have power to appoint one or more agents to visit Europe for the purpose of encouraging and directing immigration to this State; to make contracts with railroad and packet companies for the purpose of securing a low rate of fare to immigrants, and to perform such other functions as may be necessary to secure the ends aimed at in this act: Provided, however, that said bureau of immigration, or its agents, shall not, under any consideration, involve the State in any indebtedness or expense in amount exceeding the sum appropriated by this act. SEC. 2. The bureau of immigration shall each year collect and compile, for publication in an annual report to the Legislature, and also in such other forms as they may judge best and necessary to aid the object of the bureau, all statistics and facts relating to the character and resources of this State, the amount of money received and expended by them, and all such other information as shall be of general interest to the State, and calculated to subserve the designs of this act. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the faculty of the State Agricultural College, of the State Normal School, and of the State University, when organized, to carefully preserve a daily meteorological record, which, with all such other information relative to climate, soil, minerals, and all other scientific facts bearing upon the resources of the State that such faculties may be able to gather, shall be forwarded for publication to the office of the bureau at the capital. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the County Assessors of the several organized counties in the State, to prepare annually a report of the amount of lands in their several counties, what proportion may be vacant, what under cultivation, and all such other information as they may possess, tending to increase a knowledge of the various counties of the State, and forward the same to this bureau. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the State Geologist to prepare an abstract of such investigations he may have made as to the soil, minerals, coal, salt springs, and other information which came within the legitimate duty of this office to gather, at such times as the bureau of immigration may require. SEC. 6. That the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of agents to be sent to Europe, and other expenses incidental to the operations of this bureau; and the Governor is hereby empowered to direct the Auditor to draw his warrants the Treasurer for such amounts as the bureau shall deem proper, not exceeding the above amount, such vouchers to be marked “Immigration Fund," and the State Treasurer shall pay each at sight. upon SEC. 7. The aforenamed Commissioners shall enter upon their duties on the first day of April, A. D. 1864, and remain in office for one year, and shall take the required oath of State Tenure of office. officers, and shall each give bonds in the amount of two thousand dollars ($2,000), to be approved by the Governor, conditioned to faithfully perform the duties required by their appointment and this act. SEC. 8. The bureau of immigration shall, as much as possible, encourage and try to effect the organization of a State immigration society, which shall co-operate with this bureau in aid of immigration. SEC. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 26, 1864. THOMAS CARNEY, Governor. CHAPTER LXXVI. STATE TREASURER TO PAY INTEREST ON BONDS. AN ACT to authorize the State Treasurer to pay the interest on certain Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: "An act to fund the Territorial debt," approved Feb. 20, 1863. SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 29, 1864. THOMAS CARNEY, Governor. tion. CHAPTER LXXVII. CITY OF LAWRENCE-SUPPLEMENTAL. AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled "An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the city of Lawrence," approved February 27, 1860. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That when any vacancy shall occur in the office of mayor or councilmen of the city of Lawrence, by death, resignation, removal from office, refusal to qualify, or permanent absence, it shall be the duty of the mayor or president of Municipal elec- the council for the time being to cause a new election to be held, giving ten days' notice thereof, by proclamation; and, in case there should at any time be no president of the council elected, and there be not a sufficient number of the council in existence to form a quorum, then the majority of the remaining members shall have the power to cause an election to be held, by giving ten days' public notice thereof. SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its publication once in the Lawrence Daily Tribune, which shall constitute such publication. Approved, January 29, 1864. THOMAS CARNEY, Governor. I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the enrolled law on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Lawrence Daily Tribune for Feb. 2, 1864. W. W. H. LAWRENCE, CHAPTER LXXVIII. CITY OF LAWRENCE-AMENDATORY. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the city of Lawrence,' approved June 4, 1861." Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That section one of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the city of Lawrence,' approved June 4, 1861," be amended so as to read as follows: "The district of country contained within the following limits, to wit: beginning at a point in the middle of the channel of the Kansas river, where the line between the north and south halves of the northwest quarter of section thirty, township twelve, south of range twenty, east of the sixth principal meridian, crossing said river; thence, in a westerly direction, to a post on the bank of said river, being the northeast corner of Wyandotte reserve No. five; thence, .due west, to the line between the east and west halves of section twenty-five, township twelve, south of range nineteen; thence south, to the center of said section; thence west, on the quarter-section line, to the quarter-section corner between sections twenty-five and twenty-six; thence south, on the section line, to the corner of sections twenty-five, twenty-six, thirty-five and thirty-six; thence east, on the section line between sections twenty-five and thirty-six, to the east line of Illinois street, in the city of Lawrence; thence south, fifteen hundred and fourteen feet, to the south line of Warren street, in said city; thence east, nine hundred and twenty-nine feet, to the east line of section twenty-six; thence south, to the quarter-section corner in the east line of said section thirty-six; thence west, on the quarter-section line, fifteen and seventeen hundredths (15.17) chains; thence south, to the south line of Adams street; thence east, on said line of Adams street, fifteen and seventeen hundredths chains, to the east line of section thirty-six; thence south, to the southeast corner of section thirty-six; thence east, on the township line, fifty-eight and fifty-two hundredths (58.52) chains, to a stone; thence north, forty and six hundredths (40.06) chains, to a stone, the northeast corner of the west half of the southeast quarter of section thirty-one; thence east, on the quarter-section line, seven and forty-one hundredths (7.41) chains; thence due north, to the center of the channel of the Kansas river; thence, up said channel, to the place of beginning is hereby erected into a city, by the name of the City of Lawrence; and the inhabitants thereof are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the City of Lawrence, and by that name they and their successors shall be known in law, have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in any and all courts of law or equity, and in all actions whatsoever, may contract and be contracted with, may purchase, receive and hold property, both real and personal, within said city, and may sell, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of the same, for the benefit of the city; may purchase, receive, hold, lease or convey property, both real and personal or mixed, beyond the limits of the city, to be used for the burial of the dead, for the erection of waterworks, for the establishment of hospitals, poor-houses, workhouses, houses of correction, or for any purpose which tends to the general good of the city; and may have a common seal, and change the same at pleasure. The corporate powers and duties of said city shall be vested in a mayor and board of councilmen, to be called the city council." SEC. 2. That section one of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the city of Lawrence,' approved June 4th, A. D. 1861," be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 24, 1864. THOMAS CARNEY, Governor. |