The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-04-11
EIection REORGANIZATION.

WHEREAS, petition has been pre-
wv scented to the Board Of County
Commissioners OF Lyon county, Kansas,
daily signed according to law, requesting
said Board to cause An election to he held
in said county. for the purpose ofHenab-
ling the people to vote on the following
propositions: Therefore said Board of
Commissioners have, In accordance with
the prayer Of said petitioners,
ORDERED, That special election be
held in the said county of Lyon, on the
22d day OF April, 1873, for the purpose of
voting upon the following question:
''Shall the Board of county commission
ers OF Lyon County, State of Kansas, sub
scribe for and take the stock OF the Kan
sas City, Emporia d Walnut Valley Rail
Road Company, to the amount of One
Hundred Thousand Dollars, and, in pay
ment thereof, issue to said Company One
Hundred Thousand Dollars of the bonds
of said Lyon county, at par, payable in
the city OF New York, at such place as
said company may direct, thirty years
after the date thereof, and bearing inter-
est at the rate of seven per cent. per an
mum, payable semi-annually, which bonds
when voted by the people of said county,
and Immediately thereafter, shall be duly
issued and executed, with coupons at
tached. and deposited in eserOlc with the
Treasurer Of State, as provided by law.
When the conditions herein mentioned
relating to said bonds shall have been
fully complied with, the county commic.
sioners OF the said county of Lyon shall
issue their order on the State Treasurer
to deliver said bonds TO the said railroad
company; but before delivering the same
the State Treasurer shall cancel all inter-
est coupons which may have become due
between the date of issuing and the date
OF delivering said bonds as aforesaid. And
In addition to said bonds, the county COM
missioners shall transfer to the said COM
pany Two Hundred Thousand Dollars
at par value, Of the stock now held by
the said county of Lyon in either the
Union Pacific, Southern branch, { now
Missouri, Kansas Il Texas Railway Com
pany,) or Two Hundred Thousand Dol
lars, at par value, of the stock now held
by the said Lyon county in the Atehison,
Topeka 4 Santa Fe Railroad Company, as
the county commissioners OF said county
Of Lyon shall determine. Said subscrip-
ton, and the delivery of said bonds. and
the transfer of said stock, to be made to
the said Kansas City, Emporia d Walnut
Valley Railroad Company, or their assigns,
subject to the conditions hereinafter statedS
Condition LIST. The bonds aforesaid shall
not be delivered to said company until
each and every one of the conditions here
in mentioned and relating thereto shall
first be fully performed, fulfilled and COM
piled with.
I'd. The said Kansas City, EmpOria &
Walnut Valley railroad company. or their
dSSlSuSs Sudll Uullu anu ittlig SOLlplCbC u
railroad from point at or near the city
OF Ottawa, or from point on the west
ern line of Franklin county, In the State
Of Kansas, to the city Of Emporia, in said
state, as provided by the charter OF
| said company. Said railroad to be OF
usual gauge and to average in eonstrue-
ton. with the railroads now operated in
| this State.
81. said railroad must be q separate and
independent line, so far as to be discon-
nected with any other railroad bed the
entile distance between the initial point
OF said road aud the said city of Emporia.
4th. That work on sail railroad shall be
| commenced within six months from the
date OF depositing said bonds with the
State Treasurer, and prosecuted uninter-
/ ruptedly until said road shall be compile
| ted, and the said road shall be completed
| wit hin eighteen months after the date OF
| its commencement, and through trains be
1 operated thereon TO the city Of Emporia.
| 9th. Said railroad company or their as-
signs shall construct their road within
| one-fourth of a mile Of the town of Ne.
osho Rapids, in said county Of Lyon, and
shall construct and maintain within tht
| same distance OF sal town, freight and
passenger depot, and shall continue the
construction Of their road on tht
north side Of the Neosbo river, as nearly
as practicable on the line recently sur.
| Veyed By r. V. Austin, to the city OF En-
| poria, establishing and maintaining de
pot at OF near the mouth OF Badger creek
| on the north side of the Neosho river, II
| said county of Lyon, and a depot at tht
said city of Emporia.
9Th. Amer the said Kansas City, Empo
ria & Walnut Valley railroad company
or their assigns. shall have completed theil
road TO Emporia, and shall have complied
with each and all Of the foregoing co2di
lions and stipulations, and shall have de
liyered to the county commissioners OF tn
said county of Lyon One Hundred Thous
and Dollars OF full paid stock in sai'
road, they shall be entitled to the abov
mentioned bonds Of said county.
9Th. The said Kansas City, Emporla
Walnut Valley railroad company, or thei
assigns, for and in consideration OF tn
stock to the amount aforesaid, shall with
in one year from the date Of the compile
ton Of said road TO Emporia, locate pei
manently the general offices Of the CON
pany at the said city, and within the sam
time shall locate permanently and COZ
sIruct the repair and machine shops {
their entire line Of road, at or With
three-fourths.. Of mile Of the said city {
EmporiA, aud for the faithful carrying OF
: OF this stipulation the said Kansas CITY
Emporia & Walnut Valley railroad CON
, pany, or their assigns, are held respons
| BILE in damages to said Lyon county, oVf
and above the consideration OF the stoc
to be transferred as above mentioned; an
| after said general oftlces shall be so locate
and the repair and machine shops SO loo;
\ ted and constructed, and when said con
pany OF their assigns shall file \ good an
sufficient bond with the county commi
sioners of said Lyon county, conditions
that said Offices and shops shall foreY'
remain at said city OF Emporia, then sal
county commissioners shall transfer Il
stock now held by the said county
Lyon, as above mentioned TO said Kansi
. City, EmporiA & Walnut Valley railFos
company, or their assigns
The ballots TO be used in this electiC
v shall have written or printed theres
"For the Railroad Bonds and Stock,o
Against the Railroad Bonds and Stock
The election TO be conducted under 4
general election laws Of the State of Ka
a saS.
BY order OF the Board of Commissio
ers at their meeting, held at the cou
~ house, in the city OF EmpOria, on d
22d day Of March, 1878.
Witness my hand and the seal
\ SEAL. Lyon county, on this 34th day
L' March, 1873.
DAVID s. GILMORE.