shall not apply upon taxes levied by any court to pay judgment on city or county indebtedness, but upon such taxes no other penalty than the interest, which such judgment draws, shall be collected; and provided further, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to alter the present rules governing the collection of road taxes, save that all such tax collected by the county treasurer shall be included in the first installment, and provided further, that the penalties provided by this section shall not apply to or be collected upon any taxes levied in aid of the construction of any railroad in this state. Proviso. SEC. 2. That section 871 of the code be amended by striking Code, sec. 871 out the word "October" where it occurs in the first line of said amended. section and in lieu thereof inserting the word "December." SEC. 3. That section 873 of the code be amended by striking Code, sec. 873 out the word "September" wherever it occurs in said section amended. and inserting in lieu thereof, the word "November." SEC. 4. That section 883 of the code be amended by striking Code, sec. 883 out the word October, where it occurs in the tenth line of said amended. section and inserting in lieu thereof the word "December." SEC. 5. That section 914 of the code be amended by striking Code, sec. 914 out the word "March" where it occurs in the seventh and amended. eighth lines thereof and inserting the word "April;" also, that said section be further amended by striking out the word "November" where it occurs' in the ninth line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the word "December," also by striking out the words "first day of November" where they occur in the tenth line of said section and in lieu thereof inserting the words "tenth day of December." SEC. 6. That section 1 of chapter 79 of the acts of the six- Acts 16th G. teenth general assembly, be amended by striking out the word 4., Sec. 1. ch. 79, amended. "October" where it occurs in the second line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the word "December." SEC. 7. All acts and parts of acts, so far as inconsistent with Repealing this act, are hereby repealed. clause. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force on and after Time of taking the second Monday in November, A. D. 1884. effect. Approved, April 14, 1884. S. F. 242. Code, § 4018 a mended. What bodies of deceased persons may be delivered to medical schools or physicians. Penalty. CHAPTER 195. BODIES OF DECEASED PERSONS. AN ACT to Repeal Section 4018, Chapter 9, Title 24, of the Code, and to Enact a Substitute therefor. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That section 4018, chapter 9, title 24 of the code be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted as a substitute therefor: Section 4018. Any coroner or undertaker or the superintendent or managing officer of any public asylum, hospital, poor house or penitentiary shall deliver to any medical college or school or any physician in this state for the purpose of medical and surgical study, the body or remains of any deceased person ex-cept when such body has been interred, but no such body shall be so delivered without the consent of the relatives or friends of such deceased person if any such are known, nor when such deceased person expressed a desire during his last sickness that his body should be interred. If the body of any person is so delivered and the same shall be subsequently claimed by any relative or friend of such deceased person, such body shall be given up to such relative or friend. Any person who delivers or reeeives any body or remains having knowledge that any of the foregoing provisions have been violated shall upon conviction thereof be punished as provided in the foregoing section. Approved, April 14, 1884. H. F. 542. Preamble. CHAPTER 196. SOLDIERS' HOME. AN ACT Making Appropriation to Aid in Building and Establishing an Additional Soldiers' Home in the State of Iowa. WHEREAS, A bill appropriating two hundred and fifty thouAppropriation sand dollars for the purchase of suitable grounds, and erecting thereon a soldiers' home in the West, is now pending in the united states congress, and is likely to become a law, and by congress. WHEREAS, It would be of great benefit to the state to have such home located in the state of Iowa, therefore, in Iowa. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of the $50,000 approfunds in the treasury of the state not otherwise appropriated, priated for the the sum of fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary to be expended in locating and in building said home, provided said soldiers' home shall be located in the Proviso: that state of Iowa, by the general government, and provided further it be located that said amount, so appropriated, shall not be paid in greater How paid. sums than ten thousand ($10,000) dollars in any one year. That the money provided by this act shall be under the supervision of the executive council, and the governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the executive council, pay out said money in accordance with the provisions of this act. Approved, April 14, 1884. CHAPTER 197. PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDING OF BOARDS OF SUPERVISORS. AN ACT Repealing Section 304, and Amending Section 307, of Chap- H. F. 76. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That section 304, chapter 2, title iv of code be Code, § 301 and the same 18 hereby repealed. repealed. amended. publish SEC. 2. That section 307, chapter and title aforesaid shall be Code, § 307 amended so as to read as follows: the board of supervisors shall at its January session of each year, select two newspapers Newspapers published within the county or one if there be but one pub- selected to lished therein having the largest number of bona fide yearly proceedings. subscribers within the county, which circulation shall be determined as follows; in case of contest the applicants shall each deposit with the county auditor on or before a day named by the board of supervisors, a certified statement subscribed and sworn to before some competent officer, giving the names of the several post-offices and the number and the names of the bona fide yearly subscribers, receiving their papers through each of said offices living within the county, such statements to be in sealed envelopes and opened by the county auditor upon direction by the board of supervisors to do so and the two applicants thus showing the greatest number of bona fide yearly subscribers living within the county shall be the county official What published. Proviso: counties of 10,000 inhabi tants shall publish also in papers in which all the proceedings of the county board of supervisors, the schedule of bills allowed and the reports of the county treasurer including a schedule of the receipts and expenditure shall be published at the expense of the county during the ensuing year, and the cost of such publication shall not exceed one-third the rate allowed by law for legal advertisements and Provided, that in counties having ten thousand inhabitants or more, a newspaper printed in each foreign language if published within the county may also be selected in which such papers printed proceedings shall be published under the same limitation as to compensation and the county auditor shall furnish all such papers selected a copy of such proceedings for that purpose and furthermore in foreign languages. Proviso: two county seats. Right of appeal. How taken. Provided that in counties having two county seats each district shall be regarded as a county for that purpose. In case charges of fraud are made by an aggrieved publisher the board shall seek other evidence of circulation and the aggrieved publisher shall have the right of appeal to the circuit court for redress of grievance. Said appeal shall be taken as in ordinary actions and in case of appeal, neither publisher to the contest shall receive pay for publishing such proceedings until the case is disposed of in the circuit court. Approved, April 14, 1884. H. F. 59. Circutit court to be held at Avoca after CHAPTER 198. PROVIDING FOR TERMS OF CIRCUIT COURT AT AVOCA. AN ACT Providing for Holding Terms of the Circuit Court at Avoca in the County of Pottawattamie in the Thirteenth Judicial District of the State of Iowa, and Defining the Territorial Jurisdiction of said Court and Restricting that of the Corresponding Court to be held at Council Bluffs in said County of Pottawattamie. [Additional to Code, Title III, Ch. 5.] Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That from and after the first day of January A. D. 1885 there shall be held at the town of Avoca in the county January 1,1885, of Pottawattamie the same number of terms of the circuit court as now is or hereafter may be provided by law to be held in each of the respective county seats of the state, provided that the authorities of the said town of Avoca shall provide and maintain free of charge the necessary rooms for holding court at said town. It shall be the duty of the judges of the district and circuit courts of the judicial district including said county of Pottawattamie to fix the times for holding said terms of said court at Avoca aforesaid for the year 1885 and thereafter, the times for holding the said terms of said court at the town of Avoca shall be fixed as now is or may hereafter be provided by law for fixing the times of holding the term of said court at the respective county seats of the state of Iowa. SEC. 3. That from and after the first day of January A. D. Jurisdiction. 1885 the said circuit court to be held at Avoca shall have origi nal and exclusive jurisdiction as now provided by section one hundred and sixty-two of the code of Iowa of 1873 or as may be hereafter provided by law regulating the jurisdiction of said court of all civil causes including appeals and writs of error from inferior courts and other tribunals and guardianship and probate matters arising in the territory in said Pottawattamie county east of the west line of range forty. SEC. 4. Jurors to serve in the court at Avoca shall be drawn Jurors. from the inhabitants living in the territory in said county east of the west line of range forty as provided by chapter ten, title three of the code of Iowa of 1873 or may be hereafter provided by law, and jurors to serve in the circuit court held at Council Bluffs shall be drawn from the inhabitants living in the territory in said county west of the west line of range forty in the same manner. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the courts of Clerk to keep Pottawattamie county to keep an office at Avoca and perform anvoice at all the duties of clerk of the circuit court at Avoca, either by himself or deputy one of whom shall reside at Avoca. And upon the rendition of any judgment by the court held at Avoca it shall be the duty of the clerk of said court to file a transcript thereof in the office of the clerk of the circuit court in Council Bluffs, but no execution shall issue for the collection or enforcement of any such judgment, except from the office at Avoca. SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of Pottawattamie Duty of sheriff. county to keep an office at Avoca and perform all the duties of sheriff of the circuit court at Avoca either by himself or deputy one of whom shall reside at Avoca and that the mileage to be charged for the serving of any processes or papers returnable to the terms of the court established by this act shall be computed from the place of holding such court. SEC. 7. No suit or other process or proceeding returnable at suits, prior to or pending or commenced prior to the first day of January A. D. 1885, not af1885, in the circuit court at Council Bluffs shall be in any manner affected by this act. fected. SEC. 6. All laws now or hereafter in force regulating or in all laws appliany manner affecting or changing the courts of record of this cable. state shall be construed to apply to the court established by this act, so far as the same may be applicable. SEC. 9. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are Repealing hereby repealed. Approved, April 14, 1884. clause. |