St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-09-29
Proclamation.
OFFICE OF COUNTY JUDGE, -,
EIpvu Comfy. Iowa. -

OFFICE OF COUNTY JUDGE,
Floyd County. Iowa.
! UEe,ear. The County Building commenced at
St Charles City, in said county, for the
purpose of il Coart House, is greatly deprc-
eating in value by reason OF its exposed
and unfinished condition, to the injury of
the tax payers of said county,
Therefore, Il is ordered, That at the October
Election to be holden ON the eleventh day of
October a. ID. 1859, in the several townships
or election precincts of said county, at the
usual time and places of holding elections
therein. there be submitted to "a vote of the
legal voters of said county, and decided there
by the following question:
| Whether the County Judge of said County
shall cause the said building To he completed
and finished and whether the said county
will assist in the completion and finishing of
the said building 10y raising fund to delIay
the expense. thereof. by the levy of IL tax on
the taxable property in said county at the rate
of Five Mills on the dollar, the proper officers
of said Co., at the usual time of levying taxes
next after said election, to levy such tax ut
the rate aforesaid On the taxable property in
said county during the year for which the said
officers levy the usual taxes for the next sue
ceedingyear after the canvass Of said vote, and
if said question be decided in the affirmative
then the County Judge of said county shall pro-
coed to let andcontract the completion and fin
ishjnr of said building and shall have authority
To draw Warrants from time to time after the
provisions OF said vote are inforcc provided by
| law. on the fund so raised, and to lie known and
designated as the Court House Fund, - for the
purpose of paying for the completion and fin
ishing of the building aforesaid, provided, that
the amount of Warrants ST. drawn shall not
exceed the amount of the sum to be raised by
the special tax as aforesaid.
Each ballot cast or voted at said election in
favor of said question of assisting in the finish
! ing and completion of said building as atorc-
! said, shall have printed or written thereon, or
! both. :. For the Court House Fund" and
each ballot cast or voted at said election
against the question aforesaid, shall have
printed or written thereon, or both, Against
the Court House Fund, and every vote cast
on said question shall he considered according
" for or against the entire question
And it il further ordered that this prOcla-
nation he published at least four weeks in
some newspaper printed in said county, prior
to the time of said election, and if there be no
such newspaper now printed i'll said county,
publication is to be made by posting up Il
copy of this Proclamation in at least one of the
most public places in each township in said
! county one of them at the door of the bull
ding where the last District Court was held in
said county, during at least thirty days prior
to said election, and that Il copy of this Proc
| lamation shall he posted up at each place of
voting in sail county during the day of said
| election.
Witness my hand and official seal at st.
Charles City, Floyd County. Iowa, this 10th
day of September, A. ID. 1859.
DAVID RIPLEY, County Judge