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Railroad Seeking Aid of County

The event of 1869 was the near approach of the Burlington & Missouri Railroad in Nebraska. This company came before the County Commissioners with a proposition asking of the county her bonds in the sum of $40,000, to aid them in the construction of their road. This proposition was submitted to a vote of the people at an election ordered for the 8th of May, 1869, with the following result: Number of votes polled, 431; for bonds and tax, 267; against bonds and tax, 167; majority for bonds, 97. The proposition was declared carried at a meeting of the Board, May 27. This election shows an increase of forty-eight votes since the previous October.

Kindly Transcribed by Kathie Harrison on July 2, 2001