THE STA^1E OF TEXAS § COUNTY OF KERR § PETITION FOR DISCONTINUANCE OF COUNTY ROAD TO THE HONORABLE COMMISSIONERS COURT OF KERR COUNTY, TEXAS: COME NOW, Willard O. Bass and wife, Jane L. Bass, and Willard R. Bass, of the County of Kerr, State of Texas, and respectfully files this their application and petition, pursuant to the provisions of Art. 6705 V.T.C.S., signed by at least eight (8) freeholders in the precinct in which the hereinafter mentioned road is located, to discontinue the public road more fully hereinafter described, including specifically a description of the beginning and termination of such road, after the expiration of at least twenty (20) days notice by written advertisement of applicants' intended application, posted at the courthouse door of Kerr County, Texas, and at two other public places in the. vicinity of the route of such road, and for such application and petition your applicants would respectfully show to the Commissioners Court of Kerr County, Texas, that they are the owners of property located near the hereinafter described public road; that such public road has never been improved nor maintained by the county, except with the owners' permission, nor has it ever been opened or used by the public, except with the owners' permission, and has never been dedicated to the public by the owner, and that there is no public necessity that such road ever be or used as a public road, but on the contrary the same should be closed and discontinued. The public road which your applicants desire to be discontinued and closed is more fully described as follows, to-wit: - 3 - All that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situated in the County of Kerr, State of Texas, and being more particularly described as follows, to-wit: BEGYNNLNG at the southeast corner of a 9.8674 acre tract of land conveyed to Willard R. Bass by W. O. Bass, et ux, and recorded in Volume 150, Page 36, Deed Records, Kerr County, Texas, said southeast corner. havino, geographical coordinates of - Latitude 30° 03' 10°' north and longitude 99° 24' 39° west, and from said southeast corner the northeast corner of original Survey 1854, Wiley Frasier, AB 1267 bears approximately west 1330 feet and south 280 feet; THENCE with. the meanders of the existing road in a southerly direction through the approximate center of said Bass Ranch. (also known as all that certain tract or parcel of land, lying and being situated in the County of Kerr, State of Texas, and being more particularly described by metes and bounds in that certain deed dated February 6, 1959, from Virgie Wagner, et vir, to Willard O. Bass, recorded in Volume 104, Page 264, Deed Records of Kerr County, Texas), as shown on the U. S. Geological Survey Quadrangle "Bee Caves Creek" 1964 1:24000° (1'° = 2000'), through original Surveys 1896, 1566 and 1726 to the termination point of said road at the south property line and fence line of the said Bass Ranch ( also known as all that certain tract or parcel of land, lying and being situated in the County of Kerr, State of Texas, and being more particularly described by metes and bounds in that certain deed dated February 6, 1959, from Virgie Wagner, et vir, to Willard O. Bass, recorded in Volume 104, Page 264, Deed Records of Kerr County, Texas) at geographical coordinates. of Latitude 30° Ol' 21" north. and longitude 99° 24' 30°° west at a point 152.0 feet west of the southeast corner of the said Bass Ranch (also known as all that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being situated in the County of Kerr, State of Texas, and being more particularly described by metes and bounds in that certain deed dated February 6, 1959, from Virgie Wagner, et vir, to Willard O. Bass, recorded in Volume 104, Page. 264, Deed Records of Kerr County, Texas), and from said southeast corner, the southeast corner of original Survey 1726, G.C.& S.F.R.R. AB 1743, bears east 766.7 feet. Surveyed on the ground and field notes written by Baron B. Floyd, Registered Public Surveyor No. 1408, August 26-29, 1974. - 4 - Since Willard O. Bass and wife, Jane L. Bass, and Willard R. Bass are the owners of the property on both sides of the above described land, your applicants pray that the Commissioners Court also order that Kerr County, Texas, execute and deliver to Willard O. Bass and wife, Jane L. Bass, and Willard R. Bass, a Quitclaim Deed to the above described property. EXECUTED THIS THE ~'{ day of September, A.D. 1974. Respectfully submitted, Willard O. Bass ~~ne .L. Bass ~~ Willard R. Bass 5 - We, the undersigned to the above and foregoing Petition for discontinuance of County Road above described, do hereby represent to the Commissioners Court of Kerr County, Texas, that we and each one of us are freeholders in the precinct in which the above de~cxibed road is desired to be discontinued, and .further, we and each one of the undersigned apply to the Commissioners Court of Kerr County, Texas, and request that the above and foregoing application and petition be granted and that such road be discontinued ,.. , and closed. ~ ~J /p/J i I S f ~. /~ T ,_. 4i e~ reset!w ~..fn. aa~F xcwn ~..Fi±.;;~s. oz~,wv v~ ~f '% 1 -, ', (6) `~ `~ D22 C~1~ ~i`n~.~ •-y~ ~ , G a ~., - 6 - P$TITI(JIi Ft3R DISCC3~iTZliilAit~ OF COt~HT7i READ (Ig PrfClnct DTo. 4) Willard O. Saam, et sl