LAND CHAPTER 16. GRANT TO M'GREGOR WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY RESUMED. FEB. 27. Act of Con AN ACT to Resume all the Lands and Rights conferred upon the McGregor Western Railroad Company, by or under an Act of Congress approved May 12, A. D. 1864. Preamble,- WHEREAS, By an act of Congress approved May reciting: 12th, A. D. 1864, entitled "An act for a grant of lands to the State of Iowa, in alternate sections, to aid in the gress granting lands to construction of a railroad in said State," certain lands MCG. W.R.R. were granted to the State of Iowa for the use and benCo. to build efit of the McGregor Western Railroad Company, for railroad near the purpose of aiding in the construction of a railroad 43°; in certain from a point at or near the foot of Main street, South McGregor, in said State, in a westerly direction, by the most practicable route, on or near the forty - third parallel of north latitude, until it shall intersect the proposed railroad running from Sioux City to the Minnesota State line, in the county of O'Brien, in said State of Iowa, which said grant was made to and accepted by the State of Iowa, upon the conditions, restrictions and qualifications therein named; and WHEREAS, Said act of Congress farther provides that in the event of the failure of said McGregor Western contingency, Railroad Company to build twenty miles of said road right of State during each and every year from the date of its acceptance of said grant, then the State may resume said grant, and so dispose of the same as to secure the completion of a road on said line; and to resume land-grant; failure of WHEREAS, Said McGregor Western Railroad ComMCG. W. R.R. pany has wholly failed to build said railroad as therein Co. to comply required, and to perform the conditions of said grant, with act of and has forfeited all right to the benefits of said grant: now, therefore, Congress; All lands SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That all lands and all rights to said lands, granted or intended to be granted to the ly resumed. McGregor Western Railroad Company by said act, be and the same are hereby absolutely and entirely resumed by the State of Iowa, and that the same be and are as fully and absolutely vested in said State as if the same had never been granted to said railroad company. SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importTaking effect, ance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Iowa Statesman, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved February 27, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in The Iowa Statesman February 28, 1868, and in the Iowa State Register February 29, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 17. ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S REPORT. AN ACT Providing for the Publication of the Adjutant-General's FEB. 27. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, The State Printer shall print five 5,000 copies to be printed, thousand copies of said report, which, when bound at a and delivered price not to exceed the price this legislature shall pay to Secretary for binding such documents, shall be delivered to the of State. Secretary of State. distribute Ex-Lt. Gov. SEC. 2. The Secretary of State shall distribute said Secretary to report as follows: One hundred copies to the Governor copies to: of the State, for exchange with the Governors of other Gov., 100; States, and for his own use; ten copies to the Lieu- Lt.-Gov., 10; tenant-Governor; twenty copies to ex - Governor Stone; Ex-Governor five copies to ex- Lieutenant-Governor Gue; one hun- Stone, 20; dred copies to the State library, to be used so far as is Gue, 5; necessary for exchange with other State libraries, and State library, the balance of said one hundred copies to be kept in 100; the State library; fifty copies to the State Historical State HistorSociety; five copies to each of the Soldiers' Orphans' ical Soc., 50; Homes; one copy to each county judge, clerk of the Orph. Homes district court, recorder, treasurer, sheriff, and superin- County offitendent of common schools of each organized county cers, 6; in the State, to be kept for their respective offices and Libraries, to be delivered over to their successors in office; three colleges and copies to each incorporated library association, college each 1. and university in this State. each 5; universities, copy each. SEC. 3. There shall be sent to the county clerk of Co. clerks to each county in this State a sufficient number of copies furnish township clerks 1 of said report to enable him to furnish one copy to each township clerk in his county, to be kept in the office of said clerk, and by him delivered over to his successor in office. Adj.-G, 1500 SEC. 4. The Adjutant - General shall be furnished copies for dis with fifteen hundred copies, to be distributed among tribution, and exchanges. such officers, discharged or othewrise, as may be by him deemed best for public service, and for exchange. Adj.-G., 20; with Adjutant - Generals and Quartermaster Generals State officers of other States, and for officers of the United States; and Judges S. twenty copies to the Adjutant - General; three copies C., each 3. each to the Secretary of State, Auditor of State, State Treasurer, Register of State Land - Office, Superin tendent of Public Instruction, and Judges of the Supreme Court; four copies to each member of the Members of present General Assembly, and one copy to each sworn G. A., each 4. officer of the present General Assembly, and the Balance. balance to be kept by the Secretary of State, to be distributed as future legislation may direct. forwarded at SEC. 5. The Secretary of State is hereby directed Reports to be to forward said reports, in accordance with the distriState's exp. bution herein designated, at the expense of the State, so soon as said reports are printed and bound. SEC. 6. This act, being deemed of immediate imTaking effect. portance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Iowa Statesman, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved February 27, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register February 29, 1868, and in The Iowa Statesman Felruary 29, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 18. FEB. 27. Preamble. LEGALIZING ORGANIZATION OF CITY OF MOUNT PLEASANT. AN ACT to Legalize the Organizations and Acts of the City of WHEREAS, Mount Pleasant, an incorporated town, did, by an ordinance passed by the common council, February 20th, 1865, and under an election held in pursuance of said ordinance, at the annual election in March following, assume the powers and functions of a city of the second class, without having fully com1862, ch. 25. plied with the provisions of chapter twenty-five of the laws of the extra session of the Ninth General Assembly; and WHEREAS, The council of said city, as aforesaid, was for a long time presided over, and all its ordinances and other proceedings signed by the mayor of said city, instead of the president pro tempore: therefore, Pleasant as SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the organization of said Organizati'n, city as a city of the second class, and all the ordi- ordinauces, nances and acts of said city, including their book &c. of Mount of ordinances published by order of council in 1867, city of secentitled "Revised Ordinances of 1867, of the City of ond class leMount Pleasant, Iowa," from the date of its assump- galized. tion of the powers and functions aforesaid, be and the same are hereby declared to be legal and valid, to all intents and purposes, as fully and completely as if the provisions of chapter twenty-five of the laws of the 1862, ch. 25. extra session of the Ninth General Assembly had been strictly complied with, and the meetings of the council presided over, and the ordinances and other proceedings of said council signed by the president pro tempore. SEC. 2. This act, being deemed by the General Assembly of immediate importance, shall take effect Taking effect. and be in force from and after its publication in the Mount Pleasant Journal, a newspaper published in Mount Pleasant, and the Weekly State Register, a newspaper published in the city of Des Moines. Approved February 27, 1868. I hereby certify, that the foregoing act was published in the Weekly Iowa State Register February 29, 1868, and in the Mount Pleasant Journal March 6, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 19. RELATING TO CHARLESTON TOWNSHIP, LEE COUNTY. AN ACT to Amend an Act of the Twelfth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, by which Section 1, Chapter 36, of the Acts of the Eleventh General Assembly, was amended. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the act approved February 5th, A. D. 1868, amending an act to amend section 1, FEB. 28. A. not to take Ch. 6, 12th G. chapter 36, of the acts of the Eleventh General Assemeffect till No. bly of the State of Iowa, entitled "An act to annex the vember 1, '68. township of Charleston, in the county of Lee, to the Kepealing clause. Taking effect. townships of Jackson, Montrose, Des Moines, and Van Buren, in said county, for judicial purposes," be and the same is hereby amended so as not to take effect before the 1st day of November, A. D. 1868. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in contravention with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act to be in force from and after publication in the daily Constitution and Daily Register, No expense newspapers published at Keokuk and Des Moines, Iowa, without expense to the State. to State. Approved February 28, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in The Constitution, at Keokuk, March 3, 1868, and in the Daily State Register, at Des Moines, March 6, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. FEB. 28. CHAPTER 20. COURTS IN THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT. AN ACT Changing the Time of holding Courts in the Third Judicial District. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assemby Ch. 11, 11th of the State of Iowa, That an act entitled "An act to Gen. Assem define the time of holding courts in the third judicial bly amended. district," in the State of Iowa, approved February 23, Pottawat'm'e 1866, be so amended as to read as follows: That the district courts within and for the 3d judicial district in the State of Iowa shall be held at the times and places herein designated. At Council Bluffs city, in Pottawattamie county, on co. Jan.&July the fourth Monday in January and July in each year. At Glenwood, in Mills county, on the third Monday after the fourth Monday in January and July in each year. Mills co. Feb. & Aug. Fremont co. Page co. Mar. & Sept. At Sidney, in Fremont county, on the fifth Monday after the fourth Monday in January and July in each year. At Clarinda, in Page county, on the seventh Monday after the fourth Monday in January and July in each year. |