Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-10-10
Order Of Court.
State of West Virginia,
County OF Jefferson, Set

County OF JEFFERSON, SCI:
At Regular Term OF the County Court
of said County and State, continued and
held at the Court House thereof on We'd
nesday, August IA, 1912, beginning at 10
O'Clock A. NJ, present, John I. Burns
President; Daniel Heilebower, n: K.
Roberts, N. T. Snyder and J. w. RIDER,
Commissioners.
In the matter of the petition of H. c.
Getzendanner and others for a Free
Bridge across the Shenandoah River.
Whereas, the County Court OF Jeffer-
son County, West Virginia, did, by an
order entered on the Bird day OF June.
1912, resolve to submit to the voters o.
Jefferson County the issuance OF $5O,OOO
of five per cent coupon bonds OF the
County OF Jefferson for the purpose OF
erecting free bridge across the Shenan-
doah River at or near Bloomery, on the
terms therein set forth, and accepting the
offer of H. c. Getzendanner TO build,
without cost 10 the county, the roads
shown in report and survey made by
lanes K. Hendricks, S. ]. c., and filed
with said Court, under the supervision
and approval of said James K. Hendricks,
and the further offer on the part OF the
said GetZendanner to acquire, without
cost to the county, the rights OF way set
forth in said report and survey and own
ed by the Shannondale Timber Company
and George H. Hagley;
Now, therefore, be II resolved, that at
the general election to be held on The 9th
day OF November, 1912, in the county OF
Jefferson, a poll be taken. as required by
law, on the question OF issuing 500, 900 OF
Jefferson County bonds, for the purposes
above set forth, on tile following terms
and conditions
% Said bonds shall be one hundred
in number, of the denomination OF five
hundred dollars each, and numbered from
one to one hundred, conSecutively, max
ing the aggregate $50, 600.
T2) Said bonds shall bear date on the
1st day of April, 1913, and they shall be
payable on the lSt day OF April, l947, at
the Office of the Sheriff OF efferson Coun-
ty, West Virginia, and they shall bear in
terest from date at the rate OF five per
centum per annum they shall have cou-
pons attached for the payment OF the in
tereSt thereon, and said coupons Shall be
for $3.50 each, and shall be payable
semi-annually at the same place as the
bonds are payable, on the first day OF
October and the first day OF April in each
year, and so on until the bonds mature,
unless sooner redeemed or cancelled pur-
suant to law.
~ Said bonds shall be payable by
"The County Court OF Jefferson County
and shall be signed by the President and
the Clerk respectively of said County
Court, and the corporate seal OF the said
County Court shall be affixed thereto and
shall be payable to bearer. And the in
tereSt coupons shall likewise be so paya-
BILE, and bear the engraved or printed sig
nature OF the Clerk OF said Court, and they
shall be cut off when paid.
az Said bonds shall refer on their
face TO section "a, chapter 80, Code of
West Virginia OF 1906, as amended by
chapter 81 OF the Acts OF the Legislature
of 1909, and chapter 80 OF the Acts OF the
Legislature of 1911, under which they are
issued, and shall contain reservation of
the right of said obligor therein to pay off
and redeem the same after ten years from
the date OF issue as provided by this Or
der.
81 Said bonds, after having been ad-
or newspapers for two weeks previous to
such sale, Shan be sold at public sale to
the highest bidder or bidders, in writing,
for cash, at not less than their par value.
And the proceeds arising from said sale
Of said bonds shall be used for the pur-
pose OF building and completing free
bridge at Bloomery at or near the end OF
the road leading from Charles Town to
Bloomery in Jefferson County, West Viz
ginia.
(6) Al any time after ten years from
the date OF said bonds, the County Court
of Jefferson County may redeem any or
all of said bonds, and to fhis end may
from time to time direct the Clerk of said
Court to give notice by publication to the
holder or holders of the bonds to be re-
deemed that on or after day named, the
designated bond or bonds, with any &C
crued and unpaid interest, will be paid
upon presentation; that if not presented
they shall cease to bear interest after the
day named that said notice shall be pub
lished for two successive weeks in some
newspaper in Jefferson County, West
Virginia, prior TO such designated day of
payment. Said bonds shall on their face
refer TO this order, and shall state that
they are redeemable by the obligator at
any time after ten years from the date
thereof in the manner herein set forth.
Be il resolves further: That at the said
general election, the ballots to be used
for the taking OF the poll herein provid-
ed for shall be the same as those used in
voting for officers for State and county
offices and school officers, and there shall
be printed thereon the words:
"A poll TO authorize or reject the is
suance and sale of Jefferson County Bonds
in the amount of Sc, 900, for the purpose
OF building and completing free bridge
across the Shenandoah River at Bloom
cry, in Jefferson County, West Virginia,
IN pursuance OF the order of the Coanty
Court OF said County entered on the l4th
day Of August, 1912, and the orders there
in referred to.
For the Bond Issue.
Against the Bond issue"
Be it further resolved that the County