The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-05-05
The Proposition. for Grant,

Inc EEOpOtfrtoI Tor GF8Ht,
THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, S. 8.
AT regular session of the County
Court of MoneDgalia county, held at
the Court House of said county, on
Thursday,the Sth day Of March 1888:
This day came John d. Hess,
James c. Hess, T. p. Reay and ninety
four other residents and citizens of
Grant district, this county, and pre-
sented to the Court their petition in
these words.
ITO the Worshipful, the County
Court of the County of Monongalia,
West Virginia:
"We the undersigned citizens and
voters of the District of Grant in said
County, most respectfully petition
your honorable body to make an
order submitting to the voters of said
District a proposition to subscribe
on the part of said District $4,000,
to the capital stock of a Railway
Company to construct standard
guage railway from point at or near
the Pennsylvania line in the District
of Cass in said county, thence up the
Monongahela river on the west side
thereof to the mouth Of Dents run,
thence up and along what is known
as the Dents run route, through the
District Of Grant to a point on
the Marion county line in said Dis
trict Of Grant; the said stock so sub
scribed to be expended in the con-
struction of said road within the
County of Monongalia and said Dis
trict Of Grant on the route named;
and your petitioners will ever pray
&C.
And the said petitioners by their
attorney, also presented with their
petition, specifications of the form in
which they desire an order to be
made: On consideration whereof, it
is ordered, that vote be taken Of
the qualified voters of the said Dis
trict of Grant, at the several voting
places within said district, at the
school election for school officers,
therein, on the third Tuesday in May
1883, on the question of appropriat-
ing money by the said District of
Grant, to aid in the construction of
railroad, through the said District
of Grant. in the County Of Monon-
gala, and Of subscribing by, tor and
on behalf Of said District of Grant
to the capital stock of the West Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, the sum Of Forty thous-
and Dollars, which sum of money is
to be expended within said District
of Grant, in the construction Of a
standard guage railroad through
said district, from point at or near
the Pennsylvania line, in the District
of Cass in said county, thence up the
Monongahela river, on the west side
thereof to the mouth of Dents run,
in said District of Grant, thence mp
and along what is known as the Dents
run route, through the District of
Grant to a point on the Marion county
line in said district of Cant; the said
stock SO subscribed to be expended in
the construction of said road within
the County of Monongalia and on said
route within said District of Grant; the
said sum so subscribed to be paid as fol-
lows, that is to say: So soon as any one
mile of said road lying within said dis
trict is completed ready for the cross-ties,
then such proportion of said subscrip>
ton, shall be paid to the company build
ing the same, as said mile bears to the
whole number of miles said road runs
in and through said district, and SO on
in like manner, until said road is COM