Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-05-03

Dollars Gin equal amounts of common
and preferred stock) to the capital
stock of the Kansas. Medicine Valley
& 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 Township in like amounts
of Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000),
in payment of said subscription:/ That
said bonds shall be each in the de-
nomination of Five Hundred Dollars
(s500.00) 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 at the rate of four (4)
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
subscription shall be made and said
lSSuSQ DIS 1OIlONS udt StlQ
Railway Company, it's successors or
lassigns. shall build a new Standard
Gauge Railroad through the said Town
ship, on or before May /, 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 1, 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 accordance 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. W.
tai Stock of the Kansas,
Medicine Valley & Western - II
Railway Company by the
Township of Sharon, and No
the issuance of the bonds
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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
taxpayers of said Township and duly
made an order granting the prayer of
said petition and ordered that a
special election should be held in said
Township of Sharon, in said County,
on the 9Th day of June, 1905, to de-
termine whether said Township shall
subscribe the sum of Twelve Thousand
Dollars to the capital stock of the said
Railway Company, and issue bonds of
said Township to said Railway Com
pany in payment therefor, upon the
terms and conditions all as set out in
said petition;
And further ordered that in event
the majority of the voters at said cleo
ton cast their ballots in favor of said
proposition, 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 Twelve Thousand Dollars, to
the Capital Stock of the said Railway
Company:
And further ordered that if the
Railway 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 of the said Township in
said sum, said bonds to bear interest
at the rate of four ca per cent; prin-
c1pal and interest to be due and pay
able at the time and place stated in
said petition;
And further ordered that the form
of ballot to be used at said election
| hn in hn fnry "a
petition, and that the undersigned, as
sheriff of said County should duly
make and issue proclamation for said
special election, and give thirty 900
days printed notice in a weekly news
paper printed and published in said
County and having general circulation
in the Township of Sharon and that
required by law.
| THEREFORE,, I, w. H. Haun, Sher-
Tiff 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
special election shall be held in said
Township of Sharon, Barber County,
Kansas, on. the 9Th day of June, 1905, to
determine whether said Township shall
| make such subscription and issue said
bonds upon the conditions set out in
said petition; Such election shall in all
| respects be conducted, the returns
made and the result ascertained and
declared In the same manner as pre-
scrfbed by law for general elections.
In witness whereof, I, said Sheriff of
Barber County, Kansas have hereunto
set my hand this 22nd day of April,
1905.
w. H. HAUN,
Sheriff of Barber County, Kansas.
By A. B. PURDY, Deputy.
(SeaD Attest: G. w. WILSON,
| County Clerk.