100 Iowa 317 | Iowa | 1896
SPECIAL ELECTION,
on
ISSUING BONDS FOR $12,500.00
To build schoolhouse on old site.
FOR BONDS.
AGAINST' BONDS.
To vote “for bonds” scratch off the words,
“Against Bonds.”
To vote “against bonds” scratch off the words,
“For Bonds.”
These ballots were so marked that there were two hundred and twenty-eight votes cast “for bonds,” and fifty-eight votes “against bonds.” In about one week after this last election, the board of directors passed a resolution by which a committee of the board was appointed to purchase another site for the new building, and on the twenty-fourth day of July. 1895, at another meeting of the board, a resolution was passed, by which the board authorized a purchase of three full lots, half of another lot, and part of still another lot, for a site for the proposed new schoolhouse. At the time this resolution was passed, there was no money in the district treasury belonging to the schoolhouse fund, except the proceeds of the bonds which had been voted, and which the board had