missioners malfeasance.

for

are elected and qualified. Their duties shall be such as are imposed upon the other Commissioners, and they shall in all respects be subject to the same requirements herein made of the other Commissioners, except in the manner of their election.

SEC. 2. Whenever it shall appear to the Governor, and Removal of Com- to a majority of the Census Board, that either of said Commissioners has been guilty of any malfeasance in office to the detriment of the State, it shall be the duty of the Governor to remove him from his office by written order, setting forth the reasons for such removal, to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and by him notified to Vacancy provid- each member of said Board; and in case of any vacancy

ed for.

so created, or accruing by reason of death, removal from the State, or resignation, it shall be the duty of the Governor to nominate and appoint another Commissioner in his place, who shall hold his office until the election of his successor in the manner herein provided, and the Commissioners authorized by this act, except the Compensation of Governor, shall each receive, as their only compensation, five dollars per day while employed in the discharge of their duties, and their actual traveling expenses.

Commissioners.

SEC. 3. That said Board shall, with the assistance of Qualifications of a competent and impartial superintendent, whoshall be an superintendent. architect to be employed by them, who shall be a resident

plan; maximum cost.

of this State, if a suitable person can be obtained, select and determine upon one of the plans for a capitol selected by the Census Board, pursuant to the act passed by the Board to select last General Assembly, approved April 6th, 1868, or upon some modification thereof, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars, and shall then proceed with the work in the manner herein provided, and subject to the limitations following, namely:

First-No contract shall be made, the amount of which No contract be- shall bind the State beyond the sums at the time approyond appropria-priated by law for such object.

tion.

observed in mak

Second-All contracts for material and labor shall be Formalities to be in writing, and shall be signed by the contractor and by ing contracts. the President of the Board; and no contract to an amount exceeding one thousand dollars shall be made without prior advertisement for thirty days in at least four daily papers in this State, setting forth the materials and labor wanted, and the time at which bids will be received and opened and all contracts shall be awarded to the lowest responsi ble bidder, and all bills shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, together with such bonds as the Com

missioners may require for the due performance of the

same.

Third-In all cases where there are bidders and mate- Preference to this rials from this State, the preference shall be given, the State. quality and terms being equally favorable, to the bidders and materials within this State.

duty, and com

superintendent.

Fourth-The Board shall keep a full and complete record Record. of all their orders, contracts, and doings in the premises, and shall have full power to appoint and discharge at their Appointment. discretion, a superintendent, whose duty it shall be to pensation of the superintend the work on said building, which said superintendent shall receive, as his only compensation, such sum as said Board may fix. Said Board may appoint from their own number an executive committee of three, and Executive commay delegate to them authority to do such things as the Board, at its regular sessions, may direct.

mittee.

Fifth-All meetings of the Board shall be at Des Moines, Meetings. and shall be held as often as once in three months, and more frequently if the same be found necessary, and be assembled on call of the President of the Board.

payments

shall be made.

SEC. 4. All payments shall be made by warrants How issued by the Auditor upon certificate of the amount due given by the superintendent and countersigned by the President of the Board, and shall be paid in the name of the person to whom such payment is originally due; and no payment shall be made except for service then actually rendered or materials delivered.

SEC. 5. The building herein provided for shall be con- Building, how to structed of the best materials, and shall be fire-proof, shall be constructed; be heated and ventilated in the most approved manner; shall contain suitable legislative halls; rooms for the judiciary; for executive offices; for the library; for the committees; for the archives and collections of the State Agricultural Society; and for all purposes of the State Government; and shall be erected on the ground held by and where to be the State for that purpose; and the work shall be prose

erected.

cuted without unnecessary delay; and there is hereby $150,000 approappropriated for this object the sum of one hundred and priated. fifty thousand dollars.

paid till when.

SEC. 6. No money hereby appropriated shall be paid No money to be out until the Census Board shall certify to the Treasurer of State that the resources of the treasury without increasing the rate of taxation are sufficient to meet the proposed disbursement after other appropriations are allowed.

SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and Taking effect, after its publication in the Des Moines Bulletin and Iowa

State Register, newspapers published at Des Moines,
Iowa.

Approved, April 13, 1870.

I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily Iowa State Register, April 14, 1870, and in the Des Moines Daily Bulletin, April 15, 1870.

ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State.

APRIL 18.

contract with

print report of

required.

CHAPTER 111.

STATE GEOLOGICAL REPORT.

AN ACT Providing for the Publication of the Report of the State
Geologist and for the Distribution of the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the Census Board be and are hereby Census Board to authorized to contract with the present State Printer for State Printer to three thousand copies of the report of the State Geologist State Geologist. as now presented to this General Assembly: Provided, the expense shall not exceed ten dollars per copy for the first one thousand copies, and four dollars per copy for Charact'r of work each additional copy. Said report to be equal in every respect, mechanically, to Hall's Geological Report of Iowa, or to the Illinois Geological Reports; the engravings, views, maps, diagrams, &c., to be equally as well executed; and the whole to be bound in two royal octavo volumes Report to be ster- Provided, further, that the said State Printer shall in conbe supplied on sideration of the copyright of the report, stereotype the work, and retain the plates and the engraved stones and electrotypes, and supply the State on future orders at five dollars per copy.

eotyped; State to

future orders.

to

superintend

SEC. 2. The State Geologist shall superintend the pubState Geologist lication of said report, and be allowed a reasonable compublication; pay. pensation therefor, to be fixed by the Census Board, and paid out of the fund heretofore appropriated for the prosecution of the geological survey, and remaining unexpended.

priated.

SEC. 3. That for the purpose of carrying out the $18,000 appro- provisions of section one of this act, there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

port.

SEC. 4. That the report, when printed and bound, Disposal of the shall be disposed of as follows, to-wit: Two copies to copies of the reevery member of the Thirteenth General Assembly, every officer of State, and each Judge of the Supreme Court; one copy to each person who was a member of the Eleventh or Twelfth General Assemblies [y]; to each officer of the Senate and House, and each regular reporter of the Thirteenth General Assembly; to the office of each county auditor in the State; to each incorporated college and scientific institution in the State; to each Orphans' Home and Reform School; and to each person who has furnished gratuitous material for publication in the report; twenty-five copies to the State University, the State Agricultural College, the State Geologist, and the State library; five copies to the Assistant and Chemist of the Survey; two copies each to the Institutions for the Deaf and Dumb, and Blind, and both Hospitals for the Insane; one hundred copies to be placed in the hands of the Governor and State Geologist for distribution to scientific men and learned societies and colleges beyond the limits. of the State; the remaining copies to be placed in the office of the Secretary of State, and disposed of as the Census Board may direct.

SEC. 5. That all acts or parts of acts in contravention Repealing clause. of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from Taking effect. and after its publication in the Daily Iowa State Register, and the Daily evening Statesman, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa.

Approved, April 13, 1870.

I hereby certify that the foregoing_act was published in the Daily Iowa State Register, and The Des Moines, Daily Statesman, April 14, 1870.

ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 112.

COMPENSATION OF STATE OFFICERS AND JUDGES.

AN ACT Defining and Establishing the Salary of the Governor, APRIL 18. other State Officers, and Judges of the several Courts of the State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That from and after the passage of

viso.

Governor's sal- this act the salary of the Governor of the State shall be ary 88,000; pro three thousand dollars per annum: Provided no allowance shall be made for house-rent or personal expenses for the Governor or his family.

SEC. 2. The salary of the Secretary of State, of the Salary of State Auditor of State, of the Treasurer of State, of the Regisofficers, $2,200, ter of the State Land Office, and of the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be two thousand two hundred dollars per annum each.

each;

state officers, $1,200 each;

SEC. 3. The salary of the private secretary of the of private secre- Governor, of the deputy Secretary of the State, of tary and deputy, the deputy Auditor of State, of the deputy Treasurer of State, of the deputy Register of the State Land Office, and of the deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall be one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each.

SEC. 4. The salary of each Judge of the Supreme of Supreme Court from and after the first day of January, 1871, shall Court judges, be three thousand dollars per annum.

$3,000, when;

SEC. 5. The salary of each judge of the district of district judges, court from and after the first day of January, 1871, shall be two thousand two hundred dollars per annum.

$2,200

when;

$1,500;

each,

SEC. 6. The salary of each judge of the circuit court of circuit judges, shall hereafter be eighteen hundred dollars per annum: Provided, however, that, during the term for which any of the supreme, district, or circuit judges of the courts aforesaid may have been elected or appointed, their salaries shall not be increased by virtue of the operation of this act: of judges not to Provided, further, that any person elected to fill a vacaning term of office. Cy shall receive the salaries provided in this act.

proviso: salaries

be increased dur

How payable.

to State Treasurer.

SEC. 7. The salaries aforesaid shall be payable in monthly installments at the end of each month, and shall be a full compensation for all the official services of said. officers and their deputies.

SEC. 8. The fees and allowances authorized by law to Fees to be col- be charged and collected by Secretary of State, Auditor lected and paid of State, Register of the State Land office, shall continue to be charged and collected by them, and an accurate and particular account kept of the same, which account shall be rendered monthly by each of said officers to the State Treasurer, verified by oath, and the amounts thus shown to be charged and collected by them shall be paid over to the Treasurer of State at the end of each month. SEC. 9. That all acts and parts of acts conflicting with Repealing clause the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Taking effect.

SEC. 10 This act, being by the General Assembly deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in