Free press., 1906-06-02

county, Kansas, and praying the Board
OF County commissioners of said county
said Freedom township, at which
election is to be submitted to the quail
fed voters of said township the accep-
tance or rejection of the proposition of
! said Freedom township subscribing
100000 to the capital stock of the
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
tlfths of the residant taxpayers and
legal voters of the township of Freedom
in Ellis county, anSaS, 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
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 ork. 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-
tyS 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
Gate 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, ut 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 foltoacimg be adoptedg
SHALL FREEDOM TOWNSHIP
in Ellis county, Kansas, extend aid to
The Hays City and Great Northern
Rallwa company by subscribing for
10, 0OO:OO of the capital
oany, the he same m" t to 'f be 80 HI
paid for by issuing and NO
delivering to said railway
like amount of the bonds of
said township, in denominations of
I've hundred dollars | $500.0O] each,
payable TO bearer at the Fiscal Agency
y the State of Kansas in the city of
New New York New York, 20 years after
Late thereof, and to bear interest from
late at the rate of five per cent. per
,nnum, payable semi annually, interest
hereon to be evidenced by coupons
hereto attached payable at the Fiscal
agency aforesaid, all in manner and
orm as provided by law.
And after due examination of the
oregolng petition the Board finds it toll
e a legal one, and a deposit of one
undred dollars having been made by
ne sald railway company for the pay
on duly made the prayer of said peti-
on is granted, and it is ordered that !
special election be held on
Wednesday, June 20, 1900.
! said FREEDOM township, as is pro-
lded by law, at which election the
ropositiOn of subscribing $4,000. 90 7
the capital stock of the Havs City &
reat Northern Railway company by Q
reedom township, Ellis county, Kan 1
Is, according to the terms and condi- @
onS set forth In the foregoing petition
lall be submitted to the Qualified elec
RS of said township. II
Jacob Brull, Chairman.
Joseph Griese, ]. r. Mueller,
oard of county commissioners,
Ellis county, Kansas. r
Attest: M. p. Dinges, :,
LIS Clerk .
Now Therefore, 1, Fred Miller, sheriff.
Ellis county, Kansas, pursuant to
e above and foregoing order, and by
rtue of the authority vested in me-
law as. such sheriff, do hereby pro-
aim and make known, that on
1ed'aeSday, tie 2Oth day of June,
DC, there viii be held a special cleo n
N at the usual voting place in Free "
m township, Ellis county, Kansas.
which the qualified electors of said :.
eedom township may vote on the pro p
sition set forth in the above and fore =
ing petition and order in the manner r
d form therein set forth. i
In Witness Whereof, / have here =
to set my hand at my office in Hays I
y Kansas, this 10Th day of May. W
D. 1906 -
Fred Miller, oL
Sheriff of Ellis county. Kansas. VI