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

NKIHEREAS, on the 2sth Day Of April, 1871
Wv the board of county Commissioners o.
Sedgwick county, in the state of Kansas, made
and entered record the following order, to wit
| WHEREAS, petition signed by VIM, Lawson,
Alvin Minick and others, being more than two
i1hs of the resident tax payers of the municipal
township of Alton. in the county of Sedgwick,
state of Kansas, was, the 2st day of April 1871
presented to the board of county commissioner:
in the words and figures following, to wit:
PETITION FOR SPECIAL ELECTION.
To the honorable board of County Commissioners o.
Sedgpjck County, State Of Kansas
WHEREAS, the Soloman, Arkansas Valley and
Eastern railway company proposes to con-
struct q railway thorough the township Of Alton,
Sedgwick county, state of Kansas, therefore
the undersigned resident taxpayers of said town.
ship would most respectfully petition your
honorable Board to submit to the qualified voters
of said township-as special election to be call
ed by your Honorable Board for that purpose, as
provided Tor in an act entitled AN act to enable
counties, townships and cities to aid in the con-
struction of railroads and TO repeal section eight
of chapter thirty -nine of the laws of lS.4,'' APP
proved February p. 1876, and acts amendat0ry
thereof-a proposition, as provided for in said
acts, aid in The construction of said railway by
subscribing 10 the capital stock of the solomon,
Arkansas Valley and Eastern railway company
to the the amount of eighteen thousand dollars
isis, COO and To pay therefor by isssinG ond Do
livering 10 said railway company, the bonds of
the said townshid OF Alton, TO an equal amount
OF eighteen thousand dollars Provided, that the
issued and delivered 10 said railway company,
shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars (Sl5, 900
and five per cent additional of the assessed value
of the prOpeoty OF Tor in) said township rs shown
by the assessment last made prior to the issuing
and delivering of the lastOf said bonds, and that
said township bonds shall mature and be Iaya1le
thirty years after the date on which they are is
sued and shall bear interest at the rate of ten pei
cent per annum. payable semi-annualiy and that
the principal of the bonds, issued oy said town
shin in aid Of the construction of said railway,
shall lee paid by the payment of an equal paopor-
ton thereof in each of the last ten of the thirty
wears said bonds have TO run.
The subscription, by said township, to the
capital stock of said company, shall be made upon
the condition that said railway company shall, as
provided for in section eight of SAID first named
act in exchange for said township bonds, deliy-
er to the treasurer of said township, stock in the
said road equal in amount with the bonds fithor-
iZed to be issued, dollar for dollar. Provhed no
such township bonds shall be issued and deliver
ed to said company until said railway is built sad
the cars running thereon through said township,
and also Provided, there shall be a station
tablished in said township of Alton, when said
bonds shall be delivered 60 said company.
AT such election as your honorable body may
order in said township, all ballots having written
or printed thereon ''For Extending Aid to the
solomon, Arkansas Valley and Eastern Railway
CompanyD shall be counted in favor of the
proposition to extend such aid. And all ballots
hayine written or printed thereon against ex-
tending A id to the solomon, Arkansas Valley and
Eastern Railway Company shall be counted