of the State of Iowa, That so much of the Act, of Dist. Court in which this is amendatory, as prescribes that a term of Lee Co., time the District Court, of the First Judicial District, shall of holding changed. be held at Keokuk, in Lee county, commencing on the first Monday in September of each year, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and in lieu, stead and place thereof, there shall hereafter be held at Keokuk, in said county of Lee, a term of said District Court, com- How. mencing on the second Monday of September of each year. affected SEC. 2. All writs, pleadings, processes and proceed- Writs, pleadings pending in or returnable to said District Court, at ings, &c., how Keokuk, at its term as heretofore prescribed, to com- thereby. mence on the first Monday of September, shall be deemed to be pending in and returnable to said Court, at Keokuk, commencing on the second Monday of September, as is hereinbefore provided. SEC. 3. This Act being deemed of immediate im- Publication. portance, shall be in force on and after its publication in the Daily Keokuk Gate City and Daily State Register, newspapers published in this State. Approved March 12th, 1866. I hereby certify the foregoing Act was published in the Daily State Register March 15th, 1866, and in the Daily Keokuk Gate City, March 1866. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 22. AN ACT SUPPLEMENTAL TO CHAPTER 108 LAWS OF THE AN ACT supplemental to Chapter 108 of the Laws of the Tenth certain mon ey to Treasu SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Register pay of the State of Iowa, That all moneys received by the Register of the State Land Office, as provided by Sec- rer, who shall tion 13 of Chapter 108 of the Laws of the 10th General pay out the Assembly, shall be paid over to the State Treasurer, who same-how. shall pay out the same as follows: 1st, The expenses of such classification, appraisement, advertisement and sale; 2d, sums due the State for moneys advanced or due other parties as mentioned in Section 9 of the Act $170.000.00 to which this Act is supplemental; 3d, he shall pay the warrants provided for in Section 2 of this Act, pro rata, as such moneys shall be received. SEC. 2. That there is hereby appropriated out of appropriated. the money thus to be paid into the State Treasury the sum of one hundred and seventy thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the payment of the claims of the following persons, or their assignees : To whom. James J. Kinnersly, Jonas Houghton, Adam Hine, Wm. Baker, R. Jackson for heirs of A. Miller, Wm. Armstrong, Edwin Manning, John Parker, H. D. Stewart, Van Buren county; Meek & Bros., Joseph Benning, George Grey, D. Kennedy, S. Dwight Eaton, Peter Tobie, Thomas H. Harlan, Guy Wells, J. P. Gray, Robert P. Gray, Felix Deck, John Stafford, J. Benning, Administrator, Wm. McCowan, Isaac P. Gray, Gray & Co., Wells, Chedester & Co., Green, Bragg & Co., E. T. Colton, Meek & Sons, O. H. P. Scott, H. K. Love & Co.; and the Auditor of State is hereby required to draw warrants therefor upon the written application of James J. Kinnersly and the other parties mentioned in this section, or their assignees, which warrants shall be payable out of the moneys mentioned in Section 1 of this Act, and shall draw interest at the rate of seven terest at 7 per per cent. per annum, provided such warrants shall not cent. be construed as rendering the State liable to pay the State not liable. said warrants except out of the aforesaid Fund. Auditor to draw warrants therefor. From what fund paid. To draw in SEC. 3. The written application for said warrants Application for warrants shall specify the amount of warrants that shall be -how made. issued in the name of each of said parties, or their assignees, the correctness of which shall be evidenced by the certificate of the Register of the State Land Office. Warrants re SEC. 4. The warrants issued under the provisions of ceivable for this Act shall be receivable in payment for lands sold certain lands. under the provisions of the Act to which this Act is supplemental. D. M. R. R. warrantsconditions. SEC. 5. The Des Moines Valley Railroad Company Co. may pay may at any time pay any of the warrants mentioned in this Act upon the like condition that they are authorized by the Act to which this is supplemental, to pay off the claims therein mentioned; and if the said company shall be unadvised of the whereabouts of such warrants they may pay the funds for the redempNo lands con- tion thereof into the State Treasury, from which time veyed until interest shall cease to accrue on such warrants: Provided, however, that no part of the lands mentioned in warrants are paid. this Act, or in the Act to which this is supplemental, shall be conveyed to said Railroad company until all of said warrants shall have been paid. SEC. 6. When the funds for the redemption of said Treasurer to warrants shall be received by the State Treasurer, he redeem said shall give notice thereof in the manner now required to be given for the redemption of outstanding warrants. warrants SEC. 7. That after the lands mentioned in section 4 Register may of the Act to which this Act is supplemental, shall sell at a less have been offered for sale, under the provisions of said price-when. Act, for the space of three months and remain unsold, it shall be competent for the Register of the State Shall not be Land Office with the advice and approval of the Census sold for less Board, to sell such lands at a less price per acre, if by than $1.25 said Board deemed advisable, provided the said lands per acre. should not be sold at a price less than $1.25 per acre, and provided said Register shall first give thirty days' Register give notice by publication in the State Register, and the Iowa notice of sale. North-West, of the time of said sale, at such reduced price. SEC. 8. All persons who may at the date of the pas- Prior right sage of this Act be in actual occupation and possession to buy. of any portion of said lands, shall have a prior right to purchase the same at $2.50 per acre, not exceeding 160 acres to any one settler. SEC. 9. This Act being deemed of immediate im- Publication. portance by the General Assembly, 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 March 12th, 1866. I hereby certify the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa CHAPTER 23. ELIAS TOPLIFF'S OFFICIAL ACTS LEGALIZED. AN ACT to legalize certain official acts of Elias Topliff, late School Fund Commissioner of Alamakee county, and for the relief of the Administrators of the estate of said Topliff and of their grantees. Whereas, On the 30th day of April, A. D. 1852, Preamble. Certain acts declared valid. Governor and Elias Topliff, then being School Fund Commissioner of Whereas, The said Topliff paid the interest upon said contracts to the time of his death; and Whereas, Since his death said administrators have paid the full amount due upon each of said contracts, as fully appears by the certificates of the Clerk of the District Court of said county; and Whereas, The Register of the State Land office entertains doubts as to the authority of said Topliff, as such School Fund Commissioner, to sell said lands to himself as aforesaid. Therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the aforesaid official acts of Elias Topliff, late School Fund Commissionor of Alamakee county, are, and that the same are hereby made and declared legal and valid, and that the Governor and the Register of the State Land office are authorized and required to convey, by patent, to the administraRegister re- tors or to the assignees of said Topliff, the aforesaid quired to con- school lands, upon presentation to said Register of a certificate of the Clerk of the District Court of the proper county, certifying that the principal and the interest accruing thereon has been paid in full by said. assignees or administrators. Approved March 9th, 1866. vey certain school lands, &c. CHAPTER 24. EARNINGS OF MARRIED WOMEN. AN ACT to protect the earnings of Married Women. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Separate of the State of Iowa, That the separate earnings of earnings of the wife ex- any married woman, whose husband, through idleness, empt-when. intemperance, mental or bodily infirmity, imprisonNot support ment or involuntary absence, does not support and prothe family. vide for the family, or who has deserted his wife, shall Not liable for be held and possessed by her, in her own right, exempt from liability for the debts of her husband, and from any right or claim thereto set up by him, adverse to When liable. that of the wife; but such earnings are liable for the husband's debts. separate contracts of the wife, and for family expenses Not to interand the education of the children; Provided, That fere with her nothing herein contained, shall interfere with any homestead homestead right which she may possess, or be so conright. strued as to prevent her from claiming the benefit of Sections No. 3304, 3305 and 3307, of the Revision of 1860. Sec. 3304 3305 3307 of Code. SEC. 2. Property, purchased by the wife, with such Property purchased by earnings, is also exempt from the husband's debts and such earnings control, to the same extent as the earnings of the wife. exempt. her claim. SEC. 3. It shall not be necessary for the wife to file Need not reor record any notice of her claim with the Recorder of cord notice of deeds or elsewhere, in order that she, or her heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, may obtain the benefits of the provisions of this Act. Approved March 12th, 1866. CHAPTER 25. AMENDING ACT TENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN RELATION TO AN ACT to amend Chapter 89, of the Acts of the Tenth General Assembly, entitled, An Act for the relief of the families of Soldiers and Mariners in the service of the United States. to any other SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Board Superof the State of Iowa, That the Board of Supervisors, visors may in each of the counties in this State, may, at their reg- transfer relief ular meetings in June, 1866, or at any meeting there- fund when not needed, after, transfer so much of the relief fund, of their respective counties, as is not needed for the purposes, for fund. which the same was levied, to any other county fund, which they may elect, and the same shall be paid out, as the Board of Supervisors of each county may direct. SEC. 2. That in counties where the relief fund is May levy tax not sufficient to meet the demands upon the same, the where said Board of Supervisors may levy, for the years 1866 and fund is not 1867, a tax of not more than one mill on the dollar, upon the taxable property in their county, for the purpose of increasing said relief fund. sufficient. SEC. 3. All moneys, raised under the provisions of Such money this Act, belonging to the relief fund, shall be expend- to be expended under the provisions of the Act to which this is ed-how. amendatory. |