Duties of Manner of redemption. Repeal. est of the several parties to the land, including liens for taxes, and claims for improvements made on the land by the persons claiming under the tax title. SEC. 2. No person shall be allowed to redeem land sold for taxes after three years from such sale, in any other manner than that provided in Section one of this Act. All laws inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved April 2d, 1866. Former Sec. amended. pointed, how. Ꮯ Ꮋ Ꭺ Ꮲ Ꭲ Ꭼ Ꭱ 1 2 5 . GUARDIANS OF NON-RESIDENT MINORS. AN ACT to amend Section 2564 of the Revision of 1860, relating to Guardians of non-resident minors. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That Section 2564, of the Revision of 1860, be amended so as to read as follows: "That where minors, non-residents of the State of Iowa have property in this State either real or personal, a resident guardian may be appointed, on proper Guardian ap application made to the County Court of the County in which such property, or any part thereof may be, who shall qualify in the same manner, and shall have the same powers, and be subject to the same rules as guardians of resident minors. The foreign guardian Foreign of any non-resident minor may be appointed the guardian appointed. guardian in this State of such minor, by the Court of the County wherein he has any property, for the purpose of selling or otherwise controlling that, and all other, property of such minor, within this State, unless a guardian has previously been appointed under the first part of this Section. Approved April 2, 1866. CHAPTER 126. RELIEF OF D. B. HILLIS. AN ACT for the relief of D. B. Hillis. Auditor to SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the Auditor of State be directed to audit and allow the claim of D. B. Hillis of audit claim. Lee county, for the sum of three hundred and sixty $360. dollars; for one hundred and twenty days' service, as Aid-de-Camp to Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood, between the 1st day of September, 1861, and the 1st day of March, 1862. SEC. 2. The Auditor of State shall draw his warrant Draw waron the Treasurer of State in favor of the said D. B. rant on W. Hillis, for the above named amount, and the Treasurer and D. Fund. of State shall pay said warrant out of the War and Defense Fund. SEC. 3. This Act being deemed by the General Assembly of immediate importance, shall take effect, and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Iowa Homestead, newspapers published at Des Moines. Approved April 2d, 1866. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa State Register April 15th, 1866, in the Iowa Homestead April 25th, 1866. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. Publication. CHAPTER 127. CONCERNING PRIVATE ROADS. AN ACT to provide for establishing private roads in the State of SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That private roads may be estab- Private roads lished in the same way and manner that county roads established as are now established by law, and all the laws of Iowa County roads. relating to and governing the establishment of county roads, shall apply to and govern the establishment of private roads, so far as the same are applicable Proviso. Appointment what neces and not herein changed: Provided, That a petition signed by the applicant, for a private road, alone, shall be sufficient as a basis upon which to proceed. SEC. 2. SEC. 2. Previous to the appointment of a commisof Comm'r- sioner to view the proposed private road, and report sary to secure upon the application therefor, the petitioner must file a bond with the Board of Supervisors, in a penal sum to be fixed by them, payable to the county, with such sureties as may be approved by said Board, for the use of the parties injured by the establishment of such private road, with conditions that the applicant will pay all the cost resulting from such application and will pay all the assessed damages to the owners of the land. over which such a road may be established, and comply with all other conditions upon which such road is established: Provided, He shall not be liable to perform any of the conditions in the said bond, nor any of the conditions upon which such a road is established, except the payment of the cost, unless he accepts of such road. Proviso. Private road -when. SEC. 3. No private road established as provided by ordered open this Act, shall be ordered to be opened until the applicant shall have paid all the damages and costs, and complied with all other conditions upon which it is established, which must be done within such time as may be fixed by the Board of Supervisors, and in case he does not pay said costs and damages, and comply with said other conditions, within the time fixed by said Board, he shall be deemed to have waived and forfeited all his rights to such road upon that application; and if thereafter he should desire such a road, he must proceed anew. Time of final hearing. SEC. 4. When the time for final hearing and action in relation to such a road arrives, whether application for damages has been made or not; and whether the commissioner has reported adversely to the establishment of the road or not, the Board of Supervisors may Board of Su-hear testimony and receive petitions for and against pervisors the establishment of such road, and may establish the road upon such conditions as to the payment of damages and costs, and building and maintaining fences, and such other conditions as to the Board may seem just to all parties concerned; or they may reject the road absolutely, but such rejection shall be no bar to another application for the same purpose. duties of Publication. SEC. 5. This Act being deemed by the General Assembly of immediate importance, it shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Iowa Homestead, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved April 3, 1866. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa State Register April 12th, 1866, and in the Iowa Homestead April 18th, 1866. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 128. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. AN ACT authorizing county subscriptions to County Agricultural Societies. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Fair grounds the State of Iowa, That whenever any County Agri- when purcultural Society, organized according to law, shall have chased. procured in fee simple, free from incumbrance, land for fair grounds, not less than 10 acres in extent, the Board of Supervisors of said county may appropriate and pay to such Society a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for every thousand inhabitants in said county, to be expended by such Society in fitting up such fair grounds, but for no other purpose; Provided, That no appropriation be made unless a major- Proviso. ity of all the Supervisors in such county shall ask for the same, and not more than one thousand dollars shall in the aggregate be appropriated to any one society. SEC. 2.. Each society receiving such appropriation Sec'y make shall, through its Secretary, make to the Board of Su- report to the pervisors a detailed statement, with vouchers, showing pervisors. the legal disbursement of all the money so received. Board of Su SEC. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with Repeal. the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect from and after its Publication. publication in the Iowa State Register and Iowa Homestead, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved April3d, 1866. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa State Register April 12th, 1866, and Iowa Homestead April 18, 1866. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. Official acts legalized. Publication. CHAPTER 129. LEGALIZING CERTAIN ACTS OF S. C. JOHNSON. AN ACT to legalize the acts of S. C. Johnson, lately a Justice of the SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the official acts of S. C. Johnson, a Justice of the Peace in Jones county, Iowa, during the years A. D. 1859, and 1860, are hereby legalized and declared to be valid in law in all cases where the said S. C. Johnson has failed or neglected to sign his official docket as fully as if it had been so signed. SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its publication in the Anamosa Eureka, and Monticello Express, papers published in Jones Co., Iowa, without expense to the State. Approved April 3d, 1866. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Anamosa Eureka, April 12th, 1866, and in the Monticello Express April 12th, 1866. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. Preamble. CHAPTER 130. QUIETING THE TITLE OF ELIZA INGWERSEN et al TO CER TAIN LAND. AN ACT to quiet the title of Eliza Ingwersen and others to certain land. WHEREAS, One Peter Bartels, died intestate on the 18th day of September, A. D. 1858, leaving neither widow nor child, he being at the time of his decease seized of the following described lands, viz.: The south half of the south-west quarter of section twenty-six, (26), and the north-west quarter of section thirty-five (35), in township, eighty-four (84), north of range ten (10), west of the fifth P. M., also the north-west quarter of section twenty-five (25), in township eighty-three (83), north of range forty-three (43), west of the fifth P. M., and also the south half of the north-west quarter |