CHAPTER 181. REVENUE. APRIL 16. Revision: $722, repealed. Substitute. Deductions moneys and credits. AN ACT to Repeal Section 722 of the Revision of 1860, and to Provide a Substitute therefor, and to Prevent Fraud in Assessments. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That section 722 of the Revision of 1860 is hereby repealed, and the following is enacted in lieu thereof. SEC. 722. In making up the amount of money and credits, which any person is required to list, or have listed and assessed, he will be entitled to deduct from the gross amount all bona fide debts owing by him, but no for acknowledgment of indebtedness, not founded on actual consideration, and no such acknowledgment made for the purpose of being so deducted, shall be considered a debt within the intent of this section, and so much only of any liability of such person, as security for another, shall be deducted as the person making the list believes he is equitably or legally bound to pay, and so much only as he believes he will be compelled to pay on account of the inability of the principal debtor, and if there are other sureties able to contribute, then so much only as he in whose name the list is made will be bound to contribute; but no person will be entitled to any deduction, on account of any obligation of any kind, given to any insurance company for the premiums of insurance, nor on account of any unpaid subscription to any institution, society, corporation, or company; and no person shall be entitled to any deduction on account of any indebtedness contracted bonds or other for the purchase of United States bonds, or other nontaxable property. None on account of debt for U. S. non-taxable pro perty. Approved, April 16, 1870. CHAPTER 182. THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. AN ACT to Provide for due Reference and Publication of Propo- APRIL 16. sals to amend the Constitution of the State of Iowa. ments referred SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the resolutions proposing to amend proposed amend the constitution of the State of Iowa, which have been to next G. A. passed at the present session of the General Assembly of the said State, are hereby referred to the legislature to be chosen at the next general election. SEC. 2. The Secretary shall cause the same to be Sec'y of State to published, for three months previous to the time of the next publish. general election of members of the legislature, in one newspaper in each congressional district. Approved, April 16, 1870. CHAPTER 183. RE-SURVEY OF LANDS. AN ACT to Define the Manner in which the Re-survey of Lands APRIL 16. shall be made. lowed. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That in the re-survey and subdivisions Rules to be fol of lands by county surveyors, their deputies, or other person[s], the rules prescribed by acts of Congress and the instruction[s] of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be in all respects followed. SEC. 2. Said rules and regulations shall be published in pamphlet form under direction of the Register of the State Land Office, and one copy furnished for the use of each county surveyor. Approved, April 16, 1870. Rules and regulished by Register lations to be pub of S. L. O., and furnished to co. surveyors. APRIL 16. CHAPTER 184. RECORDS OF DEEDS OF CERTAIN LANDS. AN ACT to Amend Section 3 of Chapter 72 of the Laws of the SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 1866: chapter 72. State of Iowa, That section 3 of chapter seventy-two of the acts of regular session of the Eleventh General fecting 8 sec. 5, to be recorded Assembly of the State of Iowa, be and is hereby amended as follows, to-wit: That hereafter all deeds and other conConveyances af- veyances and writings affecting the south half of section 34, tp. 67, range thirty-four, in township sixty-seven, range five west, in Lee in Keokuk. county, Iowa, shall be filed and recorded in the recorder's office in the city of Keokuk, Lee county, Iowa; and that the records of all deeds and other writings affecting said Existing record land, heretofore recorded in the recorder's office at the said city of Keokuk, is hereby legalized and declared duly recorded for all legal purposes whatever. Approved, April 16, 1870. legalized. APRIL 16. CHAPTER 185. OFFENSES AGAINST PROPERTY. AN ACT to Amend Section 4235 of the Revision of 1860. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of $4285 amended. the State of Iowa, That section 4235 of the Revision [of 1860] be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: day-time, or en tent; SEC. 4235. If any person with intent to commit a Breaking-in in felony, in the day-time, break and enter, or in the night tering at night, time enter without breaking, any dwelling-house; or at with felonious in- any time break and enter any office, shop, store, warehouse, railroad-car, boat, or vessel, or any building in which any goods, merchandise, or valuable things are kept into railroad cars, for use, sale, or deposit, he shall be punished by imprisonhow pun- ment in the Penitentiary not more than ten years, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year. Approved, April 16, 1870. or at any time etc; ished. AN ACT to Enable Counties to Furnish Justices of the Peace with APRIL 16. a Copy of Conklin's Iowa Justice for the Use of their Respect ive Offices. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of ply justices. the State of Iowa, That the board of supervisors of Board of Supereach county may, and they are hereby authorized and em- visors may suppowered in their discretion to, furnish to each justice of the peace of their county, for the use of his office, one copy of a work published in this State and known as "Conklin's Treatise," or the "Iowa Justice." Every Justice of the peace receiving such copy shall give a Justices to rereceipt therefor, which shall be filed for preservation with ceipt for same. the clerk of the board of supervisors. ing to transmit SEC. 2. Every justice of the peace who shall be fur- Justices receivnished with a copy of said work, under the provisions to successor. of the foregoing section, or who shall receive the same from his predecessor, shall transmit it to his successor in office at the same time and in the same manner that he is required to transmit other books and papers belonging to his said office, and, for failure to do so, he shall be liable Penalty for failto a fine of ten dollars and the costs of prosecution to be ure to comply. collected of him or his sureties, or both, by an action in the name of the State of Iowa. Approved, April 16, 1870. CHAPTER 187. TAXATION OF INDEMNITY LANDS. AN ACT to Tax Lands which are owned by Counties within the APRIL 16. Limits of other Counties. counties within be taxed. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That any and all lands in any county in Lards held by this State which are owned or held by any other county other counties to or counties claiming title under locations with swampland-indemnity scrip or otherwise, shall be taxed the same as other real estate within the limits of the county. SEC. 2. This aet shall take effect from and after its publication according to law. Approved, April 16, 1870. APRIL 16. CHAPTER 188. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. AN ACT to Repeal Section No. 3969 of the Revision of 1860, and to SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Rev.: 8969 re- the State of Iowa, That section No. 3969 of the Revision of 1860 is hereby repealed, and the following is enacted in lieu thereof: pealed. Substitute. Successor SEC. 3969. The justice with whom the docket of his predecessor is thus deposited, may issue execution on, or give a transcript of, any judgment there entered, in the same manner, and with like effect as the justice who rendered the judgment might have done; and in case of the may death, absence, or inability to act, of any justice, or in case of the vacation of the office of any justice, from any Execution in case cause, then in such case execution may be issued from the of vacancy in docket of said justice, or transcript given therefrom, by any other justice in said township with like effect as might have been done by the justice who rendered the judg issue execution. office. ment. Approved, April 16, 1870. APRIL 16. Ratio, 25,000. 1st district. 2d district. 3d district. CHAPTER 189. SENATORIAL APPORTIONMENT ACT. AN ACT Apportioning the State of Iowa into Senatorial Districts. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That one senator to twenty-five thousand inhabitants, or fraction thereof equal to one half in each senatorial district, is hereby constituted the ratio of apportionment. SEO. 2. Lee county is the first district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 3. Van Buren county is the second district, and entitled to one senator. SEC. 4. Davis county is the third district, and entitled to one senator. |