Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-11-17
First Published in The Barber County Index
Oct. 20. 1903.
Legal Notice Of Special Election
To be Held
Tuesday, November %, 1909.

Notice is hereby given that on the 10th day of
october, 1903, there was presented to the Board
OF county Com nlssioners of Barber county,
Kansas, said Board being duly convened in
regular session. petition signed by two-fifths
t%9) OF the resident tax payers anG q MAORI
" or the legal voters of Eiwood towns hip, in
Barber county, Kansas, praying said Board
OF county commissioners TO submit to the
Qualined voters of said township a PROPOSE
ton that the said Elwood township aid The
klowa, Hardtner & Pacific Railway Company
by subscribing to its capital stock or loaning
the credit OF the said township TO the said
Railway Company. IN the sum of Eight Thous-
and Dollars and issuing the bonds of the said
township therefor in like amount. in payment
lions as set forth in said petition. which petit
ton. signatures being omitted, is in the words
and figures following, to-wit:
PETITION.
To the Honorable Board of County Commits
sioners of Barber County, in the State of
Kansas.
The undersigned being and constituting more
than twotfths of the resident tax payers of
Elwood township.ih Barber county, Kansas, do
hereby respectfully petition your honorable
body to call special election in said town.
ship of Elwood, for the purpose of submitting
to the qualified voters of SAID township a
proposition 10 extend aid to The kiowa,
Hardtner & Pacific Railway Company by SUBJ
scribing for Eight Thousand 0Ol Dol
lars of the capital stock of said Con pany, said
stock to be paid for by issuing and delivering
to said Company like amount of the bonds
of said township, all in manner and form as
provided by law, the said bonds to be issued
in denominations of Five Hundred (S500.00)
Dollars each. to be payable to bearer at the
fiscal agency of the State of Kansas. in the
City of New York. in the state of New York,
twenty years after the date thereof, and to
bear interest from date at the rate of five per
cent per annum, payable semi-annualy. the
interest thereon to be evidenced by coupons
thereto attached the same to be payable at
such bonds shall be issued until the said Rail-
way Company shall have completed and put
into operation a line of standard guage rail-
road, commencing at point on the east line
of said township and extending in westerly
direction to the town of Hardtner, in SAID
township.
The form of the ballots to be used at such
election shall be as follows:
SHALL THE FOLLOWING BE ADOPTED:
Shall the township of e.
wood, in the County of Bar
Der, in the State of Kansas,
extend aid to The kiOwa,
Hardtner s. Pacific Railway Yes
Company, by subscribing
for Eight Thousand (SS. 000.- -- -
00l Dollars worth of the cap NJ
ital stock of said Company. NJ
the same to be paid for by
issuing and delivering to
said Company like amount
of the bonds of said town.
ship, all in manner and
form as provided by law!
upon pres entation of said petition. found that
the same was in due and legal form. and was
signed by more than two-f1fths go of the res.
ident tax payers and majority OF the legaI
voters of said ElwoOd township; and SAID
Board of County, Commissioners thereupon
granted the prayer OF said petition ana order,
ed special election to be held at the usual
and legal voting place in said township on
TUESDAY. The 2SRO Day of NOVEMBER,
1909, to determine whether said subscription
or loan shall be made. and whether SAID oonds
shall be issued in payment OF said su0scrlp
ton or loan, upon the terms and conditions
set out in said petition.
And said Board of County Commissioners
further ordered that in the event majority
of the voters voting at said special eiectlon
cast their ballots in favor OF SAID proposition
then the county clerk of said county shall
forthwith for and ON behalf. and in the name
of said Elwood township, su DScr1be TO the cap
ital stock of The Kiowa, Hardtner & Pacific
Railway Company or loan the credit OF said
township thereto, in the said sum OF Elgnl
Thousand Dollars.
And said Board of County Commissioner
further ordered that when said Railway Com
pany has complied with the conditions stated
in said petition that then the Chairman of the
said Board of County Commissioners, and the
County Clerk of said county, shall duly sign
the bonds Of said Elwood township, in said
amount. in all respects as required by said
petition, in exchange for like amount of the
capital stock of said Company:
-
er order that the form of ballot to be used al
said special election should be in the form stat
ed in said petition, and that said special cleo
ton should be called. held, and the returns I,
thereof made and canvassed. and the result
declared, in all respects as provided by Law
for the holding Of general elections.
And it ia further ordered by. said Board Of
County Commissioners that legal notice OF
said special election he published in some
newspaper published and having q genera
circulation in said county and township.
Wherefore the Board of County Commits
sioners of Barber county, Kansas. hereby give
public notice that said special election; &C
held in said Elwood township, Barber county
Kansas, at the usual and legal voting place IL
SAID township, on Tuesday. the 23rd day OF
November, 1909. between the hours designat
In witness whereof, the said Board of Coun
ty COMMISSIONERS have caused this notice tt
be signed and attested by the County Clerk OF
said county, on this 10th day of October, 1909
RILEY LAKE.
Chairman.
BE. WADswORTH,
Commissioner.
The Board of County Commissioners of Bar
Der County, Kansas.