Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-09-19
RAILROAD
SPECIAL ELECTION NOTICE

OFFICE OF THE TRUSTEES OF HARDY
TOWNSHIP, HOLMES COUNTY, o.
To tie Qualified Electors OF Hardy Township,
Holmes County, Ohio:
NOTICE is hereby given that the following
~ written request, signed by one hundred
ship of Hardy, has been made upon the Trus-
tees of said townships:
To the Trustees Of Hardy Township,
Holmes County, Ohio
The undersigned resident tax-paying electors
of said Township Of Hardy, Holmes County,
quest that you construct u Railroad from
point on the south line OF said township, on
the south line ofthe southeast quarter Of mac
tional section number twenty-th (s3) town
ship nine CO. range seven %, at u stake mark
ed .-9ilA95.- --thence up the valley OF the Kill
buck creek to the north line OF said township
to a stake seven hundred and nneen l1i5) feet
west of Killbnck creek, marked ''lfUxa6, I"
both of said termini and all Of the line Of said
proposed Railroad being within the limits OF
said township of Hardy. Said Railroad to be
on the line surveyed and located through said
township by the Lake Erie, Wooster and Nus
kingum Valley Railway Company.
That you appropriate therefor, ana towards
Fifty Thousand Dollars, such sum not exceed
ing live per cent. of the assessed valuation Of
the real and personal property OF said town.
ship OF Hardy, last made.
That said sum OF Fiftv Thousand Dollars be
in bonds of said Township, and that said bonds
lie ordinary coupon bonds, and that they and
the coupons thereto attached shall be payable
In the city Of New York, and that said bonds
bear interest at the rate OF eight her cent. per
annum payable semi-annually on the first days
of January and July in each year.
That one-lfth in amount OF said bonds, that
is to say, the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars
thereof, shah run sixteen years and become due
and pay able in sixteen years from and after
the date of their execution.
That one fifth in amount of said bonds, that
is to say. the sum OF Ten Thousand Dollars
thereof shall run seventeen years and become
due and payable in seventeen years from aud
after the date of their execution.
That one-fifth in amount of said bonds, that
is to say, the sum OF Ten Thousand Dollars
thereof, shall run eighteen years, and become
due and payable in nineteen years from and
after the date OF their execution.
That one-ffth in amount of said bonds, that
is to say, the sum OF Ten Thousand Dollars
thereof, shall run nineteen years. and become
due and payable in nineteen years from and
after the date Of their execution.
That one-ffth in amount Of said bonds, that
is to say. the sum OF Ten Thousand Dollars
thereof, shall run twenty years and become
due and pay able in twenty years from and af-
ter the date of their execution.
That said bonds shall be executed in the usu
al and ordinary manner Of executing township
bonds, by the Trustees and Clerk of said Town
anu slShcu ny tHCius
be in number and denominations as follows:
Seventy of said bonds numbered consecutive
ly from one to seventy, inclusive, OF five hun
dred dollars each, and one hundred and fifty of
said bonds, numbered consecutively from one
to one hundred and fifty, inclusive, the sum
of one hundred dollars each; and that to each
and every of said bonds be attached the usual
and necessary interest coupons corresponding
in date and number with the bonds TO which
they are attached, and which coupons shall be
signed by the written signature of the Clerk of
said township of Hardy.
That you call u meeting of the qualified cleo
tors of said township Of Hardy, Holmes county,
Ohio, at the time and place and in the manner
provided by law. on SATURDAY, October 9Th, a.
ID. 1874. ut the usual place of holding elections
in said township, and require said voters at the
special elections so to be held. to vote for or
against the construction of the proposed kail-
road. and the other requests herein made, and
that you give the notice by publication, as re-
quired by law
This request is made under the provisions of
an act OF the General Assembly of the State of
Ohio, entitled AN act to authorize counties,
cities, incorporated villages and townships 70
build railroads, and to lease and operate the
same, ~ passed April 23d 1872; and for the pur-
pose of availing said township of all the bene--
fits, powers and privileges of said act. ~