Thereafter the terms of the circuit court in each circuit in his district for the year 1869, which order shall be filed with the clerk of the court in each county of the circuit. And thereafter each general term shall at the last term held general term for the year 1869, and every alternate year thereafter, to fix times designate by an order under their hands the times for holding the terms of each circuit court in their district for the two years next ensuing, which order shall be filed with the several clerks of each circuit. of court. Judges inter- Jan. 1, 1869. Rev. § 25. SEC. 25. The circuit judges may interchange and hold each other's courts. SEC. 26. This act shall take effect on the first Monday of January, A. D. 1869, except so much thereof as provides for the election of circuit judges, and fixing the times for holding the circuit courts, which shall take effect as provided by section 25, of the Revision of 1860. Approved April 3, 1868. APRIL 4. amended. CHAPTER 87. REARRANGING CIRCUITS IN FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. AN ACT to Amend the Act passed by the Twelfth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, entitled "An Act establishing Circuit and General Term Courts, and to define the Powers and Jurisdiction thereof." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Ch. 86, 1868, of the State of Iowa, That the act of the Twelfth General Assembly, entitled "An act establishing Circuit and General Term courts, and to define the powers and jurisdiction thereof," be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: The counties of 1st circuit, 1st Lee and Henry, in the first judicial district, shall compose the first circuit therein; the counties of Des 2d circuit, 1st Moines and Louisa, in said judicial district, shall compose the second circuit therein. district. district. Taking effect. Rev. § 25. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on the first Monday of January, A. D. 1869, except so much thereof as provides for the election of circuit judges, and fixing the times for holding the circuit courts, which shall take effect as provided by section 25 of the Revision of 1860. Approved April 4, 1868. CHAPTER 88. LEGALIZING ORGANIZATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIS- AN ACT Legalizing the Organization of the Independent District APRIL 6. of Montezuma, and the Election and Acts of the Officers thereof. WHEREAS, On the 30th day of March, A. D. 1867, Preamble. the territory composing sections 5, 6, 7, and 8, in township 78, range 14, and sections 1, 2, 11, and 12, in township 78, range 15, in Jackson township, Poweshiek county, Iowa, was duly constituted the Independent School-District of Montezuma; and WHEREAS, On the 11th day of April, A. D. 1867, at a special meeting of the electors of said district, held in the court-house in said district, for the election of its officers, whereat the polls were opened at 1 o'clock P. M. and closed at 4 o'clock P. M.; S. W. Bosly was elected. president, R. W. Latchem vice president, J. E. Griffith secretary, J. W. Carr treasurer, and Joseph Schell, C. W. Tenner, and John W. Cheshire directors thereof; and WHEREAS, The polls at said meeting should have been opened at 10 o'clock A. M. of said April 11th, instead of 1 o'clock P. M.; and WHEREAS, Said officers were qualified about May 2d, A. D. 1867, about twenty days after their election; and WHEREAS, They should have qualified within ten days after their said election; and WHEREAS, The records of the meeting constituting said independent district, and electing said officers thereof, have been mislaid and lost; and WHEREAS, On about May 2d, A. D. 1867, said officers, after being qualified as aforesaid, entered upon the discharge of the duties pertaining to said officers and to the board of directors of said district, and have hired teachers, levied taxes for the year 1867, and, in concurrence with the board of directors of the district township of Jackson aforesaid, changed the boundaries of their said district, and have done other acts legally belonging to said officers: therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the action of the electors. thereof constituting said district independent, the Irregularities election of said officers and their qualification, and all qualification the acts and things pertaining to said officers and board of officers, in election & of Mont'zuma of directors by said officers done, be and the same are school-dist., hereby legalized to all intents and purposes as fully cured. and effectually as if said records were preserved, said election of said officers held, and said officers qualified at the times required by law. SEC. 2. This act, being deetned of immediate imTaking effect. portance by the General Assembly, shall take effect from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and The Montezuma Republican: provided, however, that said publication shall be without expense to the State. No cost to Approved April 6, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa CHAPTER 89. LEGALIZING AN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL - DISTRICT IN DES MOINES COUNTY. APRIL 6. AN ACT to Legalize the Election held by the Voters in Burlington Township, Des Moines County, Iowa, to form an Independent School District and the Official Acts of the Officers of said District. Preamble. WHEREAS, A petition was circulated in sub-district number one, of the district township of Burlington, Des Moines county, Iowa, which sub-district did contain the number of inhabitants required by law, and signed by the legal voters, asking the township trustees to issue notices of an election for the purpose of organizing sub-districts number[s] one and four into an independent school districts, and WHEREAS, That notice was given, ten days previous to holding the election, of the time and place of the same, to the legal voters of sub-districts "one" and "four," which notice was posted in five conspicuous places within said territory, and duly set forth the boundaries of said proposed district; and WHEREAS, At the election held pursuant to said notices a majority of the votes were cast in favor of such separate organization; and *See Addenda. WHEREAS, After this election notice was duly given of the time and place for the purpose of electing a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and three directors, as the law provides, for said independent organization, at which election all of said officers were duly elected; and WHEREAS, This organization of said independent district was completed before the first of August, 1867; and WHEREAS, It afterward appeared that a mistake had been made, inasmuch that one of the signers of the original petition was a resident of sub-district number. four, in said township, but was within the territory described in said notice, contemplated in said independent district; and WHEREAS, Certain disputes have arisen with regard to the legal existence of said independent school-district, and the legality of the proceedings forming the same, and if not legalized may embarrass the citizens thereof: therefore, 1 and 4, Bur SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the organization of sub- Organization districts numbers one and four in Burlington township, of sub-dists. Des Moines county, Iowa, into an independent school-lington Tp., district, and the proceedings had in relation thereto, be Des Moines and the same is [are] hereby legalized and declared co., legalized. valid from the date of its organization. SEC. 2. That the election of the officers of said Election and independent district, and their acts in levying taxes to taxes valid. support said organization, be and the same is [are] hereby declared legal and valid as though all the requirements of the statu[t]e had been fully complied with, and all the official acts of the officers under said organization be and the same are hereby legalized and confirmed. SEO. 3. This act being deemed of immediate im portance by the General Assembly, the same shall take Taking effect. effect from and after its publication in the Iowa Daily State Register and the Burlington Hawk-Eye: pro- No cost to vided, that such publication be made without expense State. to the State. Approved April 6, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily State Register April 8, 1868, and in the Burlington Hawk - Eye April 10, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 90. APRIL 6. Preamble. LEGALIZING CERTAIN CONVEYANCES IN MARION COUNTY. AN ACT to Legalize the Acts of William Van Asch and Koenraad WHEREAS, Johanna J. Zeelt formerly was the owner in fee simple of certain tracts of land in Lake Prairie township, Marion county, Iowa, she residing in the kingdom of the Netherlands, Europe, at the time; and WHEREAS, The said Johanna J. Zeelt executed writ ten power of attorney to William Van Asch and Koenraad De Yong, residing in Marion county, Iowa, authorizing them to sell said tracts of land and convey the same by warranty deed to the several purchasers; and, WHEREAS, The said William Van Asch and Koenraad De Yong severally have sold the said tracts of land, and have accounted to the said Johanna J. Zeelt for the proceeds thereof, and have executed conveyances therefor, intending bona fide to grant and convey unto the said several purchasers an absolute title in fee simple as fully as the same was held by the said Johanna J. Zeelt; and, WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as to the validity of said conveyances, more particularly in respect to the manner the same were signed by the said William Van Asch and Koenraad De Yong, or by the said William Van Asch, or by the said Koenraad De Yong, and in respect to the form and language of the certificate of acknowledgment thereunto affixed: therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Conveyances of the State of Iowa, That all of the conveyances by agents of made and executed by William Van Asch and KoenJohanna J. raad De Yong, or by William Van Asch, or by KoenZeelt, in Marion co. valid. raad De Yong, as attorneys or attorney in fact, or as agents or as agent in fact, of the said Johanna J. Zeelt, are hereby declared valid and of full effect, notwithstanding any errors there may exist in the signatures Erroneous or certificates of acknowledgment thereunto affixed; signatures & and that said erroneous signatures and certificates of acknowledgments made acknowledgments shall have the same effect in law as effectual in though they had been made and affixed in compliance with the provisions of the statutes heretofore enacted; and that the said deeds, whether now recorded or not, veyance. shall hereafter be prima facie evidence in any of the law. Deeds evi dence of con. |