Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-27


company shall not, at sh(eexpIration of said
twelve months, be entitled, as hereipbefore
PROVIDED, shall become forfeited, and said
Board OF County Commissioners shall cancel
and destroy the same.
| Ihot rs soon IS said railroad within said
aownsnlP snail be completed and operated.
and nave cars running thereon 81 Aforesaid
"a sSiG company shall In writing notify the Board
Oh county county COMMISSIONERS Of that fact.
and thereupon the said board shall make. or
e ss 70 9e made, an inspection of said por-
tlon OF said line Of railroad, socompleted; and
same has been constructed and completed and
Is operated rs herein provided then the said
Beard OF county Commissioners shall deliver
saiu bonds Of said Township, as of hereinbe-
fore IL Is provided shall be done, and receive
SAN STOCK, the amount then due from said
company And II said compsny shall fail to
survey said road from point ON tho east line
of said Township through IL to a po;pt ON the
north line of said Township, and Commence
she construction OF the same within six months
from the voting of said bonds IL shall forfeit
all rights under this proposition and said
bonds shall be cancelled.
And on failure Of tho said board, for ten ,lays
after receiving such notice. to make such in
spectiOn of said railroad so Constructed anil
completed within said Township the same
shall be considered and held to be acce pted and
completed and in operation according to the
terms OF this propositions; and said railway
company shall receive and be entitled to re.
ceive said bonds In exchange for said stock, ac-
corning 70 the terms, and rs hereinbefore pro-
vided, but without an inspection.
Add your petitioners designate to be used at
SAID election, written or printed ballot, con-
taih-ng the words, "For the subscription TO the
Ellsworth, Mcpherson, Newton 4 Southeastern
Hallway Company or the words, Against
the subscription to the Ellsworth, McPherson,
Newton Southeastern Railway Company"
said ballots 10 be counted for or against said |
proposition accordingly.
And your petitioners will ever pray.
And the said Board of County COMMISSIONERS
having carefully examined said petition, and |
n 9Vtn al l.afr
advised in the premises. finds that said petition
is in due, proper, and legal form, and In writ !
ing, and In print, and was, and is duly signed |
by more than two-iifths (2-J), /. O. a majority |
of the resident taSpayers of the municipal |
township OF Lincoln, in said County and State, |
and Is presented to said Board in behalf OF the |
citizens of said Township.
Therefore, IL is by said board considered.
ordered and adjudged, that the prayer of the |
said petitioners be granted, and that a special !
election be held in the said Lincoln Township !
On the 18th day of July, a. ID. ISs4 at the usual !
voting places In said Township, to vote for anil |
against the proposition set forth In said petit |
ton, copy of the same fsignatures only being |
omittedD being hereinbeiore set forth. and upon
the question OF said Township voting aid to-
and subscribing to the capital stock Of said rail-
way company, rs set forth in said petition, ex-
cept that In addition TO the conditions set forth
IN said petition, the said board do hereby add !
the condition, viz: That all such bonds shall
be payable at the option of said Township in
ten years from date of issue, or at any time
thereafter, by payment of the principal of said
bonds. or any one OF them, and interest to the
date of payment of said principal of said bonds,
or any one of them and accrued interest Such
election shall be held and the returns made.
and the result aseertained, and declared in the |
same manner as provided by law for general
elections, and rs conditioned and specified in
said petition and this order.
IL IS further ordered that notice OF said eiec-
ton be published thirty days prior to the hoI,I-
ing of the same, in the WICHITA EAGLE, a
weekly newspaper printed and published and in
general circulation in Sedgwick County, KAN
sas, and In said Township of Lincoln said no.
tce and proclamation 10 be published in each
and every issue of said weekly newspaper dur
ing said thirty days prior to said election. And
it Is ordered that the Sheriff of SAID County
duly make proclamation Thereof, and do and
perform all other acts necessary to be done in
the premises as by law provided.
In witness whereof, said B0arl has set its
hand officially ON this 10th day of June A d.
Isst,
The Board Of County Commissioners,
BY A. W. OLIVER, Chsir'n
u. y, NELSON, Com'r
GEO.W STEENRoD, Comfy.
Attest:
t. 3. fopp, County Clerk l~
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