CHAPTER 96. HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. APRIL 12. AN ACT Making further Appropriation for the Hospital for the Insane at Mount Pleasant. priated for im repairs. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of $81,000 appro- the State of Iowa, That there is hereby appropriated, out provements and of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums for the purposes herein named, viz.: for erecting barn, five thousand dollars; for building a chimney, ten thousand dollars; for improvement of boilerhouse, three thousand dollars; for a settling reservoir and filter, six thousand five hundred dollars; for steam boilers, four thousand five hundred dollars; for fencing and improving grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars; for contingent fund, two thousand five hundred dollars: Proviso: diver- Provided, That any sum hereby appropriated, not used for appropriations. the specified object named, may be used so far as necessary for any other of the purposes specified in this act. sion of specific purchase of tract of land. SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated two thousand $2,500 voted for five hundred dollars for the purchase of a tract of land known as the 37 acre tract, lying on the south side of, and adjoining the lands now owned by the State: Provided, the said 37 acres can be secured in fee-simple to the State of Iowa, for the said sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, otherwise the money shall not be drawn from the State treasury. SEC. 3. The money hereby appropriated shall be How drawn and drawn and paid on the order of the Trustees, which order be audited and paid as other claims. paid. Taking effect. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect upon its publication in the State Register and Evening Statesman, papers published at Des Moines. Approved, April 12, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily Iowa State Register, April 17th, and in The Des Moines Daily Statesman, April 18th, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 97. SOLDIERS' ORPHANS' HOMES. AN ACT Making additional Appropriation for the Iowa Soldiers' APRIL 12. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of for improvem'ts, port, $5 600. wood, $2.500. the State of Iowa, That there is hereby appropriated, out Appropriations of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropri- repairs, furniture, ated-for the Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Davenport : for library, etc. repairs and furniture, five thousand dollars; for library, six Home at Davenhundred dollars. For the Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Glenwood: for fencing, two hundred and fifty dollars; for team Home at Glenand wagon, four hundred dollars; for farming implements, fifty dollars; for grading grounds, one hundred dollars; for furniture and bedding, five hundred dollars; for barn, four hundred dollars; for general repairs for two years, one hundred and fifty dollars; for making and fitting up bathroom, one hundred and fifty dollars; for school-furniture, seventy-five dollars; for library, one hundred dollars; for miscellaneous expenses, three hundred and twenty-five dollars. For the Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Cedar Falls: Home at Cedar to complete the building, five thousand dollars; for barn and sheds, twelve hundred dollars; for desks and seats for school-rooms, and for furniture and bedding, two thousand dollars; for heating apparatus, six thousand dollars; for improving grounds and farm, fifteen hundred dollars; for building cistern and wells, eight hundred dollars; for library, four hundred dollars; making in all the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. Falls, $16,900, drawn. SEC. 2. The money shall be drawn from the State Money, treasury upon the Auditor's warrants issued upon the orders of the president of the Board of Trustees, only as it shall be needed. how SEC. 3. This act being deemed of immediate impor- Taking effect. tance, shall be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register, and The Des Moines Statesman, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved, April 12th, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily Iowa State Register, and The Daily Des Moines Statesman, April 19th, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 98. FIELD TENANTS. APRIL 12. Rev.: §2218. AN ACT to Amend Section 2218 of the Revision of 1860 in Relation to Tenants. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That section 2218 of the Revision of Lease of croppers 1860, be amended by inserting, after the word "March" harvest, unless in said section, the following: "Except in case of field-tenants, or croppers, whose lease shall be held to expire when the crop is harvested, unless otherwise agreed upon." to expire after etc. Taking effect. SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the State Register and Des Moines Bulletin, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved, April 12, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Daily Iowa State Register, April 19, and in the Des Moines Daily Bulletin, April 21, 1870, ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. APRIL 12. Preamble. CHAPTER 99. REUNION OF IOWA SOLDIERS. AN ACT Appropriating Money to defray the Expenses of a Reunion of Iowa Soldiers. WHEREAS, The Governor of this State has, at the request of the officers and soldiers of Iowa, invited them to a general reunion in the month of June next; and WHEREAS, The several railroads of this State have offered the most generous arrangements for the transportation of these officers and soldiers to and from the place of their reunion; now, in testimony of the high appreciation by the people of this State of the patriotic and gallant services rendered to their country, and the honor conferred upon this State by her officers and soldiers in the late war, and in order to secure all the elements of success to the coming reunion, appro sistence, stores, SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That there is hereby appropriated out of $15,000 any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated priated for subthe sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as etc., at 're-union. may be necessary, to be paid on orders of the Governor, approved by the Census Board, for subsistence, stores, supplies, and other provisions for the comfort and convenience of our citizen soldiers at said reunion. SEO. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance Taking effect. shall be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register, and the Des Moines Bulletin, newspapers published at Des Moines. Approved, April 12, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily Iowa State Register, April 19, and the Des Moines Daily Bulletin April 21st, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 100. TAXATION OF EXPRESS AND TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. AN ACT to Provide for the Taxation of the Real and Personal APRIL 12. graph and ex to be taxed as in SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Property of teleState of Iowa, That all property, real and personal, in press companies the State, owned by telegraph and express companies, dividual property shall be listed and assessed for taxation, and shall be subject to the same levies, as property belonging to individuals. is. 1868, repealed, & remitted, SEC. 2. That chapter one hundred and eighty of Ch. 180, acts o the acts of the Twelfth General Assembly is hereby taxes uncollected repealed, and that taxes heretofore levied upon forty percent. of gross receipts of such companies and remaining unpaid are hereby remitted. SEC. 3. This act being deemed of immediate impor- Taking effect. tance shall take effect from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and the Iowa Statesman, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved, April 12, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily Iowa State Register, and in The Daily Des Moines Statesman, April 19, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 101. APRIL 12. Preamble. TOWN OF WEST LIBERTY. AN ACT to Legalize certain Acts of the Mayor and Town Council of the Incorporated Town of West Liberty. WHEREAS, The mayor of the incorporated town of West Liberty, in Muscatine county, Iowa, removed outside the limits of said town; and, WHEREAS, The town council of said town, believing they had authority to fill the vacancy occasioned by such removal, did, on the first of November, 1869, appoint George C. Shipman to fill such vacancy until the election in March, 1870; and, WHEREAS, The said Shipman performed the duties of mayor of said town faithfully, and it appears to have been the wish of the electors of said town that he should act as such Mayor for the time for which he was appointed; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Action of town the State of Iowa, That the action of said council in ing mayor to fill making said appointment be, and is hereby, legalized to vacancy legaliz'd. the extent that none of the acts of said Shipman as council in elect Taking effect. Mayor, done during the time for which he was appointed, shall be held to be illegal or invalid by reason of the irregularity of said appointment, or of the want of power to make the same. SEC. 2. This act being deemed by the General Assembly of immediate importance, shall take effect on publication in the West Liberty Enterprise and Muscatine Journal, newspapers published in Muscatine county, Iowa, without expense to the State. Approved, April 12, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Liberty Enterprise, April 15, and in the Muscatine Evening Journal, April 16, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. |