The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-03

James ii McGriG
And whereas it has been shown to the salts fac
ton of the said board and the said board so hnds
adjudges and declares said petition has been
signed by and contains the names OF more than
two-liftbs of the taxpayers actually resident In
said township of Alton; Now, therefore
Pursuant to the prayer of said petition and the
act of the Legislature of the State of Kansas, en-
titled ''An act 10 enable countless townships ana
cities to aid in the construction of railroads, and
to repeal section eight of chapter t5lrty-nlne OF
the laws of 1874, approved February 2oth, 1876,
and the acts amendatory thereof.
IL is hereby ordered by the board of county
commissioners of Sedgwick county, State OF
Kansas, that a special election be held in the
township Of Alton, in said county of Sedgwick,
at the usual voting place thsreof, on the
7TH DAP OF JUNE, 1871,
at which said election the following proposition
shall be submitted TO the legal voters OF said
township for their decision, to wit;
Shall the county commissioners of SedGwick
county, State of Kansas, for anu on behalf OF
said township of Alton, III SAID county and State ,
in aid of the construction OF the railway OF the
solomon, Arkansas Valley II Eastern Railway
COMPANY cause the county clerk of said county
to subscribe for, in the name OF, and for said
township, the capital stock of the solomon, Ar
kansas Valley Il Eastern Railway Company to
the amount of eighteen thousand dollars ISIS ,0ool
and pay therefor by issuing and delivering 10 said
railway company the bonds of said township OF
Alton TO an equal amount OF eighteen Inoa us n
bonds of said township 80 issued and delivered
TO said railway company, shall not exceed nfteen
thousand dollars SID, oVUI anu HNe per cent au-
ditonal OF the assessed value OF the property oil,
or in, said township, as shown by the assessment
last made, prior TO the issuing and delivery OF
the last of said bonds, and that said township
bonds shall mature and be payable thirty years
after the date on which they are issued, amt
shall bear interest at the rate OF ten o per cent
cent. per annum, payable semi-anntially, ana
that the principal of the bonds issued by said
township. aid of che construction of said rail-
way and in payment for the stock OF said COM
pany. shall be paid by the payment OF an equal
thereof in each of the last ten (0) of
the thirty (30) years said bonds have to run.
The subscription by or for, and on behalf OF
said township, to the capital stock OF SAID com,
pany, shall be made on the condition that said
railway company shall, as provided for in lection
eight of the act first named in said petition, Ill
exchange for and IN consideration OF said town.
ship bonds DELIVER to the treasurer of said town
ship, stock in their said road equal in amount
with the bonds authorized to be issued dollar for
dollar; Pr0rided, No such township bonds shall
be is sued and delivered to said railway company
until SAID railway is built and the cars running
thereon through said township; and also provid-
ed there shall be station established in said
township of Alton, where said bonds shall be is
sued and delivered to said company.
All the foregoing order to be IN accordance with |
ownshp, which petition is made a part of this
rider.
Those voting at said election, in favor of said |
snail have written printed on their
,alIots: For extending aid TO the Solomon, Ar
.ansas Valley & Eastern Railway Company " and |
hose voting ut said election against said PROPOSE
ion shall have written printed on their ballots,
Against extending aid TO the Solomon, Arkan-
as Valley L Eastern Railway Company
And it is further ordered that the sheriff of said
ounty of sedgwick make due proclamation of the
gliding OF said election, to the voters OF said |