The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-07-24
AN ACT
AN ACT
To authorize the counties to use the swamp
Lands to aid in the construction OF Kali
roada md Seminary Ruilding. "a

AN ACT
To authorize the counties to use the Swamp
Lands to aid in the construction OF Rail
roads and Seminary Building.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted BY the General
Assenbiy of the State Of Ioud, That it shall
be competent and lawful for the counties
owning swamp and overfowed lands to de-
vote the same Or the proceeds thereof ,elth-
er in whole or in part, for the erection
Of public buildings for the purpose OF .edu-
cation, the building Of bridges, roads and
highways, for building institutions OF learn
ing, or FOR making Railroads through the
county or counties to whom such lands be-
long; Provided, that before any Of said land
or the proceeds thereof shall be devoted to
any of the purpose aforesaid, the question
whether the same shall be SO done shall be
submitted at some general or special cleo
ton to the people Of tho county.
SEC. 2. The proper officer or officers of
any county may contract with any person
or company for the transfer and conveyance
of said swamp or overhowed lands or the
proceeds thereof, or otherwise appropriate
the same to such person or company or to
their use, for the purpose of aiding or car
rying out any Of the objects mentioned in
the first section of this act, which said con-
tract shall be reduced to writing and signed
by the respective parties or their lawful au-
thorized agents.
Sec. 3. Before such contract shall be Of
any force or validity the same shall be pub
lished for four weeks Immediately preccd-
ing some general or special election, in some
newspaper published in the county, and if
there be none published therein, then three
copies of the same shall be posted in three
of the most public places in each township
in theS county for the length Of time afore-
said, together with a proclamation of the
proper officer, and directing how and where
the vote therein shall be taken and returns
made and canvassed and in what manner or
form the people shall vote thereon, and if
it shall appear that majority of the people
in any county voting thereon are in favor
of tho contract or proposition submitted to
them, then in that case such contract or
proposition shall be binding upon the par
lies thereto, but if a majority of people
voting on such proposition are against the
same, then the same shall be null and void;
Prorided That no sale, contract or other
disposition of SAID swamp or overfowed
lands shall be valid unless the person or
company to whom the same arc sold, con-
tracted or otherwise disposed of to, shall
take the same, subject to all the provisions
of the acts of Congress of September the
2sth, 1850, and shall expressly release the
State of Iowa and the comfy in which the
lands are situated, from all liability for re-
claiming said land.
Sec. 4. 1t is further provided that this
act shall be so construed as not to interfere
with any pre- emption claim under the act
of 1855, chap. 1876; Prorided said claimant
was an actual and bona fde settler upon
such lands as provided in section nine Of
said act, and has. not assigned his said pre-
emption.
Sec. 5. Nothing in this act shall be so con-
strued as to authorize or allow the people
Of any county or officer thereof in any man
ncr to contract or otherwise dispose of the
swamp or overfowed lands belonging to
any county attached thereto for election,
judicial or other purposes.