The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-11-18


/ When and Immediately after the subscription
| of stock and issuance of bonds OF SAID Ivy
/ township shall be voted and authorized 10 os
l made and issued as herein provided, ana tne
1 said proposition shall have been determined IN
the affirmative by & canvass of the Votes cast at
| said election, then the Board OF County Com
| missioners of said Lyon county, Tor anu on pc
half of said Ivy township, shall order ana IL
rect the county clerk of said county, in the name
| OF and for the benefit of said Ivy township, to
make such subscription of stock TO the amount
of twenty thousand dollars, S2V,OVO, 70 the
capital stock of the Kansas, Colorado ana Is1aS
Railroad company; and said county clerk shaii
make such subscription of stock Immediately
afterwards, the same being for two hundred
| shares of one hundred dollars Sl0O each OF tue
capital stock of said railroad company.
When said railroad company shall nave Quit
or caused 20 be built its said line OF railroad
into and through said township, touching or
running through said southeast quarter OF sec
ton twenty, 20, township sixteen, 10, range
twelve, II east, from point in Johnson county
aforesaid, and the cars are running thereoh
from Kansas City aforesaid, and shall nave con-
| structed q suitable freight and passenger depot
IN said southeast quarter of section twenty <VS
and stock yards within or not more than one
half mile from said southeast quarter of section
twenty 20, in said Ivy township as aforesaid.
the Board Of County Commissioners OF said
county shall thereupOn, Immediately ana Will
out delay, cause to be executed as the Ia" IL
reefs the bonds of said township, of the demon
nation and upon the terms and conditions mere
inbefore stated and described, to the amount OF
twenty thousand dellars $4,000, and shall de-
liver said bonds, when SO executed, to the pres
ident of said railroad company, or to his orderj
and the said railroad company shall at the
same time it receives said bonds, make out, ex-
scute under the seal of said railroad company
and deliver tender to the treasurer OF SAID
Ivy township, in the name ofand for the beneht
Of said Ivy township, certificates of full paid
stock of the capital stock of said railroad com
pany, In an amount equal to the amount OF the
bonds of said township so received by 1t, dollar
for dollar, in exchange therefor, and IN consid-
Grafton thereof.
In no case shall the amount of bonds to be
voted by the said Ivy township exceed four
thousand dollars 81, 900 mile for every mile OF
railroad so constructed in said township, and in
no case shall it exceed the total amount OF
twenty thousand dollars S20, 200.
The ballots to be used at said special election
for and against the proposition to take stock
and issue bonds therefor as above recited, shall
be in the following form to-wit:
The ballot in favor of said proposition shall
contain these words: "For the railroad stock
and bonds CT The Kansas, Colorado and Texas
Railroad Company" and the ballot against
said proposition shall contain these words:
against the railroad stock and bonds of The
Kansas, Colorado and Texas Railroad Compa-
ny" And your petitioners viii ever pray.
Now therefore pursuant to the prayer of said
petition and in compliance with the laws of
| the state of Kansas in such cases made and
provided, 1t is declared and ordered by the said
board of county commissioners that the prayer
| Of said petitioners be and the same is hereby
granted and that a special election be held in
SAID Ivy township, at the usual places OF hold
ing elections therein, Monday, the goth day
of December, A. D., 1885 and that at least thirty
| days notice of such special election be given
oy the sheriff of said Lyon county as herein
alter provided; and that at such special cleo
ton the said proposition as set forth in said
| petition shall be submitted to the qualified
electors OF said Ivy township; and in case said
proposition shall be carried at said election
and shall be determined in the affirmative by
| canvass of the votes cast at said election, then
| the board of county commissioners Of said
| Lyon county, shall forthwith and without delay
| order the county clerk to make such subscrip-
ton of stock IN the name of and for the bene
| fit Of said Ivy township; the same being for
| two hundred shares of one hundred dollars each
/ Of the capital stock of said railroad company;
| and the county clerk of said county shall make
such subscription of stock Immediately there
after.
And said board Of county commissioners of
| said county shall at the time hereinafter men
| toned cause said bOLds tsith interest coupons
| attached to be made out in the name of said
| Ivy township to be signed by the chairman of
| the board of county commissioners of said
| Lyon county, attested by the county clerk of
said county, under the seal of said county; and
said bond shall be payable to said the Kansas,
Colorado Texas railway company or bearer
| and shall deliver said bonds when SO executed
1
| his order to the amount of twenty thousand
| dsllars as follows, that is to say:
When said railroad company shall have built
| or caused to be built its said line of railroad
| from Kansas City in the state of Missouri by
/ lease otherwise 10 a point in johnson
| county, in the state of Kansas; and from
| thence shall be built as independent and
main line into and through said Ivy township
in said Lyon county. in the state of Kansas; and
| the cars are running thereon from Kansas CITY
/ afr d md hall haw 81
| able freight and passenger depot and side track
| as designated and specified in said petition of
| resident tax payers, the board of county COM
mission shall thereupon Immediately and
| without delay cause to be executed the law
di, ects the bonds of said Ivy township of the
/ denomination and on the terms and conditions
i in said petition stated and described to the
1 amount of twenty thousand dollars; and shall
deliver said bonds when executed to the
/ president of said railroad company or to his
| order and the said railroad company shall at
the same time it receives said bonds, make out,
execute under the seal of said railroad COM
pany and deliver or tender to the treasurer of
! said Ivy township in the name of and for the
| benefit of said Ivy township certificates of full
paid stock of the cipital stock of said railroad
i company in an amount equal to the amount of
bonds Of said Ivy township, received by It
dollar for dollar in exchange therefor and IN
consideration thereof. -
The ballots to be used at said special election
| for and against the proposition TO take stock
and issue bonds therefor as above recited, shall
be in the following form, to-wit:
The ballots in favor of said proposition shall
contain these words: "For the railroad stock
and bonds Of the Kansas, Colorado Texas
| railroad company" and the ballot against said
| proposition shall contain these words:
"Against the railroad stock and bonds of the
Kansas, Colorado Texas railroad company.
! And 1t is further ordered that the sheriff Of
said Lyon county make due proclamation o.
the holding Of said election to the voters o.
said Ivy township, Of the time and places o
/ | the holding thereof by publishing the came fo
at least thirty days next, preceding the time 0
| the holding Of said election, in the Emporii
4 WEEKLY REPUBLIcAE, a weekly neEspape
9 published and printed in EmPoEia, LyoI
j county, Kansas, in said Lyon county, and 0
> general circulation in said Ivy township an'
thatin said proclamation he set forth the forego
ing order and proceedings of the board of count
I commissioners in full.
Done by the board Of county commissioner
| Of Lyon county in the state Of Kansas, IN tn
p city of EmP0ria, this 18th day Of November
A. D., 1856.
Il T. Z MCMILLAN,
VIZ. FLIcKEGER,
j. S. GRIMzLEY.
: Board of county commissioners of Lyol
!. | county, state of Kansas.
!. Attest ROLAND LAKE,,
: County Clerk Of Lyon county, Kansas.
Lyon County, Sc.
a City Of Emporia-
81 /, Roland LakinJ county clerk OF tn
n county Of Lyon in the state Of kansas, d
i | hereby certify the above and foregoing to be
: full, true and correct copy of the order an
: | proceedings of the board of count
: | commissioners of said Lyon county duly mad
\ and caused TO be entered Of record in m
= Office as such county clerk, on the 18th day
November, A. D., 1885, concerning the matter
= therein set forth and contained as the san
! noE appears Of record il my ofiee sue
!, county clerk.
d In witness whereof, have hereunto set m
: hand and AFFIXED my Official seal, this 18th da
e Of November, A. D., 1855.
TgEAL.1 ROLAND LAKIN,
II County Clerk.
n STATE or Kansas,
10 Lyon County.
n Now therefore, I, j. II. white, sheriff
ls Lyon county In the state Of kansas, under an
Is by virtue Of the foregoing order Of the boar
f. Of county commissioners Of Lyon ecuAtj
II kansas, and the authority vested in me by la