The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
Sheriff s Election Proclamation.
GARDEN PLAINS TOWNSHIP.

VNTHEREAS. on the 2Ist day of April, 1877,
Wv the board of county commissioners OF >edg-
wick county, in the state of Kansas, mad and
entered on record the following order, to wit:
Whereas, petition signed by George A. Major
y. NJ Southwick and others, being more than
two-fiths of the resident taxpayers Of the mu-
nicipal township Of Garden Plains, in the county
of Sedgwick, State OF Kansas, was on the Ilst
dav of April, ISL, presented % the board of
county commissioners of said county OF Sedg-
| wick, which said petition is in the words and fig
ures following, to wit;
| PETITION FOR SPECIAL ELECTION.
To the Honorable Board of County Commission
ers of sedgwick county, state of Kansas;
Whereas, The Solomon, Arkansas Valley &
Eastern Railway company propose to CONSTRUCT a
| railway through the township of Garden Plains
sedgwick county, State of Kansas; now, there
| fore,
| The undersigned, resident taxpayers of said
! township. would most respectfully petition your
honorable board to submit to the qualified voters
of said township at special election to De called
by your honorable body for That purpose, rs pro-
vided for in an act entitled .'An act TO enable
| counties, townships and cities to aid In the con-
strotion of railroads, and to repeal section eight
of chaprer thirty-Dine on the laws of 1874, APP
proved February %. 1876, and acts amendatosy
thereof, a. proposition, AS provided for IN sad
acts, to aid in the construction of said railway.
by subscribing to the capital stock of the solomon
Arkansas Valley & Eastern Railway Company to
| the amount of eighteen thousand dollars, and to
| pay therefor by Issuing and delivering TO said
railway company the bonds of said township or
Garden Plains to an equal amount OF eighteen
1
amonnt of he bonds of said township so issued
and delivered TO said railway company, shall not
exceed fifteen thousand dollars and five per cent.
additional of the assessed value of the property
| of, or in, said township shown by the assess
ment last made prior to the issuing and delivery
of tbs last of said bonds; and that said township
| bonds shall mature and be payable thirty years
after the date on which they are issued, and shall
bear interest at the rate of ten per cent. per an
num- payable sem-annually, and that the princi-
| pal of the bonds issued by said township in aid
| of the construction of said railway, shall be paid
| by the payments of an equal proportion thereof,
/ in each Of the last ten of the thirty years said
/ bonds have to run.
The subscription. by said township, to the cap
| ltal stock of said company shall be made upon
/ the condition that said railway company shall, a.
preyi ded for in section eight of said first named
act in exchange for said township bonds, delfv-
err to the Of said township stock IN their
said road equal in amount with the bOnfS AUTHOR
| lied to be issued dollar for dollar. Pr0rided,
No such township bonds shall be issued and de-
/ livered to said company until said railway is
built and the cars running thereon through said
townships: and also provided, there shall he "a sta
ton established in said township of Garden
Plairs, when said bonds Slall be delivered 10
said company.
| At such election your honorable body may
order in said township, all ballots having written
or urinted thereon, ''for extending aid TO the
| ooionlon, Afilsns-r Willy a. Eastern Railway
Company. - shall be counted in favor 81 fhs
proposition to extend such aid assss al GaiioSs
having written or printed thereon, Against ex-
tending aid to the solomon, Arkansas Valley 4
Eastern Railway Company shall be counted
| apaiust such DroDoSitiou