Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-05-03
PETITION.

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 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 a
| 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)
Dollars Tin equal amounts of common
and perfect stock to the capital stock
OF the Kansas, Medicine Valley s.
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 Hum
| bred Dollars ts7,50U), in payment of
said subscription: That said bonds
shall be each in the denomination of
Five Hundred Dollars ($500.0O) 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 (4) 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 aHlade 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, its 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 /, 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 spec
] ial election should be held in said
Township of Sun City. in said County,
| on the 9Th day OF June. 1905, to de-
| teruline 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 10
| 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 its
name. shall forthwith subscribe the
sum of Seven Thousand Five Hundred
| ifa1 of he
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 al
the rate of four (4) per cent: princi-
pal and interest to be due and payable
at-tl1e 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 fol
said special election, and give thirty
/ 600 days printed notice in a 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 al
respects as required by law.
THEREFORE, ], ". II. Haun. Sher-
iff of Barber County. Kansas, by yir-
tue of authority by law vested i'll me
and in pursuance TO the above order OF
said Board, do hereby give public proc
lamation and due notice. that specia
election shall be held in said Town
ship of Sun City, Barber County. Kan
sas on the 9th day of June, 1905. te
determine whether said Township shall
make such subscription and issue sait
bonds upon the conditions set out ir
said petition; Such election shall in al
respects be conducted, the return:
made and the result ascertained and
declared in the same manner as pre-
scribed by law for general elections.
In witness whereof, ]. said sheriff OF
Barber County. Kansas. have hereuntt
set my hand. this 22nd day of April
1905.
W. H HAUN.