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

Dollars Tin 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 (S12 000),
in payment OF said subscriptions: That
said bonds shall be each in the de-
nomination Of Five Hundred Dollars
ts590.00) and numbered from one to
"a consecutively. each payable to the
| Kansas, Medicine Valley & Western
Railway Company. or bearer, twenty
| GOD years after date, and each bond
| bearing interest at the rate of four ga
| per cent per annurn, with interest cou-
| pors 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
1 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 10 said
Railway Company, its 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
| 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
shan have printed thereon for the pur-
pose of submitting said proposition, the
following language:
SHALL THE FOLLOWING BE
| ADOPTED?
The subscription to the Capt. y
| tai Stock OF the Kansas
. Medicine Valley & Western -
| Railway Company. by the
Township OF Sharon. and No
the issuance of the bonds II
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 resider.
taxpayers of said Township and duly
made an order granting the prayer OF
said petition and ordered that 4
special election should be held in said
! Township of Sharon. in said County
on the 9Th day Of June. 1905. 10 de-
! terTnine whether said Township sha!
subscribe the sum of Twelve Thousand
Dollars 10 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 il
| 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 its
name, shall forthwith subscribe the
sum OF Twelve Thousand Dollars. &c
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 il
said sum. said bonds to bear interest
at the rate OF four ca Per cent; prin-
ciPal and interest to be Que and pay
able al the time and place stated ir
said petition;
And further ordered that the form
OF ballot to be used at said election
| should be III 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 (30)
| days printed notice in q weekly news
paper printed and published in said
County and having general circulation
in the Township of Sharon and tina;
said election be held in all respects as
required by law.
THEREFORE. /. w H Haun. Sher-
if Of Barber County. Kansas. by viz
the 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. 70
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-
scrihed by law for general elections.
| In witness whereof, J. said Sheriff O.
Barber County. Kansas. have hereunto
set my hand this 22nd day of April
1865.
W. H HAUN
Sheriff of Barber County. Kansas.
By a B. PCRDY, Deputy.
| tSeaD Attest: q. W. WILSON
County Clerk
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