Monroe City Democrat., 1919-07-11
NOTICE OF ELECTION
COUNTY OF MONROE }
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STATE OF MISSOURI

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In the County Court of Monroe
County, Missouri, May adjourned terra,
ORDER OF THE COUNTY COURT
AUTHORIZING A BOND ELEC-
TION.
The County Court of Monroe Coun-
! ty, in the State of Missouri, met at
the regular May adjourned term, A.
D., 1919, of the said County Court
held at Paris, Missouri, on the 8th
day of July, A. D., 1919, with the
following Members of said County
Court present, to wit: E. M. Lipp,
J. D. Pryor and A. G. Dooley; E. M.
Lipp, Presiding Judge, presiding
Thereupon the following proceedings
among others were had to-wit:
1t appearing to the Court that a
petition signed by more than two
hundred tax paying citizens of Mon
roe County, Missouri, has been duly
presented to the County Court, re-
questing them to submit the propo-
sition to the qualified voters of Mon
roe County, Missouri, to issue the
bonds of Monroe County, Missouri, in
the sum of One Million Dollars, for
the purpose of grading, constructing,
paving and maintaining of paved
graveled, macadamized and rock roads
and necessary bridges and culverts
thereon in said Monroe County, Mis-
souri,.
The Court upon examination and
consideration of said petition finds
that it contains more than Two Hun
dred Tax Paying Citizens of said
Monroe, County, Missouri, and does
hereby order that an election be
held in said Monroe County on Sat
urday the End day of August A. D.,
1919, said date being within As days
of this order.
The Court further orders that at
said election there shall be submitted
to the qualified voters of Monroe
County, Missouri, the question of
whether or not Serial Bond of said
Monroe County, Missouri, to the a.
mount of One Million Dollars, to be
issued in the denominations of One
Hundred Dollars each or sum multi
pie thereof, to bear interest not ex-
ceeding five per cent per annum,
payable semi-annually, and to be-
come due and payable at such times
as the County Court shall determine
by order of record, not to exceed
Twenty Years from the date of is
sue, shall be issued and sold and the
proceeds from the sale Of caiC bonds
used for the purpose of grading, con-
structing, paving or maintaining of
paved, graveled, macadamiZed and
rock roads and the necessary bridges
and culverts, said bonds to be issued
as occasion demands for the said pur-
pose of grading, constructing, paw
irg and maintaining of paved, 5lav
eled, macadamized and rack roads
and necessary bridges and culverts in
Monroe County, Missouri.
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 County,
Missouri.
The Court further orders that the
County Clerk of Monroe County, Mis-
souri,, shall give notice of said cleo
ton by causing all of this order to be
published once a week in four separ-
ate issues of The Paris Mercury,
The Monroe County Appeal, The Mad
ison Times, The Mo%oe County Star,
The Monroe City Democrat, and the
Monroe City Semi-Weekly News
which are newspapers published in
Monroe County, Missouri, the last in
sertion to be made prior to the date
set for said election.
| The Court further orders that the
ballots to be used at said election shall
be in the following form:
For mourning of County indebted
ness in the sum Of One Million Dol
lars for road and bridge purposes.
Against mourning of County indebt-
edness in the sum of One Million
Dollars for road and bridge purposes.
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 orig
inal order made by the County Court
of Monroe County, Missouri, in the
matter and things therein stated on
the day and year above mentioned as
fully and completely as the same
appears of record in my office.
In Testimony, Whereof, l have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said Court at my office in the
City of Paris, Missouri, this 9Th day
of July, 1919.
w. FRANK JONES,
(Sea)
Clerk of the County Court of Monroe