Free press., 1906-05-19

Hays City & Great Northern Railway
company, which said petition, (omitting
the signatures theretc) is as follows:
Petition.
To The Honorable Board of
County Commissioners of
ELLIS COUNTY. IN the
State of Kansas.
We. the undersigned, your petitioners,
being and constituting more than two
fifths of the residant 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 proposition to extend aid to
The Hays City & Great Northern
railway Company by subscribing for
Fifteen thousand dollars ($15, 1000. .00) of
the capital stock of said company. the
said stock to be paid for by issuing and
delivering to said railway company a
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 800 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
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 a 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 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 sand township in like
amount as hereinbefore provided, shall
pc issued in form and manner as pro-
Y1ded 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 fOlt0aoiag be adopted?
SHALL FREEDOM TOWNSHIP
in Ellis county, Kansas, extend aid to
The Hays City and Great Northern |
Rallwa7 company by subscribing for |
$15, 100000 of the capital Fl
stock of said railway com YES
pany, the same to be -
paid for by issuing and NO II
delivering to said railway Iii
company a like amount of the bonds of |
live hundred dollars $500O01 each,
payable TO bearer at the Fiscal Agency
OF the State of Kansas in the city of |
New I York, New York, 20 years after
date thereof, and to bear interest from
date at the rate of five per cent. per
lnnum, payable semi annually, interest
thereon to be evidenced by coupons
.4AOAOOO dIISlCnCu tI UnO 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
De legal one, and a deposit of one
hundred dollars having been made by
he SAID railway company for the pay
nent OF the election expenses. on mo-
ION duly made the prayer of said peti-
ion is granted, and it is ordered that
special election be held on
Wednesday, June 20, 1900.
n said FREEDOM township, as is pro
'lded by law, at which election the
proposition of subscribing $15,O0O.OO
o the capital stock of the HaVs City &
treat Northern Railway company by
IreedOm township, Ellis county, Kan
as, according to the terms and condi- :
Ions set forth IN the foregoing petition
hall be submitted to the qualified elec {
Ors of said township.
Jacob Brull, Chairman.
Joseph Griese, J. r. Mueller,
'oard of county commissioners,
Ellis county, Kansas
Isl Clerk.
Now Therefore, [, Fred Miller, sheriff
Ellis county, Kansas, pursuant to
ne above and foregoing order, and by
lrtue OF the authority vested in me
y law as such sheriff, do hereby pro-
aim and make known, that on
Vednesd0y, the 20th day of June,
)O6, there will be held a special cleo :
on at the usual voting place in Free
om township, Ellis county, Kansas,
which the qualified electors of said
reedom township may vote on the pro
osition set forth in the above and fore
olng petition and order in the manner
nd form therein set forth.
In Witness Whereof, I have here
ate set my hand at my Office In Hays
ty. Kansas, this 10Th day of May,
. D. 1906 T
Fred Miller,
Sheriff OF Ellis county. Kansas.