The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-11-04
Graham District.


At a Special Session Of the County
Court held for the County Of Mason at
the Court House thereofon Monday, DC.
tobGr 18Th, 1885, for the transaction OF
business pursuant TO notice. Present:
James CapelArt, President; a.. j. Shirley
and W. II. Hayman, Commissioners.
The County Court Of Mason county,
West Virginia, dCeining it desirable that
the district Of Grahami in said county OF
Mason shall appropriate by subscription
to tho capital stock OF the Ohio River
Railroad Company the sum Of Five
thousand dollars to aid in the construct.
ion OF said Company's railroad to be blilt
through said district therefore the Court
doth order that vote be taken in said
district upon the question Of u subscrip.
ton BY said district Of Graham to the
capital stock Of said company the sum Of
Five thousand dollars in coupon bonds
Of said district, containing on their face
thecOuditions underwrittenRscOndti
precedent to the payment thereof, bear.
ing interest at the rate Of five per cent.
per anuum and payable twenty years
from the date thereof and redcemable al
the pleasure OF said district any time al.
ter three years from said date.
But any such subscription to the cap
ital stock OF said company, ii made, shall
be upon condition that no money shall
be paid said railroad company, nor
shall any bonds he issued or delivered to
said company BY said district until the
said company shall have completed its
contemplated railroad from the town Of
Point Pleasant, in said Mason county,
via the Ohio river route through said
district to the county line between the
counties Of Mason and Jackson, in said
State Of West Virginia, and shall have
fully equipped the said railroad with the
necessary rolling stock for general freight
and passenger business, and shall have
been assessed aud paid taxes.
And il the said company neglect or
fail oliave said railroad bull, completed
and equipped as aforesaid within three
years from this date, then this order and
all proceedings had Hereunder shall be
void and imperative.
The said vote shall be takenupO the
question Of subscription Aforesaid at q
special election 10 be held for that puTp,
ose on the 18th day Of NoSeihbef, 1885,
at the usual places Of holdiug elections
| in said district; and for the purpose Of
holding said special election the follow
ing special commissioners are hereby
appointed viz AT Broad RIM School
House, w. j. Zerkel, a. H. Yorker and
Jos. A, ROush. At Hartford City, W.
| W. Harper, Jus. W, Hanna and ]. Nor
ris Chapman. at New Haven, F. j..
Humphreys, Adam LcitwilIer and Ham.
iltOn Weaver.
The said special commissioners for
holding said special election, shall at the
said usual places Of holding elections in
said district, take or Cause 10 bs taken
the legal vote or poll OF said district Of.
Tered at said election; and the said poll
shall be takOn and the result thereof as
Certaincd, certified and returned accord.
ing to the regulations prescribed by law
for ascertaining and certifying the elect
ion Of school officers.
Poll books for the purpose Of said cleo.
ton shall be forthwith prepared by the
Clerk Of this Court and placed IN the
hands Of said Special Commissioners.
The ballots used at said election shall
have written or printed thereon the
words Subscription" or no Subscrip.
ton II is inrthcr ordered that the
Clerk Of this Court shall cause copies Of
this order TO be printed or written with
his name signed thereto, and forthwith
post one Of said copies In q conspicuous
) place in his Office, and dCiiver the others
10 the Sheriff Of Mason county, who shall
forthwith post one at the places Of voting
in said district. Andthe Court doth fur
Their direct that q copy Of this orller DO
published In "The Weekly Gazette and
"The Weekly Register" newspapefsplb-
lished in Point Pleasant, In saId county
Of Mason, once In each week until the
day Of said election.
\ Copy-T cste:
J.P.R d SMITH, Clerk,
! October n, lsS5-td.