in any other State, district or Territory within the
United States or in any foreign country, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon con-
viction before any court having jurisdiction, be fined Penalty.
the sum of five dollars for each note, bill or other in-
strument as aforesaid, so paid out or offered to be paid
out, put in circulation or offered to be put in circulation.

SEC. 2. The provisions of this Act shall not be con- Construction. strued to interfere with the circulation of Treasury Notes, notes of any bank organized under the law of the United States, any other description of currency issued by the authority of Congress, or notes of the branches of the State Bank of Iowa.

SEC. 3. Any person acting as agent, servant, teller, Who is liable. cashier, or in any other capacity for any other person, banker, broker or corporation, shall be equally liable under this Act as he would be if acting for himself.

SEC. 4. In prosecutions under this Act, it shall not Information. be necessary to state in the indictment or information and proof. the name of the bank issuing the notes, nor to prove the existence of the bank or other person purporting to issue the notes; but it shall be sufficient to allege in general terms the fact of paying out or attempting to pay out, as the case may be, of bank notes issued out of this State, and the proof may be made as if the ticulars were alleged.

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SEC. 5. Any number of offenses under this Act Prosecutions. may be included in the same prosecution, provided that where the total fines alleged shall not exceed one hundred dollars, the offense shall be cognizable and may

be tried before a justice of the peace, and other co-ordi- Jurisdiction. nate jurisdictions, and when the total fines alleged exceed one hundred dollars, it shall be within the jurisdiction of the District Court.

Approved March 19th, 1864.

AN ACT to provide for the education and support of the Blind and Deaf and Dumb, and to repeal Chapter 152 of the Acts of the Ninth General Assembly.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

Appropriation.

Salary of principal.

Matron.

Teachers.

Steward.

Current ex

penses.

Reports.

pils.

of the State of Iowa, That to meet the ordinary expenses of the Institutions for the education of the Blind, and Deaf and Dumb, including furniture, books, maps, music, musical instruments, and the compensation of the Principals, Matrons, Teachers and employees of such Institutions, there is hereby appropriated the sum of four thousand dollars per annum to each of said Institutions, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SEC. 2. The Superintendent or Principal of each of the above named Institutions, shall be entitled to receive, out of the above money appropriated, the sum of seven hundred dollars each per annum. The Matron of each of said Institutions shall receive the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum.

SEC. 3. The Trustees shall pay such salary as in their judgment is just to the Teachers employed in said Institutions, not in any case to exceed five hundred

dollars.

SEC. 4. The Trustees shall appoint some one of the employees Steward, at such compensation as they may deem just, who under their direction shall purchase all supplies for the respective Institutions.

SEC. 5. For the purpose of meeting current expenses there is hereby appropriated out of the State Treasury thirty dollars per quarter for each pupil in each of said Institutions.

SEC. 6. The Principal of each of the above named Institutions shall report to the Governor on or before the 15th day of December preceding each regular session of the General Assembly, the number of pupils in attendance, with the name, age, sex, residence, place of nativity, and also the cause of blindness or deafness of each pupil. He shall also make a report of the studies pursued and trades taught in said Institutions, together with a complete statement of the expenditures thereof, and also the number, kind and value of articles manufactured and sold.

SEC. 7. When the pupils of either of said InstituClothing pu- tions are not otherwise supplied with clothing, they shall be furnished by the Principal, who shall make out an account therefor, in each case, against the parent or guardian, if the pupil be a minor, and against the pupil if he or she have no parent or guardian, or has attained the age of majority, which account shall be certified to be correct, and signed by the Principal, and shall be prima facie evidence of its correctness in the Courts. and such Principal shall forthwith remit such account

to the Treasurer of the proper county, who shall proceed to collect the same by suit if necessary, in the name of such Institution, and pay the same into the State Treasury with his next regular payment.

SEC. 8. The above appropriation shall be drawn Auditor's quarterly on the order of the Trustees of the Institu- warrant. tions, made on the Auditor of State, who shall draw his warrant in the name of such Institutions, on the Treasurer as ordered by the Trustees.

SEC. 9. That Chapter 152 of the Acts of the Ninth Repealed. General Assembly be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 10. This Act being deemed of immediate importance, shall be in force from and after its publication in the State Register and Iowa Homestead, newspapers published in Des Moines.

Approved March 19th, 1864.

I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register on the 25th day of March, A. D. 1864, and in the Iowa Homestead on the 30th day of March, A. D. 1864.

JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 55.

BLIND ASYLUM-APPROPRIATION.

AN ACT making a further appropriation for the Asylum for the

Blind.

ments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Appropriat 'n of the State of Iowa, That there is hereby appropriated for improveout of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, five thousand dollars, to be applied to the building of work-shop, store-room, out-houses, area wall, fencing and improving the land belonging to the Asylum, and for further furnishing the Asylum buildings. The money hereby appropriated shall be paid on the order of the Trustees, which order shall be audited and paid as other claims. Provided, that said money so appropriated shall be drawn from the Treasury only Drawing upon estimates,made monthly, as the work progresses.

money.

SEC. 2. Said money hereby appropriated shall be Expending. expended for the purposes herein stated, under and by direction of the Board of Trustees.

SEC. 3. This Act being deemed of immediate im

portance by the General Assembly, the same shall take effect upon its publication in the Daily State Register and the Iowa Homestead.

Approved March 19th, 1864.

I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Daily State Register on the 25th day of March, A. D. 1864, and in the Iowa Homestead on the 30th day of March, A. D. 1864.

JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State.

Oath.

Requirem'ts.

Certificate.

Violation.

Penalty.

CHAPTER 56.

WEIGHMASTERS OF PUBLIC SCALES.

AN ACT to prevent fraud by Weighmasters of Public Scales.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That all persons keeping Public Scales before entering upon their duties as Weighmasters, shall be sworn before some person having authority to administer an oath, to keep their Scales correctly balanced; to make true weights; and to render a correct account to the person or persons having weighing done.

SEC. 2. All Weighmasters are required to make true weights, and to keep a correct register of all weighing done by them, giving the amount of each weight, date of weighing, and the name of the person or persons for whom such weighing was done, and to give upon demand, to any person or percons having weighing done, a certificate, showing the weight, date of weighing, and for whom weighed.

SEC. 3. Any keeper of Public Scales violating any of the provisions of this Act, upon complaint made before any Justice of the Peace having jurisdiction of the offense, may upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not more than twenty dollars, or not less than five dollars for each offense, and shall be liable to the person or persons injured, for the full amount of damages by them sustained.

Approved March 19th, 1864.

CHAPTER 57.

TAX IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

AN ACT to amend Section 89 of Chapter 172 of the Acts of the
Ninth General Assembly, and to authorize Independent School
Districts to levy a tax not to exceed ten mills on the dollar, on the
taxable property of such Districts.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That Section 89 of Chapter 172 Amendment. of the Acts of the Ninth General Assembly be amended by adding to said Section the following: Provided That it shall be lawful for the electors of any Independent School District at the annual meeting of such Tax. District to vote a tax not exceeding ten mills on the dollar, in any one year, on the taxable property of such District, as the meeting may deem sufficient for the purchase of grounds and the construction of the necessary school houses for the use of such Independent District, and for the payment of any debts contracted for the erection of such school houses and for procuring library and apparatus for the use of the schools of such Independent District.

Approved March 19th, 1864.

CHAPTER 58.

SHIP CANAL.

AN ACT to provide for the preliminary survey of a Ship Canal route from the State of Iowa Eastward to the Illinois River.

WHEREAS, it has been represented that Congress has Preamble. in contemplation the passage of an act for the construction of a Ship Canal from Lake Michigan to the Mis sissippi River; and whereas, should such improvement follow the line of the Illinois River exclusively, the products not only of Iowa, but of a vast region of country North and West thereof, will have to follow a long and circuitous route in order to reach their proper market; and whereas, the combined interests of the States of Iowa and Minnesota wholly, and of Wisconsin and Illinois largely require a direct eastern communication with the lakes, therefore