The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-03-27
Notice Of Special Election.

Notice Is hereby given that on the fifth
districts In tho County of Blue Earth,
State of Minnesota, an election will be
opened at o'clock in the morning, and
will continue open until o'clock In the
afternoon of the same day. To vote up
on the proposition of authorizing the
County Commissioners to issue bonds
of the said County in an amount not ex-
ceeding Seventy-five thousand ($75, 0O0)
dollars for the purpose of building
new Court House and Jail at the County
seat in said County.
In accordance with and pursuant to
an act of the Legislature OF the said
State approved February 10th, 1885,
which said act reads as follows:
AN ACT. To authorize the County Com.
missioners Of Blue Earth TO issue
Bonds for certain purposes.
BE Il enacted bg the Legislature Of the State Of
Minnesota
SECTION /. That the County Commits
sioners of the County of Blue Earth are
hereby authorized and empowered to
issue at any time prior to the first day OF
February, A. D. Eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, the bonds of said County,
/
ceeding in amount SeVenty-five
thousand dollars for the purpose Of
erecting in the said County of Blue
Earth, at the County seat therein u Court
House and Jail.
SEC. 2. The said bonds shall be in
sums of not less than five hundred dol
lars each, with interest not exceeding
five per cent per annum payable annual
ly, and the principal shall be payable in
not less than twenty nor more than thir-
ty years as the said County Commission
ers may decide, provided the said bonds
may be made payable at different times
and in different years within said limit,
the said bonds and coupons thereto at
tached, shall be signed by the Chairman
of the board of County Commissioners
and countersigned by the Auditor OF
said County.
SEC. 3. The SAID Board of County
Commissioners shall have authority to
negotiate said bonds as in their judg-
ment shall be best for the ltaiTest Of the
said County, prnyided said bonds shall
not be sod ut less than par.
SEC. 4. The said Board of County
Commissioners shall and they are here
by authorized and empowered to levy
an annual tax on the taxable property
of said County over and above and in
addition to all other taxes required by
law to be levied sufficient to pay the in
terest accruing on said bonds and the
principal, of said bonds as they shall ma
ture which taxes shall be levied and col
lected in the same manner as other taxes
for County purposes are levied and COL
lected, and no pant of said taxes so col
lected shall be appropriated for any 9TH
er purposes than the payment of the
said bonds and interest thereon, provid-
ed there shall be no tax levied for the
payment of the principal of said bonds
until after the expiration of fifteen years
from the date of said bonds.
SEC. 5. The proposition of issuing said
bonds shall however be first submitted
to the vote of the electors of said Coun-
designated by said Board of County Com
missioners, and the said County Com.
missioners are hereby authorized and
empowered hereafter to call an election
for that purpose at such time as they
shall deem proper, notice of which cleo
ton shall be given at least twenty days
prior to the time of the holding there of,
The call of said election shall set forth
that the question of issuing said bonds
will be voted upon ut such election, cop
les of which notice and call shall be post.
ed in the usual place required by law
for the holding of elections in the sever
al towns and villages in said County, and
in the several wards of the City of Man
kato, in said County. The ballots used
at said election for the purpose of voting
on said proposition shall have plainly
printed or written, or partly printed and
partly written thereon, the following
words: "For issue of bonds for building
Court House and Jail" or Against issue
of bonds for building Court House and
Jail, said election shall be conducted
in the same manner az elections for
County officers and the votes cast and
canvassed in like manner, and if upon
the canvass Of said polls it shall be found
that majority of the voters who shall
have voted on the said proposition have
voted in favor thereof, pis: "For the Is
sue of bonds for building Court House
and Jail" then the issue of said bonds
shall be lawful.
SEC. 6. This Act shall be in force and
take effect from and after its passage.
| Approved February 10th, A. D., 1885.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, |
| DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
| hereby certify that have
carefully compared the foregoing with
the original on file IN this Department,
and that it is true and correct copy
thereof, and of the whole of the same.
Witness my hand and the Great Seal of
the State this 18th day of February,
AID, 1885. FRED Won BAUMBAcH,
lsEAL. Secretary of State.