assistants. To employ person sick with any contagious, malignant, or infectious disease. To employ all such persons as shall be necessary to carry into effect the regulations adopted and published according to the powers vested in the Board by this Act, and to fix their compensation, to employ Physicians in case of poverty, and to take such general precautions and actions as it may deem necessary for the public health. Fix pay. Violation a SEC. 9. Any person who shall willfully violate any misdemeanor of the regulations so made and published by the Board of Health, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine or imprisonment, such fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, and such imprisonment not to exceed thirty days. Penalty. Expenseshow paid. SEC. 10. All expenses incurred by the several Boards of Health in the execution of this act shall be a charge upon their respective towns or cities, for the purpose of defraying which a tax may be levied by such Board of Health upon the property in such town or city, upon the valuation of property, at the May levy tax. last assessment of such property sufficient to defray all expenses so incurred. Notice. Marshal to SEC. 11. Ten days' notice of such levy shall be given in the manner prescribed by law for the collection of taxes, when it shall be the duty of the Marshal of such town or city to collect the same, and pay it into the hands of the Treasurer of the Board of Health. Approved April 2d, 1866. Shares of Na taxed. CHAPTER 108. NATIONAL BANKS TAXED. AN ACT to provide for the taxation of the shares of National Banks. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly tional Banks of the State of Iowa, That all the shares of the Banking Associations organized within the State pursuant to the provisions of the Acts of Congress, "to provide a national currency, secured by a pledge of United States Stocks, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof" held by any person or body corporate, shall be included in the valuation of the than individ uais. personal property of such person or body corporate or corporation in the assessment of taxes in the township, incorporated town, or city where such Banking Association is located and not elsewhere, whether the Not more holder thereof resides in such township, incorporated town or city, or not, but not at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individuals of this State, provided that the real estate of such Associations shall be subject to State, county or municipal taxes to the same extent according to the value as other real estate is taxed. SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the principal Principal accounting officer of each of said associations, to list officer to list. the shares of the Association giving the assessor the name of each person owning shares, and the amount owned by each; and for the purpose of securing the collection of the taxes assessed upon said shares, each Banking Association shall be liable to pay the same as Bank as A'gt the agent of each of its share holders, having their to pay. property in its possession with a view to investing or loaning the same for pecuniary profit under the provisions of Section 725 of the Revision of 1860, and it shall be the duty of the Association to retain so much of any dividend or dividends belonging to any share holder as shall be necessary to pay any taxes levied upon his or her shares. Shall retain dividends. SEO. 3. This act, being deemed of immediate Publication. importance, shall take effect from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register, and Iowa Homestead, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved April 2d, 1866. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa State Register, April 14th, 1866, and in the Iowa Homestead April, 1866. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 109. AN ACT to amend Section No. 4155 of the Revision of 1860, regulating the fees of County Surveyors. FEES OF COUNTY SURVEYORS. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Former Sec. the State of Iowa, That Section No. 4155 of the Re-amended. $3.00 strick- vision of 1860, be, and the same is hereby amended, by en out-$4.00 striking out the figures "$3.00" in said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the figures "$4.00." Approved April 2d, 1866. inserted. Ꮯ Ꮋ Ꭺ Ꮲ Ꭲ Ꭼ Ꭱ 1 1 0 . AMENDS CHAPS. 32 AND 156 ACTS 9TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY. AN ACT to amend Chapter thirty-two of the Acts passed at the regular session of the Ninth General Assembly, and Chapter one hundred and fifty-six of the Acts of said session, amendatory thereof, relating to the purchase of real estate sold on execution issued upon judgments rendered in favor of the State or any county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Act amended of the State of Iowa, That the third sub-division of the first section of chapter one hundred and fifty-six, of the acts passed at the regular session of the Ninth General Assembly be, and the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following clause, to-wit: Provided, That in all cases where real property is sold under such executions, it shall first be appraised in the manner provided by law for the appraisement of property levied on under execution, and it shall be the duty of the said officers so to bid upon and purchase in said property in the name of the State or county, as the case may be, for the lowest sum possible. If no other person shall bid therefor, at least two-thirds of the appraised value thereof, or the full amount of the judg ment and costs, if the same is less than two-thirds of such appraised value. Property sold under. Buildings to be insured. Expensehow paid. SEC. 2. Whenever any improved real estate shall be purchased at sale under execution, by or on behalf of the State, or any county as provided by chapter thirty-two of the Acts passed at the regular session of the Ninth General Assembly, and said chapter one. hundred and fifty-six, amendatory thereof, the officers invested with the control and management thereof, shall have full power, and it shall be their duty to keep any valuable buildings therein insured against fire, for the benefit of the State or county, in some responsible Insurance Company, or Companies, and the expense of such insurance shall be paid out of the rents of such property, or the proceeds thereof when sold. SEC. 3. In cases where the State becomes the pur- When State chaser of real estate, under execution, issued upon to pay costs. judgments rendered in favor of the State, all costs and expenses attending the same shall be audited and allowed by the State Census Board and paid out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, whenever such costs and expenses cannot be collected out of the defendant or defendants in such judgments. SEC. 4. This Act being deemed of immediate im- Publication. portance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Burling. ton Hawkeye. Approved April 2d, 1866. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa State Register April 14th, 1866, and in the Burlington Hawkeye April 14th, 1866. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 111. AN ACT apportioning the State of Iowa into Senatorial Districts. portionment. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Rate of apof the State of Iowa, That one Senator to eighteen thousand inhabitants or fraction thereof equal to one half in each Senatorial District is hereby constituted the ratio of apportionment. SEC. 2. Lee county is the first district, and entitled 1st District. to two Senators. SEC. 3. Van Buren county is the second district, 2d District. and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 4. Davis county is the third district, and en- 3d District. titled to one Senator. SEC. 5. Appanoose county is the fourth district, and 4th District. entitled to one Senator. SEC. 6. The counties of Wayne, Lucas, and Clarke 5th District. is the fifth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 7. Monroe county is the sixth district, and en- 6th District. titled to one Senator. SEC. 8. The counties of Ringgold and Decatur shall 7th District. constitute the seventh district, and be entitled to one Senator. SEC. 9. The counties of Taylor, Page, Adams, Un- 8th District. 9th District. 10th District. 11th District. 12th District. 13th District. 14th District. 15th District. 16th District. 17th District. 18th District. 19th District. 20th District. 21st District. 2d District. 23d District. 24th District. 25th District. 26th District. 27th District. 28th District, 29th District. 30th District. ion, and Montgomery shall constitute the eighth district, and be entitled to one Senator. SEC. 10. The counties of Fremont, Mills, Pottawattamie, and Cass shall constitute the ninth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 11. Des Moines county is the tenth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 12. Henry county is the eleventh district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 13. Jefferson county is the twelfth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 14. Wapello county is the thirteenth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 15. Louisa county is the fourteenth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 16. Washington county is the fifteenth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 17. Muscatine county is the sixteenth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 18. Keokuk county is the seventeenth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 19. Mahaska county is the eighteenth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 20. Marion county is the nineteenth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 21. Warren county is the twentieth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 22. The counties of Madison, Adair, Dallas, and Guthrie shall constitute the twenty-first district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 23. Scott county is the twenty-second district, and entitled to two Senators. SEC. 24. Clinton county is the twenty-third district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 25. Cedar county is the twenty-fourth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 26. Johnson county is the twenty-fifth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEO. 27. The counties of Iowa and Powesheik, shall constitute the twenty-sixth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 28. Jasper county is the twenty-seventh district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 29. Polk county is the twenty-eighth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEO. 30. Jackson county is the twenty-ninth district, and entitled to one Senator. SEC. 31. Jones county is the thirtieth district, and entitled to one Senator. |