MARCH 30. Preamble. Proceedings, where polls were INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT OF VANDALIA. AN ACT to Legalize the Proceedings of the Regular Annual Meeting of the Electors of the Independent School-District of Vandalia, Jasper County, Iowa. WHEREAS, At the regular annual meeting of the independent district of Vandalia, held on the 14th day of March, 1870, the polls were not kept open during the time required by law; and, WHEREAS, At such meeting directors were elected and taxes voted; and WHEREAS, It is claimed by some that the election and vote for such tax, at such meeting, are void; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That all the proceedings had at such not open proper meeting, relating to the election of directors and voting time, legalized. of taxes, are hereby legalized, as fully as if the provisions of the law governing such meetings had been fully conformed to. Taking effect. SEC. 2. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Daily State Register, and Des Moines Daily Bulletin. Approved, March 30, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Des Moines Daily Bulletin, March 31, and in the Daily Iowa State Register, April 1, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. MARCH 30. Preamble. CHAPTER 51. CITY OF WATERLOO. AN ACT to Legalize the Organization, Election of Officers, and WHEREAS, In the year A. D. 1868, the City of Waterloo was organized as a city of the second-class; and WHEREAS, The petition presented to the county court, asking the submission to the people [of] the question of incorporating as a city of the second-class, had a provision in it fixing the number and boundaries of the wards, and the election board at the first election of officers required the electors to vote by wards, as described in the petition; and WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen whether said election was Doubts of legality in strict conformity with law; therefore, election, acts, and ized. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the organization of said city as a Organization, city of the second-class, and the election of all the officers ordinances legalelected at said election, and all the acts of said officers, and ordinances passed by the board of trustees elected at said election, be and the same are hereby declared as legal and valid, to all intents and purposes, as fully and com. pletely as if all the proceedings for the organization of said city, and the election of said officers, had in all respects been in strict compliance with law. SEC. 2. This act, being deemed by the General Taking effect Assembly of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Reporter and Waterloo Courier, newspapers published at Waterloo, Iowa. Approved, March 30, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Reporter, April 6th, and in the Waterloo Courier, April 7th, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 52. POLK COUNTY SWAMP-INDEMNITY LANDS. AN ACT to Legalize the Sale of certain Lands by Polk County. MARCH 40. WHEREAS, On the 24th day of December, 1868, the Preamble. county of Polk, by its board of supervisors, by deed of that date, conveyed to Dwight N. Lathrop certain lands, belonging to said county, and situate in the counties of Webster and Calhoun, in consideration of certain money, which has been fully paid and receipt thereof acknowledged by said county of Polk, a description of which lands is given in said deed as recorded with the land records of said counties where the same are situated; therefore, galized. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Conveyance le- the State of Iowa, That the conveyance of said lands by the county of Polk, to said Dwight N. Lathrop, is hereby ratified and confirmed, and made valid in said grantee, as fully and perfectly as if all the requisite formalities of law prescribed therefor, had been duly observed, and followed in respect thereto. Approved, March 30, 1870. MARCH 30. CHAPTER 53. TOWN OF AUBURN, FAYETTE COUNTY. AN ACT to Legalize the Plat of the Town of Auburn, in Fayette county, Iowa, and to Legalize all Conveyances of Lots heretofore made by the Number of Lots and Blocks as now specified in said Plat. WHEREAS, The original plat of the town of Auburn, in Fayette county, Iowa, which was made several years Original p'at lost since, is lost, and was never recorded; and Preamble. plat legalized; WHEREAS, A new plat of said town in all respects as near as possible like the old one has been made, and was filed in the recorder's office of said county on the 4th day of January, 1870; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of New survey and the State of Iowa, That the survey and plat of the town of Auburn in Fayette county, and State of Iowa, made and completed in December, 1869, by H. J. Ingersoll, county surveyor, by his deputy, S. P. Crosby, and filed for record in the office of the recorder of said county, on the 4th of January, 1870, at 11 o'clock, A. M., and recorded in plat-book No. 1, page 49, be and the same is hereby legalized and declared to be legal and binding upon plat and record all parties concerned, and that said plat and the record thereof are hereby legalized and declared to be a legal plat and record, the same as if said survey, plat, and record had been made in every particular as required by do.; also conveyances. law. SEC. 2. That all conveyances heretofore made of any lots in said town by the number of lots and blocks as shown on said plat, are hereby legalized and declared legal and binding upon the parties as if a legal plat like the one mentioned and described in section one of this act had been on record in said county at the time said conveyances were made. SEC. 3. This act, being deemed by the General Assem- Take effect, when bly, of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force, from and after its publication in the State Register, a newspaper published at Des Moines, Iowa, and the West Union Gazette, a paper published at West Union, Iowa, without expense to the State. Approved, March 30, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the State Register, April 1, and in the West Union Republican Gazette, April 15, ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. 1870. CHAPTER 54. FUNDING OF COUNTY INDEBTEDNESSS. AN ACT to Provide for the Funding of County Indebtedness, and MARCH 30. for the Payment thereof. by two-thirds over $5,000. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Counties of 3,000 the State of Iowa, That in any county in this State having inhabitants, may, a population exceeding 3,000 inhabitants, the outstanding vote of superviindebtedness of which, on the first day of January, 1870, sors, fund debt of exceeded the sum of five thousand dollars, the board of supervisors, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members thereof, shall be and they are hereby empowered, if they Bonds: amount, deem it for the public interest, to fund the same and issue bonds of the county therefor, in sums not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars each, having not more than ten years to run, and bearing a rate of interest not exceeding ten per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, which bonds shall be substantially in the following form: No........ time, interest. The county of......... .......in the State of Iowa, for Form of boud. value received, promises to pay to...... .....or order, at the office of the treasurer of said county in............on the first day of................................. .....18..., or at any time before that date, at the pleasure of the county, the sum of......... ...dollars, with interest at the rate of............per cent, per annum, payable at the office of said treasurer semi-annually, on the first days of........and. in each year on presentation and surrender of the interest- SEAL. Chairman of board of supervisors. Attest: Auditor.... $... Formo f coupon. And the interest coupon shall be in the following form: .The treasurer of...............county, Iowa, will pay the holder hereof, on the.........day of....... 187..., at his office in........, dollars, for interest on county bond No........., issued under provisions of chapter 54 of acts of Thirteenth General Assembly of Iowa. County Auditor. Act to be printed A copy of this act shall be printed on the back of each on bond. Duty surer. bonds. of trea bond issued under its provisions. SEC. 2. Whenever bonds issued under this act shall be duly executed, numbered consecutively, and sealed, they shall be delivered to the county treasurer, and his receipt Disposal of taken therefor, and he shall stand charged, on his official bond, with all bonds delivered to him, and the proceeds thereof, and it shall be his duty to sell the same, or exchange them on the best available terms, for any legal indebtedness of the county, outstanding on the first day of To be scld for not May, 1870, but in neither case for a less sum than the face value of the bonds, and all interest accrued on them at the date of such sale or exchange; and if any portion of said Disposal of pro- bonds are sold for money, the proceeds thereof shall be applied exclusively to the payment of liabilities existing against the county, at and before the date above named. When they are exchanged for warrants and other legal evidences of county indebtedness, the treasurer shall at once proceed to cancel such evidences of indebtedness, by indorsing on the face thereof the amount for which they less than par and interest. ceeds. |