The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10
Sherif's Election Proclamation.
ACTON TOWNSHIP.

VKJHEREAS, on the 18TH Day oi April, io",
| w The board Of county commissioners o.
Sedgwick county, in the state Oh KANSAS, maui
and entered on record tine following order, to wit
| WHkREAs. u petitisn signed by VIM Lawson,
| Alvin Minick and others, being more than Two
lnhs of the resident taxpayers OIL municipal
fovnship of Alton, in the county OF Sedgwick,
state of kansas was the 25th day oil April, 1916
presented to the board of county commissioner
of said county of sedgw!ck, which SAID petition Is
| in the words and figures following, TO VII;
PETITION FOR SPECIAL ELECTION.
To the honorable board Of County Commissioners O
! Sedq,cick County, Slate Of Kansas
| WHEREAS. the Soloman, Arkansas Valley and
Eastern railway company proposes 10 CON
| struet railway thorough the township OF Alton,
Sedgwick county, state Of Kansas, now therefore
the undersigned resident taxpayers Of salu town.
| ship. would most respectfully petition your
honorable Board to submit 10 the quailhea voters
of said township-at special election 10 De cati-
| ed Inv your Homo able Board for that purpose, as
provided for in an act entitled An act to enable
counties townships and cities TO aid IN the CON
struction of railroads and 10 repeal section elShl
| Of cbanter thirty-nine Of the laws of 1871, ap-
proyed February p. 1876, and acts ainenuateIy
| tbereof-a proposition, as provided Tor III salu
acts aid in the construction oil Stld railway Df
subscrihinp 70 the capital stock OF the solomon.
Arkansas Valley and Eastern railway company
| to the the amount of eighteen thousand ugiiar-
isis, 0G0) and to pay therefor by issuing anA
| iiverinp TO said railway company, the BONDS OF
| the said townshid OF Alton, TO an equal amount
| OF eighteen thousand dollars frpFideu, tnHl 'he
whole
issued and delivered 10 said railway company /,
| shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars tSi1,pN
and Eve per cent additional of tie assessed value
of the propeoty of Tor I'M said towship as SHOWN
bv the assessment last made prior to the Issuing
and delivering of the last of said bOn,is ana ts
said township bonds shall mature anu De layaeie
thirty wears after the date which they are Is
sued and shall bear interest at the rate 0f zen pei
cent per annum payable semi annually ana tnat
the principal of the bonds, issued by sald 70 wn-
shin in aid of the construction OF saIc railway,
shall be paid by the payment OF an e]ii-l pixpor
tion thereof in each Of the last ten Of the Gity
wears said bonds have to run
The scription, by said township, % me
capital stock of said company, sali ne iaie upon
the condition that said railway company shHu ~
provided for in section eight of sad FIRST named
act in exchange for said township bonds, dehF-
or TO the treasurer of said wnshipf stock IN the
said road equal in amount with the bonds aitnor-
izcd to be issued, dollar for dollar. ProVidsd no
such township bonds shall be issued anu ueilNef,
ed to said company until said railway IS Duiit anu
the cars running thereon through sAiG township,
and also Provided there shall be 4 station es-
tablished in said township of Alton, When saia
bonds shall be delivered to SAID company,
At such election rs your honorable body may
order in said township al ballots having written
ar nrinted thereon .'for Extending Aid 10 the
solomon. Arkansas Valley and Eastern Hallway
COMPANY shall be counted IN iaver OF the
proposition to extend such aid. And all ballots
tayIug written or printed thereon Against ex-