The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-05-24
Election Notice.

the State of Tennessee, passed March
10, 1903, and approved March %, 1903 !;
and by an order of the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen of the town of johnson
City, Tennessee, passed at meeting
of said Board on April 10, 1906: We,
the undersigned Election Commission
ers for Washington county, Tennessee,
hereby give notice that we will open
and hold, in each of the four wards of
the town of johnson City, Tennessee,
on the
FIFTH DAY OF JUNE, 1906,
an election according to the laws regu-
lating such elections existing in the
State of Tennessee said election to be
held for the purpose of determining,
by majority Of the legal votes cast,
whether or not the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen of the town of Johnson City
shall issue ST., 10000 of Public School
Improvement Bonds and $40, 100000 of
Street Improvement Bonds, to run for
twenty (20) years, and to bear interest
at the rate of five per cent per annnm,
payable semi-annually in lawful cur
rency of the United States.
At said election tickets shall be used
upon which shall be printed: First,
'School Expenditures and immedi-
ately below, Bonds" and "No Bonds;
and which shall be followed by "Street
Expenditures" and Immediately below
"Bonds" and "No Bonds, and per-
sons voting for issuance of bonds shall
mark their tickets with cross (X) op-
posite the word "Bonds", and those
voting against the issuance of bonds
shall in like manner mark their tickets
opposite the words "No Bonds.
The said bonds, or the proceeds there
of, to be used exclusively for the pur-
pose of making public municipal inn
provements within the corporote limits
of the town of Johnson City, as per
itemized estimate showing in detail the
proposed expenditures of the proceeds
of said bonds, which estimate is EN-.
bodied in the following resolution
passed by the Board of Mayor and AL
dermen OF the town OF johnson City
at q. meeting of the Board Eeld on Apri
10, 1906, and which resolution is spread
on the records of that body and il
words and figures following, to-wit:
RESOLUTION.
Whereas, The General Assembly o
Tennessee, Acts of 1908, Chapter 176
passed an Act authorizing the Town o
johnson City to issue improvement
bonds aud
Whereas, 1t is the purpose of thi
Board to propose to the voters of SAT-
town an issue of seventeen tbousan
five hundred dollars ($l7,500 O0) G
Public School Improvement Bonds an
ten thousand dollars $50, 000.0 0) c
Street Improvement Bonds, under sal
Act, the proceeds to be used exclusivel
for the purpose of making tho follow
3 ing improvements within the corporal
9 limits; and Section of said Acts pre-
8 vides that an itemized estimate shown
. IN detail the proposed expenditures {
the proceeds of said bonds. shown
j the purpose and place of expendituI
s within the town, ETC.; now, therefore
: Be it resolved, by the Board of Mayt
v and Aldermen of the town of JohnsC
!, City, in accordance with said provision
n That the following estimate or budg
q of such expenditures of proceeds
It said proposed bond issue be adopt'
n and spread of record by this Board, Il
; proceeds to be used exclusively for Il
y purpose as below indicated, to-wit:
- SCHOOL EXPENDITURES.
n /. Four lots on southeast cor
= ner of Main and Summer
= streets, johnson City, Ten
70 nessee ..................$ 1000.
Ie .. For the erection thereon of
al a8-room brick school build
. ing .................. $4,000.
=, 3. Heating apparatus, pipes,
III etc. ....................... 600.
ID 4. Seating and chairs. ..,.... 900,
& Blackboards and other fix