CHAPTER 76. LEGALIZING CERTAIN ACTS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT AN ACT to legalize the elections and Acts of the Independent SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That, all the elections and Acts Election leof the Independent School District of the City of galized. Clinton, be and the same are hereby legalized, any informality or irregularity in the notice for the annual meetings or time at which said meetings were held to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. This Act being deemed of immediate importance, shall be in force from and after its publication in the State Register published at Des Moines, and the Clinton Herald, published at the city of Clinton, without expense to the State. Approved March 30th, 1866. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the State Register April 3d, 1866, and in the Clinton Herald April 1866. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. Publication. CHAPTER 77. MORNING SUN. AN ACT to legalize the Election held by the legal voters of the town of Morning Sun, Louisa county, Iowa, to form an Independent School District, and the official acts of the officers of said District. WHEREAS, In the month of April 1865, the legal Preamble. voters of the town of Morning Sun, in the township of Morning Sun, in Louisa county, Iowa, by virtue of Section 85, 86, 87, and 88 of Chapter one hundred and seventy-two, [172], of the laws of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, decided by ballot to form an Independent School District of said Town and District certain territory contiguous thereto, which said Terri- formed. tory had prior thereto been designated by the Trus tees of said township as provided in section 85 of said chapter 172, and, WHEREAS, A majority of the legal voters of said town, at said election voted in favor of a separate organization or Independent District, and afterwards by virtue of Section 86, of said Chapter 172, met and Officers elect- elected by ballot the officers designated in said section 86, which said officers so elected, qualified according to law, and entered upon the discharge of their several duties, employed teachers and furnished them with rooms and necessary appliances for conducting their schools, and performed all other acts required of them by law, and, ed. WHEREAS, It was ascertained after the District was so formed, the officers elected and qualified and conNo. inhabi- tracts made as heretofore stated, that there was but two hundred and seventy-seven inhabitants within the surveyed limits of said town, and four hundred and sixty inhabitants in the District so formed, and, tants. Acts lear ized. Publication. WHEREAS, Certain disputes have arisen with regard to the legal existence of said Independent School District, whether if not legalized may not embarrass the citizens thereof, and, WHEREAS, There are at this time over three hundred inhabitants within the surveyed limits of said town of Morning Sun, therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of ine State of Iowa, That the election held by the legal voters of the town of Morning Sun, in Louisa county, Iowa, in the month of April A. D. 1865, to form themselves into an Independent School District, and all the official acts of the officers under said organization be and the same are hereby legalized and confirmed. SEC. 2. This Act being deemed of immediate importance by the General Assembly, the same shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Daily State Register and Iowa Homestead, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved March 30th, 1866. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily Iowa State Register on the 6th day of April, 1866, in the Iowa Homestead April 17th, 1866. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 78. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "an Act to incorporate the SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the Congregational Church Title. and Society of Burlington, Iowa, are hereby authorized Congregato hold estate, real, personal, and mixed, to an amount tional Church not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars. Limits. pews. SEC. 2. That the Trustees of said Church and Society shall, subject to the ratification of the Church May rent and Society, have power to sell, convey and lease pews and other property of the Society, and to reserve in the deeds of sale of said pews, the right of assigning any or all pews each year for the support of such Church and Society, and to provide by reasonable rules, or bylaws for the forfeiture of pews for non-payment of such assessments. SEC. 3. This Act being deemed of immediate im- Publication. portance shall take effect, from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register, and Burlington Hawk-Eye, the same to be published at no expense to the State. Approved March 30th, 1866. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa State Register, April 13th, 1866, and in the Burlington Hawk eye - 1866. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 79. SETTLEMENT WITH U. S. AN ACT providing for the adjustment of certain land claims with the General Government. WHEREAS, The excess of land certified to the State over and above the amount it was entitled to receive under the Act of Congress of September 4, 1841, known as the 500,000 acre grant, has not been re-con 500,000 acres. Acts. Unsettled. veyed nor satisfaction therefor rendered to the General Government; and WHEREAS, The lands falling to the State, under the Joint Resolutions of Congress of March 3d, 1861, entitled "Joint Resolutions to quiet titles in the State of Iowa," and under the Act of Congress entitled "An Act confirming a land claim in the State of Iowa and for other purposes," approved July 12th, 1862, have not yet been certified or approved to the State; and WHEREAS, The claims of the State against the United States, arising under the Swamp Land Grant, remain to a very great extent in an unsettled and unsatisfactory condition; and WHEREAS, The interests of the State, and her grantees demand a speedy settlement of all said matters; therefore SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem bly J. A. Harvey. of the State of Iowa, That Josiah A. Harvey, Register of the State Land Office be, and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner on behalf of the State of Iowa, to adjust with the General Government all the matters and claims aforesaid. ment. SEC. 2. Said Commissioner shall proceed to WashEarly settle ington City, and present said claims to the Department of the Interior, and urge the same to settlement as early and as speedily as may be consistent with the interest of the State, and he is hereby authorized to adjust the said excess of the 500,000 acre grant, by permitting the United States to retain out of the indemnity land falling to the State under said Act of Congress of July 12th, 1862, an amount equivalent to such excess, Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to be a relinquishment of the claim of the State under the said 500,000 acre grant to the 12813 51-100 acres selected as a part of such grant, and subsequently rejected from a supposed conflict with the Act of Congress approved August 8th, 1846, known as the Des Moines River Grant, and the said Commissioner is hereby Instructions. instructed to secure a restoration of said selections as a part of the 500,000 acre grant, and a confirmation of the title of the State thereto, as a part of such grant. Proviso. SEC. 3. As soon as the claim or claims, or matters Census Board of difference, under any one of said acts, shall be adjusted, said Commissioner shall report the same to the Census Board, setting forth the terms and mode of adjustment, and said Board shall examine and pass upon said adjustment, so presented, and the approval of a majority of said Board shall make the settlement Approval. of said matters, or claims final and binding upon the State of Iowa. Such approval shall be in writing signed by the members of said Board, agreeing thereto, and attested by the great seal of the State of Iowa. How paid. SEC. 4. Said Commissioner shall receive as his com- Expenses. pensation two dollars per day for the time actually engaged in the discharge of the duties by this Act imposed, with his necessary expenses in attending to the same, and his account for such time and expenses made out from time to time, or at the conclusion of his services as such Commissioner, and sworn to by him, shall be presented to the Census Board for allowance and if approved and allowed by them, the Auditor of State shall draw his warrant on the State Treasurer, who shall pay the same out of the General Revenue of the State. SEC. 5. The amount of expenses incurred and paid out of the Treasury, as provided in the preceding section, in carrying out the provision of this Act, shall be approved by the Census Board, as nearly as practicable, pro rata, among the parties receiving, or entitled to receive, the benefits resulting from the adjustment of said several matters with the General Government, and the amount thus apportioned shall be paid into the State Treasury by such parties respectively before they shall be entitled to receive the proceeds or benefits of such settlement. Apportioned. ed to coun SEC. 6. All indemnity scrip received from the Gen- Scrip and eral Government and all swamp lands patented to the lands conveyState shall be conveyed to the counties to which they ties. belong, and all money and indemnity scrip received from the Government shall be placed under the control Supervisors of the Board of Supervisors of the several counties to to control. which they belong, leaving the counties thereof through their respective Boards of Supervisors to settle with their grantees. SEC. 7. This act being deemed of immediate im- Publication. portance, shall take effect from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and the Iowa Homestead, newspapers published at Des Moines. Approved March 30th, 1866. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa State Register April 13th, 1866, and in the Iowa Homestead. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. 10 |