Kan. Stat. Ann. § 80-918
The township board shall not acquire, secure nor operate a chapel as provided in K.S.A. 80-917 except upon the application so to do through a petition presented to it signed by at least twenty-five percent of the resident taxpayers of the township.
L. 1921, ch. 91, § 2; February 27; R.S. 1923, 80-918.