CHAPTER 84. TOLL BRIDGES IN CITIES. AN ACT to Authorize and Empower Cities to build and maintain APRIL 9. Toll-Bridges, and to provide therefor. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of and maintain the State of Iowa, That all cities within this State, through Cities may build or into which any river or stream of water may flow, are toll-bridges. hereby authorized and empowered to build and maintain any number of toll-bridges over and across any such rivers or streams, as in the discretion of the city council of any such city, shall seem best for the public interest: Provided, Proviso. The power herein conferred shall not be construed in any way to affect the vested rights of any person or corporation now existing in or to any toll-bridge franchise. mum interest. SEC. 2. For the purpose of carrying into effect the City to issue coupower above conferred upon cities, it shall be lawful for pou-bonds; maxiany city to issue its bonds with coupons attached, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding ten per cent. per annum, for the payment of the cost of building and maintaining any such bridge or bridges: Provided, The indebtedness so created shall not at any one time exceed in amount five duration. per cent. of the assessed valuation of the taxable property within said city, and provided such bonds shall not run for a longer term than twenty years. Proviso: maximum amount; redem'tion of bonds SEC. 3. It shall be lawful for any such city, and the Fund for duty thereof, to set aside and pledge, and keep as a sepa- and coupons. rate fund for the liquidation and payment of any such bonds and coupons, all the tolls received from all persons for travel or passage of animals, teams, or freight, over or upon any such bridge or bridges, after deducting the necessary expenses of operating and maintaining any such bridge or bridges, and such additional revenue of the city, as may be necessary. Rates of toll not SEC. 4. Any ordinance which may be passed in pur- to be changed. suance of the authority conferred by this act, for the building of any such bridge or bridges, and the payment therefor, shall provide the rates of toll which shall be charged and collected, for the passage of persons, teams, animals, and freights, and such rates shall not be changed until the indebtedness on account of the building, operating, and maintaining of such bridge or bridges is liquidated, and when such indebtedness is liquidated such bridge shall be free to the public. Regulation bridges. SEC. 5. It shall be lawful for any city wherein any such of toll-bridge is situate, to regulate the manner of riding and driving thereon of all teams and animals, and to enforce such regulations by declaring the violation of the same a misdemeanor, and imposing therefor such penalties as are authorized by law to be imposed in the case of other misdemeanors, and to impose such penalties for a willful Rates of toll to refusal to pay lawful toll; and the rates of toll shall be conspicuously posted at the ends of such bridges. be posted. Construction. Taking effect. SEC. 6. This act shall not be construed to affect in any way the power and authority now conferred upon cities to create and provide for the payment of any indebtedness for other purposes than those mentioned in this act. SEC. 7. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall take effect from and after its publication in the Daily State Register and Daily Bulletin, newspapers published at Des Moines. Approved, April 9, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily Iowa State Register, April 13th, and in the Des Moines Daily Bulletin, April 16, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. APRIL 9. Preamble. CHAPTER 85. INDEPENDENT SCHOOL-DISTRICT OF MOINGONA. AN ACT to Legalize the Acts of the Officers of the Independent WHEREAS, The town of Moingona, in the county of Boone, did on the eleventh day of January, 1867, organize as an independent school-district, and as such independent school-district have [has] levied taxes, and issued bonds for the construction of school-houses, and have [has] proceeded to build said houses; and, WHEREAS, Through the neglect of the officers of said Records not pre- district, the proper records of the organization of said district have not been preserved; and, servcd. WHEREAS, There have been other irregularities in the Other irregulari- proceedings of the officers of said district since the organization of the same; therefore, ties. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of acts of officers the State of Iowa, That the organization of the inde- Organization of pendent school-district of the town of Moingona, in dist, and official Boone county, be and the same is hereby legalized and legalized. made valid, and all of the official acts of the officers of said independent school-district are hereby legalized and made of the same legal force and effect that they would have had, had they been performed and done in strict compliance with law. SEO. 2. This act, being deemed of immediate im- Taking effect. portance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register, and The Montana Standard, without expense to the State. Approved, April 9, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily Iowa State Register, April 13th, and in The Montana Standard, April 16, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 86. COMPILATION OF ROAD-LAWS. AN ACT to Provide for the Compilation and Publication of the APRIL 11. Road-Laws, and the Distribution of the same. Att'y-Gen'l to laws. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the Secretary of State and Sec. of State and Attorney-General be and they are hereby directed to cause compile roadto be carefully compiled, the "road-laws" of this State, embracing all acts or parts of acts now in force, including those of the Thirteenth General Assembly, having reference to establishing roads; also the duties of officers in connection therewith, and the management of the road funds, duties of township trustees, township clerks, and road-supervisors. dex, appendix, pared. SEC. 2. There shall be prepared full marginal references, References, and complete index and appendix, which shall contain all forms, and table the necessary forms for notices and receipts, together with of fees to be preblank forms for supervisors' bonds, and such other necessary blank forms as may be deemed necessary; also a table showing the fees or per diem of each township officer. To be printed. Sec, of State to distribute-how. SEC. 3. There shall be printed twenty thousand copies of the compilation provided for in sections one and two of this act, under the supervision of the Secretary of State, which shall be bound in pamphlet form. SEC. 4. The Secretary of State shall distribute a sufficient number of copies of said "road-laws" and forms. among the organized counties of this State, to supply each organized township with fifteen copies, and the county Co. auditor do. auditor shall deliver to the township clerk of each organized township in his county, a number sufficient to furnish each township officer and road-supervisor with one copy, for which said clerk shall give his receipt, and the clerk shall deliver one copy to each officer entitled thereto, who shall receipt for and carefully preserve the same, and deliver it up at the expiration of his term of office, to the township clerk, to be delivered by him in like manner to his successor in office. State. SEC. 5. For preparing the compilation, marginal $400 to Sec. of references, index, and appendix, as herein provided for, and superintending the printing, and binding, [and] for distribution thereof to the several organized counties, the Secretary of State shall be allowed the sum of four hundred dollars, one-fourth to be paid when the printing is completed, one-fourth when the distribution is made to fifty counties, and the remainder when the distribution is $50 to the Att'y- completed; and the Attorney-General shall be allowed fifty dollars for his services as herein contemplated. Generai. Taking effect. SEC. 6. This act being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the State Register and Bulletin, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved, April 11, 1870. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Des Moines Daily Bulletin, April 13th, and in the Daily Iowa State Register, April 14, 1870. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 87. APRIL 11. STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. AN ACT for the Government of the State University. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Objects of the the State of Iowa, That the objects of the State University, established by the constitution at Iowa City, shall be to University. provide the best and most efficient means of imparting to where to begin, denominational SEC. 2. The University shall never be under the Not to be under exclusive control of any religious denomination what- control. ever. SEC. 3. The University shall be governed by a Board Government. of Regents, consisting of the Governor of the State, who shall be ex-officio president of the Board, and the Superin- Board of Regents; tendent of Public Instruction, and the President of the composition. University, who shall also be member [s] ex-officio, together with one person from each congressional district of the How chosen. State, who shall be elected by the General Assembly. classified. equal. SEC. 4. The members of said Board, elected by the Members to Thirteenth General Assembly, shall, at their first meeting, be divided into three classes, consisting of two each. The number in each class, as the congressional districts of the State increase, shall be kept as nearly equal as practicable. Classes to be kept The members of the first class shall hold office for the term of two years, those of the second for four years, and those of the third for six years, and until their respective successors are elected and qualified. The General Assembly shall elect members every two years, as the Future elcctions. terms of office of the respective classes expire. The Board of Regents shall fill all vacancies occurring therein, Vacancies. except when the legislature is in session, and the persons so appointed shall hold their offices until the next session of the General Assembly. SEC. 5. The University shall include a collegiate, Departments. scientific, normal, law, and such other departments, with such courses of instruction and elective studies, as the Elective studies. fer degrees, etc. SEC. 6. The first regular meeting of the Board of Board may con- |