St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-23
PROCLAIM ALTON.
Office of County Judge of ! ,

| O1llCe OF county Judge OF CO
! Floyd Co., State of Iowa. ( 10
April, Odd, A. D., 1857.
Presents. B. Starr, Prosecuting Attorney and
Acting County Judge, County Judge being
absent.)
ION reading and filing the petition of d.
~ Wiltse, John Blunt G.. G. Reiniger. w.
b. Fairfield, G. B. Eastman and eighty-tiv 1857
others, asking the County Judge of said Coun-
ty to submit the following questions to the
people OF said County, at u special election to
be called for that purpose, II is therefore order
ed, That special election be held in said Coun-
ty in the several townships, or election pre-
clncts thereof, on the 25th day of May, A. d.
1857, at the usual hours and places of holding
elections, said special election to be conducted
in the same manner as general elections. and
to decide by vote said questions asked to be
and which are hereby submitted to the people
of said County, which said questions are as fol-
lows to wit
Whether the said County Of FLOYD will
take one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of
the stock Of the Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska
Railroad Company and issue bonds of said
County in payment thereof, bearing interest
at the rate OF ten per cent. per annum, the
principal payable in twenty years from the
date thereof, said bonds to be ISSUES when the
Cedar Valley Branch Of said railroad is graded
two (92) north, in the State of Iowa, and is
permanently located and under contract to the
north line of said Floyd County The said
Railroad Company to pay the interest ON said
bonds until said railroad is in running order to
the south or east line of said Floyd County
And the said Railroad Company is to elect,
whether they will comply with the specifca-
tons, and accept and receive said bonds, or
not and notify the County Judge of said Floyd
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from the date of this proclamation, -ProOided,
That the Cedar Valley Branch of said Chicago,
Iowa and Nebraska Railroad Company shall
run through said Floyd County as follows -
Commencing on the south or east line Of the
said County, where the said railroad may in
tersect the same as located from the south,
thence running up the Big or Main Cedar River
valley, as near as practicable to the Big Cedar
River, and passing through or as near as the
nature of the ground will admit, to the vii
lagos of st. Charles and Floyd in said County.
And for the, payment of the interest on
said bonds the County Court of said County is
hereby required, at the usual times of leyying
taxes, to levy such tax on the taxable proper
ty of the said County, as shall be sufficient to
pay such interest annually, and after the ex-
piration of ten years from the date of the said
bonds SO issued as aforesaid, the said County
Court shall provide by tax within the limits
prescribed by law tor the payment of the same,
or by the sale of the said Company sooner if
deemed expedient and practicable
The form in which the aforesaid questions
shall be taken, shall be as follows, to wit -
The form of each ballot cast in favor of the
adoption of said questions shall be, +" For the
Railroad Stock" And the form of each bal
lot cast against the adoption of said questions
shall be, Against the Railroad Stock" and
every affirmative vote shall be considered for
the proposition entire.
1t is further ordered that this proclamation
submitting the above questions to the people
of said County be published in the ST. Charles
Republican Intelligencer, a weekly newspaper
printed at st. Charles in said County, at least
four weeks previous to the day herein appoint
ed for holding said special election, and that
notices thereof be posted in due form Of law.
Witness S. b. Starr, Prosecuting
Attorney and Acting County
&c Judge, with the seal of the said
County hereto affixed at st.
Charles, in said County, this I'D
day of April, A. d. 1857.
S. B. Starr, Prosecuting Attorney and Act
ing County Judge, County Judge being alb
sent