Auditing drafts.

Proviso:

SEC. 8. That all drafts or orders drawn by said commissioners upon the Auditor of State shall be audited and paid as other claims: Provided, That no order or Vouchers re- draft upon the Auditor by said commissioners, except the first one, shall be audited and paid until said commissioners shall have filed their vouchers with the Auditor of State for all moneys received and disbursed by them.

quired.

Not over

SEO. 9. That of the sum hereby appropriated for the erection of buildings for said asylum not more than fifty thousand dollars shall be drawn from the treasury $50,000 to be in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixtydrawn in '68. eight.

SEC. 10. That said commissioners shall immediately Adv'rtisem'ts advertise for four weeks in one newspaper in each of for plans. the following places, viz.: Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Dubuque, Davenport, and Burlington, for sealed proCommission- posals for contracts to construct the building hereby ers to make authorized, according to the plans and specifications for

contract.

Proviso:

that portion of the buildings aforesaid; and to contract with the lowest responsible bidder who will build the same, complete, by the first day of October, 1870, and who will give adequate security for the performance of his contract: Provided, That no contract, agreement, or plan shall be adopted by the said commissioners different from the plans hereby adopted; nor shall any contract be entered into by said commissioners which shall in any event involve any greater expenditure than contracts re- the sum by this act appropriated, and all contracts stricted to ap- involving expenditures greater than is hereby authorpropriation. ized shall be void.

SEC. 11. This act, being deemed of immediate imTaking effect. portance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in The Daily Bugle and Daily Nonpareil, newspapers published in Council Bluffs, in this State: No expense provided, however, that such publication shall be made without expense to the State. Approved April 7, 1868.

to State.

I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the The Daily Bugle April 11, 1868, and in the Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil April 12, 1868.

ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 108.

TO PREVENT THE DRIVING AWAY OF STOCK.

AN ACT to Amend an Act entitled An Act to prevent the Driving away of Cattle and other Stock.

ed.

APRIL 7.

stock of oth

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That section one, chapter thirty- Sec. 1, ch. 34, four, of the acts of the Ninth General Assembly be 1862, repealand the same is hereby repealed, and the following enacted in lieu thereof: That any drover or other Drovers, &c., person or persons engaged in driving horses, cattle, driving off mules, hogs, or sheep, or any other stock, through any ers five miles part of the State of Iowa, and shall drive off or shall from home, knowingly and willingly suffer or permit to be driven fined not over off any stock not belonging to him or them, to any dis- $100, or imtance exceeding five miles from the residence of the over 30 days. owner or agent, or the range in which the stock usually runs, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days. Approved April 7, 1868.

prisoned not

CHAPTER 109.

APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

AN ACT Making further Appropriation for the Hospital for the APRIL 7. Insane.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of the State of Iowa, That there is hereby appropria- Appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise tion. appropriated, the following sums for the purposes here

in named, viz.:

For the purchase of additional land needed for the Additional use of such hospital, eleven thousand two hundred dol- land, $11,200. lars.

$3,500.

For the purchase of furniture, three thousand five Furniture, hundred dollars. For completing the gas apparatus, four thousand two Gas apparahundred and fifty dollars.

tus, $4,250.

Fencing and grounds, $2,

000.

Lot, $500.

Store rooms,

$3,800. Painting, $1,200.

Contingent

For fencing and improving grounds, two thousand dollars. For cemetery lot, five hundred dollars.

For erecting ironing and store rooms, three thousand eight hundred dollars.

For painting, one thousand two hundred dollars. For contingent fund, two thousand dollars: Provifund, $2,000. ded, That any sum hereby appropriated, not used for Proviso: di- the specified object named, may be used so far as necpropriation. essary for any other of the purposes specified in this

version of ap

drawn.

act.

Money, how SEC. 2. The money hereby appropriated shall be drawn and paid on the order of the trustees, which order shall be audited and paid as other claims.

Trustees to

SEC. 3. The board of trustees shall, from time to fix salaries. time, fix the salaries and wages of the superintendent, assistant superintendent, and other employees of the institution, and certify the same to the Auditor of State.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect upon its publicaTaking effect. tion. in the State Register and Evening Statesman, published in Des Moines.

Approved April 7, 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.

CHAPTER 110.

APRIL 7.

PROHIBITING AND VACATING ROADS ON RESERVED LANDS.

AN ACT to Prohibit the Laying Out or Opening of Roads across certain Reserved Lands of the State, and to Vacate Public Roads on the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That it shall not be lawful to lay Roads not to out, establish, or open any public road or street, by any be opened authority whatever, without the express consent of the reserved for General Assembly, across the lands reserved by the State institu- State for its various institutions, or either of them, and tions. lying adjacent thereto.

over lands

SEC. 2. Any public road, which has been heretofore established or laid out across the property of the State Vacated. mentioned in the preceding section, is hereby vacated.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its Taking effect. publication in the Daily Register and The Evening Statesman, papers published at Des Moines. Approved April 7, 1868.

I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Daily State Register April 21, 1868, and in The Iowa Evening Statesman April 22, 1868.

ED WRIGHT, Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 111.

CITIES AND TOWNS ALLOWED TO SELL PROPERTY FOR
DELINQUENT TAXES.

AN ACT to Promote the Collection of Revenue of Incorporated APRIL 7. Cities and Towns acting under Special Charters.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of the State of Iowa, That to all cities and towns here- Cities & towns tofore incorporated under special acts and charters, and under special which do not now possess the right to sell personal or full power to charters giv'n real property for the collection of delinquent taxes, sell property including special rates and assessments, full power and for taxes; authority is hereby granted to sell real and personal property for delinquent taxes, including special rates including and assessments levied upon property for the improve- special assessment of streets, alleys, sidewalks, the construction of sewers, and other improvements of like nature; but no deeds heretofore given by city authorities, where there Former deeds was no legal power to sell, shall be considered as valid not validated. by anything herein contained.

ments.

sale.

SEC. 2. That the city council or trustees of any Council may incorporated city or town, coming under the provisions provide for of this act, shall have the right to provide by ordinance for the method of conducting sales of property sold for delinquent taxes or assessments, and also to provide all other needful rules and regulations for the proper enforcement of the rights herein granted. Deeds given Deeds to have for property sold under the provisions of this act shall force of those have the same force and validity as those executed by urers. county treasurers in similar cases.

of co. treas

City council

all taxes.

The city council or trustees of any incorporated city of any city or town, acting under special charters, may, if they may certify to clerk board deem best, cause to be certified up to the clerk of the of supervisors board of supervisors all taxes, rates, and special assessments the same as though said city or town had been incorporated under the general incorporation law, Rev. ch. 51. known as chapter 51 of the Revision of 1860, and the Same to be amendments thereto; and when so certified, said taxes, collected by rates, and special assessments shall be collected and accounted for in all respects the same as is provided by 1864, ch. 25. section 3, chapter 25, of the acts of the Tenth General Assembly.

county.

Approved April 7, 1868.

CHAPTER 112.

LEGALIZING ACTS OF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF IDA
COUNTY.

APRIL 7. AN ACT to Legalize the Acts of the Board of Supervisors of Ida County in conveying certain Swamp-Lands to Soldiers as Bounties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Acts board of of the State of Iowa, That all the acts of the board of supervisors of supervisors of Ida county in this State, in conveying Ida co. giving certain swamp-lands, belonging to said county, to cerswamp lands to soldiers le- tain soldiers as bounties for enlistment in the volunteer galized. service of the United States during the war of the rebellion, be and the same are hereby legalized; and that all deeds of conveyance of swamp-lands made by said board of supervisors to the soldiers so enlisting, and in consideration of such enlistment, be and the same are hereby legalized and confirmed, any act or law of the State of Iowa to the contrary notwithstanding.

Deeds of

same confirmed.

Approved April 7, 1868.