SEC. 8. In case either of said amendments shall be approved and ratified by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly voting thereon, the Governor shall forthwith issue his proclamation setting forth such approval and ratifica Proclamation, and declaring such amendment, so approved and tion of ratifiratified, to be a part of the Constitution of the State of Iowa, which proclamation shall be transmitted and published the same as proclamations of election. Approved April 2, 1868. cation. СНАРТЕER 69. APPROPRIATION FOR THE PENITENTIARY. AN ACT to Provide for the Payment of Salaries of Officers and APRIL 2. for Peniten SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Appropriat'n of the State of Iowa, That there is hereby appropriated, tiary. out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appro- Monthly: priated, so much as may be necessary to pay monthly warden, $125; to the persons herein named the following sums, viz.: dep. do. $831; To the warden one hundred and twenty-five dollars, chaplain, $50; clerk, $621; to the deputy - warden eighty-three and one - third surgeon, $50; dollars, to the clerk sixty-two dollars and fifty cents, night-guard, to the chaplain fifty dollars, to the surgeon fifty dollars, day-guard, to each night- guard fifty-five dollars, to each day- $50; hospital guard fifty dollars, to the hospital-steward fifty dollars, steward $50; to the turnkey fifty dollars. turnkey, $50. $55; SEC. 2. The above sums shall be paid to the warden How paid. on his requisition monthly, accompanied with a detailed statement, in such form as the Auditor shall prescribe, of the number and kinds of guards employed; and Statement by each statement shall also exhibit the payments made warden. by the money drawn on the previous requisition. be ly. SEC. 3. That for the general support of the convicts Support of there is hereby appropriated the monthly sum of eight convicts, $87 and one-third dollars, or so much thereof as may each, monthnecessary to each convict in said prison, to be estimated by the average number for the preceding month, How estimasubject however to a deduction from the whole amount ted. for the month of the sum charged to the contractors Deduction for for convict labor for that month. labor. How paid. Statement. SEC. 4. The sum appropriated by the last section shall be paid on the requisition of the warden, accompanied with a statement of the number of convicts in his charge, and the amount charged to the contractors for that month, all in such form as the Auditor shall prescribe. SEC. 5. If for any reason the amount charged to the Amount not contractors for any month can not be collected in time collected to be available for such support, the Governor may, by tors-how his order, direct the payment of the whole or any part supplied. of the eight and one-third dollars per month. from contrac to Penitentiary. SEC. 6. The State Auditor is required to take imAuditor to mediate steps to cause to be collected and accounted for collect debts all those debts owing to the State on account of the penitentiary, or in any manner connected therewith, and all outstanding claims of whatever nature which the State may have on that account, and to that end he may, if he finds it necessary, place any claim in the Att.-General. hands of the Attorney - General for prosecution. Approved April 2, 1868. APRIL 2. CHAPTER 70. AN ACT to Amend An Act Fixing the Time of holding Court in the County of Hardin, and State of Iowa, approved March 9, 1868. HARDIN COUNTY DISTRICT COURT. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the first section of the Act fixing the time of holding court in the county of ch. 22, 1868, Hardin, and State of Iowa, approved March 9th, amended. 1868, be amended by adding thereto the following, viz.: "And all writs, processes, proceedings, and actions pending in or returnable to the district court in said county and State, at the times heretofore fixed by law in 1868, shall be deemed pending and returnable when return- respectively at the terms as fixed by the act hereby amended; and no suit, writ, notice, recognizance, indictment, or other proceeding shall be held invalid by reason of the provisions of the act to which this is amendatory, or of the changes made by said act in the times of holding court in said county.' Writs, &c., able. SEC. 2. This act being deemed by the General Assembly of immediate importance shall take effect Taking effect. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa CHAPTER 71. LEGALIZING JUDGMENTS OF A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE IN AN ACT to Legalize certain Judgments rendered by Benjamin Furnace, a Justice of the Peace in and for Louisa County, lowa. APRIL 2. WHEREAS, Benjamin Furnace was elected justice of Preamble. the peace in and for Louisa county, Iowa, for the years 1859 and 1860; and WHEREAS, The said Benjamin Furnace rendered judgments in certain causes which were legally pending before him as such officer during said time, and failed or neglected to affix his signature thereto : therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That all of the said judgments Judgm'nts by which were so rendered by the said Furnace during B. Furnace,J. said time, to which he did not affix his signature, be P., legalized. and the same are hereby legalized and made as valid for all purposes as if the same had been duly signed. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force Taking effect from and after its publication in the Daily State Regis- No cost to ter and Daily Statesman, papers published at Des State. Moines, without expense to the State. Approved April 2, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in The Iowa Evening Statesman April 4, 1868, and in the Daily State Register April 5, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 72. ADDITION TO THE TOWN OF CORYDON, WAYNE COUNTY. APRIL 2. AN ACT to Include the Territory known as the Kincade Addition in the Limits of the Town of Corydon, Wayne County, Iowa. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That blocks no[s]. 1, 2, 3, 4, Kincade's ad- 5, 6, and 7, known as Kincade's Addition to the town dition made of Corydon, be and the same are hereby declared a part of Cory- part of said town of Corydon, as fully and completely as though the plat of the same had been duly recorded, any informality in the original plot or survey to the contrary notwithstanding. don. SEC. 2. This act, being deemed of immediate Taking effect. importance, shall take effect from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and the Corydon Monitor; provided, such publication be without expense to the State. State. Approved April 2, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Corydon Monitor, April 11, 1868*. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. APRIL 3. CHAPTER 73. COURTS IN FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. AN ACT Fixing the Times for holding Terms of the District Court in the Fourth Judicial District, and Attaching certain Counties to others in said District for Judicial Purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Terms of Ct. of the State of Iowa, That the terms of the district 4th jud. dist. court in the fourth judicial district for the year 1868, and each year thereafter, shall be as follows: changed. Shelby co. Crawford co. Calhoun co. In Shelby county on the second Monday in April. *For remainder of certificate, see Addenda. In Humboldt county on the fourth Monday after the Humboldt co. second Monday in April. May. In Kossuth county on the fifth Monday after the Kossuth co. second Monday in April. May. In Pocahontas county on the sixth Monday after the Pocahontas second in April. co. May. In Palo Alto county on the first Thursday after the Palo Alto co. Monday fixed for holding court in Pocahontas county. May. In Emmett county on the seventh Monday after the Emmett co. second Monday in April. In Dickinson county on the first Thursday after the Dickinson co. Monday fixed for holding court in Emmett county. In Clay county on the eighth Monday after the Clay co. second Monday in April. June. In Cherokee county on the first Thursday after the Cherokee co. Monday fixed for holding court in Clay county. June. co. June and In Woodbury county, on the ninth Monday after the Woodbury second Monday in April, and on the first Monday in December. December. June & Dec. In Monona county, on the tenth Monday after the Monona co. second Monday in April, and on the second Monday in December. In Harrison county, on the eleventh Monday after Harrison co. the second Monday in April, and on the third Monday June & Dec. in December. SEC. 2. The county of Buena Vista is hereby Buena Vis'a attached to the county of Clay, and the county of Ida co. attached to Clay; is hereby attached to the county of Sac, and the O'Brien' to county of O'Brien is hereby attached to the county of Cherokee; Cherokee, and the counties of Sioux and Plymouth are Sioux & Plyhereby attached to the county of Woodbury, for Woodbury. judicial purposes under this act. mouth to co. attached SEC. 3. No judgment, rendered in any county to Judgm't lien which another is attached by this act, shall be a lien not to lie in upon the real estate in the county so attached until a till transcript transcript of the judgment shall have been filed in the is filed in co. office of the clerk of the district court of said county, as now provided by law. may appor SEC. 4. Where counties are attached to another by this act for judicial purposes, the judge of the district District judge court may, at each session thereof held in the county tion expenses to which said counties are attached, make such order where apportioning the expense of holding the court among are attached. the several counties as he may deem just and equitable. COS. SEC. 5. The district judge of said judicial district District judge may appoint other terms of court in those counties in may appoint which but one term in each year is herein provided for, special terms. |