Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24
PETITION.
To the Honorable Board of County
Commissioners of the County of Bar

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 Sun City
in the County of Barber, in the State
of Kansas, respectfully petition your
Honorable Board to call special cleo
ton 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 Township
a proposition to subscribe the sum of
Seven Thousand Five Hundred ($7.500)
and perfect stock) to the capital stock
of the Kansas, Medicine Valley &
Western Railway Company, a corpo-
ration 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 Seven Thousand Five Hun
dred Dollars ($7,50U), in payment of
said subscription: That said bonds
shall be each in the denomination of
Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) and
numbered from one to fifteen consecu-
lively, each payable to the Kansas,
Medicine Valley & Western Railway
Company. or bearer, twenty (20) years
after date. and each bond bearing in
terest at the rate of four ca per cent
per annum, with interest coupons at
tached 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
bonds issued are as follows: That said
Railway Company, its successors or
assigns, shall build a new Standard
Gauge Railroad through said Town
ship, on or before May 1, 1907, and said
bonds shall be delivered to said Rail-
way Company, it's successors or as
signs, when said railroad shall have
been built and shall be in operation
through said Township, If on or be-
fore 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, appli-
cable thereto; and that said subscrip-
ton 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 theron 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,
Medicine Valley & Western - -
Township of Sun City
and the issuance of the No
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
Taxpayers Of said Township duly
made an order granting the prayer of
said petition and ordered that a spec
ial election should be held in said
Township of Sun City, in said County,
on the 9Th day of June 1905, to de-
termine whether said Township shall
subscribe the sum of Seven Thousand
Five Hundred Dollars to the capital
stock of the said Railway Company,
and issue bonds of said Township to
said Railway Company in payment
therefor, upon the terms and condi-
lions 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 Seven Thousand Five Hundred
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; princi-
pal and interest 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 said
petition. and that the undersigned, as
sheriff of said County should duly
make and issue a proclamation for
said special election, and give thirty
600 days printed notice in weekly
newspaper, printed and published in
said County and having general cir
culation in the Township of Sun City
and that said election be held in all
respects as 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 order of
said Board, do hereby give public proc
lamation and due notice, that special
election shall be held in said Town
ship of Sun City, Barber County, Kan
sas, 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-
scribed by law for general elections.
In witness whereof, L. said sheriff of
Barber County, Kansas, have hereunto
set my hand, this 22nd day of April,
1905.
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