The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-08-02
Sheriff's Election Proclamation.
MORTON TOWNSHIP.

| MORiOS low NSHiP.
ON the 2Srd day of July, A D. 1877, tn,
| \ Board of County Commissioners of Seds-
| wick county, State of Kansas, being duly con.
vened in special session at the city Of WITCH tia
the county seat of said county, made and entered
| ON record the following order, to-wit:
Whereas, petition signed by A. ID. Wheeler
aad - 9th rs, being more than twO-fiiths of TIKI
resident taxpayers of the municipal township o
Morton, IN the county of Sedgwick, State Of Kan
sas, was the 25rd day Of July, Isl, presented
! to the board of county commissioners of Sedg-
wick county, State of Kansas, which said peti-
ton is in the words and figures following, to wit
PETITION FOR SPECIAL ELECTION.
To the Honorable Board Of County Commission
ers of oedswick county, state OF Kansas
Where's, The solomon. Arkansas Valley &
Eastern Railway company propose - c0nstTuct q
railway from iieioii, Ia Mitchell cDa'y. state OF
Kansas throd.h the counties of Mitchell, Cloud
Ottawa, Saline, Mcpherson, Harvey. Sedgwic6
ard sumner, and ineRcc ctst - tue easter,
boundary OF the state Of Kansas in Che, otce
county, VITA branch from some POINT IN sum
n-r county down tae valley OF ihe Aria sas nv
eT 10 the nav gable watrrs of said stream, ut Fort
Smith, ARKANSAS. And.
Wnereas. Ii is proposed ny said railway COM
irDv to const uct their said railway through The
township Of Morton, selswick county, state of
Kansas:
Now, therefore, the undersigned, beng more
than two-iths Of the taX-payers resident in said
township would most respectfully petition your
honorable board 10 submit II tie qualified voters
Of said township, at special election to be he'd
in said township, Tuesday, tha fourth day nj
September, A. ID. 1871. Tor that purpose, as pro-
yiCea for in an act entitled ''An act 10 enable
cO.iniies, townships and cities to aid in the corr
structioa of railroads. and t. repeat section eight
Of chapter thirty-Dine of the laws Of lS.4, ap
proved February -, 1876, - ana acts amendat9Ty
thereof, = proposition, as provided Tor III sad
acts, 10 aid In The construction OF said railway,
by subscribing 20 the capital sock OF The solomon
Arkansas Valley X Eastern Railway Company 10
the amount oil eighteen thousand dollars, and
pay therefor 5y issuing ami delivering % sad
r..il way company OF In IL assigns, tae bonds OF
said township OF Mort IL ID an equal amount OF
eighteen thousand dOilaTsj ffJri4ef, ilat the
whole amount Of he bonds of id township 50
Issued an delivered 10 saii railway company
shall not exceed II cen thousand doliIrs .ad i've
per cent. All i.ion-i oi the Assessed value Of me
y. opsffy of (or iil said township shown
by The assessment last made prior 10 the de-
livery of the last oil said bonds 10 the said rail-
WAY company or their assigns, IL; the manner
and a. lhe times hereinafter set forth; said town.
ship bonds shall mature and be payable thirty
years after the date upon which they are Issued,
and shall bear interest ut the rate of len per cent.
per annnin, payable semi-annuaily on the first
days of JANUARY and July Of each year, and shall
have semi-anuual interest coupons attached, and
both principal and interest shall be payable at
the sce agency Of the state OF Kansas III the city
of New York. The principal of the bonds Issued
said railsy, shah be paid by the payment Of an
equal PROPORTION thereof in each OF tho last ten Of
the thirty years which said bonds have TO run Pro