The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-01-26
ELECTION PROCLAMATION.

nURSUANE 10 an order OF the DoaIu
Il Of County Commissioners OF toe
county Of LYON, State OF Kansas, dated |
January 18th, 1877. 1, Hiram Conner,
Sheriff OF Lyon county, State OF Kan
sas. do hereby proclaim and make known, |
10 at there will be held on the 2Oth day
Of February, 1877, special eleetion az
the various voting precincts in said Lyon
county. for the purpose or voting upon
the following proposition, tO-wit:
Shall the Board OF County Commission
ers of the county of Lyon. for and in be-
half of said county. subscribe for and
City, Emporia and Southern Railroad
Company to the amount of one thousand
shares OF ore hundred dollars each, making
q total subscription of one hundred nous
and dollars, and in payment therefor IS
sue and deliver to said railroad company
the bonds OF said county to the amount
of one hundred thousand dollars. payable
principal and interest, at the hscai agency
for the State of Kansas in the City OF New
York, in thirty years after the date there
OF, with the privilege reserved to said
county OF paying the whole or any part
of said bonds at any time after i've years
Fl ON the date thereof, and with the
further privilege reserved To
said county Of paying cash for and re-
deeming the whole or any part of said
bonds at the time of the delivery thereof
as hereinafter provided, at the rate of Sc
cents for each dollar of the face value of
said bonds so paid for and redeemed;
said bends to be issued in denominations
Of five hundred dollars each, ana to draw
interest at the rate of 8 per cent. per an
mum, payable annually, from the date Of
their delivery to the railroad company,
and not before, and all interest coupons
matured or about to mature at the date OF
said delivery of the bonds to be Cancelled
and returned TO the county; said bonds to
be iss Ied in consideration of the coDstFuc-
ton, operation and maintenance of said
railroad through said county as an iDde--
pendent line, uncOGneeted with the road
bed or track of any other railroad In said
county; and as part OF this proposition
for the purpose of securing the permanent
location, establishment and maintenance
OF the principal machine, repair and
manufacturing shops, and the general
offices of said railroad company at
Emporia, in said county, shall the
said Board of County Commissioners
transfer to said railroad company the one
hundred thousand dollars of its capital
stock subscribed for and taken by said
county; said subscription and transfer of
stock and issuance of bonds to be upon
the following conditions:
LIST. immediately after the proposition
is voted by the people OF said county and
the result of the election duly ascertain
ed and declared, said subscription to the
capital stock OF said railroad company
shall be made, and the said bonds of the
county shall be duly executed by said
Board of County Commissioners accor-
ding to law, and deposited III escrow
with the fiscal agents of the State of Kan
sas at the fiscal agency of said State in
the City OF New York, or with such 9TH
ef party as may be mutually agreed upon
by and be satisfactory TO the said Board
of County Commissioners and said rail-
road company, and said bonds shall re-
main in the possession OF their custodian
aforesaid until delivered upon the certi-
ficate of said Board of County CommIs-
sioners as hereinafter provided; and at
the same time the SAID railroad company
shall duly execute one thousand sh ares of
one hundred dollars each, and place the
same in escrow ut the same place and to
the same party to whom said bonds shall
be entrusted "a aforesaid, in whose pos
session said stock shall remain until its
delivery as hereinafter provided.
%. The said Kansas City, Emporla and
Southern Railroad Company or their as
signs, shall construct and equip, as afore-
said, and have in operation. a railroad
of gauge of three feet, SO constructed
as TO form enc continuous, independen t
and unbroken line of railroad communica-
lion from Emporia in said Lyon county to
Arkansas City in Cowley county, within
eighteen months from the commencement
of work on said road, as hereinafter spec
flied. and from EmporIa to the eastern
line of said county of Lyon within two
years from the commencement OF first
-
strueied in a substantial manner, and
the equipn ent thereof to be first-cla IS,
aud sufficient for the traffic OF the road;
and the work of the construction thereof
to be commenced within thirty days
after the deposit of said bonds in
bonds and their deposit in escrow by the
several counties along the line of said
railroad from said county of Lyon to the
southern boundary of the State along eth
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four thousand dollars per mile for each
mile of the line of said road,
and said work TO be continued
uninterruptedlY- from the commence
ment to the completion thereof.
Sd. Nopart OF said bonds shall be is
sued and delivered to said railroad COM
paBy. nor in any manner disposed of by
the party holding them In escrow, nor be
OF any binding force or validity upon
said county until the track of said rail-
road shall be laid and trains running
thereon from the city of Emporia to the
the south or west line of said county of
Lyon. and the machine shops and gener-
al offices of said company shall have been
permanently located at Emporia. but
when the railroad has thus been COM
pIeted from the city of Emporia, to the
south or west line of said county.
and when the principal machine. repair,
and manufacturing shops and the general
offices OF said railroad company have
been permanently located at Emporia and
said railroad company shall have entered
into a sufficient written agreement with
the said Board Of County Commissioners
for the permanent continuance and MAIN
tenanee of said shops and offices at EN-
poria, and when said railroad company
shall have entered into q sufficient writ
ten agreement with said Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners to complete and equip
said road to the east line of said county,
within the time above specified, and 10
establish and maintain depot and side
track within One-feurth of mile of the
townsite of Neosho Rapids, in said coun-
ty of Lyon, and said facts of the compile
ton of said road to the western or south
ern line of the county, the location OF
said shops and offices at Emporia and the
due execution of the contract for their
perpetual maintenance ut Emporia, and
the due execution of the contract for the
completion and equipment OF said road to
the eastern line of the county, and the
establishment and maintenance of said
depot and side-track, as aforesaid, have
been certified by said Board OF County
Commissioners to the custodian of said
bonds, the said custodian shall deliver
to the said railroad company or its
assigns an amount Of said bonds and
stock equal to four thousand dol
Jars per mile of the road so con-
structed; and when said railroad shall
have been completed from Emporia to the
east line of the said county of Lyon
by the way of the town of Neosho Rapids,
the line OF said road to be within one
fourth of mile of said town, and a de-
pot and side-track established as afore-
said, and that fact has been certified to
the custodian of said bonds and stock as
aforesaid, and all the conditions concern
ing said shops and offices shall have been
fully complied with, then the said Gus
todian shall deliver to said railroad ccm-
pany the remainder OF said bonds and
stock.
4th. The submission of this PROPOSE
| ton to be at special election in said
| county to he called and held and the re-
turns to be maue and the result ascertain
ed and declared according to the rules
and regulations provided in the general
election laws of the State of Kansas.
Those voting for the said proposition,
shall have written or printed on theirbal-
lots the words, "For the proposition -
and these voting against the said propo.
| sition shalt have written or printed on
their ballots the words, against the
propoSition."
Sheriff Is oifiee, January Il, 1877.
HIRAM CONNER.
S-5w Sheriff Lyon county.