Temporary speaker $6. Temp. chief clerk $10. Temp. sergt SEC. 10. To Samuel McNutt, for two days' services as temporary speaker of the House of Representatives, six dollars. SEC. 11. To Charles Aldrich, for two days' services as temporary chief clerk of the House of Representatives, ten dollars. SEC. 12. To E. G. White, for two days' services as at - arms $7. temporary sergeant -at- arms for the House of Representatives, seven dollars. Temp. P. M. SEC. 13. To Dan Ellison [Ellyson], for one day's H. R. $350. service as temporary postmaster for the House of Representatives, three dollars and fifty cents. Temp. messenger H. R. $6. Publication. SEC. 14. To Arthur Garrett, for three days' services as temporary messenger of the House of Representatives, six dollars. SEC. 15. This bill, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Statesman, papers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved February 5, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa CHAPTER 10. FOR RELINQUISHING COLOR OF TITLE TO A CERTAIN CHAR- FEBRUARY 5. AN ACT to Authorize the Governor to release Lands which have been certified to the State by Authority of the Secretary of the Interior, under any of the Land-Grants, where Settler's Rights have intervened prior to the Time when the Title vested in the State, and for the purpose of correcting Errors in Transfers to the State. Governor to release color SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of title in cer- of the State of Iowa, That the Governor, when satisfied tain cases. by the Commissioners of the General Land - Office, that any lands to which the State may have acquired color of title, by their having been certified to the State under any of the several grants, that such color of title is inferior to the rights of any valid interfering preemptor or claimant, is authorized, and is hereby authorized and required to release by deed of relinquishment such color of title to the United States, to the end that the requirements of the Interior Department may be complied with, and such tract or tracts of land may be patented by the general government to the legal claimants. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That whenever the Governor to Governor is satisfied by proper record evidence that any lands erronequitclaim tract or tracts of lands, which may have been deeded ously deeded by virtue of any donation or sale to the State, is not the to State. land intended to have been described, and that an error has been committed in making out the transfers, in order that such error may be corrected, he is author ized to quitclaim the same to the proper owner and to receive thereof, and receive a deed or deeds for the lands deeds for the intended to have been deeded to the State originally. proper lands. SEO. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act, being Publication. deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Daily State Register and Iowa Homestead, two papers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved February 5, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily State Register February 7, 1868, and in the Iowa Homestead February 12, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. Ꮯ Ꮋ Ꭺ Ꮲ Ꭲ Ꭼ Ꭱ 11. LIABILITY OF OFFICERS OF MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. AN ACT to Repeal Section 3276 of the Revision of 1860, in relation to the Liability of Officers of Municipal Corporations. FEF. 11. Act retroac SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That section 3276 of the Revision Section 3276, of 1860, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and this Rev. repealed act shall be retroactive notwithstanding subdivision tive. one of section twenty-nine of the Revision of 1860, and Subd. 1, sec. said subdivision one of said section twenty-nine shall 29, Rev. 1860, not apply to the liability of officers under the section not to apply. hereby repealed. Publication. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its publication in the Daily State Register and the lowa Evening Statesman, newspapers, published at Des Moines. Approved February 11, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa Evening Statesman February 12, 1868, and in the Daily State Register February 14, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 12. REIMBURSING COUNTIES FOR SWAMP LAND LOSSES. FEB. 11. AN ACT to Reimburse certain Counties for the Loss of their several Interests in the Swamp Land Indemnity Warrants issued by the United States to the State of Iowa. reimburse rants. of SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly $33,994.73 ap- of the State of Iowa, That the sum of thirty-three propriated to thousand nine hundred and ninety-four dollars and certain coun- eighty-three cents, or so much thereof as may be ties for loss of necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated ont swamp land indem. war- any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and applied to the reimbursement of the counties of Appanoose, Boone, Bremer, Dallas, Decatur, Des Moines, Harrison, Henry, Jasper, Mahaska, Pottawattamie, Story, and Washington, for the loss of their several interests in the swamp - land indemnity warrants issued by the United States to the State of Iowa, under the provisions of the act of Congress, approved March 2d, 1855; and that such reimbursement shall be effected by placing to the credit of said counties to respectively, on the books of the Auditor of State, the credit coun- several amounts to which said Auditor shall find them ties with the entitled, under the provisions of this act, not exceeding amounts. in the aggregate the sum hereby appropriated. Auditor Moneys real SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all moneys ized from cer- which shall be realized from the lands, lots, or other tainsecurities to be placed securities held by the State on account of the loss or in treasury. diversion of the United States warrants aforesaid, or from any legal proceedings now or hereafter instituted on account thereof, shall be paid into the State treasury. SEC. 3. This act, being deemed of immediate Fublication. importance, shall be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Evening Statesman, papers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved February 11, 1868. I certify that the foregoing act was published in the Evening Statesman February 12, 1868, and in the Iowa State Register February 14, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 13. IN RELATION TO THE CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC AN ACT Providing for and Requiring the early Construction of FEB. 11. the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad from Daven port to Council Bluffs, Iowa, upon certain Conditions therein named. WHEREAS, The State of Iowa, by an act passed and Preamble. approved on the 14th day of July, A. D. 1856, granted Ex. '56, ch. 1. to the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company (a corporation then in existence under the laws of this State), certain lands in said act designated, to aid in building a railroad from Davenport to Council Bluffs; and WHEREAS, Subsequently, to wit: on the 26th day of May, A. D. 1866, another corporation was formed, called the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company in Iowa, to purchase (in part) and build a railroad between the same points, and along or near the line of the said Mississippi & Missouri railroad ; and WHEREAS, The said Mississippi & Missouri Railroad Company became insolvent, and the said Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company became the purchaser, at a judicial sale, of all the rights of the said Mississippi & Missouri Railroad Company; and, WHEREAS, The said Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad corporation subsequently, to wit: on the 20th day of August, A. D. 1866, consolidated its stock and corporate rights with that of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Company, a corporation existing by Consolidat'n virtue of the laws of the State of Illinois, with a stipulation and agreement between the said consolidated. companies that the whole line would adopt the corporate name of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company; and, WHEREAS, The said consolidated company has completed the said line of road as far as the city of Des Moines, and desire to complete the same to the Missouri river as rapidly as possible, and for this purpose desire the use of said lands so granted to aid in the completion of the same; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the consolidation of the of C. & R. I. Chicago & Rock Island Railroad Company, a corpora& C. R. I. & tion created by the laws of the State of Illinois, with P. R. R. rec- the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company ognized. of this State, under the name of the last-named corporation, be and the same is hereby recognized for the purposes named in their articles of consolidation as recorded in this State. SEC. 2. The said consolidated company is hereby required to construct, complete and operate its railroad Road to be from the city of Des Moines to a point at or near completed to Council Bluffs, on the Missouri river, as required by within 2 yrs. the articles of incorporation of the said Chicago, Rock Mo. river The land grant. Island and Pacific Railroad Company, in this State, so as to enable it to connect its line of road with the Union Pacific railroad, at as early a period as practicable, and within two years from the passage of this act, and to apply the lands heretofore granted_by_the General Assembly to the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company to the building and completion of said line of railroad, for which purpose the State of Iowa hereby grants unto the said consolidated railroad company, all right or interest the State may have in said Proviso in land provided, said railroad company, accepting the regard tore- provisions of this act, shall at all times be subject to such rules, regulations and rates of tariff for transportation of freight and passengers, as may from time to time be enacted, and provided for by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, and further subject to the conditions, limitations, restrictions and provisions contained in this act and in the acts of Congress grantProviso re-ing the same to the State, and extending the time for quiring pro the completion of said road: provided, said consoliceeds of 49,- dated railroad company shall also apply to such conbe applied to struction, completion and the equipment thereof, all work. the proceeds of forty-nine thousand shares of said strictions. 000 shares to |