Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-05-17
Sheriff's Proclamation for Special
Election.

Oft-tne ZLIlQ Gay OF Ap-
I'll, 1905, there was duly presented to
the Board of County Commissioners of
Barber County, Kansas. n petition duly
signed by two-fifths of the resident
taxpayers of the Township of Medicine
Lodge, praying the said Board of
County Commissioners to submit to
the qualified voters of said Township,
the proposition to subscribe Seventeen
Thousand Dollars to the Capital Stock
of the Kansas. Medicine Valley &
Western Railway Company. all on
conditions as set forth in said petition,
which petition. signatures being omit
ted is in the words and figures fol-
lowing, to-wit:
PETITION.
To the Honorable Board of County
Commissioners of the County of
Barber and State of Kansas:
We. the undersigned. being more
than two-fifths (2-5) of the resident
taxpayers of the Township of Medicine
Lodge in the County of Barber in the
State of Kansas. respectfully petition
your Honorable Board to call a special
election in said Township. at as early
date as practicable and legal. and
at such special election too submit to
the qualified electors of the said
Township proposition to subscribe the
sum of Seventeen Thousand (s17,000)
Dollars lin equal amounts OF common
and preferred stock) to the capital
stock of the Kansas Medicine Valley &
Western Railway Company, corpora
ton duly organized and existing under
and by virtue of the laws of the State
or Kansas. for the purpose of building,
owning and operating a railroad from
Independence. Kansas, to Trinidad
Colorado. and to issue the bonds of
said Township in like amounts of Sew
enteen Thousand Dollars ($17,OOG). in
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said bonds shall be each in the denomi-
nation OF Five Hundred Dollars
c500.0O) and numbered from one to "a
consecutively each payable to the
Kansas, Medicine Valley & Western
Railway Company, or bearer. twenty
(2O) years after date. and each bond
bearing interest al the rate of four "a
per cent per annum. with interest cou-
pons attached payable on the first
days of January and July of each year.
and that the principal and interest of
such bonds be made payable at the
Fiscal Agency of the State of Kansas.
In the City of New York
That the conditions upon which said
subscriptions shall be made and said
bonds issued are as follows: That said
Railway Company. its successors or
assigns, shall build new Standard
Gauge Railroad through the said
Township. on or before May l, 1907. and
said bonds shall be delivered to said
Railway Company. it's successors or
assigns. when said railroad shall have
been built and shall be in operation
through said Township, if on or before
May l, 1907.
And we respectfully petition that
said special election be called and held
conformably to, and as provided by the
laws of the State of Kansas. applca-
BILE thereto: and that said subscription
be made and said bonds issued in ac-
cordarce with the laws of the State of
Kansas
And that the form of ballot to be
used at said election shall be prepared
and Issued as required by law. and
shall have printed thereon for the pur-
pose OF submitting said proposition
the following language:
SHALL THE FOLLOWING BE
ADOPTED?
The subscription to the Capt. =,
tai Stock of the Kansas les
Medicine Valley & Western : -
Railway Company. by the
Township of Medicine No
Lodge and the issuance of
the bonds of said Town
ship therefor
And, whereas said Board of County
Commissioners in pursuance of said
due form and was duly signed by
more than two-fifths of the resident
taxpayers of said Township duly made
an order granting the prayer of said
petition and ordered that special
election should be held in said Town
ship of Medicine Lodge in said County
on the 9Th day of June 1905. to de-
termne whether said Township shall
subscribe the sum of Seventeen
Thousand Dollars to the capital stock
of the said Railway Company. and is
sue bonds of said Township to said
Railway Company in payment there
for, upon the terms and conditions all
as set out in said petition;
And further ordered that in event the
ma jority OF the voters at said election
cast their ballots in favor CT said pro-
position. and vote to issue bonds in
payment therefor, then the County
Clerk of said County, for and on be-
half Of the said Township and in it's
name, shall forthwith subscribe the
sum of Seventeen Thousand Dollars to
the Capital Stock of the said Railway
Company:
And further ordered that if the Rail-
way Company fully comply with the
conditions of said subscription then
the chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners, and the County Clerk
of said County shall duly issue bonds
or the said township in said sum- said
bonds to bear interest at the rate of
four (D per cent; principal and in
terest to be due and payable at the
time and place stated in said petition;
And further ordered that the form
of ballot 10 be used at said election
should be in the form stated in said
petition. and that the undersigned. as
sheriff of said County should duly
make and issue proclamation for said
special election, and give thirty 600
days printed notice in a weekly news
paper. printed and published in said
County and having general circulation
In the Township of Medicine Lodge
and that said election be held in all
respects as required by law.
THEREFORE,, i. w. H. Haun, Sher-
eff of Barber County. Kansas, by vir-
tue of authority by law vested in me-
and In pursuance to the above order
of said Board, do hereby give public
proclamation and due notice that a