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r lection Proclamation,
Freedom Z0ecnShSD
fst published May 18th, 100

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fst published May 10Th, 1906
State of Kansas,
County of Ellis IS.
The State of Kansas, TO all whom
these presents shall come, Greeting:
Know Ye. That I. the undersigned
Sheriff of Ellis county. Kansas, by vlr-
by this proclamation give public notice
that on
Wednesday, the 10Th day of June,
ton in FREEDOM Township, Ellis
county, Kansas, for the following pur
poses, and in conformity with the fol
lowing order of the Board of County
Commissioners of Ellis county, Kan
sas, to-wit.
Office of County clerk of Ellis
county, Kansas, May 10, 1906.
Now on this 18th day of May, 1906,
there is filed with M. P Dinges, coun-
ty clerk of Ellis county, Kansas, and
presented to the Board of County COM
missioners of Ellis county, Kansas, then
in session, a petition signed by more
| than two-fifths of the resident tax-pay-
ers of Freedom township, in Ellis
county, Kansas, and praying the Board
| of County commissioners of said county
and state to call a special election in
said Freedom township, at which
election is to be submitted to the quail
! fed voters of said township the accep-
lance or rejection of the proposition of
said Freedom township subscribing
$l5, 100000 TO the capital stock of the
| Hays City & Great Northern Railway
company, VIII CHI said petition, (omitting
| the signatures thereby is as follows:
Petition.
To The Honorable Board of
County Commissioners Of
ELLIS COUNTY. In the
Stale of Kansas.
| We, the undersigned, your petitioners,
being and constituting more than two
tifths of the residant taxpayers and
| legal voters of the township of Freedom
| in Ellis county, Kansas, do hereby re-
specially 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 & Great Northern
railway Company by subscribing for
Fifteen thousand dollars (S15, 1000. 0O) 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 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; sad 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 commits Sloners 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 throu III said Free
dom township, Ellis county, Kansas,
and to q point in, at or near the city
of Great Bend, Barton county, Kansas,
then the stock of said railway company
so subscribed for shall b. issued to said
township in the sum above named, and
the bonds of sand 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 toltoeoing be adopted?
Shall EREE00M T0IINSuIp