The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-05-10

tending Aid to the Solomon, Arkansas Valley and
Eastern Railway Company" shall be counted
against said proposition.
G,lstave Barth Henry Pennington
w lillian Lyman l. Lyman
VIM Thompson W NJ Minick
joan Miller Peter Smith
j III Pike ii Masderman
w johnson William Lawson
Alvin Minick w q Moore
NJ III Davis John 4 Bailey
Andrew Mnick Samuel II Hoover
John Webes Andrew Lohn
q Weber Peters
A Weber Peters
George Coy William Nichols
A 5ernigan Thomas-Jeirery
Edward Bever John c Locher
j Wright ID johnson
* L Anderson Thomas Jones
James Holman Andrew Chamberlain
James Chamberlain Isaac V IIaycraft
a II Pruitt VIM w Rupp
III Il Smith CF Enley
Thos Campbell Marshall n Mcclure
Ehlers Upence
l. ID Armstrong Jim Anderson
j y Howard l. X Martin
William Dupy W Martin
James Ii McGriG
And whereas it has been shown to the satisfac-
ton of the said board, and the said board SO finds
adjudges and declares said petition has been
signed by and contains the names OF more than
two-lifths Of the taxpayers actually resident In
said township of Alton; Now, therefore
Pursuant to the PRAYER of said petition anu tne
act of the Legislature of the State of Kansas, en-,
titled ''An act to enable counties, townships and
cities to aid in the construction of railroads., and
to repeal section eight of chapter thirty-nlne OF
the laws of 1874, approved February 18th, 1876,
and the acts amendatory thereof.
IL is hereby ordered 10y the board OF county
commissioners of Sedgwick county, state Oh
Kansas, that a special election be held in the
! township of Alton, in said county of Sedgwick,
ut the usual voting place thsre0f, on the
9TH DAY OF JUNE, 1877,
at which said election the following proposition
shall be submitted to the legal voters OF said
township for their decision, to wit:
Sl.Ill = il
county, State of Kansas, for and on behalf OF
said township of Alton, in said county and State
in ala of the construction of the railway OF the
| Solomon, Arkansas Valley & Eastern Railway
Company, cause the county clerk OF SAID county
| to Subscribe for, in the name OF, and for sad
/ township, the capital stock of the solomon, Ar
kansas Valley Il Eastern Railway Company to
the amount of eighteen thousand dollars ISIS OOo
and pay therefor by issuing and delivering 10 SAID
railway company the bonds of said township OF
| Alton TO an equal amount of eighteen thousand
dollars: Proclded, That the whole amount oil the
bonds Of said township so issued ana deilVereu
to said railway company, shall not exceed hisee"
| thousand dollars ISIS, 00Oi and five per cent. adj
ditional 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 Oh
| the last of said bonds, and that said township
| bonds sh IL mature and be payable thirty years
! after the date on which they a.e issued, anu
shall bear interest Mt the rate OF ten (lO) per cent
! cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, ana
| that the principal OF the bonds issued BY SAID
township in aid of che construction of said rail-
pany, shall be paiC. by the payment oil an equal
proportion thereof in each OF the last ten tlo) Oh
| the thirty CSO) years SAID bonds have TO run
| The subscription by or for, and on oehali OF
said township, to the capital stock of SAID com,
pany, shall be made II ON the condition That saio
| railway company shall, provided for in kectlor
eight of the act first named in said petition, II
| exchange for and IN conslderat on oil sara town.
ship bonds deliver to the treasurer of said town
ship stock in their said road equal In amoun
with the bonds authorized to be issued dollar fol
dollar; Pr0rided, No such township bonds shall
be issued and delivered TO said railway compan,
until SAID railway is built and the cars running
thereon thro Igh said township; and also PROVO
ed there shall be station established In salt
| township of Alton, when SAID bends snail De Is
sued and delivered to said company
| All the foregoing order TO be in accordance witt
| the petition OF said resident taxpayers OF SAT-
township, which petition is made part oil thl
order.
| Those voting at said election, in favor of SAT-
proposition, shall have written or printed on thei
ballots ''Fcr extending aid to the solomon, Ar
kansas Valley 4 Eastern Railway Company J" AM
those voting a. said election against said PROPOSE
fion shall have written printed on their ballots
against extending aid to the solomon, Arkan
| sas Valley & Eastern Railway Company
And it is further ordered that the sheriff of sai
county of Sedgwick make due proclamation OF tn
holding of said election, TO the voters OF san
| township at the time and place aforesaid, by pub
fishing the same for thirty days or more, mex
preceding the day OF holding said election as re
qured by law, in some newspaper published o
having general circulation in said TOWNSHIP
foregoing order.
| Done by the board of county commissioners o
| Sedgwick county. State of Kansas, this 18th da.
| Of April, A. ID. 1871
IL. NJ. STEELE, o. G. JACOBS y. y. NELSON
Board of county commissioners OF SedSwIcl
| county, State of Kansas.
| lSeai.I Attest: John Tucker, County CLERK.
State of Kansas, County Of Sedgwick, S..
| hereby certify that the above and foregoing
is true and correct copy of the record of the pro
, ceedings of the board of county commissioner
| of Sedgwick county, in the matter of the petltlo
Tor special election to vote upon the question
issuing bonds in the township of Alton, to aid L
| the construction of the solomon, Arkansas V allie
4 Eastern Railway, and orders of the board 4
| relation thereto.
Witness my hand and official seal this 2sth -da
eff April, lS17. JOHN TUChER,
(Seal. County Clerk.
| NOW, therefore, 1, III. W. Cunning, Sheriff 9
| Sedgwick county, state OF Kansas, do hereby pro
| claim and make known that on
THURSDAY, THE 7TH DAY OF JUNE, A. d. ISL
there will be held a special election, Mt the usus
| place of voting in the municipal township
| Alton in said county Of SedgwIck, for the propt
, sIton contained in the above order, In the mai
| aer and form therein prov ided and set forth.
, | Sheriff Office, Wichita, SedSwick county
! Kansas, May LIST, 1s0.
II II. W. DUNNING,
Sheriff of Sedgwick County. Kansas.