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

missioners of Barber County, Kansas,
; at special session of said Board, duly
and regularly called, a petition duly
signed by two fifths of the resident
Taxpayers of the Township of Med
fcine Lodge in said Barber County.
praying said Board of County Com
F, missioRers to submit to the qualified
voters of said Township proposition
| to subscribe the sum of Seventeen
Thousand Dollars to the capital stock
of the Kansas. Medicine Valley &
Western Railway Company, all on
conditions as set forth in said petit
ton. which petition, signatures being
| omitted, is in the words and figures
following, to-wit:
PETITION.
To the Honorable Board of County
Commissioners of the County of Bar
Der 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 special
election in said Township, at as early
date as practicable and legal, and at
such special election to submit to the
qualified electors of the said Town
ship a proposition to subscribe the
sum of Seventeen Thousand ($17OOO)
Dollars lin equal amounts of common
and preferred stock) to the capital
stock of the Kansas, Medicine Valley
e. Western Railway Company, a cor
poration duly organized and existing
under and by virtue of the laws of the
State of Kansas, for the purpose of
building, owning and operating a rail-
road from Independence, Kansas. to
Trinidad, Colorado, and to issue the
bonds of said Towonship in like
amounts of Seventeen Thousand Dol
lars ($17,000), in payment of said sub
scription: That said bonds shall be
each in the denomination of Five Hun
dred Dollars ($500.00) and numbered
from one to "a consecutively, each pay
able to the Kansas Medicine Valley &
Western Railway Company, or bearer,
twenty 600 years after date, and each
bond bearing interest at the rate of
four ca per cent per annum, with
interest coupons attached payable on
the first days of January and July of
each year. and that the principal and
interest of such bonds be made pay
able 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 1, 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 opera
ton through said Township, if on or
before May 1, 1907.
And we respectfully petition that
said special election be called and held
confdrmably 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
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