CHAPTER 72. REPORTS OF CLERK BOARD SUPERVISORS. AN ACT requiring reports from the Clerks of the several Boards of Supervisors in this State concerning School Lands. port. Description. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Clerk to reof the State of Iowa, That it shall be and is hereby made the duty of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors in each County of this State, on the first day of May next, or immediately thereafter, to make out and transmit to the Register of the State Land Office a report over his official certificate, giving a description by their numbers, of all school lands of the sixteenth sections and lands taken in lieu thereof, in his county, showing the allotments thereof, so far as the same may have been allotted; and the valuation of each tract, so far as the same may have been appraised, and designating the sold from the unsold tracts, and setting forth the date and terms of sale, and the names of purchasers of each tract sold. SEC. 2. Each of said Clerks shall also, at the same Report relatime and in like manner, as required in the preceding tive to 500,000 Section relative to sixteenth Sections, report to the Reg-acre grant. ister of the State Land Office concerning all School Land of the 500,000 acre grant in his county. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Addition'l reBoard of Supervisors of each county on the first day port. of November, 1864, and every six months thereafter, to make out and transmit to the Register of the State Land Office an additional report for each of said grants, showing the sales, allotments, appraisements made and the forfeitures and foreclosures of contracts declared and had since his last preceding report. SEC. 4. Said Clerks shall also, at the times of making Land bid off the reports herein before required, report to said Regis- by State. ter the tracts of land, if any, in their counties not belonging to either of said grants, bid off by the State on execution and not previously so reported, setting forth the name of the mortgagor or debtor, the date and amount of the note or mortgage, date and amount of the judgment rendered thereon, date of sale, and the amount then due, and the amount for which the same was bid off. SEC. 5. The Register of the State Land Office shall Register furfurnish each of said Clerks with printed blanks of the nish blanks. Duty of B'd. form proper and necessary to enable him to make his reports as in this Act required. SEC. 6. The Board of Supervisors of each county shall see that this Act is strictly enforced. SEC. 7. This Act being deemed of immediate importance by the General Assembly, shall take effect and be in full force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Iowa Homestead, newspapers published at Des Moines. Approved March 24th, 1864. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa tion. CHAPTER 73. APPROPRIATION FOR STATE UNIVERSITY. AN ACT making an appropriation for a new building for the SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Appropria- of the State of Iowa, That there be and is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting and constructing on the grounds of the State University, an additional building, with a tower, suitable for an astronomical observatory, which building shall contain one large room for a chapel, rooms suitable for a chemical laboratory, and such other rooms as may be deemed necessary by the Board of Trustees of said University. Building. Drawing and SEC. 2. The money hereby appropriated shall be expending. expended under the direction of said Board of Trustees, and may be drawn from the State Treasury on their order, as the same shall be required for the purposes aforesaid. SEC. 3. This Act being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Iowa Homestead, newspapers published at Des Moines. Approved March 24th, 1864. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa State Register April 6th, 1864, and in the Iowa Homestead April 13th, 1864. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 74. RECORDING UNITED STATES REVENUE STAMPS. AN ACT providing for the recording of United States Revenue corder. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the Recorder of each county Duty of Rein this State, shall, at the time of recording any written instrument bearing a United States Revenue Stamp or Stamps, enter upon the Record, the words "U. S. Revenue Stamp," or words equivalent substantially thereto and the denomination thereof, together with the letters, words and figures with which such stamp is cancelled, making a scroll around the same, which entry or a certified copy thereof, shall be prima facie evidence that the original instrument was stamped, and the stamp cancelled as therein described. SEC. 2. In all cases where instruments having Rec'ds herestamps attached, have been heretofore recorded, and tofore made. when the Recorder has noted upon the records the fact that a stamp was affixed to the original, the same shall be deemed legal and sufficient in law, and the record, or a duly authenticated copy thereof, shall be received in evidence in all cases, the same as if recorded strictly in accordance with the law of this State. SEC. 3. This Act being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect from and after its publication in the Daily State Register and Iowa Homestead. Approved March 24th, 1864. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Daily State Register April 5th, 1864, and in the Iowa Homestead April 13th, 1864. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 75. ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN AND JURISDICTION OF CO. COURT. AN ACT supplemental and amendatory to Chapter 58 of the Revision of 1860. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Jurisdiction of the State of Iowa, That whenever any proceeding and powers of shall be hereafter instituted in the County Court under Co. Court. the provisions of Chapter 58 of the Revision of 1860, the said County Court shall hear, try and determine the same, and shall be authorized to render any judg ment or make any order which the District Court might render or make in case of an appeal under the provisions of said Chapter 58, and may also issue execution to enforce its judgments and orders. What law shall govern. Appeal. Repealed. Hearing. SEC. 2. In hearing, trying and determining any such cause, the County Court shall be governed by the provisions of said Chapter 58, heretofore applicable only to trials on appeal and in the District Court; provided, that either party shall have the right to appeal to the District Court. SEC. 3. Section 1419 is hereby repealed and the following is enacted in lieu thereof: upon the return day of the summons, if the legal service has been made, the Court shall proceed to hear the cause, examining the woman and other witnesses, and permitting the Continuance, accused to introduce testimony also, but continuances may be granted for good cause and the accused may demand a jury. Approved March 24th, 1864. Per diem of CHAPTER 76. ROAD SUPERVISOR, LABOR AND POLL TAX. AN ACT to fix the per diem of Road Supervisors, per diem of labor on roads, and poll tax. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Supervisor. of the State of Iowa, That so much of Section five of Chapter 163, of the laws of the Ninth General Assembly, as amends or repeals any part of Section 888 of the Revision of 1860, be and is hereby repealed, so that each Road Supervisor shall hereafter receive the sum of one dollar and fifty cents for each day spent in the discharge of his official duties. Liable to labor. SEC. 2. That Section 885 of Article 3, Chapter 46, Title 7, of the Revision of 1860, be and the saine is hereby so amended as to read as follows: Each Supervisor shall require all the able-bodied male residents of his district, between the ages of twenty-one and fifty, to perform two days' labor upon the public highway, between the first day of April and the first day of July of each year. And that Section 895 be so amended as Per diem of to read, after the word determination: Provided, That not more than the sum of one dollar and fifty cents be allowed for a day's labor, or the sum of three dollars for a man and team per day. SEC. 3. All Acts and parts of Acts conflicting with the foregoing Sections, be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the "Iowa Homestead" and "State Register," papers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved March 25th, 1864. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Daily laborer. CHAPTER 77. GUARDS OF PENITENTIARY. AN ACT to fix the compensation of Guards of the Iowa Peni tentiary. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Compensat' n of the State of Iowa, That each Night Guard of the Iowa Penitentiary shall receive forty-five dollars per month for his services, and each house or shop Guard shall receive forty dollars per month for his services, and each Wall Guard shall receive forty dollars month for his services, to be audited by the Warden and paid at the end of each month out of funds especially designated for the payment of Guards. Warden to per audit. SEC. 2. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with Repealed. the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act being deemed of immediate importance, shall be in force from and after its publication in the Daily State Register and Iowa Homestead. Approved March 25th, 1864. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Daily State Register April 3d, A. D. 1864, and in the Iowa Homestead April 6th, A. D. 1864. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. |