LAWS OF IOWA. NOTE. This Chapter is put here because it was not received at the office of Secretary of State until it was too late to print it in its proper place. CHAPTER 144. AN ACT to accept the grant of land to the State of Iowa, made by Act of Congress of May 12, 1864, and to carry out the provisions of said Act, entitled "An Act for a grant of land to the State of Iowa, in alternate sections, to aid in the construction of a Railroad in said State." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the lands, rights, powers, Grant of land duties, and trusts conferred upon the State of Iowa by of 1864 acan Act of Congress, approved July 12th, 1864, entitled cepted. "An Act for a grant of land to the State of Iowa, in alternate sections, to aid in the construction of a Railroad in said State," are hereby accepted by said State, upon the terms, conditions, and restrictions contained in said Act of Congress. SEC. 2. Whenever any lands shall be patented to When lands the State of Iowa, in accordance with the provisions of patented. said Act of Congress, said lands shall be held by the Held in trust. State in trust for the benefit of the Railroad Company entitled to the same by virtue of said Act of Congress, and to be deeded to said Railroad Company as shall be. ordered by the Legislature of the State of Iowa, at its next regular session, or at any session thereafter. SEC. 3. This Act being deemed by the General As- Publication. sembly 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, Iowa. Approved April 20th, 1866. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa State Register on the 2d day of May, 1866, and in the Iowa Homestead on the 10th day of May, 1866. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. A LIST OF COUNTIES, SHOWING THE COUNTY SEATS, POPULATION IN 1865, AND THE VOTE IN 1865. Adair. Adams.. Alamakee. Appanoose. Audubon. Benton Black Hawk. Boone... Bremer. Buchanan. Buena Vista. Butler.. Calhoun. Carroll.. Cass.. Cedar. Cerro Gordo. Cherokee. Chickasaw. Clarke.. Clay. Clayton. Clinton Crawford Dallas. Davis. Decatur. Delaware. A LIST OF COUNTIES, SHOWING THE COUNTY SEATS, &c.-CONTINUED. Muscatine. Osceola.. Palo Alto. Pottawattamie Powesheik. Sioux.. Story. Winnebago. *Winnesheik. Worth.. Wright.. *Census of 1863. AUDITOR'S REPORT. AUDITOR'S OFFICE, IOWA, Į DES MOINES, APRIL 28TH, 1866. S Hon. James Wright, Secretary of State: SIR:-In pursuance of Section eighteen of Article third of the Constitution of Iowa, herewith find for publication, with the Laws of the Eleventh General Assembly, a statement of the Receipts and Expenditures for the two fiscal years commencing November 2d, 1863, and ending November 4th, 1865, both days inclusive. Very respectfully, JNO. A. ELLIOTT, Auditor of State. 1ST-TOTAL AMOUNT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS, AND THE ACTUAL AMOUNT REMAINING IN TREASURY. Nov. 4. Amount paid out for redemp tion of Warrants, and in terest and apportionment of State revenue........$745,472 87 |