veranda, $1500. for the erection of a veranda on the west side of the main building. SEO. 4. There is further appropriated the sum of Wing to buil- thirty thousand dollars to erect a wing of stone mateding, $30,000; rial to the main building according to the original plan and drawings as nearly as practicable; and the further workshops, sum of three thousand dollars for additional work$3.000. shops. Expended SEC. 5. The money hereby appropriated shall be expended under the direction of the board of trustees, according to the provisions of this act: Provided, That Proviso: bal- any balances of any of the appropriations hereby made, ances may be remaining after the object thereof has been completed, may be applied to any other object necessary for the best interests of the institution. under direction of trustees. diverted. Money, how drawn. SEO. 6. Said appropriations shall be drawn upon the order of the trustees, signed by the president and secretary, upon estimates of work actually performed or material furnished, which estimate shall be made by Copy of esti- said board of trustees, and a copy thereof in writing signed by the secretary of the board shall accompany said order to the State Auditor: Provided, That a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars may be drawn in advance of such estimates, for the purchase of material, when the best interests of the State seem to require it. SEC. 7. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. mates to Aud- Repealing clause. SEC. 8. This act being deemed of immediate imTaking effect. portance shall be in force from and after its publication in the Daily State Register and The Iowa Evening Statesman, newspapers published at Des Moines. Approved April 6, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily State Register April 15, 1868, and in The Iowa Evening Statesman April 20, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. APRIL 6. CHAPTER 95. FOR THE RELIEF OF NEEDY PERSONS. AN ACT to Provide for the Relief of certain Classes of Indigent SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, The city council of any incorporated city of the first class, and the township trustees First-class of any township in this State, are hereby authorized, city councils & township and it is made their duty, to provide for the relief of trustees may such poor persons, in their respective cities and town- relieve poer ships, as should not in their judgment be sent to the persons. county poor-house: Provided, That the amount paid Proviso: amt. for, or in aid of, the support of such poor persons may limited to $2 be supplied to them either in the form of food, rent, per week, & clothing, fuel and lights, medical attendance, or in tendance. money; and shall not exceed two dollars per week for each person for whom relief is thus furnished, exclusive of medical attendance. others, not to SEC. 2. In no case shall the widows or. families of Families of Iowa soldiers, or other persons in families requiring soldiers, or public relief, be sent to the county poor-house when be sent to the they can and prefer to be relieved out of the poor- poor house in house to the extent above provided. certain cases. -how. SEC. 3. All moneys expended as contemplated in Moneys to be this act, shall be paid out of the county treasury, after paid out of the proper account rendered therefor shall have been co. treasury, approved by the board of supervisors of the respective counties, and in all cases the necessary appropriations Cos. to approtherefor shall be made by the respective counties: priate. Provided, That the board of supervisors shall have the Proviso: bd. power to limit the amount of relief furnished under may limit relief, & disconthis act, and shall have the power to refuse to continue tinue same. such relief whenever in their judgment the person or persons receiving such relief are not in a condition to require further public assistance or aid. SEC. 4. This act is not intended to interfere with Removal of the removal of paupers from one county or State to paupers. another as now provided by law. Approved April 6, 1868. CHAPTER 96. IN RELATION TO THE STATE BINDER. AN ACT Fixing the Price of the State Binding. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly APRIL 6. of the State of Iowa.. That hereafter the State Binder Prices for shall be paid the following prices for all work for the binding: State, done by order of the Secretary of State, viz.: Docs., 15 per 100; For folding and trimining all documents not stitched, fifteen cents per hundred copies. For folding, stitching, and binding in paper covers, paper covers, all messages, reports, and documents not exceeding one $1.25 per 100; sheet (allowing eight pages for a sheet), one dollar and twenty five cents per hundred copies; and for each additional sheet of eight pages twenty-five cents per hundred copies, the cover of each copy to be counted as four pages. additional sheet, 25c. per 100; cover, 4 pp. Journals, 20c. Muslin bo❜nd, pp.; For folding, sewing, and binding the journals of the two Houses of the General Assembly in paper covers, twenty cents per copy. For folding, sewing, and binding in muslin, or cases, 35c. for 400 with gilt letters for title, (same style as the Agricultural Reports for 1866,) thirty-five cents per copy for a volume of four hundred pages or less, and for each additional hundred pages, or fraction thereof over fifty pages, five cents. additional 100 pp., 5c. sheep, 60c., 400 pp.; additional 100 pp., 5c. Law-sheep, 80c., 400 pp.; additional 100 pp., 5c. Laws, 18c. Repealing clause. Taking effect. For folding, sewing, and binding in "half sheep," with gilt letters for title, (same style as the Legislative Documents of 1866,) sixty cents per copy for each volume of four hundred pages or less, and five cents for each additional hundred pages or fraction thereof over fifty pages. For folding, sewing, and binding in "law sheep," (same style as Iowa Reports,) eighty cents per copy for each volume of four hundred pages or less, and five cents for each additional hundred pages, or fraction thereof over fifty pages. For folding, stitching, and binding the laws of each General Assembly in boards, with muslin backs and paper sides, (same as the laws of 1866,) eighteen cents per copy; and for all styles of work not named in this act he shall be paid as nearly as possible in accordance with the rates above specified. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Iowa Homestead. Approved April 6, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register April 22, 1868, and in The Iowa Homestead April 22, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 97. APPROPRIATION FOR INSTITUTION FOR THE INSANE AT AN ACT to Permanently Locate, and to Provide for the Erection of an Additional Institution for the Insane. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly APRIL 6. of the State of Iowa, That there shall be and is hereby Addul. Instipermanently established at Independence, Buchanan tution for Incounty, Iowa, an Additional Institution for the Support and Care of the Insane. sane. ers. SEC. 2. That E. T. Morgan, of Webster county, CommissionMaturin L. Fisher, of Clayton county, and Albert Clarke, of Buchanan county, are hereby appointed a Board of Commissioners to select a location and To locate and to superintend the erection of suitable buildings for superintend buildings. the use of said institution, and in case of vacancy Vacancy. in said commission by death or otherwise, the same shall be filled by appointment by the Governor. 320 acres to SEO. 3. That said board shall select the most eligible and desirable location of not less than three hundred be given to and twenty acres, and it must not, in any event, be State. more than two miles distant from said city of Independence; which said lands shall be obtained free of charge to the State, and said board shall take a deed of conveyance of the same in fee-simple to the State of Iowa, and cause the same to be properly recorded in the office of recorder of deeds of the county of Buchanan. SEC. 4. Said board shall also, at the earliest day practicable, procure plans, drawings, and specifications Plans, &c., for for the buildings necessary and proper for said Insti- buildings. tution, the exterior of which building shall be of stone, obtained in the stone to be procured within the State, but the plan Stone to be to the present building at Mt. Pleasant: Provided, Proviso. an approved plan of building, they shall advertise for Advertisem't ings. and specifications determined on, and are hereby empowered to contract with the lowest responsible Finished by bidder, who will build and complete the same by the Dec. 1, 1870. 1st day of December, 1870, and who shall give adequate security for the performance of his contract. No contract shall be entered into by said board, which Expenditure shall, in any event, involve greater expenditure than the sum appropriated by this act. limited. ers to give bond. SEO. 6. Before entering upon his duties, each comCommission- missioner shall make and sign an oath and execute a bond in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars for the use of the State of Iowa, to be appreved by the Census Board and filed in the office of the Secretary of State, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties and the honest and faithful disbursement of and accounting for all moneys which may come into his hands under the provisions of this act. dent. SEC. 7. Said board shall have full power to appoint, Superinten and discharge at their discretion, a superintendent, whose duty it shall be to superintend the work on said building, which said superintendent shall receive, as his only compensation, such sum as said board may fix. SEO. 8. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropri $125,000 ap- ated, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five propriated. thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purposes contemplated in this act. Accou'ts how adjusted. SEO. 9. The accounts of expenditures relating to the construction of said buildings shall be approved by the board of commissioners, and certified to by the Superintendent, and then paid by Auditor's warrants in the usual manner, drawn in favor of the party to whom the payment is due, and the commissioners are authorAdvance pay ized to advance and pay on contracts, before the same on contracts. are completely performed, not exceeding seventy-five per cent. on estimates of material delivered, or labor performed. Not over $25, SEC. 10. Of the sum hereby appropriated, not more 000 drawn in than the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars shall be 1868. drawn from the treasury in the year 1868. SEC. 11. The members of the board shall each Pay of com- receive five dollars per day while actually employed missioners. in the discharge of their duties, and their actual travel ing expenses. SEO. 12. This act, being deemed of immediate Taking effect. importance by the General Assembly, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the |