Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-01
NOTICE OF ELECTION

On the Question of Issuing $4,000
Worth of Twenty Year Coupon Bonds.
NJ OTICE is hereby given of an elec-
~ ton to be held at the various legal
voting precincts in York county on
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1912, be-
tween the legal election hours, and un-
der direction of the managers Of state
and county elections, in compliance
with the following Act Of the General
Assembly Of South Carolina, passed
during the session Of 1912, and found
on page 1,00S of Acts and Joint Res
olutions" of said General Assembly:
"No 512."
"AN ACT, to Provide for an Election
on the Issue of $4,000 in Coupon
Bonds by York County for the Pur-
pose Of Erecting a Courthouse, and
Commissioners to Condemn Land
for a Site for Same.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen.
eral assembly Of the state Of South
Carolina, At the next general election
for state and county offices hereafter,
the question of the issue of seventy
five thousand ($75,0O0) dollars in
twenty year coupon bonds of York
county, shall be submitted to the quail
flied electors of said county, and for
said purposes the commissioners of
election shall provide a separate box
therefor and double the number Of bal
lots as are provided for each county
office to be voted for at said election;
one-half of said ballots shall contain,
plainly written or printed thereon,
For the issue Of bonds" and the other
half, Against the issue of bonds" The
managers shall count the vote, and the
election be declared in the same man.
ner as now provided in case Of county
offices.
Sec. 2. In case a majority of the
votes cast at said election on the ques-
ton of issuance of said bonds be in
favor Of their issuing Of the said
bonds, the county board Of commits
sioners shall issue coupon bonds OF
York county in an amount not to ex-
ceed $4,000, payable twenty years af-
ter date, and bearing rate of interest
not to exceed Al per centum.
Sec. 8. Said bonds shall be signed
by the members of the board of county
commissioners, and their official seal
thereto affixed, and be in amounts Of
$500 each: Provided, That their names
may be Autographed on the coupons
of said bonds.
Sec. 4. The bonds so issued shall be
turned over to the commission herein
after named, and by it sold, and the
proceeds used to erect a court house
for York county in Yorkville.
Sec. 5. That ]. S. Brice, John G.
Anderson and w. S. Wilkerson are
hereby made and constituted COM
mission, to be known as the court
house commission. to employ archi-
tects, adopt plans and specifications,
and to make contracts for the erection
of said court house. Upon its compile
ton, the said commission shall make a
| full and complete itemized report OF
their acts and doings as such to the
board of county commissioners, a copy
of which report shall be filed in the
clerk of the courts office and made a
| permanent record therein: Provided
| That If any Of the commissioners nam
ed in this section SHALL for any cause
refuse or neglect to act. the county su-
pervisor shall have the power to ap-
point a commissioner or commissioners
| in place of the commissioner or COM
missoners refusing or neglecting to
act: Provided further, That each COM
missioner shall receive as compensa-
! ton for his services, the sum of three
hundred (s300) dollars.
Sec. 6. For the purpose of payment
| of the interest on the said bonds, and
to provide a sinking fund for their re-
demption and retirement in case they
are issued. a levy of one mill be, and
the same is hereby assessed on all tax
able property in said county until said
bonds and interest thereon have been
paid, retired and cancelled"
| In accordance with the foregoing act
the required boxes and proper ballots
will be duly provided.
| J. BROWN NEIL,
]. c.. KIRKPATRICK,
w. B. BYERS,
Commissioners of State and County
Elections for York County, S. c.
SO. f. st