justice of the peace, mayor, or police justice, shall be fine of $5 to $25, fined in any sum not less than five dollars, nor more than with costs. twenty-five dollars, with costs of prosecution, and shall stand committed until said fine and costs are paid. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from Taking effect. and after its publication in the Des Moines Daily Register and Des Moines Daily Bulletin. Approved, April 7, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily Iowa State Register April 10, and in the Des Moines Daily Bulletin April 11, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 75. REVISION OF THE LAWS. AN ACT Creating a Commission to Revise the Statutes of Iowa, APRIL 7. and Defining their Duties, and Providing for the Publication and Distribution of their Report. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That William H. Seevers, of Mahaska Commissioners county, John C. Polley, of Clinton county, and William appointed. J. Knight, of Dubuque county, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners who shall perform the duties herein specified. SEC. 2. Before entering upon the discharge of their Oath to be filed duties they shall severally take, subscribe, and file in the with Secretary. office of the Secretary of State the oath required by section 56 of Revision of 1860. divide, arrange, SEC. 3. They shall carefully revise the statutes of this Duty; State, rewrite the same, divide them into appropriate to revise,rewrite, parts, arrange them under proper titles and chapters, omit etc., the statutes. all parts repealed and such as have become obsolete, insert What to omit. all amendments, so as to make the same complete, transpose words and sentences, arrange and number the same in their proper order, and when necessary change the phraseology by leaving out and inserting words and sentences so as to adapt the same to the form of county government and system of courts as fixed by law. They shall omit from such revision all statutes of a private, local, July 4, 71, and nor. additions. or temporary character; those relating to the apportionment of the State into congressional, senatorial, representative, and judicial districts; all references to prior laws, decisions, notes, and references to their own report or that or any former commission on revision. SEO. 4. They shall by July 4th, 1871, complete the To complete by duties assigned them, make a report to the Governor of report to Gover- what they have done, what changes they have made, what statutes omitted, and what amendments and further legisAmendments & lation they deem necessary. They shall write out in full and embody in the latter part of their report such sections as they recommend should be added to our statutes: ProComm'rs not to vided, That the Commissioners shall not enter upon the until after elec discharge of their duties, until after the general election not then if const, in 1870, and if at said election the people shall vote in conv. is called. favor of holding a convention to revise the constitution of the State, the said Commissioners shall not, previous to the meeting of the next General Assembly, perform any of the duties imposed by this act. enter upon duty tion of 1870, and cause report to be printed. SEC. 5. The Governor shall cause one thousand copies Governor to of such report to be printed by September 1st, 1871, which shall be disposed of as follows: Two copies to each member of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth General Assemblies Disposal of copies and each officer thereof; two to each of the judges of the several courts; the same number to the Attorney-General and each district-attorney; two for the office of each county auditor; ten for each member of the commission hereby created, and same number to each member of the Commission of Legal Inquiry; five to law department of State University; five to the State Historical Society; and one to each college in the State. These shall be distributed at the expense of the State by November 1, 1871. Any copies remaining shall be kept to be disposed of by the General Assembly. $10 a day and 10 cents a mile. SEC. 6. The compensation of each Commissioner shall Pay of comm'rs be ten dollars per day for each and every day actually employed, and ten cents for each and every mile necessarily traveled in the discharge of their duties, which shall be paid out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, as follows: The chairman of such commission shall certify as to the correctness of charges per diem and mileage, to the Auditor of State, whose duty it shall be to draw warrants on the State Treasurer therefor from time to time as required. H SEO. 7. The Secretary of State shall furnish the ComSec. of State to missioners with such stationery and statutes as they may require for the performance of their duty. Approved, April 7, 1870. furnish stationery, etc. CHAPTER 76. FAIRFIELD. AN ACT to Legalize the Organization and Acts, Ordinances, Orders, APRIL 7. the Second Class. WHEREAS, The city of Fairfield on the 6th day of June, Preamble. 1867, did by a majority vote of its citizens abandon the special charter of said city for the purpose of organizing under the provisions of chapter 51 of the Revision of 1860, laws of Iowa, and amendments thereto; and, WHEREAS, Said city of Fairfield did, by an ordinance passed by its council, February 19, 1868, and under an election held in pursuance of said ordinance at the annual election held on the first Monday of March thereafter, elect the officers of, and assume the powers and functions of, a city of the second-class; and, WHEREAS, Said ordinance authorizing said election, was passed after the proclamation of the Governor of the State of Iowa, declaring the said city of Fairfield entitled to become a city of the second class, had been published and a copy thereof transmitted to the General Assembly of the State of Iowa for the year 1868, according to the provisions of section 1070 of the Revision of 1860; and, WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as to the legality of the organization of said city of Fairfield, as a city of the second class, in consequence of irregularity and illegality in abandoning said special charter, and in the census and in the manner of taking the census, upon which the Governor, Auditor, and Secretary of State based their statement and proclamation herein before referred to, declaring the city of Fairfield entitled to become a city of the secondclass, which may embarrass said city in the full enjoyment of the rights and privileges of a city of the second class; therefore, Rev.: $1070. Organization of ized. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Rov.: ch. 51. the State of Iowa, That the organization of the said city Fairfield as city of Fairfield as a city of the second-class, and all the ordi- of 2d class legalnances and acts published by order of its council, together with all other acts performed and done by its council in accordance with the powers and privileges of cities of the second class from the date of its assumption of the powers and functions of a city of the second class, be and the same are hereby declared to be legal and valid to all Taking effect. intents and purposes as fully and completely as if all the provisions of chapter 51 of Revision of 1860, laws of Iowa, and all subsequent acts of the legislature of the State of Iowa, had been strictly complied with. SEC. 2. This act, being deemed by the General Assembly of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Fairfield Ledger, a newspaper published in the city of Fairfield, and in the Iowa Weekly State Register, a newspaper published in the city of Des Moines, without expense to the State. Approved, April 7th, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Weekly Iowa State Register, April 13, and in the Fairfield Ledger, April 14, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. APRIL 7. Rev. § 1020. CHAPTER 77. RECORD OF VILLAGE-PLATS. AN ACT to Amend Section 1020 of the Revision of 1860, and to Provide for Orders for the Record of Village-Plats, to be made by a Circuit or District Judge in Vacation. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That section 1020 of the Revision of 1860, be so amended as to read as follows, viz.: "The plat Circuit or district and acknowedgment shall then be presented to the circuit judge may order plat to be re- or district judge, who, if satisfied that the above requirements have been fully complied with, shall enter thereon an order that the whole be recorded." corded. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts, conflicting with Repealing clause the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. Taking effect. SEO. 3. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall take effect from and after its publication in the Daily Iowa State Register and Des Moines Daily Bulletin, newspapers published in the city of Des Moines, Iowa. Approved, April 7, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily Iowa State Register, April 13, and in the Des Moines Daily Bulletin, April 15, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 78. DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM AT COUNCIL BLUFFS. AN ACT to Provide for Furnishing the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Council Bluffs, and for the Removal and Maintenance of the School. APRIL 7. appro priated for fur SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That there is hereby appropriated the $12,000 sum of twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may nishing building. be necessary, to furnish the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Council Bluffs with the necessary furniture and apparatus for its occupancy by the school; said appropriation to be drawn and expended by and under the direction of the building committee, in the same manner as the appropriations are drawn for the construction of the building, and Principal to be for the purpose of this act, the Principal of the institu- missioners under tion shall be constituted a member of said board. SEC. 2. Whenever the trustees of said institution shall be notified by the building committee that the building at Council Bluffs is ready for occupancy by the school, they shall forthwith proceed to the removal of the school from Iowa City to Council Bluffs, together with all the property of the State used in connection therewith, except such articles as may be considered unnecessary, which may be disposed of in any manner, for the best interest of the State, under the direction of said trustees. one of bd. com this act. School to be re- moved each for SEC. 3. From and after the removal contemplated in Allowance the foregoing section, to meet current expenses, there is a pupil, $40 hereby appropriated the sum of forty dollars per quarter for each pupil in said institution, in lieu of the amount now appropriated by section four, chapter 106, laws of the 1863; ch, 106. Twelfth General Assembly. SEC. 4. To meet the ordinary expenses of the institu- $8,000 per antion, including furniture, books, school-apparatus, and com- num for expenses pensation of officers and teachers, there is hereby appropria ted the sum of eight thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary. SEC. 5. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this Repealing clause. act, are hereby repealed. Approved, April 7, 1870. |