Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1920-07-16
NOTICE

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issuance and sale of road bonds for
Gasconade County.
A petition signed by two hundred,
or more, ~taxpaying citizens of Gas
conade County, Missouri, has been
presented to this Court, requesting
that a proposition be submitted TO
the qualified voters of said County,
to issue bonds Of Gasconade County.
Missouri, in the Sum of FOUR
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS,
the proceeds of said bonds to be used
for the grading, construction, paving
and maintaining of paved, graveled,
macadamized and rock roads and
necessary bridges and culverts in said
County, and the Court finds that said
petition has been signed by two
hundred, or more, ~taXpaying citizens
of said County.
1t is therefore ordered by the
Court that an election be held in
Gascohade County, Missouri, on
Tuesday, the third day of August,
1920, the same being the Primary
Election for nomination of State
and County officers, on the question
of mourning Of County Indebtedness
for road and bridge purposes and
that the proposition of issuing bonds
of Gasconade County, Missouri, in
the sum of four hundred thousand
dollars, the proceeds of which to
be expended for grading, construc-
ton, paving and maintaining of paw
ed, graveled, macadamized and rock
roads and necessary bridges and
culverts in said County, be submitted
at said election to the qualified
voters of Gasconade County, Mis-
souri,, on Tuesday the third day of
August, 1920, the same being within
forty~five days from the date of this
order, and that the election herein
provided shall be held in the same
manner and at the same polling
places that general elections are
held, with the judges and clerks of
the primary election officiating.
Such bonds are to be of the de-
nomination of one hundred dollars
each, or some multiple thereof. bear
ing interest at the rate Of four per
cent per annum, payable semi-annu-
ally, and the principal sum of said
bonds to be due and payable within
twenty years from the date of is
sue, to-wit: twenty one thousand
dollars to be made payable
on the first day of January,
1923, and twenty one thousand dol
lars to be and become due and pay
able on the first day of January, of
each and every year thereafter until
all of said bonds are fully paid.
In order that each and every
section of the County may get a just
part of sdd sum of four hundred
thousand dollars, the proceeds will be
apportioned as follows, to-wit:
The proceeds of one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars of said bonds
will be set aside to be used with the
State and Federal appropriations of
$199, 000.0 more or less, on the
fifty six miles of public road desig-
mated by the Highway Department
of Missouri, as State Highways, to-
wit: From Mt. Sterling to Rose
bud, via Drake; from Bland to
Rosebud, via Owensville and from
Hermann to Drake, (Iron Road.)
That the proceeds of the balance
of $270,000.00 will be apportioned
to the nine townships of the County
in proportion to their area, popula-
ton and valuation, to-wit:
The proceeds of $57 $4,000 of said
bonds to Roark Township.
The proceeds of $29,528.00 of said
bonds to Boeuf Township.
The proceeds of $42, 1903 90 of said
bonds to Canaan Township.
The proceeds of $19,400.00 of said
La.l. H. Dy.,s1 Tr.only To,vacLen
The proceeds of $15,585.00 of said
bonds to Bourbois Township.
The proceeds of $26,670.00 of said
bonds to Clay Township. J
The proceeds of $16,050.00 of said
bonds to Third Creek Township.
The proceeds of $31, $4,000 Of said
bonds to Boulware Township.
The proceeds of $50, 105.0 90 of said
bonds to Richland Township.
Should it not require the fill
amount of the proceeds Of the $780,
10000 to pay the county's part of the
construction and making of the Sc
miles Of highway designated by the
Highway Department, above mem
toned, the remainder of the $780,
10000 is to be apportioned among
IItS ihnC JUWiioblpS III buS SoihV
proportion that the $270, 100000 was
apportioned.
It is further ordered that the
County Clerk shall give notice of said
election by causing a certified copy
of this order to be published once
o week in four separate issues of
each of the Advertiser Courier and
Gasconade County Republican pub
lished in Gasconade County, Mis-
souri,, the last insertion to be made
prior to the Bird day of August.
1920, and the County Clerk shall
have the ballots printed at the ex-
pense of the County, and distributed
among the election precincts as in
case of general election, and the
ballots shall be in substantially the
following form. to-wit:
OFFICIAL BALLOT
For mourning of County Indebtedness
for road and bridge purposes.