Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-05-10

Railway Company, or bearer, twenty
(20) years after date. and each bond
bearing interest at the rate of four (4)
Per cent per annun. with interest cou-
pons attached payable on the first
days of January and July Of each year,
and that 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
subscription shall be made and said
bonds issued are as follows: That
said Railway Company. its successors
or assigns, shall build a new Standard
Gauge Railroad through the said
Township. on or before May L. 1907.
and said bonds shall be delivered to
said Railway Company. its successors
or assigns. when said railroad shall
have been built and shall be in opera
ton through said Township, if on or
before May i, 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, applicable
thereto; and that said subscription be
made and said bonds issued in accord
ance with the laws of the State of
Kansas
And that the form of ballot to be
and issued as required by law, and
shall have printed thereon for the pur-
pose of submitting said proposition,
the following languages:
SHALL THE FOLLOWING BE
ADOPTED?
The subscription to the Capt.
tai Stock of the Kansas,
Medicine Valley & Western 49,
Railway Company, by the
Township of Mingona and No
the issuance of the bonds -
of said Township therefor.
And, whereas said Board of County
Commissioners in pursuance of said
petition, found that the same was in
| due form and was duly signed by more
/ than two fifths of the resident tax
payers of said Township duly made an
order granting the prayer of said petit
ton and ordered that special cleo
ton should be held in said Township
of Mingona in said County, on the 9th
| day of June, 1905, to determine whether
said Township shall subscribe the sum
Of Twelve Thousand Dollars to the
1 capital stock of the said Railway Com
pany, and issue bonds of said Town
| ship to said Railway Company in pay
ment therefor, upon the terms and con-
ditions all as set out in said petition.
And further ordered that in even,
| the majority of voters at said election
, cast their ballots in favor of said prop
osition. and vote to issue bonds in pay
ment therefor, then the County Clerk
of said County, for and on behalf OF
the said Township and in its name
shall forthwith subscribe the sum OF
Twelve Thousand Dollars, to the Cap
/ ital Stock of the said Railway Com
pany;
| And further ordered that if the Rail
way company fully comply with the
conditions of said subscription. ther
the chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners, and the County Clerl
of said County shall duly issue bond.
of the said Township in said sum, sale
bonds to bear interest at the rate OF
four ca 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 to be used at said election
should be in the form stated in sail
petition, and that the undersigned, a:
sheriff of said County should duly
make and issue a proclamation fol
said special election, and give thirt.
600 days printed notice in week.!
newspaper printed and published il
said County and having general circu
lation in the Township of Mingons
and that said election be held in al
respects as required by law.
THEREFORE, I, w. H. Haun, Sher
iff of Barber County, Kansas by virtue
of authority by law vested in me, ant
in pursuance to the above order of sait
Board, do hereby give public procla
nation and due notice, that a specia
election shall be held in said Town
ship of Mingona, Barber County, Kan
sas on the 9Th day of June, 1905, t.
determine whether said Township shall
make such subscription and issue sait
bonds upon the conditions set out il
said petition; Such election shall il
all respects be conducted, the return!
made and the. result ascertained an(
declared in the same manner as pre-.
scribed by law for general elections
In witness whereof, /, said sheriff O.
Barber County, Kansas, have hereuntt
set my hand this 22nd day of April
1905.
w. H. HAUN,
Sheriff of Barber County, Kansas.
By A. B. PURDY, Deputy.
(SeaD Attest: c. w. WILSON,
County Clerk.