§ 2 — Bayou

Sec. 2. - Bayou.

Power is hereby given to the City Council of the City of Houston to secure land between Houston and Harrisburg, along the banks of Buffalo Bayou, by purchase, condemnation or by gift, for the improvement of Buffalo Bayou by the United States, or by the City of Houston, and for this purpose it may by ordinance extend the corporate limits of said City from its present eastern limits eastwardly in a general direction with Buffalo Bayou from bank to bank as same is now constructed, or exists, or as same may be ordered constructed by the Government engineers in charge of said work; provided, that the City shall have no right to tax the property over which such boundaries are so extended, unless such property be within the line and within the limits of the general City boundaries or limits. To effect a condemnation, the same proceedings shall be taken and the same statutes shall govern so far as applicable, or obtain and apply to the condemnation of lands by railway companies under the general statutes of the State of Texas. (Act of 1905)