The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-07

ANOTHER PRoPosITIoN.-A petition
is in circulation to submit the follow
ing, known as the Americas PROPOSE
ton, to vote $50, 600 In bonds to aid the
road from Carbondale via Americas to
the Southwest. It is to be voted on at
tile same time of the one for bonds to
the Kansas City, Emporia & Walnut
Valley railroad:
Shall the Beard Of County Commission
ers of Lyon county, state OF Kansas, sub.
scribe for and take the stock Oft the Amer
icus and Southwestern Rsilroad Company
to the amount Of dfty thousand dollars,
pany fifty thousand dollors of the
bonds Of said Lyon county, at par
payable in the city of New York,
ut such place as such company may d.
rect, thirty years after the date thereof,
and bearing interest at the rate OF seven
ally, which bonds when voted by the
people of said county, and Immediately
thereafter, shall be duly issued and exc
cuted, with coupons attached, and de-
posted in eScroao 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 commissioners Of the
said county Of Lyon shall issue their Or
der on the State Treasurer to deliver said
bonds to said railroad company; but before
delivering the same, the State Treasurer
shall cancel all interest coupons which
may have become due between the late Of
issuing and the date OF delivering said
bonds as aforesaid, Said subscription of
stock and the delivery OF said bonds to be
made to the Americas and Southw estern
Railroad Company, or their assigns, sub,
ject TO the conditions hereinafter stated:
Condition LIST. The bonds aforesaid shall
not be delivered to said company until
each and every one OF the conditions
herein mentioned and relating thereto
shall be first fully performed, fulfilled and
complied with.
I'd. The said Americas and Southwest
ern Railroad Company, or their assigns,
shall build and fully complete a railroad
from . point on the eastern line of Lyon
county, in said state OF Kansas, to the
west line Of the said county of Lyon, in
| in said state, by way of the towns of
Said railroad to be Of usual gauge, and to
| average In construction with the rail-
roads now operated in this state.
Cd. That work on said railroad shall
be commenced within six months from
the date Of depositing said bonds with the
Treasurer Of State. and prosecuted unin-
terruptedly until said road shall be COM
| pleted, a1d the said road shall be CON-
pleted within eighteen months after the
| dnre OF its commencement. and Fthrough
trains operated thereon.
4th. Said railroad company shall con-
| struct and maintain at the said towns OF
Americas aud Plymouth, and in the
| township Of Waterloo, in said county OF
Lyon, freight and passenger depOts.
9th, After said railroad company, OF
their assigns. shall have completed their
road to the west line Of Waterloo town.
ship In the said county Of Lyon, and shall
be running regular freight and passenger
trains thereon, they shall be entitled tC
and when their road shall he completed
to the town of Americas, in the SAID
county Of Lyon, and regular freight and
passenger trains operated thereon, they
shall be entitled to twenty thousand dol
lars additional bonds Of SAID county; and
when their said road shall be completed
to the town of plymouth, in the SAID
county OF Lyon, they shall be entitled Il
the balance, fifteen thousand dollars O
said bonds. But before any instailmen
Of said bonds shall be delivered, and FOL
each snstsllment thereof, the said com
pany, or their assigns, shall deliver to the
county commissioners of said Lyon county
| an amount Of full paid stock in their SAID
roadequsl to theamount OF said bonds Of tn
! said county to which said company maylb
entitled as above. But none Of said bond
shall be delivered by the State Treasurel
except upon an order ofthe County BoarC
Of Commissioners OF the said county o
Lyon, certifying that the said stock ha
been delivered to said Board Of Commts
sioners, and that the conditions aboy
. mentioned have been fully complied witt
by said company or their assigns.