The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-05-15

than two-fifths of the qualified elect
ors of Liberal Township in Seward
County, Kansas, in pursuance of
Chapter go of the Session Laws of
the State of Kansas for the year
1908, and the laws to which it is
supplemental and amendatory, here
by respectfully petition your honor
able body to submit, in pursuance of
said law, to the qualified electors of
Liberal Township, for their accept
ance or rejection, at special cleo
ton to be ordered by your honor
able body, the following proposition
upon the terms and conditions here
matter set forth:
Shall the Township of Liberal in
the County of Seward in the State of
Kansas, issue its bonds in the sum
of $4,000, in denominations of
$4,000 each to The Kansas & Okla
homa Railway Company, its success
sors or assigns, to aid said Company
in securing and paying for lands up
on which to erect or construct shops,
roundhouses or other terminal facili-
ties in said township, said bonds to
become payable to bearer thirty 1907
years after date thereof, with option
to pay same at any time after ten
years from date, and to bear inter-
est at six (6) per cent per annum,
payable semi-annually and be made
payable at the fiscal agency of the
State of Kansas, in the City of To-
peka.
The said bonds referred to above
shall be issued and delivered to said
railway company upon the following
conditions, i. e.:
When said the Kansas & Oklahoma
Railway Company has its track con-
structed from its point of connection
with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific Railway in the City of Liberal
to any point within Liberal Town
ship east or south Of the limits of the
city of Liberal upon its route to Okla
homa and has acquired title to two
or more acres of land adjoining its
right of way in said township on or
before December 81, 1920, then the
first installment of $20,000.00 of
said bonds shall be delivered to it.
When said the Kansas & Oklahoma
Railway Company has complied with
the requirements necessary to re-
ceive the first installment of $780,
100000 Of said bonds, and in addition
has its track constructed from its
point of connection with the track of
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railway in the City of Liberal to any
point in Liberal Township west or
north of the limits of the City of
Liberal on or before December 81,
1922, when the remaining $50, 100000
of said bonds shall be delivered to
it. Delays by litigation, government
restrictions or other causes beyond
the control of said railway excepted.
We further petition your honor
able body to adopt and use the fol-
lowing form of ballot in submitting
said proposition above petitioned for
to the qualified voters of Liberal
Township, Seward County, Kansas:
"To vote in favor of any question
submitted upon this ballot make a
cross X mark in the square after
the word Yes To vote against it
make a similar mark in the square
after the word Mo-
Shall the following be adopted:
Shall Liberal Township in Seward
County, Kansas, issue and deliver to
the Kansas & Oklahoma Railway
Company, its successors or assigns,
eighty bonds of $4,000 each of said
Township, payable in thirty years
with interest at the rate of six icy
per cent per annum, payable semi
annually, to aid said railway COM
pany in securing and paying for
lands upon which to erect or con-
struct shops, roundhouses or other
terminal facilities, or for securing
water privileges and constructing
water works and water pipe lines
needed to supply water for such
shops, roundhouses or other terminal
facilities?"