Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-05-17

Dollars Tin equal amounts of common
and preferred stock TO the capital
stock of the Kansas. Medicine Valley
& Western Railway Company, 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 rail-
road from Independence, Kansas, to
| Trinidad, Colorado, and to issue the
bonds of said Township in like amounts
of Twelve Thousand Dollars (S12,000),
in payment of said subscriptions: That
said bonds shall be each in the de-
4 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
! (20) years after date, and each bond
bearing interest at the rate of four 60
per cent per annum, with interest cou-
pons attached payable on the first
| days of January and July of each year,
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 as follows: That said
Railway Company, its successors or
assigns shall build a new Standard
Gauge Railroad through the said Town
ship, 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 operation
through said Township, if on or before
May 1, 1907.
And we respectfully petition that
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 - =
Railway Company, by the
Township of Sharon, and No
the issuance of the bonds -
of said Township therefor.
| And, whereas said Board of County
Commissioners in pursuance of sai6
petition, found that the same was il
due form and was duly signed by
more than two fifths of the residen
taxpayers of said Township and duly
said petition and ordered that
l special election should be held in sale
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 Thousant
Dollars to the capital stock of the saiC
Railway Company, and issue bonds O
said Township to said Railway Com
pany in payment therefor, upon tn,
terms and conditions all as set out il
said petition;
And further ordered that in even
| the ma jority of the voters at said cleo
, ton cast their ballots in favor of sait
} proposition, and vote to issue bonds il
payment therefor, then the Count,
l Clerk of said County, for and on be
{ half of the said Township and in it
name, shall forthwith subscribe tn
sum of Twelve Thousand Dollars, t,
3 the Capital Stock of the said Railwa,
l Company:
} And further ordered that if tia
Railway Company fully comply will
I the conditions of said subscription
then the chairman of the Board o
5 County Commissioners, and tn
: County Clerk of said County shall dull,
l issue bonds of the said Township il
! said sum, said bonds to bear interes
1 at the rate of four ca per cent; prin
cipal and interest to be due and pay
i able at the time and place stated il
l said petition;
And further ordered that the form
I of ballot to be used at said election
should be in the form stated in sai'
petition, and that the undersigned, a
, sheriff of said County should dull,
2 make and issue proclamation for sal,
special election, and give thirty go
E days printed notice in a weekly news
1 paper printed and published in sal,
: County and having general circulation
: in the Township of Sharon and tina
said election be held in all respects a
required by law.
THEREFORE,, I, w. H. Haun, Sher
iff of Barber County, Kansas, by vir
tue of authority by law vested in me
and In pursuance to the above orde
of said Board, do hereby give publi
2 proclamation and due notice, that
special election shall be held in sal,
8 Township of Sharon, Barber County
l Kansas, on the 9Th day of June, 1905, t,
3 determine whether said Township shall
make such subscription and issue sal,
bonds upon the conditions set out il
: said petition; Such election shall in al
respects be conducted, the return
made and the result ascertained an,
e declared in the same manner as pre-
scribed by law for general elections.
In witness whereof, /, said Sheriff o
e Barber County, Kansas, have hereunt,
. set my hand this 22nd day of April
+ 1905.
W. II. HAUN,
Sheriff Of Barber County, Kansas.