The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-03-02
(First published February l6, 1919
TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES PROCLAMA-
TION

For Special Election in Liberal Town
| ship. Seward County, Kansas, in the
| matter of voting on the question of
whether bonds of said township shall
| be issued in aid of The Colorado.
| Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad Com
! pany
To the Qualified Electors of Liberal
4 Township, Seward County, Kansas:
Whereas, on the 9Th day of February,
1917, there was duly presented to the
| Township Board of Liberal Township,
Seward County, Kansas, duly convened
| in special session, petition duly
signed by. more than two-fifths of the
| qualified electors of said township,
praying that an election be held to sub
NIT to the qualified electors of said
the said township shall issue and de-
liver its bonds in the sum of Forty
Thousand Dollars ($40,000) to The
Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma Rail-
road Company to aid said railroad com
pany in securing and paying for lands
upon which to erect or construct shops,
roundhouses or other terminal facilities
and for securing water privileges and
constructing water works and water
pipe lines needed to supply water for
minal facilities or for all or either of
such purposes, such bonds to run not
less than ten years nor more than
thirty years., to be payable to bearer,
per cent per annum. payable semi
annually, and be made payable at the
fiscal agency of the State of Kansas,
which said interest shall be evidenced
by coupons attached to said bonds and
payable at said fiscal agency, provided,
however, that said bonds shall not eN-
coed ten U0) per cent of the taxable prop
erty of said township as determined by
the assessment books of the preceding
year, and provided further that no such
which added to all other outstanding
Indebtedness of said township shall
make the total bonded Indebtedness
thereof more than twenty (20l per
cent of the assessed valuation Of such
township as shown by the assessment
books of the preceding year; and said
bonds to be issued upon the conditions
that said railroad company shall con-
through said township fntersectiong
both the north and south boundary line
thereof, and said bonds shall not be
issued or delivered until said railroad
is built and in operation, and said rail-
road shall be built and in operation on
or before January /, 1919.
| And, whereas, said petition was by
| said Township Board found to be legal
and sufficient in all respects and signed
| by the requisite number of qualified
electors of said township, and it was
further found by said board that the
conditions in said petition are sufficient
and ample for the protection OF said
township, and that the said railroad
company has deposited with the said
board such bond as is required by law.
! And. whereas. it was ordered by said
board that the prayer of said petition
] be granted and that special election
| be held in said Liberal Township on the
9Th day of March, 1917, to submit TO the
| qualified electors of said township the
! proposition of whether the said town
| ship shall aid The Colorado, Kansas and
Oklahoma Railroad Company for the
purposes hereinbefore set forth by is
suing it's bonds in the amount of Forty
Thousand Dollars (S4o,00o) in the man
nor and upon the terms and conditions
| set forth in said petition, and that such
election be held at the usual voting
| places in said township, to-wit:
Precinct No. /, at the Court House in
| the City of Liberal, and Precinct No. 2,
at the Antelope Valley School House.
And, whereas. ii was further ordered
that If majority of the votes cast up
on such proposition be in favor of issu-
| ing such bonds and said RAILROAD conf
pany shall comply with the terms and
conditions contained in said petition.
| then the said boara-shall cause the said
bonds with coupons attached as called
| for by the said petition 70 be signed,
] attested and issued as provided by law,
!; said bonds to be payable thirty years