Free press., 1906-05-26
EntItlOn
To The Honorable Board of
County Commissioners of
ELLIS COUNTY. IN the

being and constituting more than two.
fifths of the resldant taxpayers and
legal voters of the township of Freedom
in Ellis county, Kansas, do hereby re-
spectfully petition your honorable body
to call a special election in said town
ship for the purpose of submitting to
the legal and qualified voters of said
township a proposition to extend aid to
The Hays City 6 Great Northern
railway Company by subscribing for
Fifteen thousand dollars ($15, 900 0O of
the capital stock of said company. the
said stock to be paid for by issuing and
delivering to said railway company
like amount of the bonds of said Free
dom township, Ellis county, Kansas, all
in manner and form as provided by law,
the said bonds to be issued in demon
nations of 500 dollars (each), to be
payable to bearer at the Fiscal Agency
of the state of Kansas in the city of
New York, New York. twenty years af-
ter the date thereof, and to bear inter
est from date at the rate of five per
cent. per annum, payable semi-annually
the interest thereon to be evidenced by
coupons thereto attached, the same to
be payable at the Fiscal Agency afore-
said; said subscription of stock and the
issue of bonds to be made upon the
following conditions, viz:
AS soon as said proposition shall be
determined in the affirmative by can
vass of the votes cast at said election,
the Board of county commissioners of
said county of Ellis for and on behalf
of said Freedom township, Ellis coun-
| ty, Kansas, shall order the county clerk
Of said county to make, and the coun-
| ty clerk shall make said subscription in
| the name of said Freedom township,
Ellis county, Kansas, for said sum and
| amount of said capital stock of said
railway company, and for the issue of
said bonds above described IN said sum
| and amount; and when the said rail
road shall, within two years from the
| date Of the election to be called and
| held upon this petition, be completed
or standard guage and in operation, by
lease or otherwife. through said Free
dom township, Ellis county, Kansas,
and to a point in, at or near the city
| of Great Bend, Barton county, Kansas,
then the stock of said railway company
SO subscribed for shall be issued to said
township in the sum above named, and
the bonds of SAID township in like
amount as hereinbefore provided. shall
be issued in form and manner as pro-
vided by law and as above specified, and
delivered to said railway company as
the obligation of said Freedom township
Ellis county, Kansas.
The form of the ballots to be used
at such election shall be as follows:
Shall the tOlLOa0ing be adopted?
SHALL FREEDOM TOWNSHIP
in Ellis county, Kansas, extend aid to
The Hays City and Great Northern
RailwaJ company by subscribing for
100000 of the capital
stock of said railway com YES
pany, the same to be ~
paid for by issuing and NO
delivering to said railway III
Elyo 0T 4l,o
said township, in denominations of
i've hundred dollars [ $500.00] each,
payable TO bearer at the Fiscal Agency
OF the State of Kansas in the city of
New York, New York, 90 years after
date thereof, and to bear interest from
date at the rate of five per cent. per
annum, payable semi annually, interest
thereon to be evidenced by coupons
thereto attached payable at the Fiscal
Agency aforesaid, all in manner and
form as provided by law.
And after due examination of the
foregoing petition the Board finds it to
be legal one, and a deposit of one
hundred dollars having been made by
the said railway company for the pay
ment of the election expenses. on mo- |
ton duly made the prayer of said petit |
ton is granted, and it is ordered that |
special election be held on
Wednesday, June 20, 1900.
in said FREEDOM township, as is pro- |
vlded by law, at which election the |
proposition of subscribing $15, 900. 90 |
to the capital stock of the Hays CITY & |
Great Northern Railway company by |
Freedom township, Ellis county, Kan
sas, according to the terms and condi- |
tlons set forth IN the foregoing petition /
shall be submitted to the qualified elec
tors OF said township.
Jacob Brull Chairman
Joseph Griese, J.R. Mueller,
Board of county commissioners,
Attest: M. P Dinges ~
Isl Clerk.
Now Therefore, 1, Fred Miller, sheriff
OF Ellis county, Kansas, pursuant to
the above and foregoing order, and by
virtue OF the authority vested in me
by law as such sheriff, do hereby pro-
claim and make known, that on
Wednesday, the 2Oth day of June,
1906, there will be held special elec-
ton at the usual voting place In Free
dom township, Ellis county, Kansas,
at which the qualified electors of said
Freedom township may vote on the pro
position set forth in the above and fore
going petition and order in the manner
and form therein set forth
In Witness Whereof. I have here
unite set my hand at my Office In Hays
city. Kansas, this 18th day of May,
a. D.. 1905.
Fred Miller,
Sheriff Of Ellis county. Kansas.