The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-10-10
RAILROAD ELECTION
Natchez, jackson and Columbus Rail
road Company.

WHEREAS, a petition was filed at the
w meeting of the Board of Supervisors of
Kinds county, which began the first Mon
day of August, 1877, signed by William i.
Martin, President of the Natchez, jackson
and Columbus Railroad Company of the State
of Mississippi, and by more than Fifteen legal
voters and taxpayers of said county, praying
for an order of the President and the whole of
said Board of Supervisors, that the question
of subscription no subscription TO the Capt.
tai Stock of said Company, by said Kinds
county, to the extent of Four Thousand Shares
of Fifty Dollars each, making the sum Of Two
Hundred Thousand Dollars, $ Ould be sub
mitted to the vote of the people of said coun-
~, in accordance with the provisions of the
10th and 18th sections of an Act of the Legis
lature of said State entitled an Act to incor-
porate the Natchez and Jacks son Railroad Com
pany, approved July DIST, 1870, aud the second
section OF an Act of said Legislature entitled
IA bill entitled Act to authorize counties,
cities and towns to subscribe to the Capital
Stock Of Railroads. approved April 10Th, 1872
and that the submission be made at the next
general election in said county.
And whereas, the said Board of Supervisors
being satisfied that said Railroad Company
designed to build its line of Road diagonaIly
through said county from point near the
confluence of White Oak Greek and Bayou
Pierre, about seven miles south Of Utica,
through Utica and Raymond, and thence
through Jackson, to point on Pearl river
near Whites Ferry, and that said petition
was signed by more than fifteen legal voters
and taxpayers of said county, as well as by
William I. Mart n, the President of said Kali
road Company, the day on which said Petition
was filed, did order that the question of Sub
scription or No Subscription to the Capital
Stock of said Company, by said Kinds county,
to the extent already herein mentioned be
submitted to the vote of the people of said
| county, in accordance with the several pro-
| visions of the Acts of the Legislature herein
before specifically referred to-that the sub
| mission be made at the next general election
| in said cOunty-that it be made the duty OF
| the Registrars, Inspectors, Clerks, etc, APP
l. pointed and to be appointed to hold said gen
| eral election, to hold the election also for the
! purpose of voting on the question of Subscrip
| { on No Subscription, as herelnbefOre sta
| ted to call the attention of each voter to the
| fact that the question of subscription or NJ
! subscri ptiOn is ubJect to be voted upon-anC
| to make due return thereof, according to law
| And that the said Subscription be made i
at all, in the following manner and upon tn
| following terms, to-wit: That said count,
shall issueits Coupon Bonds and deliver then
| to said company, in payment of such subscrlp
ton, said Bonds TO be payable, one-half i
| ten years from their date, and the other hal
in fifteen years from their date, amounting !
the aggregate to the sum of Two Hundre
Thousand Dollars of principal; and bearin
interest at the rate of seven per cent. paYabl
annually, at the office of the Treasurer
Kinds county, and that the proceeds Of sal
Bonds shall be expended by said Company o
so much of their Road may be construct &c
in said county.
Now, therefore, the undersigned Presider
and members of the Board of Supervisors {
Kinds county, in conformity with the law
| this behalf. as well as with a further Ordt
| entered on their minutes, do hereby give n
tice to the duly qualified voters of said count,
that, at the next ensuing general election,
be held in said county, on