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

praying said Board of County Com
missioners to submit to the qualified
voters of said Township a proposition
| to subscribe the sum of Seventeen
Thousand Dollars to the capital stock
of the Kansas. Medicine Valley &
| Western Railway Company, all on
conditions as set forth in said petit
| ton. which petition. 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 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
a date as practicable and legal, and at
such special election to submit to the
| qualified electors of the said Town
! ship a proposition to subscribe the
sum of Seventeen Thousand 10000
Dollars lin 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 Towonship in like
amounts of Seventeen Thousand Dol
lars (S11,OO0), in payment of said sub
scription: That said bonds shall be
each in the denomination of Five Hun
dred Dollars (s500.00) and numbered
from one to "a consecutively, each pay
able 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 Cd 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 pay
able 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, its 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, applicable
thereto: and that said subscription be
made and said bonds issued in accord
ance 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 Medicine No. |
Lodge and the issuance of !
the bonds of said Township
therefor
And said Board of County Commits
sioners in pursuance to the prayer of
said petition at said special session
thereof found that said petition was
duly signed by more than two fifths
of the resident taxpayers of said
Township of Medicine Lodge 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 Medicine Lodge in said County
on the 9Th day of June. 1905 to deter
mine whether said Township shall
subscribe TIE sum of Seventeen Thou
sand dollars to the capital stock Of the
said Railway Company, and issue
bonds of the said Township to the
said Railway Company in payment
therefor in like amount on the terms
and conditions all as set out in said
petition.
And further ordered that in the event
that majority of the voters, voting at
said election cast their ballots in favor
of said proposition. and voted 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 Seventeen Thousand Dollars
| to the capital stock of said Railway
| Company as stated in said petition.
And it is further ordered that if said
Railway Company fully comply with
| the conditions of said subscription.
| then the Chairman of the Board of
| County Commissioners and the Coun-
ty Clerk of said County shall duly issue
| bonds of said Township in said sum,
said bonds to bear interest at the rate
| of four per cent, principal and interest
| to be due and payable at the time and
| place stated in said petition, and the
said Board of County Commissioners
| further order that the form of ballot
to be used at said special election be
as stated and contained in said petit
| ton
And further ordered that the Sher-
if of said County issue his proclama-
ton for said special election. and that
same be held in said Township to de-
termine whether said Township shall
make such subscription and issue the
bonds of said Township on the condi-
tions set out in said petition, and that
said election be called, held and the
returns thereof made, and the result
thereof ascertained and declared in the
same manner as prescribed by law fol
general elections.
WHEREFORE, The Board OF
County Commissioners hereby give
public notice that said special election