Barbour County index., 1909-11-03

election shall be as follows:
SHALL TIE FOLLOWING BE ADOPTED?
Shall the township of e.
WOOD, in the County of Bar
ber. in the State of Kansas,
extend aid TO The Kiowa,
Hardtner & Pacific Railway Yes
Company, by subscribing
for Eight Thousand S,090.- -i
OO) Dollars of the capital
stock of SAID Company, the NO
same to be paid for by issu.
ing and delivering TO said
Company-a like amount of
the bonds of said township.
all In manner and form as
provided by law?
And whereas, said Boar1 of County Com
mlssloners. upon the presentation of said pc
ution found that the same was in due and le-
gai form. and was signed by more than two
nfths l2-5) of the resident tax payers and a
majority OF the legal voters of said township
and said Board of County Commissioners
thereupon granted the prayer of said petition
ana ordered that special election be held at
the usual and legal voting place in said town.
ship. on
TUESDAY, the 23rd Day of NOVEMBER.
1909, to determine whether said subscription
or loan should be made, and whether said
bonds should be issued in payment of said
subscription or loan. upon the terms and con-
olt1ons set out in said petition; and said Board
OF county Commissioners further ordered
tnat in the event a majority of the voters
voting at said election cast their ballots in
favor OF the said proposition, then the County
Clerk of said county should forthwith, for in
benalt and in the name of said township,
make such subscrlpt ON or loan in the afOre-
said sum of Eight Thousand Dollars.
And said Board of County Commissioners
further ordered that when said Railway Co.,
has compiled with the conditions stated in the
said petition. that then the Chairman of the
said Board of County Commissioners and the
County Clerk of said county should sign and
attest the bones of said township, in said
amount, in all respects as required by said
petition, and issue and deliver the same as
10 said petition required, in exchange for q
like amount of the capital stock of said Com.
pany.
And the said Board of County Commission.
ers further ordered that the form of ballots
to be used at said election should be in the
form stated in said petition; that the under
signed, as sheriff Of said county should Gully
election, and post and publish the same in the
manner required by law.
Now. therefore. l, ]. D. Mathews, Sheriff OF
Barber county, Kansas. by virtue of authority
by law in me vested, and in obedience to the
above order and direction of the Board oi
County Commissioners of said county, dc
hereby make public proclamation and give
due notice that special election will be held
at the usual and legal voting place in ElwooG
township. Barber county. Kansas. on Tues
day, the 23rd day of November. 1909, ito de
termine whether said township shall make
such subscription or loan. and issue said
bonds. upon the conditions set out in said
petition.
Such election shall in all respects be con
Quoted and the ballots therefor distributed
and returns made and the result ascertaineG
and declared, all as provided by law for gen
eral electors.
In witness whereof. 1. the Sheriff of Barber
county, Kansas. have hereunto set my hand
at the City OF Medicine Lodge, in said county
Seal. J. D. MATHEWS.
Sheriff of Barber County, Kansas.
Attest: 8. W. IRELAND, County Clerk.