Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-07

uIlCEuFA efEt1AL ELECIlUN
In Ohio County, West Virginia, for the
purpose Of taking vote upon the ques-
ton of said county subscribing five hum
dred thousand dollars TO the capital
stock of the Uniontown. Waynesburg &
West Virginia Railroad, a corporation of
the State OF West Virginia
Notice is hereby given that the Board
of Commissioners or Ohio County, west
Virginia, at a meeting or said Board, duly
called and held on Monday, June 4th, 1900
at the Court House of said county, IN the
City of Wheeling, at which all the MEM
bers of such Board were present, did
! unanimously pass an ordinances or order,
, a copy of which is hereinafter contained,
and that the vote provided for in said
ordinance or order will be taken IN OHIO
County, West Virginia, at the several
county at a special election, which will
be held on Tuesday, the seventeenth day
of July, A. D., 1900. Such ordinance or
order is in the words and figures follow
| ing, to-wit
AN Ordinance providing for vote to
| be taken in Ohio County, West Virginia,
at a Special Election ordered for the puf-
pose, upon the question of said County
| subscribing Five Hundred Thousand Doll
! lars TO the capital stock of the Union
! town, Waynesburg & West Virginia Rail-
| road, a corporation of the State OF west
| Virginia.
| Whereas, The Uniontewn, Waynes-
i burg 4 West Virginia Railroad, corpo-
| ration of the State of West Virginia, mas
requested vote TO be ordered and money
| to be appropriated by Ohio County, West
| Virginia, to aid in the construction of its
railroad through the counties of OHIO and
| Marshall, in the State OF West Virginia,
| from a point at or near where the west
| Virginia and Pennsylvania State line
crosses the south fork or branch of Big
| Wheeling Creek, by way OF Elm Grove,
! in said county of Ohio, to the City of
| laalinR Ohio
| And Whereas, The Board of Commits
| sioners OF the said County of Ohio deem
| 1t desirable for the said county OF ONO
| to appropriate money to aid in construe-
! ton of such railroad through SAID
| counties, as aforesaid, such appropriation
/ to be made by subscription OF 1--WE hum
1 dfed thousand dollars to the capital stock
of said Uniontown, Waynesburg & West
| Virginia Railroad:
Therefore, 1t is Hereby Ordered, BY
| the said Board of Commissioners of the
| said county of Ohio, that a vote be taken
upon the question of the appropriation
| by such subscription, by said County of
Ohio, of the sum of five hundred thousand
| dollars to the work above specified. Such
| vote shall be taken at the several places
OF voting in said county of Ohio, at
| special election which shall be held on
! Tuesday. the 18th day of July, A d. 1900.
| If such vote shall be in favor of such
! appropriation, any subscription thereof
4 by this Board, or its agent, shall be upon
| the terms and conditions following:
| The said sum of five hundred thousand
/ dollars shall be subscribed to the capital
stock of the said Uniontown, Waynes-
| burg & West Virginia railroad, and such
| subscription shall be payable as follows:
| One hundred and fifty thousand dollars
thereof when al least four hundred and
! fifty thousand dollars shall have been eX-
| pended by the said railroad corporation
in the construction of its railroad in the
said counties of Ohio and Marshall; such
| four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
| having been raised wholly by the sale of
| like capital stock of said company to
| private subscribers; a second one hum
| dred and fifty thousand dollars thereof
| when at least nine hundred thousand dol
| lars shall have been expended by the
| said railroad corporation in 1.-THE con-
| Structlon of its railroad in the said coun-
| ties, the last four hundred and fifty thus
| and dollars of such nine hundred thouS-
| and dollars having been in like manner,
| and in good faith obtained wholly by the
| sale to private subscribers of like capital
| stock OF said railroad corporation, the
| intention hereof being to make 1t a condl-
| tlon OF the subscription by the county
| That before the payment of the first two
| lnstallmentS thereof, three times much
| money shall have been furnished and put
| INTO the construction of such railroad in
| Ohio and Marshall counties by means
of the sale of other stock of the company,
| OF the same kind, to private owners or
| subscribers who shall have risked such
! money without obtaining any preference
or advantage over the county of Ohio
| IN regard thereto. The remaining two
hundred thousand dollars of the subscrip-
| ton hereby authorized shall be payable
| when the said railroad corporation shall
| have completed a standard guage rail-
road in the said counties from the West
Virginia and Pennsylvania State line at
or near the said south fork or branch of
| Big Wheeling Creek, by way of Elm
! Grove, to the corporation line of said
| city of Wheeling, and shall have pro-
Vloed Tor access to station or depot
| in the City of Wheeling for the transac-
ton of its business in said city either
| by the use of tracks and facilities already
| IN existence, or by the construction of a
| track or tracks of its own, or by a COM
| bination of existing and new construc-
! ton within said city, and shall have
| trains running from such station or de-
| pot in the city of Wheeling over a track
| or tracks constructed by it or the use of
| which it acquires within said city and
| over It's own railroad in Ohio and Mar
shall counties, and over a railroad in the
| state OF PENNSYLVANIA connecting there
| with at the State line at or near the south
branch of Wheeling creek, TO Union
town, in the county of Fayette, in the
| State of Pennsylvania. Provided that if
the construction of said railroad in both
! of said counties of Ohio and Marshall
| snail not be in good faith commenced
| within six months from the date of the
| making of such subscription, If it be
authorized, or being commenced. such
railroad shall not be completed in said
| counties and have trains running, as
| aforesaid within three years from the
| such further time as may be rendered
necessary by failure of contractors or
sub-contractors, by labor strikes or by
| litigation which could not reasonably be
avoided, then the said board shall be at
| liberty to withdraw as TO any part of the
| SUBSCRIPTION of five hundred thousand
dollars which may not have become pay
able under the terms of this ordinance
And If such subscription be authorized
| the said railroad corporation shall ac-
cept or decline said subscription within
thirty days after the same may be Of
fered by the Board. ofsas sAgent. The
| said Board of Commissioners may for
good cause shown extend the time for the
commencement or completion of the
work
! II shall be a condition of said sub
scription that said railroad corporati ton
| shall not charge greater rates for the
transportation of freight between Union
town or any intermediate point on its
line between Uniontown and Wheeling
| and Wheeling, or from Wheeling 10
| Uniontown, or any such intermediate
point on its line, than is legally Scharged
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