Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-04-29
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ELECTION PROCLAMATION

ELECTION PROCLAMATION
Whereas, on the 18th day Of
April, 1910, there was presented
to the Board of County Commis-
sicnerS Of Barton County, Kan
saS a petition asking that an
election be called and ordered for
the qualified electors of South
Bend Township, Barton County,
Kansas, to vote upon the prOpO-
= sltlOn as to whether said Town
ship Of South Bend shall subscribe
to the capital stock of the Kan
saS Northwestern Railway Com
pany and issue in payment there
for, bonds of said South Bend
Township to the amount and un-
der the conditions set forth in said
petition, and whereas, the said
Board Of County Commissioners
old, according to law, convene in
special session and duly determine
after investigation, that said pc
htlon was signed by a majority
Of the legal voters of said Town
o ship of South Bend, and did as by
law required, after ascertaining
such facts, issue the following
order:
Order.
Whereas a petition signed by H
L. WOOdburn and 60 other persons
the same being a majority of the
legal voters of South Bend Town
ship, County of Barton, State of
Kansas, has been presented to the
Board of County Commissioners
of the County of Barton asking
that a special election be called
and ordered in said Township Of
South Bend, County of Barton for
the purpose of voting on a prOpO-
sitiOn to subscribe to the capital
stock of the Kansas Northwestern
Railway Company and issue the
bonds Of said Township Of South
Bend, County of Barton, in pay
ment therefor; which petition, ex-
elusive of the signatures, is in
words and figures as follows, to-
wit:
To the County Commissioners Of
Barton County, Kansas:
We, the undersigned, resident
tax payers and legal voters Of the
Township of South Bend, in Bar
ton County, Kansas, respectfully
petition your honorable body to
submit to the qualified electors of
South Bend township, for their
acceptance or rejection, at a spvc-
ial election to be Orderd by your
honorable body, under and in pur-
suance of the provisions of Chap
ter "a, Article 2, General Statutes
of Kansas, 1901, the following
proposition, with terms and cOndi
tiOnS herein specified, tO-wit:
Shall the Township of South
Bend, in Barton County, Kansas,
subscribe for 12O shares of 500
each, of the capital stock of the
Kansas Northwestern Railway
Company, a corporation organized
and doing business under the laws
of the State of Kansas and in pay
ment therefor issue to said rail-
way Company Twelve bonds OF
said Township, of the denOmina-
ton of $1,000 each, payable to
bearer at the fiscal agency at the
city of Topeka, Kansas, twenty
years after the date thereof, and
bearing interest at the rate OF
AZ per cent, payable annually, fol
which interest coupons shall be al
tached, payable at the fiscal agen
cy of the state Of Kansas, at To,
peka.
This subscription Of stock and
issue of bonds shall be upon the
following conditions, viz: Al
soon as said proposition shall bt
determined in the affirmative, by
a canvass Of the votes cast at tht
said election, the Board of Count
Commissioners of said County o
Barton for and in behalf Of SAX
South Bend Township shall Orde,
the County Clerk Of said count.
to make and the County Clerl
shall make, said subscription Il
the name of said TwOnship TO
said 12O shares of the capital stOc
of said Railway Company; an
when the railroad of said Com
pany shall be built, of standar
gauge and completed and in OF