The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-05-16
Election Order.

For $25, 100000 permanent street
, and Improvement bonds.
A resolution providing that the
city council shall call an election to
be held on the 18th day of June, A.
ID. 1912, at which election the ques-
ton shall be submitted to the prop
erty tax paying qualified voters of
the city of Waxahachie, Ellis coun-
ty, Texas, as to whether or not the
city council of said city shall issue
twenty-five thousand ($25, 100000
dollars in bonds for the purpose of
permanent street improvements, the
construction and paving the streets
of the city of Waxahachie, Ellis
county, Texas, and providing how
said election shall be held and who
shall hold the same.
Whereas, the city council of said
city of Waxahachie, Ellis county,
Texas, deems it advisable to issue
bonds Of said city for the purpose
hereinafter mentioned:
Therefore, it is hereby ordered by
the city council of the said city of
Waxahachie, Ellis county, Texas,
that an election be held on the nth
day of June, A. D. 1912, at which
election the following proposition
shall be submitted;
/ First, shall the city council of
/ the said city of Waxahachie, Ellis
county, Texas, be authorized to is
'Isue bonds of said city in the sum of
twenty-five thousand ($25, 100000
dollars, of the denomination of
100000 each, payable in forty
/ (4O) years and optional after TWEEN
ty (20) years, said bonds to bear
4 interest at the rate of per cent per
annum, payable semi-annually on
( the first day of January and the
first day of July each year, and to
/ levy a tax sufficient to pay the in
terest on said bonds and create
sinking fund sufficient to redeem
them at maturity, for the purpose Of
/ permanent street improvements,
the construction and paving the
streets within the said city of Wax
ahachie, Ellis county, Texas.
Second, The said election shall
be held in Ward No. l at John F.
Wyatt's office in the city of Waxa-
hachie, Ellis county, Texas, and the
following named persons are here
by appointed managers of said cleo
ton J. B. Wilson, presiding judge;
John Wyatt and Charley D. Teutsch,
assistant judges.
Third, The election shall be held
in Ward No. 2 at A. D. Mackoy's BIZ
cycle Repair shop in the said city
of Waxahachie, Ellis county, Texas
: and the following named persons
are hereby appointed managers OF
, said election: r. II. Connally, pre-
siding Judge; George Alderman and
Pat Templeton, assistant judges.
: Fourth. The said election shall b.
held In Ward No. 3, at the CITY
Hall in the said city of Waxahachie
Ellis county, Texas, and the follow
ing nan ed persons are hereby. ap
pointed managers of said election
]. NJ. Hill, presiding Judge; j. B
Dunaway and w. D. Ryburn, assist
ant judges.
Said election shall be held unde
: the provisions of Chapter 149, Act
= of the Twenty-Fifth Legislature, tn
laws of 1899, of the State of Texas
: land only qualified voters who ar
= property tax payers of said city o
: Waxahachie, Ellis county, Texas
), shall be allowed to vote, and all VIC
ters desiring to support the propc
sition to issue bonds shall hav
written or printed on their ballot
the words,
# "For the Issuance of Bonds"
4 and those opposed to the propositio
i to the issuing of bonds shall hav
"a written or printed on their ballot
> the words,
a against the Issuance of Bonds"
J The manner Of holding said cleo
ton shall be governed by the law
Of the state of Texas, regulatin
m regular elections
A copy Of this order. signed by tn
I mayor Of the city of Waxahachif
RI Ellis county, Texas shall serve a
d proper notice Of said election, an
n the mayor is directed to cause nc
i tice Of said election to be posted 0
.e the places designated for holdin
said election at least thirty go