Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-01
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CITY Wilt ISSUE !.
BONDS FOR 100000
Large Majority Of ,Freeholdsrs
and Aon.freeho|dePs Voting Fav.
ored Street improvements.
VERY LIGHT VOTE WAS p0LlEp.
Remarkable Lack Of Interest in the
EIoctton-counclI win a. Mex.
Meeting Take Steps Toward Ad.
Ser.islne sonda for sale---tlow
Money lie to Be Divided.
RESULT OF ELECTION.

Result OF ELECTION. 3,
Total vote east, aso. Is
For bond Issue, 25s; against bond
Issue. ~. 8
Number Of freeholders votina, 17s.
FreehoIders for bond issue, 1897
freeholders againatibond lssue. III.
Number Of non.ffeehplde voting
Nonfreeholdern for bond laaue
12e; non-freehoIders against bond 10.
sue, 81.
Newport News will issue bonds FOR
100000 for permanent street I'M.
provements. The question of wheti,.i
er or not the bonds uhould he is.
sued was decided yesterday by the 8
SMALLEST number OF voters thut ever
went 10 tho polls III amy sort OF
electfon held In the city. In or.
der 10 carry thu election for thee
pond issue, u was necessary that
three fifths Of Stbe freeholders vot.5
Ing and n majority of the non.free.
holeiars voting cast their ballots M!
favor of the Tissue. 4 Is .s
About three fourths OF sthes FREQ.
holders aud nearly Ave sixths{ OF
the noii-frechoiders voted In fnvor
or the issi:e. Il. 4, ii s,s ~ "A e
= Small Vote ca
Although the total vote cast, SSO,
Is less thnn one NTH of the city's
qualified vote, no one was surprised
by the absence of interest at the
polls. For weeks past IT had been
apparent that tn, vote would be
small and It was rather surprising
that 173 freeholders went To tho
polls.
The polls opened nj sunrise and
did not close until O'clock last
night. Tho voting went on slowly
and steadily so that ut no time was
there crowd about the polls.
he result OF the election by
wards follows:
First Ward.
Total vote cast. Sc.
For bond issue. G6: against bond
issue, 90.
Totnl number of froeholdcrs voting,
81.
For bond issue, a5; against bond
issue. 1G.
Total number of non.freeholders
voting, So
For hond issue, 81; against bond
issue, A.
Second Ward.
Total vote cast, 55
For bond issue, Al: against bond
issue. IA.
Total number of freeholdcrs voting,
40.
For bond issue, "a; against bond
Issue. D.
Total number of non.freeholders
voting, 10.
For bond issue, Z; against bond
issue, 8.
Third Ward.
Total vote cast. 1OS.
For bond issue, SO; against bond
issue, &c.
Total number of freeholders voting,
a.
For bond issue, 10; against bond
issue, 5.
Total number of ,non,freeholders
voting. 81.
For bond issue. GO; against bond
Issue. 81.
Fourth Ward.
Total vote cast. 81.
For bond issue, 60; against bond
issue. 12.
| IS. ''''"S'
For bond issue, Az against bond
Issue. II.
Total number of -freeholders
| voting, &c.
For bond Issue, 25; against bond
issue, 1.
Money Must Be divided.
! The judges and clerks will turn
1yer the returns to City Clerk
Hudgis today. AT the next meeting
| Of the council steps toward adver,
Using and selling the bonds will
be taken and probably the question
Of how the money to he derived
from the issue is to be divided will
| re settled. Under the act provid-
ing for the issue, the money mus
he divided between the wards SO
hat no ward shall receive less than
S22,500 and no ward more than s27.-
500. It hns heen mutually agree.
that in each ward the money shall
| be spent as the aldermen and co,In-