Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-05-24

taxpayers of the Township of Lake
City, praying the said Board of County
Commissioners to submit to the quail
fled voters of said Township, the pro-
position to subscribe Twelve Thousand
Dollars to the Capital Stock of the
Kansas. Medicine Lodge & Western
Railway Company, all on conditions as
set forth in said petition, which petit
ton. 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 (25) of the resident
taxpayers of the Township of Lake
City in the County of Barber in the
State of Kansas, respectfully petition
your Honorable Board to call a special
| election in said Township, at as early
| a date as practicable and legal, and
at such special election to submit to
| the qualified electors of the said Town
ship proposition to subscribe the sum
| of Twelve Thousand ($12,000) Dollars
| Gin equal amounts of common and
preferred stock) to the capital stock of
the Kansas, Medicine Valley & West
| ern Railway Company a corporation
duly organized and existing under and
| by virtue of the laws of the State of
L =,
owning and operating a railroad from
Independence, Kansas, to Trinidad
Colorado, and to issue the bonds of
said Township in like amounts OF
Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,0OO), in
| payment of said subscription: That
said bonds shall be each in the denomi-
| nation of Five Hundred Dollars
($500.O0) 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 ca
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
| bonds issued are as follows: That said
Railway Company, it's 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
said special election be called and held
conformably to, and as provided by the
laws of the State of Kansas, applica-
BILE hitherto; and that said subscription
be made and said bonds issued in ac-
cordance 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. t-l-I
tai Stock of the Kansas, Voc
Medicine Valley & Western
Railway Company, by the = -
Township of Lake City Nv
and the issuance of the 4>o
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 a special cleo
| llOIl De H0iO III SAID township
| of Lake City. 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 capital stock of the said Rail-
| way Company, and issue bonds of said
| Township to said Railway Company in
payment therefor, upon the terms and
| conditions all as set out in said petit
| ton:
| JH6 III ip
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-
| cipal 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
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 a weekly
newspaper, printed and published in
said County and having general circu-
lation in the Township of Lake City
and that said election be held in all
respects as required by law
| THEREFOR, 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
proclamation and due notice. that a
special election shall be held in said
Township of Lake City. Barber County.
Kansas, on the 9Th day of June. 1905.
to determine whether said Township
no