The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-29
First Publication May Is. 1904.
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LEGAL NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELEC
TION TO BE HELD 3oth DAY OF
JUNE 1904

LEGAL NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELEC-
TION TO BE HELD 3oth DAY OF
JUNE, 1904.
day of May. A. D. 1904, there was present.
ed to the board of county commissioners
Of Sedgwick county, Kansas. said board
being duly convened in adjourned day OF
regular session. a petition duly signed
by two-fifths (2-O of the resident tax
payers and a majority Of the legal voters
of Sedgwick county, Kansas, praying said
board of county commissioners to submit
TO the qualified voters of said county a
proposition that the said Sed2wick county
aid the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient
Railway company by subscribing to its
capital stock in the amount of eighty
thousand dollars (sso. .0oo.oo). one half Ga)
common and one-half Gs) preferred stock
and the issuing of bonds Of said county
in like amount, in payment Of said sub
scription, all upon the conditions as set
forth in said petition, which Pc
tition. signatures being omitted. is in the
words and figures following, to-wit:
PETITION
The Proposition That Sedgwick County
Aid the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient
Railway Company py Subscribing to Its
Capital Stock and Issuing the Bonds
of Said County Therefor.
To the Honorable Board of County Com
missioners of the County of Sedgwick.
State of Kansas:
Inasmuch as the Kansas City, Mexico
and Orient Railway company proposes TO
construct a line of railroad into and
through the county of Sedgwick, in the
state of Kansas: and inasmuch as the
said county of Sedgwick heretofore voted
to extend aid to said railway company.
which said aid will lapse and become in
effectual on December olst, 1904
The undersigned being more than two
ifths of the resident tax payers in said
county, and being more than a majority
of the legal voters of said county. respect
fully petition your honorable board %to
call a special election in said county at
as early date as practicable and legal.
and at such special election to submit
to the qualified electors of said county
a proposition that said county subscribe
for eighty thousand dollars (SS0. .ooO (one-
half common and one-half preferred
stock of the capital stock of said Kansas
City, Mexico and Orient Railway COM
pany, a corporation duly organized and
existing under and by virtue of the laws
of the state of Kansas. and to issue the
bonds of said county in like amount of
eighty thousand dollars C$SO.000) in pay
ment of said subscription; which said sub
scription, and the bonds TO be issued in
eLal
thousand dollars per mile for each mile
of railroad constructed in said county;
that said bonds shall be each of the de-
nomination of five hundred dollars ($500)
and numbered from / to $50 consecutively.
each payable to the said Kansas City.
Mexico and Orient Railway company or
bearer, twenty years after date, redeem
able. however, at the pleasure of the said
board of county commissioners at any time
after ten years after the date of their
issue. and each bond bearing interest at
the rate of four per cent per annum with
semi-annual interest coupons attached.
payable on the first days Of January and
July of each year. The principal and in
terest of such bonds to be payable at the
fiscal agency of the state of Kansas in
the city of New York.
The conditions upon which said sub
scription is to be made and said bonds
issued and delivered are as follows: That
said railway company, its successors or
assigns, shall build a standard gauge rail-
road from a point on the north or east
line of said county to a point on the
south or west line thereof and through
the city of Wichita. and shall build or
acquire by lease or otherwise passenger
freight depot in said city. Of capacity and
sufficient to transact all of the
business of said railway company at said
city Of Wichita. That said railroad shall
be built and ready for operation of en-
gines and cars over the same by or before
the 31st day of December 1907. from the
city of Wichita southwesterly to the Red
river on the boundary line between the
territory of Oklahoma and the state Of
Texas, and shall build its line into the city
of Wichita from the southwest on or be-
fore December 3lst, 1904 That the Kan
sas City. Mexico and Orient Railway COM
pany, its successors or assigns. shall es-
tablish and maintain in said county
tablish, construct or acquire and put in
operation in said county it's locomotive or
and principal manufacturing
and repair shops for its line of railway,
at which. all work conveniently accessible
thereto shall be done, and no other prin-
ripal or main manufacturing machine or
repair shops shall be established at or
between Kansas City Missouri. and the
north line of Texas Said line into or
through the city of Wichita may be par
tally operated over leased or acquired
tracks.
The said machine shops TO be equipped
with the necessary machinery and appli-
ances and maintained and operated by
said railway company. its successors and
assigns, in which shops shall be employed
he full complement of men necessary.
and which shops shall be erected and put
n operation on or before December 3lst.
sos, and the site therefor shall be in the
said city of Wichita. in said county. That
when said railroad is constructed and in
operation from the city of Wichita south
westerly TO the said Red river. bonds TO
he amount of that part of the line in
aid county so constructed and in opera
ion shall be issued and delivered and
he remaining portion shall be issued and
delivered when said line is constructed
md in operation through said county as
aforesaid and southwssterly TO the said
Red river That In no event shall said
emaining portion Of sad bonds be issued
md delivered until the said railway COM
'any, its successors or assigns. shall have
constructed or acquired as aforesaid its
aid passenger station and shall have
ocated and constructed its said freight
iepot. and established. acquired. con-
'tructed. equipped and put In operation