Daily State Register and Iowa Evening Statesman, I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 98. IN RELATION TO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL-DISTRICTS, AND AN ACT to Authorize Independent School-Districts to borrow APRIL 6. and completing School-Houses, Legalizing Bonds heretofore SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly bonds for yrs. time and of the State of Iowa, That independent school-districts Independent shall have the power and authority to borrow money school-dists. for the purpose of erecting and completing school- may issue houses, by issuing negotiable bonds of the independent school-builddistrict, to run any period not exceeding ten years, ings. drawing a rate of interest not to exceed ten per centum Maximum, 10 per annum, which interest may be paid semi-annually, 10 per ct. int. which said indebtedness shall be binding and obligatory on the independent district for the use of which said loan shall have been made: Provided, No district shall permit a greater outstanding indebtedness than an Debt limited. amount equal to five per centum of the last assessed value of the property of the district. mitted to vo SEO. 2. When any independent district has procured the site for and is ready to erect, or has erected and is desirous of completing, its school-house, it shall be lawful for the school board of such district to submit to the voters of their district, at the annual or a special Question submeeting, the question of issuing bonds as contemplated ters of dist. by this act, giving the same notice of such meeting as Notice of is now required by law to be given for the election of election. officers of such districts, and the amount proposed to be raised by the sale of such bonds, which question shall be voted upon by the electors; and if a majority of all the votes cast on that question be in favor of such loan, then said school board shall issue bonds to the Denominaamount voted, in denominations of not less than twenty- tions of bonds five dollars, nor exceeding one thousand dollars, due $25-$1,000. Payable at pleasure of district before due. Construction of act. not more than ten years after date, and payable at the pleasure of the district at any time before due, which said bonds shall be given in the name of the independent district issuing them, and shall be signed by the president of the board and delivered to the treasurer, Dis. treasurer taking his receipt therefor, who shall negotiate said to negotiate bonds at not less than their par value, and countersign bonds. the same when negotiated. The treasurer shall stand charged upon his official bond with all bonds that may Proviso. be delivered to him: Provided, That any bond or bonds not negotiated may be returned by him to the board. SEO. 3. Nothing in this act shall be deemed to conflict or interfere with subdivision five, of section seven, 1862, ch. 172. of chapter one hundred and seventy-two, of the laws of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Iowa; but in the event the electors of an independent schoolIf dist. fails district which has issued bonds shall at the annual to vote tax to meeting in March, for any year, fail to vote sufficient pay interest, school-house tax to raise a sum equal to the interest on the outstanding bonds which will accrue during the then coming year, and such pro rata portion of the principal as will liquidate and pay off said bonds at maturity, then it shall be lawful for the school board of such district to vote a sufficient per cent. on the taxable property of the district to pay such interest, and such pro rata portion of the principal as will pay said bonds in full by the time of their maturity, and shall cause the same to be certified and collected the same as other school-taxes. &c., board may levy tax. School orders SEC. 4. All school orders shall draw six per cent. to draw in- interest after having been presented to the treasurer of the district, and not paid for want of funds, which fact shall be indorsed upon the order by the treasurer. terest. Bonds here SEC. 5. All bonds of independent districts, heretotofore issued fore issued in a manner conforming substantially with legalized. the provisions of this act, are hereby declared to be legal and valid. SEC. 6. This act, being deemed by the General AsTaking effect. sembly of immediate importance, shall be in force from and after its publication in the Daily State Register and Evening Statesman, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved April 6, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily State Register April 12, 1868, and in The Iowa Evening Statesman April 17, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 99. LEGALIZING ACTS OF CITIES AND TOWNS IN AMENDIG AND AN ACT to Legalize the Acts of certain Cities and Towns in their Attempts to amend and abandon their Special Charters, and to Legalize Elections, Ordinances enacted, and other Proceedings had by said Cities and Towns. APRIL 6. WHEREAS, Certain cities and towns, organized under Preamble. special charters prior to July 18, 1858, have attempted to amend their charters, and other cities and towns have attempted to abandon their special charters, and act under chapter 51, of the Revision of 1860, and the Rev., ch. 51. amendments thereto, in both cases acting without authority of law; and, WHEREAS, Said cities and towns have, since such attempted ammendments and abandonment, held elections, by their councils, or board [8] of trustees, enacted ordinances, and performed other acts: therefore, ters of cities SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That in all cases where amend- Amendments ments to special charters of incorporated cities and to spec'l chartowns, attempted to have been made since July 18, and towns, 1858, and in all cases where cities and towns have, abandonm'nt since the date last aforesaid, attempted to abandon their of same, elecspecial charters, and organize under chapter 51, afore- tions, &c., legalized. said, such acts of said cities and towns, and all elections held, ordinances enacted, and proceedings had thereunder, or by virtue thereof, are hereby declared as legal and binding as if such amendments and abandonment, and organization under and by virtue of chapter 51 of the Revision of 1860, and acts amendatory thereto, had been regular and made in accordance with law. SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after Taking effect. its publication in the Daily State Register and The Evening Statesman, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved April 6, 1868. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily State Register April 19, 1868, and in The Iowa Evening Statesman April 22, 1868. ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State. APRIL 7. CHAPTER 100. AMENDATORY OF THE ROAD LAWS. AN ACT to Repeal Chapter 163 of the Laws of the Ninth General Assembly, also Chapter 76 of the Laws of the Tenth General Assembly, and to Enact a Law Prescribing the Duties of Township Trustees, and Road Supervisors in certain Cases, and to Provide for the Levying and Collecting of Road Taxes, and Determining the per diem of Road Supervisors. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ch. 163, 1862, the State of Iowa, That chapter 163 of the laws of the & ch. 76, 1864, Ninth General Assembly, also chapter 76 of the laws of the Tenth General Assembly, be and are hereby repealed. repealed. amount road tax. SEC. 2. The township trustees of each organized township in this State shall, at an annual meeting to Tp trustees be held on the second Monday in April in each year, to determine or as soon thereafter as the assessment book is received by the clerk, determine upon the amount of property tax to be levied for roads, bridges, plows, scrapers, tools, and machinery adapted to the construction and repairs of roads, and for the payment of any indebtedness previously contracted by such township for road purposes, and levy the same, which shall not be less than one nor more than three mills on the dollar, on the amount of the township assessment for that year, and said trustees shall at the same time determine Tax paid in whether any of said tax shall be paid in labor, and if they determine that any part may be paid in labor, determine what part may be so paid; said trustees shall at the same time also determine whether any part of General tp. said tax shall be a general township fund, for the purfund for purpose of purchasing plows, scrapers, or other implechase of ma- ments, or machinery adapted to the construction of chinery. Tax of 1 to 3 mills. labor. roads, and for general road work in the township, and if they determine that any of said tax be appropriated for that purpose, they shall determine what amount of Proviso: cit- said tax shall be so appropriated: Provided, That when ies & towns. incorporated towns or cities are, by act of incorporation heretofore passed, made road districts, this act shall not interfere with such districts, but the same shall be under the control of such city. Duty of road supervisor. SEC. 3. The supervisor shall within ten days after receiving the tax-list specified in sections 892 and 893, chapter 46 of the Revision of 1860, post up, in three conspicuous places within his district, written notices of the amount of road - tax assessed to each tax-payer I in said district, and in case of a failure to pay said tax by the first Monday in October, in each year, the Delinquent supervisor shall report the same to the township trus- taxes to be reported to tees, the same as tax on non-resident lands, and the tax trustees; thereon shall be collected in the same manner, and how collectthe same penalties, as in the case of non-resident lands. ed. pended. SEC. 4. The supervisor shall cause said tax collected by him to be expended for the purposes specified Tax, how exin the second section of this act, on or before the first day of October of that year, except the portion set apart for a general township fund, as provided in section two of this act, which shall be by the supervisor paid over to the township clerk from time to time as collected, and his receipt taken therefor. SEC. 5. The money tax levied upon the property in Money raised each road district, except that portion set apart as here- in road dist., inbefore provided to be set apart as a general township fund, to be except gen'ĺ fund, whether collected by the supervisor or the county expended in treasurer, shall be expended for road purposes in that district. district, and no part thereof shall be paid out or expended for the benefit of any other road district. SEC. 6. In every township where the township trustees shall set apart a portion of the road- tax as a general township fund, for the purchase of plows, scrapes, implements, and machinery, to be used in the construction and repairs of roads, the trustees shall require the township clerk to give bond in such addi- Tp. clerk to tional sum as they may deem proper to secure the give bond for gen'l fund. safe keeping of such fund, and shall appoint one of their number, or the township clerk, to take charge of Trustee or and properly preserve and keep in repair such tools, im- clerk to have plements, and machinery; and such person shall have care of tools, authority to determine at what time the supervisors of the several road districts may have the custody and use of the same or any part thereof, and shall be res &c. ponsible for the safe keeping of the same, when not in Use of same. the custody of some one of the supervisors, for use in Compensat 'n working the roads of his district, and shall receive such of keeper, compensation for his services as the township trustees shall provide, to be paid out of such general road fund. SEC. 7. Each road supervisor shall hereafter receive Pay of road the sum of one dollar and fifty cents for each day spent supervisors, in the discharge of his official duties. $1.50. SEC. 9 [8]. Each supervisor shall require all the able-bodied male residents of his district, between the Men between ages of twenty-one and fifty, to perform two days' 21 and 50 to labor upon the public highway, between the first day do two days, work a year. of April and the first day of August of each year. Approved April 7, 1868. |