Register, Iowa State, Daily, 301 copies.. Register, Adair County, 3 copies... Review, Denison, 30 copies.... 4 50 9 00 9.00 Register, Iowa State, Weekly, 2686 copies.... 2014 50 903 00 2 25 22 50 Register, Marion, 52 copies..... 39 00 20 25 ... 5 25 4 50 37 50 26 25 12.00 ..... 15 00 75 4.50 3 75 7 50 2 25 9 00 .... Newspapers for Tribune, Afton, 20 copies.. cluded. Taking effect. Times, Dubuque Daily, 15 copies..... Times, Fort Dodge, 6 copies.. Post, Chicago. ..... 15 00 120 75 45 00 53 25 26 25 75 3 00 18 00 4 50 18 00 2 25 3 75 ..... 45 00 18 00 19 50 13 50 22 50 263 00 15 00 34 50 SEC. 52. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Daily State Register and Daily Des Moines Bulletin. Approved, April 13, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily Iowa State Register, and in the Des Moines Daily Bulletin, April 16, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. APRIL 13. CHAPTER 118. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE APPROPRIATION ACT. AN ACT Making Appropriations for the Iowa State Agricultural SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Appropriations the State of Iowa, That there is hereby appropriated out for College and of the State treasury from any moneys not otherwise Farm. appropriated, for the purpose hereinafter stated, the following sums of money, or so much thereof as may be necessary, viz.: for extending and completing the wings of repairs, etc., the College building, the sum of fifty thousand dollars; for For improvem'ts, building and completing a laboratory, the sum of five thou- $69.500. sand dollars; for the erection and completion of a workshop for the students, the sum of five thousand dollars; for the erection of a building over the gasometer, five hundred dollars; for farm improvements, the sum of two thousand dollars; for purchasing seeds and plants for experimental grounds, the sum of five hundred dollars; for the purpose of tile-draining, the sum of one thousand dollars; for professors' dwelling-house, four thousand five hundred dollars. moneys. SEC. 2. The money hereby appropriated shall be Expenditure expended under the direction of the Board of Trustees of the Agricultural farm and college [College and Farm] and shall be drawn from the State treasury, upon warrants issued by the Auditor of State, upon the requisition of the president of the Board of Trustees, countersigned by the secretary, at such times and in such sums as may be required in making the improvements, and erection of such buildings as above required and described. taken. SEC. 3. Vouchers shall be taken for all moneys Vouchers to expended by the Board of Trustees, in carrying out the provisions of this act, and a record shall be kept of all expenditures, showing the amount paid, and for what service rendered to whom paid and for what material furnished. of be SEC. 4. In all contracts entered into by said Board of Bonds to be reTrustees, good and sufficient bonds shall be required for quired, the faithful performance of the same; and the said Trustees Trustees to make shall make a full report to the next General Assembly, atures. showing in detail the manner in which the money appropriated by this act has been expended. report of expen money and pay SEC. 5. The money shall be drawn from the State Tre'surer to draw treasury by the treasurer of the Board of Trustees, and out same. shall be paid out by him upon orders drawn by the president of the Board of Trustees, countersigned by the secretary. SEC. 6. This act shall be in force and take effect from Taking effect. and after its publicatiou in the Iowa State Register and Iowa Homestead, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved, April 13, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily Iowa State Register April 20, and The Iowa Homestead. April 22, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. APRIL 13. Preamble. Conveyance W. J. Wagoner CHAPTER 119. INDEMNITY SWAMP-LANDS OF IDA COUNTY. AN ACT to Legalize the Sale of the Indemnity Swamp-Lands of WHEREAS, The county of Ida, through its officers, did on the third day of January, A. D. 1870, execute and deliver to W. J. Wag[o]ner a deed of certain indemnity swamp-lands belonging to said county of Ida, situated in the counties of Plymouth, Sioux, O'Brien, and Cherokee, as described in said deed, recorded in book "B," pages 67 and 68 of deeds in the recorder's office in Cherokee county, Iowa; and WHEREAS, Such conveyance or deed was made in accordance with a contract previously entered into between said county of Ida and said W. J. Wag[o]ner for the consideration of certain bridges for said county of Ida, by said W. J. Wag[o]ner, which contract was submitted for approval to the voters of said county, and said contract was ratified by a large majority of the voters of said county at said election, and the terms of said contract had previous to the execution of said deed been complied with by said W. J. Wag[o]ner, to the satisfaction of the board of supervisors of said Ida county; and WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen to the validity of such conveyance, and the technical regularity of all the proceedings in relation thereto; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of lowa, That the said conveyance or deed so to executed as aforesaid, be and the same is declared to be declared legal legal and effectual, and that said conveyance be held to invest the said W. J. Wag[o]ner, his heirs and assigns, with a good and indefeasible title to the lands, rights and interests intended to be conveyed by said deed, as fully and completely as if all the proceedings in the premises had been regular and lawful. Approved, April 13, 1870. CHAPTER 120. THE HOSPITAL BUILDING AT INDEPENDENCE. AN ACT to Provide for the Completion of the North Wing, Rear APRIL 13. Improvement of the Grounds and Farm of the Iowa Hospital for the Insane at Independence. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Name of institu the State of Iowa, That the additional institution for the tion. insane now in process of building, by the provisions of chapter 97, laws of the 12th General Assembly, shall be 1868: ch. 97. known as the "Iowa Hospital for the Insane at Independ ence. continued, and building, etc. SEC. 2. That the present Commissioners, viz., E. G. Commissioners Morgan, M. L. Fisher, and G. W. Bemis, together with Governor added; the Governor of this State, who shall be ex-officio a member of said commission, shall, with the least possible delay Cause to be erected and completed, the remainder of the to proceed with north wind, the rear center building, the engine-house, chimney, and ducts of said building, in accordance with the plans and specifications selected in pursuance of the provisions of chapter 97, laws of the 12th General Assembly, or upon such modifications thereof as shall manifestly be for the best interests of the State. contract, as B'rd limited by am't to be advertised, SEC. 3. Said Board are authorized to employ laborers Day's work or by the day or month upon said building, and to purchase shall decide. all materials necessary to be used in the construction of the same, or to let by contract such portion or portions of the materials to be furnished or labor to be performed as shall seem to them for the best interests of the State and for the early completion of said buildings, subject always to the following restrictions, viz.: No contract shall be Contract to be made which will bind the State for a greater sum than is appropriat'd, and at the time appropriated by law, nor shall any contract for if for over $1,000, more than one thousand dollars be made without advertis- and let to lowest bidder, provided, ing for four consecutive weeks in two newspapers pub- etc. lished in this State, stating when bids will be received and opened, and the kind and amount of labor or material wanted, and all such contracts shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, provided he offers satisfactory bond for the performance of the contract, but the Board may reserve the right to reject all bids offered. All contracts, Bids may be refor whatever sum, shall be in writing, signed by the Contracts to be in contractor and by the president of the Board, and shall be writing. kept on file by the commissioners. jected. |