The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-05-29

AN ACT to authorize the counties to use
Swamp Lands to aid in the construc-
tion of Rail Roads and Seminary
Buildings.
SECTION |. BE II enacted by the Gen.
erat assembly Of tie .State Of Ioua, That
it shall be competent and lawful for the
counties owning swamp and overhowed
lands to devote the same or the proceeds
thereof, either in whole or in part, to the
erection of public buildings for the pur-
pose of education, the building Of bridg
es, roads and highways, for building in
stitutions Of learning, or for making
Rail Roads through the county or coun-
ties to whom such lands belong; Propi-
ded, that before any of said land or the
proceeds thereof shall be devoted to any
of the purposes aforesaid, the question
whether the same shall be SO done shall
be submitted at some general or special
election to the people of the county.
So. The proper officer or officers Of
any county may contract with any person
or company fer the transfer and convey
ance of said swamp or overAowcd lands
or the proceeds thereof, or otherwise ap-
propriate the same to such person or CON-
pany or to their use, for the purpose OF
aiding or carrying out any of the objects
mentioned in the first section of this act
which said contract shall be reduced tc
writing and signed by the respective
parties Or their lawful authorized agents
s3. Before such contract shall be Of
any force or validity the same shall BE-
published for four weeks immediately
preceding some general or special election
in some newspaper published in til,
county. aud if there be none published
therein, then three copies Of the sam,
shall be posted in three of the most pub
lie places in each township in the count,
for the length of time aforesaid, togethe
with proclamation Of the proper officer
aud directing how and where the yot
therein shall be taken and returns mad
and canvassed and in what manner O.
form the people shall vote thereon, an,
if it shall appear that majority Of th
people in any county voting thereon ar
III favor Of the contract or proposition
submitted to them, then and in that cas-
such contract or proposition shall be bind
ing upon the parties thereto, bat If
majority of the people voting on sucl
proposition are against the same, then tn
same shall be null and void; Propide
That no sale, contract or other dispositio
of said swamp or overhowed lands sha
be valid unless the person or ompany t
whom the same are sold, contracted G
otherwise disposed of to, shall take th
, same, subject to sill the provisions Of tn
! acts of Congress of September the 2Sti
: 1850, and shall expressly release til
/ State of Iowa and the countytsn whic
| the lands are situated, from all liability fe
T recaiming said land.
= "a. 1t is further provided that thi
y act shall be SO construed as not to inter
= fere With any pre-emption claim vi
: der the act of 1855, chap. l56; Provide
said claimant was an actual and bona fid
. settler upon such lands as provided
section nine of said act, and has not a
signed his said presumption.
SIS. Nothing in this act shall be :
: construed as to authorize or allow til
: people Of any county or officer there's
c in any manner to contract or therwi'
J. dispose of the swamp or overhowed lant
a belonging to any county attached there
!! for election, judicial or other purp
ses.
STEPHEN B. SHELLEDY,
! Speaker Of the House Of Representative
l. ORAN FAVILLE,
4 President Of the Senate
D. Approved March END, 1865.
RALPH r LOWE.