Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-03

Douglas county, Nebraska n proposition in the
words following. namely.
''Omaha, Neb. Oct. 81. lsso.-Honorable Board
OF Commissioners OF Douglas County. Ne.
braska-Gentlemen; The Nebraska Central
track steel railway bridge across the Missouri
river at some point yet to be selected above the
present bridges, and south of the north line OF
the city OF Omaha-provided the county of
Douglas VIII donate TO the company two hun.
ureu ana ntty thousand @si0.wOl dollars OF .
per cent twenty-year bonds Of tho county, to
be delivered to the company on the completion
or the bridge ready FOR operation on or before
The bridge Is propose to be built under an
net of congress entitled. An act TO authorize
the construction OF n bridge over the Missouri
river, at or near the city of Omaha. Neb.. ap-
proved June p lss. And the act provides that
the bridge shall be open TO all railroad com
panies desiring to use the same, upon equal
''In case the construction OF the bridge is not
begun before the 18th day OF June 1870. or the
bridge Is not completed bsrore the I'D day of
June, 1872, the company shall not be entitled to
receive anyof said bonds. even though the
electors.
And provided further, that said bonds shall
be delivered to the said Nebraska Central Rail
way company. It's agents. successors or assigns.
only uron the execution by said Nebraska Gem
livery TO said county of Douglas. OF on UNDER
taking la writing TO, the effect that the prInci:
pal depot OF said railway company. Its general
Offices and principal machine shops when
bnilt shall be located and maintained within
the corporate limits OF the city of Omaha, Neb
and that violation of the terms of said un-
dertaking by the said Nebraska Central Rail-
waycompnry or IL successors shall render said
Nebraska Central Railway company or its suc-
cessors indebted TO the said county or Douglas
TO tho full amount or said bonds and tho inter
"By order of the board Of directors Nebraska
Central Railway company.
j. IL. DUMONT, Vice President.
GEoHGE c. BARNUM. Secretry."
And, whereas, 10 was voted by the board OF
county commissioners of said Douglas county,
Nel,raska, to accept the above and foreg ding
= proposition of the Nebraska Central Railway
Provided that tho terms of such proposition
be first submitted to the legal voters OF said
county ana adopted by them according to law.
Now. therefore, special elestion OF the legal
voters or Douglas county, Nebraska will be
TUESDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF DECEM
Der, 1850
at which election the following questions shall
be submitted TO said voters ana voted ,pon in
tDe FORM ana manner and at the polling places
following:
its coupon bonds to aid the Nebraska Central
railway company IN the construction of rail-
road bridge across the Missouri river at
Omaha, Neb.; said bonds to amount to the s tm
OF two hundred and fifty thousand tss,O.UjD
dollars: to be issued in sums of one thousand
bearer; to be dated on the st day or january
1891 to become due twenty Gu years after the
@l per cent per annunl. payable semLannually
on the first day of January and or July; each of
which bonds to bear on its face the following
series series of 70 f' ike bonds s ONE Which r are
issued by the county of Douglas, in the state of
Nebraska, to aid the Nebraska Central hallway
company IN the construction OF railroad
bridge across tho Missouri river at Omaha
Nebraska;" all of said bonds and the interest
thereon TO be payable ut the fiscal agency OF tne
state OF Nebraska in the city of New YorK; to
tral Halfway company when 10 shall have com
pleted, ready for operation, double.track
steel railroad bridge across the Missouri river ut
Omaha, Nebraska, ana shall have executed the
agreements contained in said proposition; pro-
vided the same shall be commenced on or be-
fore June 10, 1880, and shall be finished ready
for operation ON or before June -. 1902.
And shall an annual tax, in addition to the
usual ana all other taxes, DE levied on the tax
able property OF douglas county. Nebraska.
sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds as IL
becomes due; ana at the time OF levyiug the
annual county taxes. commencing the tenth
year prior 10 the maturity OF said bonds snail
q tax In addition to all other taxes pe levied on
the taxable property of Douglas county, aud
continued annually thereafter from year To
year, until thereby a sinking fund shall have
peen created sufficient to pay said bonds Mt the
maturity thereof?
The above questions shall be regarded as one
entire question, and ali legal voters of said
Douglas county who desire to vote IN favor of
the issuance OF sad bonds and the levy OF said
taxes in payment of the principal ana interest
with said question printed or written, or partly
printed and purity written, with the following
additional words thereon. "Yes-For the Ne
braska Central railway aid bonds and taxes
And all legal voters or said Douglas county who
desire to vote againsJ The issuance of said
bonds and the levy OF said taxes in payment of
the principal and interest thereof, at said cleo
tion shall vote a ballot with said question
printed or written, or partly printed and part
ly written, with the following additional words
thereon: "No-Against the Nebraska Central
railway aid bonds and taxes"
II two-thirds of all of said ballots voted by
the said legal voters of said Douglas county at
said election shall have thereon tue words Eyes
--For the Nebraska Central railway aid bonds 5
and taxes, the foregoing proposition wlll nave
sred ami tue said taxes shall be levied in ac-
cordance with the terms and conditions there
of; otherwise not.
Ia Da ta1 Mt atarIt IsA
o'clock Il. m. upon said Tuesday. the 81 day of
December, 1889, and shall remain open until six
Bloclock p. m. of said day.
The polling places of said election shall be
the following named places in Douglas county,
OMAHA PRECINCT NO. /.
District No. Is. w. corner Tenth and Jones
District No. Number iii South Sixth
District No. 3-s. Il. corner Eleventh and Dor
'''e OMAHA PRECINCT No.2.
DistrictNo. Number leis South Sixteenth
street.
District No. s-Number 1871 South sixteenth
Street.
District No. Number lGS Davenport street.
OMAHA PRECINCT NO. /.
District No. 1-lG0T Capitol avenue.
District No. 2-Number 17is ST. Mary's ave-
OMAHA PRECINCT NO q.
District No. l-Number 51i North Sixteenth
District No. 2-Corner Izard and Sixteenth
streets. Engine House No. Ii.
OMAHA PRECINCT NO. q.
District No. Number 2ifl Lake street
District No. 2-Lycsum Han, Twenty
fourth street on South side of f.. Il. L. NJ V. K.
X. track.
District No. 3-Steveus' Store on Parker
street West or Thirty-thrd street.
OMAHA PRECINCT No. Z.
District No. l-Coner Twenty ninth street
and Woolworth avenue, School House.
District No. 2-H. q. Cark's Building on
Iwenty ninth street. between Dupont and Rice
streets.
OMAHA PRECINCT NO. S.
- District No. 1-South Side Cunning, between
twentieth and Twenty-tlrst streets tIiarness
Shop
District No 2-Cuming street, between
Iwenty-fourth street anu iwenty-ifth avenue.
lmay's barn.
OMAHA PRECINCT No.o.
District No. l-Corner Twenty.nnth and Far
nan streets. q. j. Johuson's store.
District No. 2--Correr Mercer and Lowe ave-
nues &. j. Ryan's store.
SOUTH OMAHA PRECINCT.
Precinct No. IL. Pivonka's. N street, be-
tween ,lwenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets.
Precfnct No. I'D, Lewis, Twenty-siNth street.
between and o streets.
Precinct No. 3-Little house back of kellers
hotel. u street.
Precinct No. 4-I,xchange hotel
Florence Precinct-At school house at Floc-
ence.
Union Precinct-At George l.. Redmans
house.
jefferson Precnct--At r. Deidrichson's Office
Bennington.
Elkhorn Precinct AT Town hall. Elxhorn
Valley pracinct-At srhool nnuse M vauay