CHAPTER 8. SAFE FOR STATE TREASURER'S OFFICE. AN ACT to authorize the State Treasurer to procure a Safe for his office. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Authority to the State of Iowa, That the State Treasurer be and is procure safe. hereby authorized and required to procure at his earli est convenience, a good and sufficient Safe for the use of his office. SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated out of any Appropriat'n money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of sixteen hundred dollars to pay for such Safe, and the cost of placing the same in the vault connected with the Treasurer's office; and the Auditor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the Treasury, in favor of the Treasurer, for the amount of the cost of such Safe, together with the expense actually incurred in carrying out the provisions of this Act, not exceeding the sum of sixteen hundred dollars. SEC. 3. This Act being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and af ter its publication in the Iowa State Register and Iowa Homestead, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved February 8th, 1864. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa State Register on the 17th day of February, A. D. 1864, and in the Iowa Homestead on the 24th day of February, A. D. 1864. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 9. INTEREST ON STATE WARRANTS. AN ACT changing the interest on warrants upon the State Treas urer. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Sec. 86 of Reof the State of Iowa, That Section number eighty-six vision of 1860 of the Revision of 1860 is hereby repealed, and the fol- repealed. lowing enacted in lieu thereof, to-wit: He shall pay no money from the Treasury, but upon the warrant of Rate of int. charged. the Auditor and shall pay such warrants in the order of their issuance, or if there be no money in the Treasury from which such warrants can be paid, he shall, upon the request of the holder, endorse upon the date of its presentation and sign it, from which time the warrant shall bear an interest of six per cent. per annum until the time limited in Section number eighty-seven of the Revision of 1860. SEC. 2. This Act being deemed of immediate importance, shall be in full force from and after its publication in the Daily State Register and Iowa Homestead, newspapers published at Des Moines. Approved February 9th, 1864. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Daily State Register on the 14th day of February, A. D. 1864, and in the Iowa Homestead on the 24th day of February, A. D. 1864. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 10. repealed. CHALLENGING THE JURY. AN ACT to repeal Sections 4779 and 4780 of the Revision of 1860, and to provide a substitute therefor. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Sec. 4779 Re- of the State of Iowa, That Section 4779 of the Revisvision of 1860 ion of 1860, be and the same is hereby repealed, and the following is substituted therefor: If the offense charged in the indictment is punishable with death, or imprisonment in the peniteutiary for life, or may be so punishable in the discretion of the Court, the State is Peremptory entitled to ten peremptory challenges and the defendant to twenty; if any other felony, the State is entitled to six and the defendant to twelve; and if a misdemeanor, the State to three and the defendant to six challenges. challenge. SEC. 2. The challenges shall be conducted in the Order of con- following order: The State shall be entitled to the first ducting the challenge. challenge and shall challenge one juror; the defendant shall be entitled to the second challenge, and shall challenge two jurors; the State shall be entitled to the third challenge and shall challenge one juror; the defendant shall be entitled to the fourth challenge and challenge two jurors; and so on, alternately, until all the challenges are exhausted. SEC. 3. That Section 4780 of the Revision of 1860, Sec. 4780 Rebe and the same is hereby repealed. vision of 1860 SEC. 4. This Act shall be in force from and after its repealed. publication according to law. Approved February 9th, 1864. CHAPTER 11. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S REPORT-1864. AN ACT to provide for the printing and distribution of the Adjutant General's Report for the year 1864. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Printing. of the State of Iowa, That the State Printer be directed to print, immediately, five thousand copies of the Adjutant General's Report for the year 1864, which, when bound in boards, shall be delivered to the Secretary of State. SEC. 2. The Secretary of State shall distribute said Distribution by Secretary Reports, as follows: One hundred copies to the Gover- of State. nor of the State for exchange with Governors of other States and for his own use; ten copies to the Lieut. Governor; twenty copies to Ex-Governor Kirkwood; ten copies to Ex-Lieutenant Governor Needham; one hundred copies for the State Library, to be used so far as necessary for exchange with other States, and the balance of said hundred to be kept in the State Library; fifty copies to the State Historical Society; one to each County Judge, Clerk of the District Court and Recorder of each organized county in the State, to be kept for their respective offices, and to be delivered over to their successors in office. supplied. SEC. 3. There shall be sent to the County Clerk of Tp. Clerk each county in this State a sufficient number of copies of said Report to enable him to furnish one copy to each Township Clerk in his county, to be kept in the office of said Clerk and by him delivered to his successor in office. distribute. SEC. 4. The Adjutant General shall be furnished Adjt. Gen. to with twelve hundred copies for distribution among commissioned officers of the 7th, 8th and 9th Cavalry, 4th Iowa Battery and 1st African Regiment of Infantry, and other Regiments, as he may deem expedient for the bution. public service, and for exchange with Adjutant Generals of other States and officers of the United States; twenty copies to the Adjutant General; three copies Other distri- each to Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, Register of State Land Office, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Judges of the Supreme Court; three copies to each member of the General Assembly, and the balance to be kept by the Secretary of State, to be distributed as future legislation may direct. SEC. 5. This Act being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the State Register and Iowa Homestead. Approved February 9th, 1864. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the State Register on the 14th day of February, A. D. 1864, and in the Iowa Homestead on the 24th day of February, A. D. 1864. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 12. Sec. 1195 of Revision amended. rectors, or INCORPORATION OF SOCIETIES. AN ACT to amend Chapter 53 of the Revision of 1860, entitled, "Corporations other than those for pecuniary profit.” SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That Section No. 1195 of the Revision of 1860, be amended by the addition thereto of the following, to-wit: Provided, That when the body corporate consists of the trustees, directors, or managers of any benevolent, charitable, literary, scienTrustees, di- tific, religious or missionary institution, which is or may be established in the State of Iowa, and which is or managers may be under the patronage, control, direction or superappoi'tm't of vision of any synod, conference, association or other ecclesiastical body in the State of Iowa, established agreeable to the Laws of said State, such ecclesiastical body may nominate and appoint said trustees, directors or managers, according to usages of the appointing body; and may fill any vacancy which may occur among such trustees, directors or managers. And provided further, That when any such institution may be under the patronage, control, direction or supervion of any two or more of such synods, conferences, associations or other ecclesiastical bodies, such bodies may severally nominate and appoint such proportion of such trustees, directors or managers, as shall be agreed upon by the ecclesiastical bodies immediately concerned. And any vacancy occurring among such appointees last named, shall be filled by the synod, conference, association, or body having appointed the last incumbent. Approved February 11th, 1864. Vacancies. CHAPTER 13. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S REPORT, 1863. AN ACT to amend Chapter 103 of the Acts of the Ninth General Assembly, entitled "An Act to provide for the publication and distribution of the Report of the Adjutant General." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That Section 3 of Chapter 103 of Ch. 103, Acts the Acts of the Ninth General Assembly entitled "An 9th Session, Act to provide for the publication and distribution of amended. the Report," be so amended that only three copies of said Report shall be furnished to each member of the last General Assembly in addition to the copies heretofore delivered to them, anything in said Chapter 103 to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. The Secretary of State shall deliver to each Sec'y State to member of the present General Assembly five copies distribute. of said Report. SEC. 3. The Secretary of State shall deliver to the Adjutant General three hundred copies in addition to those already furnished, for distribution among the commissioned officers of Iowa Regiments in the United States service and to United States officers. Sarae. SEC. 4. The Secretary of State shall deliver to Gov. Same. Wm. M. Stone ten copies, and to the Adjutant General of the State fifty copies of said Report. SEC. 5. The balance of the copies of said Report shall be retained by the Secretary of State to be dis- retained. Copies to be posed of as future General Assemblies may determine. SEC. 6. All parts of said Chapter 103 inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This Act being deemed of immediate im |