Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-05-10
sherfffs Proclamation for Special
Election.

TIL, 1905, there was duly presented to
the Board of County Commissioners of
Barber County, Kansas, a petition duly
signed by two-fifths of the resident
taxpayers of the Township of Medicine
Lodge, praying the said Board of
County Commissioners to submit to
the qualified voters of said Township,
the proposition to subscribe Seventeen
Thousand Dollars to the Capital Stock
of the Kansas, Medicine Valley &
Western Railway Company all on
conditions as set forth in said petition,
which petition, signatures being omit
ted is in the words and figures fol-
lowing, to-wit
PETITION.
To the Honorable Board of County
Commissioners of the County of
Barber and State of Kansas:
We, the undersigned. being more
than two-fifths (2-5) of the resident
taxpayers of the Township of Medicine
Lodge 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
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 Seventeen Thousand ($17,000)
Dollars Gin equal amounts of common
and preferred stock) to the capital
stock of the Kansas Medicine Valley &
Western Railway Company, corpora
tion 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 railroad from
Independence, Kansas, to Trinidad
Colorado. and to issue the bonds of
said Township in like amounts of Sew
enteen Thousand Dollars $4,000. in
payment of said subscription: That
said bonds shall be each in the denomi-
nation of Five Hundred Dollars
(s5O0.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
subscriptions 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 l. 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 l. 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 substitution
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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. ies
Medicine Valley & Western = -
Railway Company, by the
Township of NIedicine No
Lodge and the issuance of
the bonds of said Town
ship 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 a special
election should be held in said Town
ship of Medicine Lodge in said County,
on the 9th day of June, 1905. to de-
termine whether said Township shall
subscribe the sum of Seventeen
Thousand Dollars to the capital stock
of the said Railway Company and is
sue bonds. of said Township to said
Railway Company in payment there
for. upon the terms and conditions all
as 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 pro-
position. ana 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 Seventeen Thousand Dollars. to
the Capital Stock of the said Railway
Company;
And further ordered that if the Rail-
way 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
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bonds to bear interest at the rate of
four ca per cent; principal and in
terest 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 proclamation for said
election
days printed notice in a weekly news
paper, printed and published in said
County and having general circulation
in the Township of Medicine Lodge
and that said election be held in al
respects as required by law.
THEREFORE,, !, w. H. Haun, Sher-
iff of Barber County. Kansas, by vir-
tue of authority by Jaw 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