CHAPTER 186. CONKLIN'S "IOWA JUSTICE." AN ACT to Enable Counties to Furnish Justices of the Peace with APRIL 16. a Copy of Conklin's Iowa Justice for the Use of their Respect ive Offices. ply justices. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the board of supervisors of Board of Supereach county may, and they are hereby authorized and em- visors may suppowered in their discretion to, furnish to each justice of the peace of their county, for the use of his office, one copy of a work published in this State and known as "Conklin's Treatise," or the "Iowa Justice." Every Justice of the peace receiving such copy shall give a Justices to rereceipt therefor, which shall be filed for preservation with ceipt for same. the clerk of the board of supervisors. ing to trans mit SEC. 2. Every justice of the peace who shall be fur- Justices receivnished with a copy of said work, under the provisions to successor. of the foregoing section, or who shall receive the same from his predecessor, shall transmit it to his successor in office at the same time and in the same manner that he is required to transmit other books and papers belonging to his said office, and, for failure to do so, he shall be liable Penalty for failto a fine of ten dollars and the costs of prosecution to be ure to comply. collected of him or his sureties, or both, by an action in the name of the State of Iowa. Approved, April 16, 1870. CHAPTER 187. TAXATION OF INDEMNITY LANDS. AN ACT to Tax Lands which are owned by Counties within the APRIL 16. Limits of other Counties. counties within SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That any and all lands in any county in Lards held by this State which are owned or held by any other county other counties to or counties claiming title under locations with swampland-indemnity scrip or otherwise, shall be taxed the same as other real estate within the limits of the county. SEC. 2. This aet shall take effect from and after its publication according to law. Approved, April 16, 1870. be taxed. APRIL 16. CHAPTER 188. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. AN ACT to Repeal Section No. 3969 of the Revision of 1860, and to SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Rev.: 3969 re- the State of Iowa, That section No. 3969 of the Revision of 1860 is hereby repealed, and the following is enacted in lieu thereof: pealed. Substitute. SEC. 3969. The justice with whom the docket of his predecessor is thus deposited, may issue execution on, or give a transcript of, any judgment there entered, in the same manner, and with like effect as the justice who rendered the judgment might have done; and in case of the Successor may death, absence, or inability to act, of any justice, or in case of the vacation of the office of any justice, from any Execution in case cause, then in such case execution may be issued from the of vacancy in docket of said justice, or transcript given therefrom, by any other justice in said township with like effect as might have been done by the justice who rendered the judg issue execution. office. ment. Approved, April 16, 1870. APRIL 16. Ratio, 25,000. 1st district. 2d district. 3d district. CHAPTER 189. SENATORIAL APPORTIONMENT ACT. AN ACT Apportioning the State of Iowa into Senatorial Districts. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That one senator to twenty-five thousand inhabitants, or fraction thereof equal to one half in each senatorial district, is hereby constituted the ratio of apportionment. SEC. 2. Lee county is the first district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 3. Van Buren county is the second district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 4. Davis county is the third district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 5. Appanoose county is the fourth district, and 4th district. entitled to one senator. SEC. 6. The counties of Monroe and Wayne shall con- 5th district. stitute, the fifth district and be entitled to one senator. SEC. 7. The counties of Clarke, Lucas, and Union shall 6th district. constitute the sixth district, and be entitled to one senator. SEC. 8. The counties of Decatur, Ringgold, and Tay- 7th district. lor shall constitute the seventh district, and be entitled to one senator. SEC. 9. The counties of Fremont, Adams, and Page 8th district. shall constitute the eighth district, and be entitled to one senator. tawattamie, Mills, SEC. 10. The counties of Mills, Pottawattamie, and 9th district: PotMontgomery shall constitute the ninth district, and be en- und Montgom'ry. titled to one senator. SEC. 11. The county of Des Moines is the tenth dis- 10th district. trict, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 12. The county of Henry is the eleventh dis- 11th district. trict, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 13. The county of Jefferson is the twelfth district, 12th district. and entitled to one senator. SEC. 14. The county of Wapello is the thirteenth dis. 18th district. trict, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 15. The county of Louisa is the fourteenth dis- 14th district. trict. and entitled to one senator. SEC. 16. The county of Washington is the fifteenth 15th district. district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 17. The county of Muscatine is the sixteenth 16th district. district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 18. The county of Keokuk is the seventeenth 17th district. district, and is entitled to one senator. SEC. 19. The county of Mahaska is the eighteenth 18th district. district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 20. The county of Marion is the nineteenth dis- 19th district. trict, and entitled to one senator. is the twentieth 20th distri SEC. 21. The county of Warren district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 22. The counties [of] Madison, Adair, and Cass 21st dist.: Madishall constitute the twenty-first district, and be entitled to Cass. one senator. son, Adair, and 22d district, two SEC. 23. The county of Scott shall constitute the senators. twenty-second district, and be entitled to two senators. SEC. 24. The county of Clinton is the twenty-third 23d district. district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 25. The county of Cedar is the twenty-fourth 24th district. district, and entitled to one senator. 25th district. 26th district. 27th district. 28th district. 29th district. 30th district. 31st district. 32d district. 33d district. 84th district. SEC. 26. The county of Johnson is the twenty-fifth district and entitled to one senator. SEC. 27. The county of Iowa is the twenty-sixth district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 28. The counties of Tama and Poweshiek shall constitute the twenty-seventh district, and be entitled to one senator. SEC. 29. The county of Jasper is the twenty-eighth district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 30. The county of Polk is the twenty-ninth district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 31. The county of Jackson is the thirtieth district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 32. The county of Jones is the thirty-first district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 33. The county of Linn is the thirty-second district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 34. The county of Benton is the thirty-third district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 35. The counties of Marshall and Hardin shall constitute the thirty-fourth district, and be entitled to one senator. SEC. 36. The county of Dubuque is the thirty-fifth 35th district: Du- district, and entitled to one senator. buque, 1 senator. 36th district. 87th district. SEC. 37. The county of Delaware is the thirty-sixth district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 38. The county of Buchanan is the thirty-seventh district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 39. The counties of Black Hawk and Grundy 88th dist.: Black shall constitute the thirty-eighth district, and be entitled Hawk & Grundy. 29th district. 40th district. 41st district, 42d district. to one senator. SEC. 40. The county of Clayton is the thirty-ninth district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 41. The county of Fayette is the fortieth district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 42. The county of Allamakee is the forty-first district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 43. The county of Winneshiek is the fortysecond district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 44. The counties of Floyd, Butler, and Mitchell 48d dist.: Floyd, shall constitute the forty-third district, and be entitled to SEC. 45. The counties of Bremer, Chickasaw, and How44th dist: Bre- ard shall constitute the forty-fourth district, and be entitled and Howard. to one senator. mer, Chickasaw, SEC. 46. The counties of Story and Boone shall con stitute the forty-fifth district, and be entitled to one 45th senator. district; Story & Boone. lin, Cerro Gardo, SEO. 47. The counties of Franklin, Cerro Gordo, 46th dist. FrankWorth, Winnebago, Hancock, Wright, Kossuth, and Worth, etc. Emmet shall constitute the forty-sixth district, and be entitled to one senator. ster, Hamilton, SEC. 48. The counties of Hamilton, Webster, Hum- 47th dist.: Webboldt, Calhoun, Sac, Pocahontas, Palo Alto, Dickinson, etc.' Clay, and Buena Vista shall constitute the forty-seventh district, and be entitled to one senator. son, Monona,etc. SEC. 49. The counties of Harrison, Monona, Crawford, 48th dist.: HarriShelby, Ida, Woodbury, Plymouth, Cherokee, O'Brien, Sioux, and the unorganized counties of Lyon and Osceola shall constitute the forty-eighth district, and be entitled to one senator. Guthrie, etc. SEC. 50. The counties of Dallas, Guthrie, Audubon, 49th dist: Dallas, Carroll, and Greene shall constitute the forty ninth district, and be entitled to one senator. Approved, April 16, 1870. CHAPTER 190. PUBLIC SQUARE IN BLOOMFIELD. AN ACT to Legalize the Acts of the Board of Supervisors of Davis May 4. WHEREAS, On the fifth day of January, 1870, pursuant Preamble. WHEREAS, The town council of the town of Bloomfield, in Davis county, Iowa, by deed and ordinance duly executed, did convey to said trustees, in like trust, all the interest of said town in and to said land; therefore, |