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

ties, townships and cities to aid in the construc-
ton of railroads, and to repeal section eisht of
chapter thirty nine of the laws of 1s1A' APP
proved February 25ti 1876, and the acts amenda-
tory thereof.
Ii is hereby ordered bv the Board of County
Commissioners of Sedewick County, State of
Kansas, that special election be held in the
township of Greedy, In said County of Sedgwick
at the usual voting place thereof, on the lth day
OF Juue 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 and on behalf of
SAID township OF Greedy. In said county and state
In AID oil the construction of the railway of the
solomon Arkansas Valley and Eastern Railway
Company, cause the County Clerk Of said County
to subscribe for, in the name ofand for said town.
ship, the capital stock OF the Solomon, Arkansas
Valley and Eastern Railway Company, to the
amount of twenty thousand dollars (Seo, 0O0,)
and pay therefor by issuing and delivering to
SAID Railway company the bonds OF said town
ship OF Greely, TO an equal amount of twenty
whole amount OF the bonds of said township SO
issued and delivered to said Railway Company
shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars tSl5,
Oo0,) and five per cent additional of the assessed
value of the property of Tor I'M said township as
shown by tina ass ssIlent 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 and shall bear interest at the rate of
ten ll0per cent. per annurn, payable scmi-an-
nually and that the principal OF the bonds issued
by said township in aid OF the construction said
railway, and in payment for the stock of said
company, shall be paid by the payment Of an
equal proportion thereof in each OF the last ten
ll0) of the thirty (50 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 upon the condition that said
Railway Company shall az provided for in section
eight of the act first named in said petition, in
exchange for-and in consideration of said town
ship bonds--delver 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. Provided no such township bonds shall
be issued and delivered to said Railway Company
until said railway is built and the cars running
thereon through said township, and also pro-
yided there SHALL be a station in said township of
Greedy, when said bonds shall be Issued and de-
liver Il TO said company.
All the foregoing order TO be in accordance
with the petition OF said resident tax payers OF
said township. which petition Is made part OF
this order.
Those voting at said election, in favor of said
PROPOSE tlon, snail have written or printed on their
ballots. "For extending aid to the Solomon Ar
Kansas Valley and Eastern Railway Company
and those voting, at said election, against said
propos tion Shall have written or printed their
ballNs against extending aid to the Solomon.
Arkansas Valley and Eastern Railway Company.
And it is further ordered that the Sheriff OF sa id
County of oedgwick, ma re due proclamation OF
the holding Of said election to the voters of said
township, at the time I'd place aforesaid, by
publishing The same for thirty days or more, next
preceding the day oil holding said election re-
CURED DIV law, IN Sonic newspaper piDIisutu
having general circulation in said township and
that in said proclamation he set forth the forego
ing order.
Done by the Board of County Commissioners of
Sedgwick county, State of Kansas, this 18th day
of pril, \. ID. 1877.
j. NJ. STEELE,
o. Il. JACOBS,
j. A. NELSON,
Board of County Commissioners, of sedgwick
county, Kansas.
Attest JOHN TUCKER,
[SealI County Clerk.
sf sedrw Hk h COUNTY. SIS
l hereby certify that the above and foregoing Is
a true and correct copy oil the record of the pro-
ceedings oil the Board OF County Commissioners
of SedgwIck county, in the matter of the petition
for a special election, to vote upon the question
issuing bonds in the township of Greeley, to be
held on the 18th day of June, A. ID. ISL.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of my office this 18th
day of April, ISL. JOHN IUChEh,
iseall County Clerk.
Now therefore, /, II, ". Dunning, sheriff Of
Sedgwick county, State of Kansas, do hereby
proclaim and make known that on Int sday, tie
7th day of June, A. ID. 1877, there Will be held
special election, at the usual place of voting in
the municipal township of Greeley, in said coun-
ty of Sedgwick, FOR the proposition contained In
the above order, in the manner and form therein
provided and set forth.
sherin's office, Wichita. Kansas, May lst, y.
D. Is77. II. W, DUNNING,
s. Sheriff Of Sedgwick county, Kansas.