at the Tenth Regular Session of the General Assembly Chapters. of the State of Iowa, arranged in Chapters, and num- Supt printing. bered in the order of their approval, with marginal and binding. notes and a full and complete index, and deliver the Index. same to the State Printer, and superintend the printing and binding of the same. SEC. 2. It is hereby made the duty of the State 20,000. Printer to print twenty thousand copies of said laws, and have the same completed within fifty days from the 50 days. time the manuscript is placed in his hands by the Secretary of State. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the State Binder to Binder. complete the binding of the laws within forty days from the time that the State Printer completes his part of the 40 days. work, and deliver the same to the Secretary of State: Provided, however, That the State Binder shall complete the binding of one-fourth of said twenty thousand within twenty days from the time he receives the same from the State Printer. made. SEC. 4. The Secretary of State shall distribute the Distribution laws aforesaid as follows: To the Librarian of each State to whom and Territory, two copies; to the Governor of each State and Territory, one copy; to the State University, Insane Asylum, Institution for the Education of the Blind, and Deaf and Dumb, and State Penitentiary, each one copy; to each State Officer, one copy; to the State Library, fifty copies; to the State Historical Society, eighty copies; to the State Agricultural Society, two copies; to the State Agricultural College, two copies; to each member and officer of the Tenth General Assembly, two copies; to each publisher of a newspaper or periodical in this State, one copy; (all the foregoing to be bound in "Sheep.") Fifteen thousand copies to be distributed to the several organized counties of this State, in the ratio of population, delivering to no county a less number than ten copies to each organized township in said county. The laws for the several counties shall be delivered to the Clerk of the Board of Super- Clerk. visors, and his receipt taken therefor, in duplicate, one of which shall be filed with the Auditor of State. Delivered to SEC. 5. The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors shall Distribution set apart a sufficient number of said laws to give to each by the Clerk. county officer one copy, and one copy to each member of the Board of Supervisors; one copy to each Township Trustee, one copy to each Township Clerk, one copy to each Justice of the Peace and Constable, one copy to each Township Assessor; and report to the Auditor of State the number remaining in their hands, Auditor. Report to Laws of 9th together with the number of copies of the laws of the Gen. Assem- Regular Session of the Ninth General Assembly, which shall be charged to the said Clerk by the Auditor. bly. Clerk and SEC. 6. The Secretary of State, and the Clerk of the Sec'y to sell. Board of Supervisors of the several counties, are hereby authorized to sell the copies of said laws so remaining in their hands, at fifty cents per copy, and pay over the proceeds in the same manner as the proceeds of the sale of the Revision of 1860 are accounted for and paid over. Account. Compensation of Sec'y State. SEC. 7. The Secretary of State shall be paid for preparing the manuscript, making the marginal notes and index, superintending the printing and binding, and for the distribution of the laws under the provisions of this Act, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, to be audited and warrants drawn on the Treasurer as follows: Five When paid. hundred dollars when the laws are bound, ready for distribution; five hundred dollars when the laws are distributed to at least fifty counties, and the remaining five hundred dollars when the distribution of said laws is complete. Take effect. SEC. 8. This Act being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Daily State Register and Iowa Homestead, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved April 5th, 1864. I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Daily State Register April 23, A. D. 1864, and the Iowa Homestead April 27, A. D. 1864. JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. AN ACT to provide for correcting the account of the State with SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly $890.60 cred- of the State of Iowa, That the Auditor of State be and ited to Grun- hereby is directed to bring forward in his account curdy county. rent, and place to the credit of Grundy county, the sum of eight hundred and ninety dollars and sixty cents paid into the treasury by Thomas G. Copp for said county between January 6th, 1857, and August 13th, 1857, which amount shall be and hereby is made a credit to CHAPTER 133. SECURITY DEBTS DUE IOWA. AN ACT to provide for the better security and collection of debts due the State of Iowa or for the use or benefit of the State. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That in all cases in which any Dist. Att'y or person or persons are now or may hereafter become in- Att'y Gen❜l. debted to the State of Iowa, or to any officer or agent of the State, for the use or benefit of the State, it shall be the duty of the proper District Attorney or for the Attorney General of the State to demand payment or security therefor, whenever, in the opinion of said District Attorney or Attorney General, the debt is not suf- Security givficiently secured and the State is in danger of losing the en. debt and any security given in compliance with said demand shall be deemed lawful and binding and upon sufficient consideration. SEC. 2. That in all suits now pending or hereafter Attachment instituted for money due to the State of Iowa or due may issue. to any State Agent or Officer, for the use of the State, it shall be lawful for an attachment to issue against the property or debts of the defendant or defendants not exempt from execution upon the filing of an affidavit by the District Attorney of the proper District or of the Attorney General of the State that he verily believes that a specific amount therein stated is justly due and that the defendant or defendants therein has refused to pay or secure the same and that unless an attachment is issued against the property of defendant or losing. defendants that there is danger that the amount due will be ultimately lost to the State. Danger of No bond. SEC. 3. That the attachment so issued shall be levied as in other cases of attachment against any debts or property of the defendant or defendants not exempt from execution, and no bond shall be required of the Sheriff. plaintiffs in such case and the Sheriff shall not be au Delivery bond. Sheriff liable. thorized to require any indemnifying bond before levying the same. SEC. 4. Any property taken in attachment under the provisions of this Act, shall be subject to be released upon the execution of a delivery bond of, with sufficient security as provided by law in other cases. SEC. 5. In case any Sheriff shall be held liable to pay any damages by reason of the wrongful execution of any writ of attachment issued under this Act, and if a judgment be rendered therefor by any Court of competent jurisdiction, the amount of such judgment when paid by such Sheriff shall become a claim against the State to pay. State of Iowa in her sovereign capacity in favor of such Sheriff, and a warrant therefor shall be drawn by the Auditor upon proper proof. Take effect. SEC. 6. This Act being deemed of immediate im- I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State. Bond for CHAPTER 134. ISSUE OF STATE BONDS IN FAVOR OF SCHOOL FUND. AN ACT to provide for issuing State Bonds in all cases of indebt- SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the Governor, Auditor and $122,295.75. Secretary of State be and they are hereby authorized and required to issue the bond of the State in favor of the Permanent School Fund of the State for the amount of said Permanent School Fund now in possession of the State, on loan, being the sum of one hundred and twenty-two thousand two hundred and ninety-five dollars and seventy-five cents; said bond to be dated January first, 1864, and to bear interest at the rate of eight per cent., payable semi-annually on the first day of Date of bond. Interest. 1 January and July, and that the bonds of the State in Canceled. favor of said School Fund, now in the Auditor's office and now over due, be canceled by said officer. SEC. 2. That whenever any amount not less than Future issue one thousand dollars is audited in favor of the Perma- of bonds. nent School Fund for losses of the same whereby the State of Iowa becomes indebted to said Fund, it shall be the duty of said officer to issue the bond or bonds of the State in favor of said Fund, bearing interest at the rate of eight per cent., payable semi-annually on the first day of January and July after the issuing of the same, and the amount required to pay the interest on said bonds together with the interest on the bond authorized to be issued by the first section of this Act as the same becomes due, is hereby appropriated out of any revenue in the State Treasury. SEC. 3. The Auditor is authorized and required to Losses Audaudit all losses to the School Fund, as provided in Sec-ited. tion three of Article seven of the Constitution; and itor. for this purpose he shall prescribe such regulations for Duty of Audthe conduct of officers having such funds in charge as he shall deem necessary to ascertain such losses. Approved April 5th, 1864. |