The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-11-27

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lllIIllNlllHIl
City of Liberal, there shall be
delivered to said railway company,
Sixty-Six Thousand $685. 00.0O)
Dollars of said bonds; or so much
thereof as shall be equivalent to
Six Thousand ($6,OOO.0O) Dollars
per mile of railroad track and side
track constructed by said railway
company between said limits.
O. When said Railway Com
pany shall have complied with the
requirements necessary to entitle it
to receive the bonds referred to
under subdivision "a" and shall in
addition thereto have constructed
and in operation on or before
December 81, 1929 delays due to
Government restrictions, litigation,
labor troubles and other causes
beyond the control of said rail-
way company, eXcepted) its line
of railroad in said township be-
tween such point adjoining the
right of way of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific Railway Company
in said city of Liberal, in said
Township, and some points on the
South or East line in said Township,
in a general southeasterly direction
from said city of Liberal, then up
on tender of stock of the Rail-
way Company as provided above,
there shall be delivered to said Rail
way Company the remaining
Twenty-one Thousand 1921 ,000.OO)
Dollars Of bonds, or so much there
Of as shall be equivalent to Six
Thousand $6,000.00) Dollars per
mile Of railroad track and side track
constructed between said limits.
The said bonds shall be issued and
delivered to said Railway Company
on the condition and provision that
the total amount of bonds hereby
petitioned for shall not exceed ten
per cent Of the taxable property
Of said township as determined by
the assessment books of the pre-
ceding year; and provided further
that the total amount of bonds de-
livered to said railway company
shall not exceed an amount which
when added to all other outstand-
ing bonds of said township, shall
make the total bonded indebtedness
Of said township more than twenty
per cent Of the assessed valuation
of such township as shown by the
: assessment books of the preceding
z year
We further petition your Honor
: able Body to adopt and use the
following form Of ballot in submit
: ting said proposition above petition
ed for to the, qualified electors of
Liberal Township, Seward County,
: Kansas.
ITO vote in favor of any question
submitted upon this ballot, make a
(x) mark in the square after the
Iword Eyes" 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, subscribe for Eight
E|Hundred Seventy (870) shares OF
ElOne Hundred ($100.00O Dollars
Z leach Of the capital stock Of The
EIKansas and Oklahoma Railway Com
lpany, its successors and assigns
Eland deliver in exchange therefor
alone Hundred Seventy-Four (174)
W Bonds of Five Hundred ($5OO.OO)
= Dollars each of said Township
ll payable in thirty 800 years with
y interest at the rate Of Six 70 pei
Z cent? per cent per annum, payable
semi-annually?"
!. Ne, .s s.
: Respectfully submitted,
And whereaSfS on the 18th day
Z of November, bic the said boarrt
= in special session called and helt
lin all respects as required by Law
: ordered that such election be hell
ION Tuesday the 23rd day O.
= December, 1919, at the usual vot
III ing precincts in said township, to
: wit: Liberal City Court House ant
= Antelope Valley School House, am
: it was further ordered that tn
: township trustee of said Liberia
: Township, Seward County, Kansas
= duly make ana issue tnIs PloS,a'i
= ton for the date and places desig
= mated, and that he give thirty day
= printed notice in the Liberal Demo
= crat and Liberal News, weekly news
= papers published and having a gen
= eral circulation in said Townshl
= and County; and that the sal
= trustee post notices as required b
= law.
. Therefore, l, G. M. LeMonniel
. Township Trustee of Liberal Tow,r
= ship, Seward County, Kansas
. virtue of authority in me by Ia
. vested and in pursuance Of tn
above order of said board, do herr
m: by give public proclamation and du
III notice that special election sha