Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-05-17

State of Kansas, respectfully petition
your Honorable Board to call a special
election In said Township, at as early
q 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 Hun
dred ($7,500) Dollars Gin equal amounts
OF common and preferred stock) to the
capital stock of the Kansas, Medicine
Valley & Western Railway Company,
a corporation duly organized and ex-
listing under and by virtue of the laws
Of the State Of Kansas, for the purpose
OF building, owning and operating a
railroad from Independence, Kansas, to
Trinidad, Colorado. and to issue the
bonds OF said Township in like
amounts of Seven Thousand Five Hun
dred Dollars ($7,500), 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 Is consecutively,
each payable to the Kansas, Medicine
Valley e. Western Railway Company.
or bearer, twenty COO years after date,
and each bond bearing interest at the
rate Of four ca per cent per annum,
with interest coupons 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, Its successors or
assigns. shall build a new Standard
Gauge Railroad through the said
Township, 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 opera
ton 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-
bic thereto; and that said subscription
be made and said bonds issued in &C
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.
tai Stock of the Kansas,
Medicine Valley & Western - -
Railway Company by the
Township of Turkey Creek No
and the issuance of the =
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 and duly made
an order granting the prayer of said
petition and ordered that a special
election should be held in said Town
ship of Turkey Creek 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 conditions
all Is set out in said petition;
And further ordered that in event
the majority of the voters at said
election 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 behalf of the said Township and
in its name, shall forthwith subscribe
the sum of Seven Thousand Five Hun
dred 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 60 per cent; principal 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
(30) days printed notice in a weekly
newspaper printed and published In
said County and having general cir
culation in the Township of Turkey
Creek and that said election be hello
in all respects as required by law.
THEREFORE, 1, w. H. Haun, Sher-
If of Barber County, Kansas, by vir-
tue or 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 g
special election shall be held in sai6
Township of Turkey Creek Barber
County, Kansas, on the 9Th day OF
June, 1905, to determine whether sale
Township shall make such subscrip-
ton and issue said bonds upon the
conditions set out in said petition;
Such election shall in all respects bt
conducted, the returns made and the
result ascertained and declared in the
same manner as prescribed by law fol
general elections.
In witness whereof, l. said Sheriff
of Barber County. Kansas, have here.
unto set my hand this 22nd day OF