The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-09

bonds 10 be 81 the denomination % Five
Hundred $4,000 Dollars each. numbering
from one 10 sixty consecutively: payable
10 the said railway company. or bearer.
twenty (e0) years after date. redeemable.
however at the pleasure OF the said city
at any time after ten G9l years after the
date thereof. each bond bearing interest at
the rate OF four and one-half Ca per
cent per annum payable seni-annual,y.
as per interest coupons thereto attached.
payable on the first days Of January and
July OF each year. the principal and in
terest OF such bonds 10 be payable az the
fiscal agency OF the state OF Kansas, in
the city Of New York. in the state Of
New York The conditions upon which
said bonds are 10 be issued and delivered
to the said The Arkansas Valley Interur-
ban Railway company are as follows;
That said railway company, its success
sors or assigns. shall build standard
gauge railroad 10 be operated by electric
ity. from a point in the city Of Wichita
TO a point on the south line Of the county
OF Sedgwick Kansas. and thence in
southerly and southeasterly direction
toward the city Of Arkansas City. in Cow
ley county Kansas. with a suitable pas
senger and freight depot within the said
city OF Wichita; that the said company
shall also maintain its principal repair
shops and car barns ga or near the city
OF Wichita and that the said company
shan commence the construction 81 the
said road on or before the first day OF
May. IeOi. and that AZ least forty-five
(45) miles OF the said road. commencing
in the said city OF Wichita. must be com
pleted and IN operation on or before the
first day Of MAY 1876. unless the coastruc-
ton thereof be delayed by acts Of Frovi-
dence. strikes. OF mjunctious aud that
when the said road is so constructed and
in operation for the said f0rty-ive 90
miles and when the said depot repair
shops and car barns IN or near the city
Of Wichita are built then the said bonds
to the amount of Thirty Thousand $50
OoO Dollars shall be issued and delivered
70 the said railway company.
The said railway company shan also
establish and maintain in tho sid city
OF Wichita its principal Offices
It - expressly Understood and stpa-
lated that none of the above bonds shall
be issued and delivered by the said city
Of Wichita until each and all Of the above
conditions shall have been fully COM
Piled with on the part Of the said rail-
way company
We further respectfully petition that
said special election be held confoTmably
10 ana as provided Tor by the laws Of
the state OF Kansas applicable thereto.
and that the said bonds be ISSUED AID de-
livered 10 said company Ia accordance
with the 1851 compiled laws 81 the state
II Kansas rs set forth in Sections 5s07-
1912 inclusive and that The form of bal
lots 10 be used At such election shall be
as follows.
Each qualified voter voting FOR said
proposition shall have printed or written
on his ballot For bonds 10 Tho Arkan-
sas Valley Inteyurbsn Railway company.
and each qualified voter voting against
said proposition shall have printed or
written on his ballot. Against bonds 70
The Arkansas Valley and Iuterurban
Railway company
The said mayor and councilmen upon
presentation % said petition found the
same was Ga writing. IN due and legal
form and vas signed by more than two
hfths CO OF the resident tax layers d
said city. and said mayor and councilmen
thereupon granted the prayer Il said pc
tltion and ordered that a special election
b. held Al the legal voting places IN said
city on the sth day II October. is5. %
determine whether said bonds shall he
ISSUED upon fhe terms and conditions
set out and stated in said petition. and
said yor and rouncllra.n further or
dereG that On the event a majority % the
voters ~ said special election caat their
votes Ga favor - said proposition and
when the said Railway company. ITS sue
cessors or assigns shall have complied
with the conditions stated in said pso-
ton then the mayor ~ said et~ shah
duly sign and the cIty clerk shaN epiY
attest and seal with the corporate seal
q said city and issue and ceiifer 70 he
said railway company its saccsssorz Or
assign the bonds - said cits 20 ms
amount q Thirty Tho1sand "a 90 Dol
lars % ths numfzr deuom safion ard
terms and bearing interest as 81 forth
ard stated ir sald petition. ag8 SAID
mayor and ceunci,rreu fgTfher 0rsle7s3
that enc fa-ru q ballot "a - ilset e; aid
~ueclzl election shah b. in fse form STATED
in said petition. ard trat said special sisc-
t.on g. -alea hel1 and fas Returns thers-
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