The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
LEGAL.


eral funds of said city, except interest
luhd ana SINGING fund proylded.s 5ilaI no
the provisions of stlsis act; and provided
further that no city of the second class
this act to exceed fifty thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. That the bonds issued under this
act shall be signed by the mayor and at
tested by the city clerk under the seal OF
the city, and the interest coupons shall be
signed by the mayor and clerk, or their
Autographed signatures may be printed
thereon; said bonds may be issued in any
denomination from one hundred dollars to
at any time not exceeding twenty years,
at the office of the state treasurer in the
city of Topeka, Kansas. They shall not
be issued sold or exchanged for other evil
dences of Indebtedness of such city at less
than par, shall not exceed in amount the
actual amount of outstanding bonds and
floating Indebtedness of the city on April
first, 1911, shall not bear a greater rate of
interest than not to exceed five per cent.
per annum payable semi-annuaily; that
! the mayor and councilmen of said city
may cause such floating Indebtedness to
| be refunded by ordinance, specifying the
particular indebtedness to be refunded,
| the amount of bonds to be issued, the time
rate of interest that the same shall bear,
and each of said bonds SHAH contain
| visions of this act, which recital shall be
| conclusive that the proper ordinance au-
| thorizing such refunding has been passed
| and that all other conditions precedent to
| the issuing of said bonds have been COM
| piled with, and that said bonds have been
| issued to refund valid bonds ard floating
| Indebtedness of the city issuing the same:
provided further, that all bonds issued I'm
| der this act shall be executed within three
months from the passage of this act.
| Sec. 3. That a record shall be kept by
the clerk of the different cities issuing
and when the same shall become due, and
| all written evidences of Indebtedness re-
paid in full ma marked in a plain manner
| across the same, and such cancelled OBJ
| legation shall be carefully preserved in the
| office of the city clerk or destroyed by
| the mayor and council. a register of the
| number, amount and date of issuing the
| same having been first made by the city
| clerk.
Sec. 4. That in every instance in which
any city shall issue bonds under this act.
mayor and council thereof to annually
| levy, at the time of making the levy OF
| other taxes, a tax sufficient in amount
| to pay the interest upon said bonds and
| the coupons as they become due, and,
issued and annually thereafter until the
maturity of said bonds, to levy tax SUI
ficient for their final redemption, as the
Sec. s. None of the restrictions and lin
itations contained in any of the statutes
of the state of Kansas heretofore enacted
| shall apply to or in any way affect the is
suance of the bonds authorized by this act
or the bonds SO issued.
| Sec 6. That any officer who shall issue
or aid in or consent to issuing any bonds
refund the floating Indebtedness of the
| city issued or accrued prior to April first,
1911. or shall misappropSiate or use, or aid
| Of the funds raised by taxation for the
purpose of paying the principal or interest
of such bonds for any other purpose, snail
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof shall be fined in q
misappropriated or used and imprisoned
in the county jail for not less than three
months nor more than twelve months, ana ana
amount so nlisappropriated or used, to be
prosecuted by any holder of any bond
| issued under this act or by the city.
| Sec. Z. That all acts and parts of acts
in conflict with this act are hereby re-
! pealed; provided that this act shall not
ions of general law authorizing cities of
the second class to refund their bonded
Sec. s. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after it's publication in
the official state paper.
/ I hereby certify that the above bill orig
mated in the Senate, and passed that body
February IL, 1911,
RICHARD J.. HOPKINS.
Il President of the Senate.
4 WALTER A JOHNSON,
Il Secretary of the Senate.
| Passed the House March z. 1911,
G. H. BUCHANAN,
i Speaker ss Of ST the / e H ERs
Chief Clerk of the House.
>ti'- ''- N-''- - ~ W. f. STUBS.
State of Kansas.
office of the Secretary of State
II I, CHAS. H. SESSIONS, Secretary OF
State of the State Of Kansas, do hereby
certify that the above and foregoing is a
correct copy of the original enrolled bill
now on file in my office.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have
hereunto subscribed my name
TSeaII and affixed my official seal
this IS day of March 1911
CHAS H. SESSIONS,
Secretary of State.
|, By J. T. BOTKIN.
Asst SECRETARY of state.