The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-08-23
Special Election Notice
To the Ta1-paying Electors Of Allen towaship
| Hancock cOunfU. Ohio.
ALLEN TOWNSHIP, in said county, |
July IL, 1872.

To the TII-paying Electors Of Allen township
Hancock county, Ohio:
ALLEN TOWNSHIP, in said county,l
| July 10, 1872. !
1NOTICE is hereby given that the followin.
IN written request, signed by more than ont
hundred resident Tax-paying Electors OF sa1t
Township of Allen, in Hancock county, OHIO
has been made upon the Trustees OF saft
Township:
To the Trustees of Allen township, Hancock
county, and State of Ohio:
We, the undersigned, resident tax-payins
electors of Allen township, Hancock county
Ohio, more than one hundred in number, re-
lspectfully request that you construct q Rail
road from a point near the center of the
southwest quarter of section thirty-one 81
ON the south line OF said section in said town
ship OF Allen, In the county OF Hancock and
Stole Q. ns:a which point will be the south
1 the north line Of StlU
| be the north terminus OF said foad,
OF said termini are within said township ol
| Allen.
We also request that you appropriate the
sum of 1--WE enIy-four Thousand Dollars( %, 600
| toward the construction of said Railroad, such
sum not exceeding five per cent. of the assess
| ed valuation OF the real and personal proper
| ~ of said township of Allen, last made.
That The said amount of fls24 yUOO) O)Twenty-fOur
Thousand Dollars be IN bonds OF said town.
! ship OF Allen that the said bonds shall be
ordinary coupon ponds, and said aid, bonds and
BILE at the Treasury of Hancock county, Ohio.
That said bonds shall bear interest at the
semi-annually, On the first day of March and
the first day OF September ofeach year.
That of said amount the sum oftwenty-four
hundred dollars shall become due in i've
years from March lst, A. ID. 1872; and twenty
four hundred dollars shall become due In
six years from the first day of March, A. ID.
1872; and twenty-four hundred dollars shall
become que in seven years from the first day
of March, A. ID. 1872; and twenty-four hun
dred dollars shall become due in eight years
from the first day of March, A. ID: 1872 and
twenty.four hundred dollars shall become
due in nine years from the first day of March,
A. ID. 1877; and twenty-four hundred dollars
day of March, A. d. 1872 and twenty-four
hundred dollars shall become que in eleven
years from the first day OF March, A. ID. 1872
and twenty-four hundred dollars shall be-
come due in twelve years from the first day of
March, a. ID. 1872 and twenty-four hundred
dollars shall become due in thirteen years
from the first day OF March, A. ID, 1872 and
twenty-four hundred dollars shall become
due in fourteen years from the first day of
March, A. ID. 1872.
That said bonds shall be executed in the
usual and ordinary manner of executing
township bonds, by the Trustees and Clerk OF
said township of Allen, and signed by them
that said bonds shall be in denomination as
follows: Forty-eight bonds numbered con.
secutively from one TO forty-eight inclusive, of
five hundred dollars each, That TO each and
every of said bonds shall be attaced the usual
necessary interest and coupons corresponding
in date and number with the bonds TO which
they are attached, which coupons shall be
signed by the written signature OF the Clerk
OF f-said township of Allen. We also request
and direct that in the construction of said
road the sum of twenty-four thousand dollars
be used in the construction OF said road be-
tween the North and South termini thereof,
and nowhere else. We request that you call
q meeting of the qualified electors OF the said
township of Allen, at at the time and place
and in the manner provided by law, on the
9th day of August, A. ID. 1872. at the usual
place OF holding elections in said township
and require the said voters at the special cleo
ton so TO be held to vote for or against the
construction of the said proposed Railroad,
and the requests herein had, and that you
law. This request is made under the provis-
ions of an act of the General Assembly of the
counties TO build Railroads, and to lease and
operate the same" passed April 23d, 1872. and
for the purpose of availing said township of
all the benefits, powers and privileges of said
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