The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-06
EGAL
Hundred Dollars Cs1, 10000?
SHALL THE FOLLOWING BE
ADnUoTTHD0


ADOPTED?
Shall the Mayor and Board of Com
! mlSS1onerS of The City of Topeka, Kan
| sas, be authorized to borrow. the sum of
| One Thousand Four Hundred Dollars
| ($1, 100000, and issue the bonds of said city
| in that amount, to pay for the construc-
| ton of reinforced concrete arch wagon
bridge eighteen QS) feet long and sixty
| GOD feet wide, over Biddle Creek on Tenth
avenue, in said city?''
| SHALL THE FOLLOWING BE
ADOPTED?
Shall the Mayor and Board of Com
missioners of The City of Topeka, Kansas,
| be authorized to construct a reinforced
concrete arch wagon and foot bridge, one
hundred thirty Q30) feet long and twenty
five (25) feet wide, with a twenty (2O) foot
roadway and one % five 90 foot walk
over Shunganunga Creek on Davies street,
in said city, at a cost of Six Thousand
Eight Hundred Fifty Dollars CSC, s5O.oO) p
SHALL THE FOLLOWING BE
ADOPTED?
Shall the Mayor and Board of Com
misstoners of The City of Topeka, Kan
sas, be authorized to borrow the sum of
Six Thousand Eight Hundred Fifty Dol
lars (S6,650.00, and issue the bonds of
said city in that amount to pay for the
construction of a reinforced concrete arch
wagon and foot bridge one hundred thirty
030 feet long and twenty-five (25) feet
one % five 90 foot walk over Shunga-
nunga Greek on Davies street, in said
city,"
ADOPTED?
Shall the Mayor and Board of Com
missioners of The City of Topeka, Kan
sas, be authorized to construct a rein
forced concrete arch wagon bridge forty
(4O) feet long and twenty COO feet wide over
Butcher Greek on Twenty first street, in
Hundred Dollars ($1,500.O0)?'
SHALL THE FOLLOWING BE
ADOPTED?
Shall the Mayor and Board of Com
missioners of The City of Topeka, Kan
sas, be authorized to borrow the sum of
one Thousand Five Hundred Dollars
($ls5O00 0), and issue the bonds of said CITY
ton of a reinforced concrete arch wagon
bridge, forty (40) feet long and twenty (2O)
feet wide, over Butcher Greek on Twenty
first street, in said city?''
The ballots used at said election snail
have printed thereon each of said pro-
positions in words and figures as above
set forth.
If majority of the votes cast at said
election shall be in favor of any, or ALL
strucdon of said bridges, then the Mayor
and Board of Commissioners of said City
OF Topeka shall be authorized to construct
each such bridge, the proposition for the
construction of which shall have received
the majority of the votes cast at such
election.
If d majority of the votes cast at said
election shall be in favor of any, or all,
of said propositions authorizing the Dor
rowing OF money and the issuing of bonds
OF said city of Topeka to pay for the con-
struction of said bridges, then the Mayor
and Board of Commissioners of said city
shall be authorized to borrow money and
issue the bonds of said city, in the amount
specified in each of said propositions so
receiving the majority of the votes cast
at such election, and use said money to
pay for the construction of said bridges.
Said bonds shall be issued in denomina-
lions of not less than five hundred dol
lars ($5OO.O0) nor more than one thousand
dollars ($100o.00), and the same shall run
for a period of twenty coo years and shall
bear interest at the rate of four and one
half per centum (41za6) per annum. pay
able sen1iannually, and such bonds shall
not be sold for less than their face value
and no commission or compensation shall
be allowed for their sale Before any of
the said bonds shall be issued and before
any of the contracts shall be let for the
construction of any of said bridges, plans
and specifications therefor shall be on
file and approved and adopted by the
Mayor and Board of Commissioners and
such bridges shall be constructed in ac-
cordance with said plans and specifica-
tons No contract shall be let for the
construction of any of such bridges to
exceed in cost the amount above specified
in the respective proposition therefor.
All legally qualified voters of The City
of Topeka, Kansas, both male and female.
are entitled to vote at said election.
Said election shall be held under and
pursuant to the general election laws of
the State of Kansas; the polls shall be
opened at s o'clock A. NJ. in the several
not be closed until seven o'clock p. NJ.
of said day; and the selection of persons
to serve as judges and clerks at said cleo
ton, in each of. the election precincts OF
said city, and the canvass of the returns
and the declaration of the result thereof, |
shall be done and carried on at the time |
and in the manner provided by law.
In Witness Whereof L have hereunto
set my hand, this 9Th day of September, |
1912.
TSealJ ]. B. Billiard,
Mayor of The City of Topeka, Kansas.
Attest: c. 3. BURGE,
City Clerk of The City of Topeka, Kansas. |