixing the time within which Travis County must vacate said
property; repealing S. B. No. 74, being an Act of the 4th Called Session
of the 41st Legislature; and declaring an emergency.
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the State of Texas to cancel and annul
the lease of the property mentioned in the caption, which lease was evidenced
by an Act of the Legislature of Texas of May 4, 1874, by paying
to said County of Travis the full value of all improvements on said lot;
Now, therefore,
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. The lease held by the County of Travis under
the Act of the Texas Legislature of May 4, 1874, on the North
half of Block No. (123) one hundred and twenty-three, in the
City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, is hereby cancelled and
annulled, and said cancellation and annulment shall take effect
and be in force from and after the passage of this Act.
SEC. 2. The Commissioner of the General Land Office of the
State of Texas shall issue a patent from the State of Texas to
Travis County, Texas, patenting the block of land designated
Public Square on the map of the plan of Austin and bounded
on the East -by Guadalupe Street; on the North by Pine or
Fifth Street; on the West by San Antonio Street; and on the
South by Cedar or Fourth Street. Said patent to be delivered
when lease of said North half of Block 123 is cancelled and possession
by Travis County of said Block 123 is surrendered to
the State of Texas. Provided Travis County may elect to take
patent to block designated Public Square between Fourth Street
and Fifth Street and between Trinity and Neches Streets in lieu
of said patent to said block between Guadalupe and San Antonio
Streets hereinabove described, or said County may elect to accept
in lieu of the cancellation of said lease, the following tract
of land, such acceptance to be in writing and spread on the
minutes of the Commissioners' Court of said County and accepted
according to terms and provisions of this Act, the land to
be given in lieu of said lease being described as follows: being
a lot or parcel of land located within the city limits of Austin,
Travis County, Texas, and being approximately 275 feet East
and West and 270 feet North and South, lying directly West of
Guadalupe Street, and North of Third Street, South of West
Fourth Street and East of
i Xntonio Street and commonly
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1929-1931 [Volume 27], book, 1931; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16362/m1/217/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .