CHAPTER 163. APPROPRIATION FOR STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. AN ACT in Relation to the State Historical Society. APRIL 7. ciety. WHEREAS, The Iowa State Historical Society was Preamble: created by an act of the Sixth General Assembly of objects of the State of Iowa for the purpose of collecting, arrang- Historical So. ing, and preserving books, pamphlets, maps, charts, manuscripts, papers, paintings, statuary, and other materials, illustrative of the history of this State; and also to preserve the memory of the early pioneers of Iowa, their deeds, exploits, perils, and adventures; to secure facts relative to the history of our Indian tribes; to exhibit faithfully the antiquities, and to mark the progress, of our rapidly developing commonwealth; to publish such of the collections of the Society as it shall from time to time deem of value and interest; to bind such publications and other books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and papers as they may publish or collect; and to aid in all respects, as may be within its province, to develop the history of this State in all its departments: therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, For the above purposes, and to aid in defraying the incidental expenses of said Society, including rent and salary of the secretary, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the State Appropriatreasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three tion: $3,000 thousand dollars per annum, for two years, to be drawn per annum. on the order and expended by the board of curators of How drawn. the said State Historical Society, in such sums as they may from time to time require. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said Society to keep Society to an accurate account of the manner of expenditure of the keep account money hereby appropriated, and furnish a full statement ture, and furof expendithereof, together with the vouchers, to the Governor of nish statethis State in the month of December preceding the ment to Govmeeting of each session of the General Assembly, to ernor. be by him laid before it. SEC. 3. There shall be delivered to the said Society Eighty bound eighty bound copies of all books and documents pub- copies of all lished by order of the State, for the purpose of effecting exchanges with similar Societies in other States, and for preservation in the library of said Society. books. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with Repealing this act are hereby repealed. clause. SEC. 5. This act being deemed of immediate impor Taking effect. tance, shall be in force from and after its publication in the Daily State Register and Iowa Evening Statesman, newspapers published at Des Moines. Approved April 7, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in The Iowa Evening Statesman April 23, 1868, and in the Daily State Register April 24, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 164. APRIL 7. 1866, ch. 62. January. Suits, &c., DISTRICT COURTS IN BREMER AND FLOYD COUNTIES. AN ACT to Change the Time of holding Court in Waverly, Bremer County, and Saint Charles, Floyd County, in the 12th Judicial District. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That where the word[s] First Monday in January now occurs in section 1, chapter 62, of the laws of 1866, read, Fourth Monday of January, in lieu thereof. SEC. 2. The district court in Floyd county, in the 12th judicial district, shall be held as follows: At Saint Charles in said county, on the last Monday of April and the first Monday in September of each year, after June 1st, 1868. SEC. 3. All suits, pleadings, processes, and propending and ceedings pending in any of said courts, and returnable returnable; at the terms now fixed by law, shall be deemed pending and returnable at the terms as fixed by this act; not affected. and no suit, notice, recognizance, indictment, or other proceeding shall be quashed, or held to be invalid, by reason of this act, or by reason of the change of the terms of court hereby made. Repealing clause. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act, being deemed by the General Asssembly of immediate importance, shall take effect Taking effect. and be in force from and after its publication in the Daily State Register and Evening Statesman, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved April 7, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in The Iowa Evening Statesman April 24, 1868, and in the Daily State Register April 26, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 165. PUBLICATIONS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES. AN ACT Relating to the Publication of Notices and Proceedings APRIL 7. in Newspapers published in the Foreign Languages. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That in all counties having a Bd. Supervipopulation exceeding eighteen thousand inhabitants, sors to select foreign pain which a newspaper is published in any foreign lan- pers for legal guage, all publications required by law to be in news- publications papers, shall be made in such of the first above-referred- in counties of to class of newspapers as the board of supervisors may over 18,000 order, except those publications required in civil actions, Exception. and as to such the officer or person having the control may order the publication in any newspaper in the county printed in any foreign language. SEO. 2. This act being deemed of immediate impor population. tance shall take effect from and after its publication in Taking effect. the Daily State Register and Iowa Evening Statesman, newspapers published in the city of Des Moines. Approved April 7, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in The Iowa Evening Statesman April 28, 1868, and in the Daily State Register April 29, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 166. FIRE LIMITS IN CITIES. AN ACT to Authorize Cities of the First and Second Classes to APRIL 7. establish Fire - Limits. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the mayor and city council, of any city of the first or second class, shall have Fire limits. authority by city ordinance to declare and establish certain limits within such city, wherein no building or addition to any building shall, after the passage of such ordinance, be erected except with outer walls composed of iron, stone, or brick and mortar, or other material non-combustible. SEC. 2. That this act shall be in force, and have Taking effect. effect, from and after its publication in The Evening Statesman and State Register, papers published at Des Moines. Approved April 7, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily State Register April 12, 1868, and in The Iowa Evening Statesman April 20, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. APRIL 8. Appropriation. Pay, &c., of tificate. CHAPTER 167. SPECIAL APPROPRIATION LAW. AN ACT Making Appropriations for the per diem and Expenses of the Twelfth General Assembly, and for other Purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the following sums of money are hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the persons and for the purposes herein named. SEC. 2. For the payment of the per diem of the members, officers, and employees of the House of RepRepresenta- resentatives, the sum of thirty-two thousand dollars, or tives, $32,000. so much thereof as may be necessary, the said amount Paid on cer- to be paid upon a general certificate showing the amount due each member, officer, and employee respectively, which certificate shall be signed by the Speaker and chief clerk of the House of Representatives, and the President and secretary of the Senate, and the Auditor of State shall issue a warrant for the amount so paid. Warrant. 950. SEC. 3. For the payment of the per diem of the Senate, $17,- members, officers, and employees of the Senate, the sum of seventeen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, or so inuch thereof as may be necessary; to be audited and paid as provided for in section two of this Committee to act. SEC. 4. To Letson & Sneer, for carriages and incivisit Agricul- dental expenses carrying the joint visiting committee tural College, to the Agricultural College and Farm and return, forty$48.50. eight dollars and fifty cents. Distribution SEO. 5. For the payment of the expenses of the of Adj't-Gen- distribution of the Adjutant-General's Report of 1868, eral's Report, the sum of two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as $200. may be necessary, to be drawn by the Secretary of State as the same may be needed for the prosecution of the work. SEC. 6. To William Larrabee, R. M. Burnett, and Committee to J. H. Hatch, for expenses incurred as a legislative visit Davencommittee to visit and report upon the condition of the port Home, Orphans' Home at Davenport, thirty dollars each: ninety dollars. $90. SEC. 7. To Robert Smyth, L. F. Parker, and P. G. Committee to Wright, for expenses incurred as a legislative commit- Glenwood Home, &c., tee to visit and report upon the condition of the $120. Orphans' Home at Glenwood, and the location of the Deaf and Dumb asylum at Council Bluffs-forty dollars each one hundred and twenty dollars. no farm, &c., $150. SEC. 8. To Theron W. Woolson, Samuel McNutt, Committee to and J. H. Brown, for expenses incurred as a legislative visit Solferi. committee to visit and report upon the condition of the Penitentiary, and also the suitableness of the "Solferino Farm," as a site for the proposed State Reform School, also the buildings and farm of the "White's" Manual Labor School as a temporary location for said Reform School, $50 each: one hundred and fifty dollars. *SEC. 10. To Wm. G. Donnan, W. P. Gaylord, Committee to and Thomas B. Knapp, for expenses incurred as a leg. Visit Home at islative committee to visit and report upon the condi- $150. tion of the Orphans' Home at Cedar Falls, $50 each: one hundred and fifty dollars. SEC. 11. To Geo. E. Griffith, Joel Brown, and Committee to John W. Traer, thirty dollars each for expenses incur- visit Blind Asylum, $90. red as a legislative committee to visit and report upon the condition of the Blind Asylum at Vinton: ninety dollars. translation, SEO. 12. To John Beydolph, for translating the spe- Swedish trancial message into the Swedish language, fifteen dollars. slation, $15. SEO. 13. To Charles Jones, for translating the bien- Bohemian nial message and inaugural into Bohemian, fifty dollars. $50. SEC. 14. To pay expenses of distributing the Distributing second volume of Legislative Documents, eighty dol- Leg. Doc'ts, lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. $80. SEC. 15. To B. Arrundson [Anundson], for print- Printing in ing the Governor's message, the inaugural address, and Norwegian, special message in the Norwegian language, and for &c., $170.65. paper furnished for the same, and for binding, the sum of one hundred and seventy dollars and sixty-five cents. SEC. 16. For the payment of the salaries of the Reform officers and employees of the State Reform School for School, $4, *There is no "Section 9" in the enrolled bill. 000. |