The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-28
First Publication May IS. 1904
LEGAL NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELEC-
TION TO BE HELD 3oth DAY OF

LEGAL NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELEC-
TION TO BE HELD 3oth DAY OF
JUNE, 1904
Notice is hereby given that on the oath
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, petition duly signed
by two-fifths (2-5) 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 ESQ, ,e00-OD one half 0z)
common and one-haif 90 preferred stock,
and the issuing of bonds of said county
in like amount, in payment of said sub
scripion, 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
mssioners of the County of Sedgwick,
State of Kansas:
Inasmuch as the Kansas City, Mexico
and Orient Railway company proposes 10
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 31st, 1904:
The undersigned being more than two
fifths of the resident tax payers in said
county, and being more than majority
of the legal voters of said county, respect
fully petition your honorable board to
cali special election in said county at
as early date as practicable and legal,
and at sucn special election to submit
to the qualified electors of said county
a proposition that said county subscribe
for eighty thousand dollars $4,000 (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 (Ss0.0e0) in pay
ment of said subscription; which said sub
scription, 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-
of five hundred dollars $500
and numbered from i to 160 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 standard gauge rail
road from a point on the north or east
inc of said county to a point on the
south or west line thereof and through
The city of Wichita, and shall build or
~. laac orr oil
station ard shall build and maintain a
freight depot in said city. of capacity and
dimensions sufficient to transact all of the
business of said railway company at said
.ity of Wichita. That said railroad shall
De built and ready for operation of en-
zines and cars over the same by or before
he S1st day of December 1907. from the
,ity of Wichita southwesterly TO the Red
liver on the boundary line between the
erritory of Oklahoma and the state of
Texas, and shall build its line into the city
If Wichita from the southwest on or be-
ore December 31st, 1904 That the Kan
as City Mexico and Orient Railway com
'any. its successors or assigns. shall es-
reight and passenger divisions. and es-
dpliSii, SciSli uct VI acquire anu put III
'peration in said county its locomotive or
and principal manufacturing
md repair shops for its line of railway,
It which all work conveniently accessible
hereto shall be done, and no other prin-
ipal or main manufacturing, machine or
epsir shops shall be established at OF
'etween Kansas City, Missouri. and the !
Iorth line of Texas Said line into or
through the city of Wichita may be par