Monroe City Democrat., 1919-10-10
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION
Estate of Missouri)
)SS.

County, Missouri, August Adjourned
Term, A. D., 1919.
Order of the county Court Author
izing Bond Election.
The County Court of Monroe Coun-
ty, Missouri, met at the regular Aug
ust Adjourned Term, A. D., 1919 Of the
said County Court, held at Paris, Mis-
souri,, on the 18th day of September,
A. D., 1919, with the following men,
bers of said Court present, to-wit:
E. M. Lipp, J. D. Pryor and A. G.
Dooley, Judges; E. M. Lipp, Presiding
Judge, presiding. Thereupon the fol-
lowing proceedings among others
were had to-wit:
1t appearing to the court that the
following petition with map attach
ed) eve the undersigned tax-paying
citizens of Monroe County, Missouri,
respectfully petition the Honorable
County Court of said County and
State, to call special election for the
purpose of voting a Bond Issue in the
total sum of Nine Hundred and Sew
enty Two Thousand Dollars ($972,-
000) for the following purposes to-
witt
1st. For the grading and construct
ing of a system of hard surface roads,
as shown by the map hereto attach
ed and made a part of the petition,
the sum of Eight Hundred and Sew
enty Two Thousand Dollars ($872,-
OOO).
End. For the grading, bridging and
dragging all roads in said County,
not included in said map, sum not
to exceed One Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($100,000), signed by more
than Two Hundred Taxpaying Citi-
zens of Monroe County, Missouri, has
been duly presented and filed with
the Clerk of this Court, requesting
the Court to submit the proposition to
the qualified Voters of Monroe Coun-
ty, Missouri, to issue the bonds of
Monroe County, Missouri, in the To-
tai Sum of Nine Hundred and Sew
enty Two Thousand Dollars, ($972,-
000) for the purposes in said petition
described.
The Court upon Examination and
consideration of said petition finds
that it contains the names of more
than Two Hundred Taxpaying Citi-
zens of Monroe County, Missouri, and
does hereby order that an Election be
held in said Monroe County on Tues
day, October 14th, 1919, said date be-
ing within 45 days of the making of
this order.
The Court further orders that at said
Election there shall be submitted to
the qualified voters of said County the
question of whether or not Serial
Bonds of said Monroe County, Mis-
souri,, to the amount of Nine Hun
dred and Seventy Two Thousand Dol
lars, to be issued in the denomina.
tions of One Hundred Dollars Each OF
some Multiple thereof, to bear inter
est not exceeding five per cent, pay
able semi-annually, and to become
due and payable at such time as the
County Court shall determine by an
order of record, not to exceed Twen-
ty Years from the date of issue, shall
be issued and sold and the proceeds
from the sale of said bonds used for
the purposes as in said petition de-
scribed.
The Court further orders that the
Election above provided for shall be
held in the same manner and at the
same polling precincts that general
Elections are held in Monroe Coun-
ty, Missouri.
The Court further orders that the
County Clerk of Monroe County, Mis-
souri,, shall give notice of said Elec-
tion by causing all of this order to be
published once week in four separ-
ate issues of the Paris Mercury, the
Monroe County Appeal, the Madison
Times, The Monroe County Star, The
Monroe City Democrat, and the Semi
Weekly News, which are newspapers
published and circulated in Monroe
County, Missouri, the last insertion to
be made prior to the date set for said
Election.
The Court further orders that the
ballot to be used at said Election shall
be in the following form.
For mourning of County indebted.
ness in the sum of Nine Hundred and
Seventy Two Thousand ($972, ,00O)
Dollars, for road and bridge purpos,
es.
Against incurring of County in.
debtedness in the sum of Nine Hun.
1$s72, ,ooO5 @ Dollars Dollars for @0 road %iuSant anG
bridge purposes. (Erase the Clause
you do not favOr.)
l, w. Frank Jones, Clerk of the
County Court, in and for Monroe
County, in the State of Missouri, here.
by certify that the above and fore,
going is a complete copy of the or.
iginal order made by the County
Court of Monroe County, Missouri, in
the matter and things therein stat,
ed on the day and year above men,
toned as fully and completely as the
same appears of record in my office
IN TESTIMONY, WHEREOF,
have hereunto set my hand and af
fixed the seal of said Court at my
office in the City of Paris, Missouri