CHAPTER 97. INCORPORATION OF TOWN OF GARRISON LEGALIZED. AN ACT to Legalize the Incorporation of the Town of Garrison in s. F. 326. Benton County, Iowa, and the Acts of the Officers Thereof. WHEREAS, Certain questions have arisen in relation to the Preamble. legality of the incorporation of the town of Garrison in Benton county, Iowa, and the legality of the acts of its council and officers, arising out of the alleged fact that the petition for the incorporation of said town was not signed by a sufficient number of electors within the proposed limits of said town, and WHEREAS, The council and officers of said town have made ordinances and performed the acts usual and properly authorized by law to be done by such officers of such corporations, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: Legalized. SECTION 1. That the incorporation of the said town of Garrison, be and the same hereby is declared to be legal and valid to all intents and purposes, and the official acts of said council and officers are declared to be legal and valid to the same extent and in the same manner as though the said petition for said incorporation had been signed by the full and requisite number of the electors within the proposed limits of said town. SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance Publication, shall be in force and effect from and after the publication thereof in the Iowa State Register, a newspaper published at Des Moines, Iowa and the Vinton Eagle, a newspaper published at Vinton in Benton county Iowa, without expense to the state. Approved, March 29, 1884. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa S. F. 40. Preamble. Legalized. Publication. CHAPTER 98. CERTAIN PROCEEDINGS OF TOWN OF MILTON LEGALIZED. AN ACT to Legalize Certain Proceedings of the Council of the town of Milton in Van Buren County, Iowa. WHEREAS, The town of Milton in Van Buren county Iowa, was duly incorporated on the 20th day of May 1878 and has since that date duly elected the proper officers of such town and WHEREAS, In the record of the proceedings of the council of said town it does not appear that the yeas and nays were called and recorded upon the passage of certain ordinances and WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as to the validity of such ordinances on account of apparent irregularity of such proceedings, therefore Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That all the acts and proceedings of the said council in the passage of such ordinances are hereby declared to be legal and valid and the said ordinances are declared to be of full legal force and validity in the same manner and to the same extent as though upon the passage thereof the yeas and nays had been called and recorded as required by the provisions of the law. SEC. 2. That this act being deemed of immediate importance shall take effect and be in force from and after the publication thereof in the Iowa State Leader a newspaper published at Des Moines, Iowa and the Milton Herald, a newspaper published at Milton Iowa as provided by law, and without expense to the State. Approved, March 29, 1884 I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa CHAPTER 99. TOWN OF BALDWIN LEGALIZED. AN ACT to Legalize and Correct Errors in the Proceedings and Acts S. F. 72. Incorporating the Town of Baldwin, in Jackson County, Iowa. WHEREAS, Heretofore, to-wit; on the seventeenth day of May, Preamble. A. D. 1881, there was filed in the circuit court of the state of Iowa, in and for Jackson county, a petition for the incorporation of the town of Baldwin, in said county; and, WHEREAS, The form of the plat attached to said petition, and the lines and other marks thereon, show the boundaries of said town to be as follows, to-wit; Commencing at the northwest corner of the northeast of the northeast of section twentyone (21), township eighty-four (84) north, range one (1), east of the fifth principal meridian, running thence south to the southwest corner of the southeast of the northeast of said section twenty-one (21), thence east to the southeast corner of the northwest of section twenty-two (22), said township, thence north to the northeast corner of the northwest of said section twenty-two (22), thence west to the place of beginning; but by clerical error the letters and figures, to-wit; S. W. C., N. E. 1, N. E., S. 21, at the bottom left hand corner of said plat were used to designate the southwest corner of the territory of said town, instead of letters and figures, showing the southwest corner of said territory of said town to be, the southwest corner of the southeast of the northeast of said section twenty-one, and by like clerical error in said petition said southwest corner of said territory is described as the southwest corner of the northeast of the northeast of said section twenty-one, instead of as last above described; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That the boundaries of said town of Baldwin Legalized. shall be as follows, to-wit; Commencing at the northwest corner of the northeast of the northeast of section twenty-one (21), township eighty-four (84) north, range one (1) east of the fifth (5th) principal meridian, running thence south to the southwest corner of the southeast of the northeast of said section twenty-one (21), thence east to the southeast corner of the northwest of section twenty-two (22), said township, thence north to the northeast corner of the northwest of said section twenty-two (22), thence west to the place of beginning; and that all the territory included in said boundaries, be, and the same is hereby declared as within the incorporate limits of said town. And the said proceedings to incorporate the terri Publication. tory within said boundaries are in every respect hereby legalized, and declared to be of the same force and effect as though said errors or any errors whatever had never been committed, and all the official acts of the acting officers of the said town of Baldwin, and all the ordinances passed by the acting town councils of said town, be and the same are hereby legalized. SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall take effect, and be in force on and after its publication in the Iowa State Register, and Leader, newspapers published in Des Moines, without expense to the State. Approved, March 29, 1884. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register April 5, and Iowa State Leader April 17, 1884. J. A. T. HULL, Secretary of State. 8. F. 49. $2,000 appropriated. Paid out on order of Pres. and Sec. of association. Publication. CHAPTER 100. PRISONERS' AID ASSOCIATION. AN ACT Making Appropriation to the Iowa Prisoners' Aid Association. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of two thousand dollars, to the Iowa Prisoners' Aid Association, one thousand dollars of said appropriation to be placed in the hands of each of the wardens of the penitentiaries in the state, and by them to be paid out as in their discretion may appear necessary to the Iowa Prisoners' Aid Association, on the order of its president and secretary, the wardens to keep vouchers for the payment of the same. SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and the Iowa State Leader, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved, March 29, 1884. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register April 3, and in the Iowa State Leader April 2, 1884. J. A. T. HULL, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 101. LEGALIZING CERTAIN ACTS OF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF APPA NOOSE COUNTY. AN ACT to Legalize Certain Errors and Omissions of the Board of S. F. 388 Supervisors of Appanoose County Iowa. WHEREAS, The board of supervisors of Appanoose county did Preamble. make an error in fixing the legal amount of levy for county revenue purposes, whereby the general fund levy and poor levy when consolidated are in excess allowed by law of 3 2-10 of one mill and not discovered until about two-thirds of said taxes had been collected and disbursed by the county treasurer, said levy having been made at the regular time of tax levy in September 1883, therefore Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That the levy made by the board of supervisors Legalized. of Appanoose county, Iowa, at the meeting thereof September 1883, whereby certain general and special levies when consolidated are in excess of the amount allowed by law, that said error and irregularity and excess aforesaid be and that the same is hereby legalized and that the said levy shall have the same force and effect as if no error, irregularity nor excess had occurred therein. SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance Publication. the same shall be in force and full effect from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register, and the Centerville Journal, newspapers published in Des Moines and at Centerville, Iowa, without expense to the State. Approved, March 29, 1884. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa |