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

NIwIIEREAs, on the 2sth day of April, 1877
Wv the Board of County Commissioners oil
Sedgwick county, in the State of kans made ant
entered on record the following order, to wit:
WHEREAS, petition signed by j. L. Lackey
T: g. Rawson and others, being more than two
fifths of the resident taxpayers of the mu-
nicipal township of Greedy, in the County OF
Sedgwick, State of Kansas was on the 2lst day
OF April ISL, presented to the Board of County
Commissioners of SAID County Of Sedgwick,
which said petition is in the words and figures
following, to-wit:
PETITION FOR SPECIAL ELECTION.
To the Honordbls Board of County Commissioners
Of Sedg'oiek County, State Of Kansas.
WHEREAS, the Solomon, Arkansas Valley and
Eastern Railway Company propose 20 col
struct a railway through the township of Greedy,
Sedgwick County, State of Kansas. NoD There
fore, the undersigned resident taxpayers of said
township, would most respectfully Petition vOur
Honorable Board 10 submit to the qualified voters
OF said townshp-ata special election to be called
by your Honorable Body for that purpose, as
provided for in an act entitled ''an act to'' Cen
able counties, townships and cities 10 aid in the
construction of railroads and to repeal section
eight (S) Of chapter thirty mine f39 of the laws of
1874, approved February 18th 1876 and acts amen
datory thereof. \ proposition, as provided for
IN SAID acts 10 aid the construction of said Gai-
way by subscribing to the capital stock of the
Solomon, Arkansas Valley and Eastern Railway
Company TO the amount OF twenty thousand dol
lars $50 0O0) and to pay therefor by issuing and
delivering TO said Railway Company, the bonds
OF said township Of Greedy to an equal amount of
amount Of the bonds OF said township issued
and delivered to said Railway Company shall not
exceed fifteen thousand dollars (sI5 00O and five
per cent additional of the assessed value of the
property of Tor I'M said township shown by the
assessment last made prior to the issuing and de-
livery 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 Q0) per cert
per annum, payable semi nnually and that the
principal of the bonds issued by said township in
aid of the construction Of said Railway, shall be
paid by payment of an equal proportion thereof
in each of the last ten 0j of the thirty 800 years
said bonds have to run. The subscription. by
said township, TO the capital stock of said COM
paDy, shall be made upon the condition that said
Railway Company shall as provided for IN Sec
tien eight Isl of said first named act, in exchange
for said township bonds, deliver to the treasurer
of said township, stock in their said road equal
in amount with the bonds authorized TO be issued
dollar for dollar. Propidcd, no such township
bonds shall be issued and delivered to said COM
pany until said railway is built and the cars run
ming thereon through said township and also pro-
vidcd there shall be st3tion established in said
township Of Greedy, when said bonds shall be de-
liyered TO said Company. At such election as
your Honorable Body may order in said township
ali ballots having written or printed thereon,
" For extending AID 10 The Solomon, ArkdnsGS Idiey
and Eastern Rdii,ray Company shall be counted in
favor OF the proposition TO extend such aud, and
all ballots having written printed thereon
Against extending aid 10 the Solomon, Arkansas
Valley and Eastern Railway Company shall be