The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1917-09-14
NOTICE.

School District, County of Cohb
State OF Georgia, are hereby notified
that ON the 9th day of October
1917, an election will be held at the
school site in Smyrna School District.
at which time will be submitted to
the qualified voters thereof for their
determination the question of wheth-
er bonds shall be issued by said
school district in the aggregate
amount of Twenty Thousand (S2A.-
ooO.00) Dollars for the purpose of
building and equipping a school
house IN said District. All bonds
shall bear date of July 1st, 1917. Said
bonds shall be twenty 600 in nrm-
Der, OF One Thousand $1,000.OO)
Dollars each; shall be numbered one
% to twenty 600 both inclusive.
and bear interest from date at sig
per cent (6%) per annum, payable
semi-annually on January 1st and
July 1st, of each year, said bonds
shall mature Two Thousand $4,000
O0) Dollars on the 1st day of Jan
uary, 1928, and Two Thousand (s2.-
OO0.O0) Dollars on the 1st day of
January of each year thereafter. up
to and including January -1st, 1887,
when all of said bonds shall be fully
paid, the principal and interest of
said bonds to be payable in Gold Coin
of the United States of America of
the present standard Of weight and
fineness.
This election is called in pursuance
of resolution of the Board of
Trustees of the Smyrna School Dis
trict on the 21st day of August, 1917,
said resolution being as follows:
WHEREAS, heretofore certain
qualified voters of Smyrna School
District, to-wit: one-fourth of said
voters of said District, did petition
the Trustees of Smyrna School Dis
trict to call an election for the pur-
pose of determining whether or not
bonds should be issued for the pur-
pose of building and equipping a
school house for said Smyrna School
District; and,
WHEREAS, the Board of Trus-
tees of said Smyrna School District
did by proper resolution authorize an
election for the purposes of deter
mining whether or not said bonds
should be issued for the aforesaid
purposes of erecting and equipping
a school house, fixing the amount of
said bonds at Fifteen Thousand
($15, 000.00) Dollars and prescrib-
ing the date of the issue of said
bonds, the maturity thereof, the de-
nomination thereof, and the rate of
interest thereon, and,
WHEREAS, an election was had
on the 18th day of March, 1917, au-
thorizing the issue of said bonds in
accordance with the aforesaid &C
ton of the Board of Trustees; and,
WHEREAS, proceedings were
had in Cobb Superior Court to vail
date the said bonds and a decree was
taken in said valuation proceedings
on the 18th day of April, 1917; and
WHEREAS, the said bonds. have
never been issued and it has since
appeared that said issue of bonds
will not be sufficient for providing
and equipping the necessary school
house in said Smyrna School District,
and that a further and larger issue
of bonds will be necessary; and,
WHEREAS, one-fourth of the quail
flied voters of said Smyrna School
District, with knowledge of the afore-
said facts, have again, and do now,
petition for an election, petitioning
the Trustees of said School District
for an election for the purpose of
determining whether or not bonds
should be issued for the purpose of
erecting a school house in and for
said District and equipping the same
and,
WHEREAS, the said Board of
Trustees of said Smyrna School Dis
trict has determined that Twenty
Thousand ($2O,000.00) Dollars in
bonds will be needed to build and
properly equip suitable school house
for said Smyrna School District; and
WHEREAS, said Twenty Thous-
and ($20,000.00) Dollars of bonds
for said purposes is within the Stat
utory and Constitutional limitation
upon the indebtedness which said
Smyrna School District can lawful
ly create;
"NOW, THEREFORE, be it re-
solved by the said Board of Trustees
of said Smyrna School District that
acting upon the application of one
fourth of the qualified voters of said
District now on file in the office of
said Board of Trustees, as provided
bv the Act of the General Assembly