Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-08-17

Idaho Of 1911, and acts amendatofy
and supplemental thereto; that said
election was duly held and conducted
in the manner prescribed by said Chap
ter So and amendatory and supple
mental acts; that each and every per
son voting at said election possessed
the qualifications prescribed b. section
2, article 6 of the Constitution of Ida
no, section 357 of the Revised Codes
of Idaho and by said chapter 90 and
amendatory and supplemental acts,
and i'll all respects was at the time of
voting a duly qualified elector and
resident in said Cottonwood Highway
District; that the ballots cast at said
election were duly counted and the re-
turns and declaration of the result of
said election duly certified by the Of
ficers conducting the same, and have
been duly canvassed by this highway
board;
Now, therefore, be it resolved by
the highway board of Cottonwood
Highway District, in Idaho county,
state of Idaho:
l. That the special election held
in Cottonwood Highway District, in
Idaho county, state of Idaho, on the
3lst day of July, 1917, be and the
same is hereby determined and de-
clared to have been duly called, no
ticed and held in strict compliance
with law, as mentioned in the pre-
amble thereof;
2. That the result of said special
election has been duly certified and
returns thereof duly made and can
vassed by this highway board, as set
forth in the preamble thereof, and said
canvass shows that there were 1876
secret ballots cast at said election;
that of said ballots there were 267
ballots ''In favor of issuing bonds to
the amount of $4,000 for the pur-
pose stated in the resolution of July
18, 1917" and SO ballots cast which
were Against issuing bonds to the
amount Of $4,000 for the purpose
stated in the resolution of July Is,
1917" and that the majority in favor
of said bond issue was 2O8;
3. That at said special election
more than two-thirds of the qualified
electors, who were also residents of
the said Cottonwood Highway District,
voting at said election, voted in favor
Of the issuance of the bonds of said
district as set forth in the question
submitted aforesaid; and it is there
by determined and declared that the
said bond proposition has carried by
the requisite two-thirds vote, and that
this highway board is thereby duly
empowered and authorized to issue
the bonds of said district, of the char
acter, to the amount and for the pur-
pose set forth in the proposition as
aforesaid"
The motion was duly seconded by
Commissioner E. L. Jessup, put to a
vote with the following result: All
members of the Board voting aye"
and none voting NO." and the motion
was by the President declared carried
and the foregoing motion duly and
unanimously adopted.
The board thereupon decided to
look into the matter of proper time
and manner of selling the bonds as
we'll the form thereof to be prescribed,
and upon motion duly made and Sec
onded, put to vote and carried, ad-
journed to meet again at the next
regular meeting of this highway board
on August II, 1917, at which time
the matter of said bonds and their is
sue would again be taken up.
AUGUST SCHROEDER,
President of the Highway Board,
Cottonwood Highway District.
Attest:
j. F. JENNY,
Secretary,