The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-26
First Publication May ., 1904.
LEGAL NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELEC-
TION TO BE HELD 3oth DAY OF
JUNE 1904


TION TO BE HELD 30th DAY OF
JUNE, 1904.
/ Notice is hereby given that on the oath
day of May, a. ID. 1894 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 Go of the resident tax
payers and 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 Sedgwick county
aid the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient
Railway company by subscribing to its
capital stock in the amount of eighty
thousand dollars $3.50. .0o0.C0) one half "a
common and one-half 90 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 by 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
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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 5lst, 1904:
The undersigned being more than two
fifths of the resident tax payers in said
county, and being more than a ma ajorty
of the legal voters of said county, respect
fully petition your honorable hoard to
call special election in said county at
as early a 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, ,0e0) Zone
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 (ss0eO0) in pay
ment of said subscription: which said sub
and the bonds to be issued in
payment thereof shall not exceed two
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 (S5OO
and numbered from ! TO 100 cOnsecutiveIy,
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 4
BOARD of county commissioners at any time 4
after ten years after the date of their I
ssue. and each bond bearing interest at /
The rate of four per cent per annum with /
interest coupons attached !
payable on the first days OF January ana
Iuly Of each year. The principal and in
-erest of such bonds TO be payable al the
iscal agency OF the state OF Kansas in
he city OF New York
The conditions upon which said sub I
'cTiption is TO be made snd said bonds (
ssued and delivered are as follows. That
aid railway company. its successors or
ssigns, shall build "A stands rd gauge rail |
Dad from point on the north or cas-.
Inc Of said county to a point on the |
outh or west line thereof ard through |
ne city Of Nichita. and shall buld or
cquire by lease or otherwise passenger
tation, and shall build and maintain
reight depot in said city. Of capacity and i