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

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 &c Western
| Railway Company, all on conditions as
i 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 (2-5) 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
! Tin 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
| Kansas, for the purpose of building,
| owning and operating railroad from
Independence, Kansas, to Trinidad
Colorado, and to issue the bonds of
said Township in like amounts of
Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12 10000. in
payment of said subscription: That
said bonds shall be each in the denomi-
nation of Five Hundred Dollars
($500.00) and numbered from one to "a
consecutively, each payable 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 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 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
May /, 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
a cbnn he Il
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. l-I-l
tai Stock of the Kansas, Yes
Medicine Valley & Western
Railway Company, by the = II
Township of Lake 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 tax
payers of said Township duly made an
order granting the prayer of said petit
| d
| ton should be held in 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;
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 (4J 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
shall make such subscription and is