Acts and Resolutions Passed at the ... Session of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa

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A.H. Palmer, Printer, 1848 - Session laws

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Page 98 - ... as is or may be reserved from sale by any law of Congress or proclamation of the President of the United States...
Page 120 - Fifth. That five per cent of the net proceeds of sales of all public lands lying within the said state, which have been or shall be sold by Congress, from and after the admission of said state into the Union, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to the said state, for the purpose of making public roads and canals in the same, as the legislature shall direct...
Page 119 - An act supplemental to the act for the admission of the States of Iowa and Florida into the Union," were fully appropriated for the benefit of the Iowa Agricultural College and Farm.
Page 20 - An act for the relief of the citizens of towns upon the lands of the United States, under certain circumstances...
Page 120 - The legislatures of those districts or new states, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.
Page 131 - You do solemnly swear (or affirm), that you will fully and truly answer all such questions as shall be put to you touching your place of residence and qualifications as an elector at this election...
Page 44 - Assembly shall receive for their services the sum of five dollars per day, during the first session held under this Constitution, and ten cents for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from the seat of government, to be computed by the Auditor of Public Accounts ; and thereafter such compensation as shall be prescribed by law, and...
Page 150 - Whenever a levy shall be made upon the • £' lands or tenements of a householder, whose homestead has not been selected and set apart by metes and bounds, such householder may notify the officer, at the time of making such levy, of what he regards as his homestead, with a description thereof, within the limits above prescribed, and the remainder alone shall be subject to sale under such levy.
Page 183 - Resolved, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be and they are...
Page 131 - ... shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars and be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty days...

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