The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-07-05
Special Election Notice
To the tax-paying electors of Orange Town
ship. Hancock county, Ohio:
Orange Township, IN said County, |
JUNE 26th, 1872.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that the fol
IN lowing written request, signed by NOR
than one hundred Tax-paying electors OF SAT-
Township of Orange, in Hancock county
Ohio. has been made upon the trustees ofsai'
township:
To the Trustees o. Orange Township, Han
cock county, state of Onio:
WE, the undersigned, resident tax-payini
w electors of Orange township. Hancocl
county, Ohio, and more than one hundred II
number, respectfully request tEat you con
struct a railroad from point near the north
east corner of section six. Orange town
ship, in said county, where the Lake Erie q
Louisville railway crosses the north line o
said township, being the northeast terminus
of said road, thence in southwestern direc
ton along the located line OF said railroad Il
Bluffton, in Allen county, Ohio, thence in {
wards the town of Ada, in Hardin county
Ohio SO far as to intersect the south line o
said township of Orange, being the soutf
termini being within said township Of Or
ange.
sum of twenty-five thousand (s25, ,oO0) dollar
toward the construction of saidrailroad, suct
sum not exceeding five per cent. of the as
sessed valuation of the real and personal
property of said township of Orange lasl
That the said amount of twenty-five thous.
and dollars be In bonds of said township o.
Orange that said bonds shall be ordinary
coupon bonds, and said bonds and the cou
pons thereto attached, shall be payable at tht
treasury OF Hancock county, Ohio; that sait
per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually
on the first day of March and the first day o
September of each year,
That of said amount the sum of two thous-
and and five hundred dollars shall become
due in fifteen years from March LIST, 1872; an6
two thousand and five hundred dollars shall
become due in fifteen years from the LIST o
September, 1872 two thousand and hve hun
dred dollars shall become due in sixteen
years from March LIST, 1877; two thousand and
five hundred dollars shall become due In
sixteen years from September LIST, 1872; two
thousand and five hundred dollars shall be-
come due in seventeen years from March LIST
1872; and two thousand and fiye hundred
dollars shall become due in seventeen years
from September lst, 1872; two thousand
and five hundred dollars shall become due In
eighteen years from March lst, lS72 and two
thousand and five hundred dollars shall be-
come due in eighteen years from September
lst, lS72; two thousand and i've hundred dol
lars shall become due in nineteen years from
March LIST, 1872; and two thousand and hve
hundred dollars shall become due in nine
teen years from September LIST, 1872.
That said bonds shall be executed in the
usual and ordinary manner OF executing
township bonds by the trustees and clerk OF
said townshipof Orange, and signed by them;
that said bonds shall be in denominations as
follows to wit: Fifty bonds numbered consec-
utively from one TO fifty, inclusive, OF five
That to each and every one of said bonds
shall be attached the usual and necessary in:
terest coupons corresponding In date and
number with the bonds to which they are at
tached, which coupons shall be signed by the
written signature Of the Clerk of said town.
ship of Orange. -.
We also request and direct that in the con-
struction of said road the sum OF five thous-
and dollars be used in the construction of so
much of said railroad as lies between the
north and west lines OF said township, and
nowhere else and the sum of twenty thous-
and dollars OF said sum shall be used in the
construction of SO much OF said road as lies
between the west and south lines OF said
township and not at any other place.
We request that you call meeting OF the
qualified electors of the township of Orange,
Hancock county, Ohio, at the time and
place. and in the manner provided by law,
on the