The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-08-07
CHAPTER IS.
TOWN PLArs.
AN ACT providing for the vacation Of Town
Plate

AN AL PToNluInb Tor the vacation OF Town
Plats.
Section |. Be 1t enacted Jv III. Cereal
assembly Of the STATE Of Iowa Tha. in all
cases wherein any person or persons, body
polite or corporate, have laid out or may
hereafter lay out any lands into town plats,
or any additions to a town plat, or sub
divisions Of town lots, and the maps or
PIats have been recorded, they, their heirs,
assigns, grantees or successors or execu-
tors under order of the proper Probate
Court, may at any time before making
sale Of any lot or lots therein, by cxecut-
ing writing duly acknowledged or proved
as is or may be required in respect TO
deeds, and causing the same to be recorded
in the office in which the plat or map WAS
recorded, declare such plat to be vacated;
and the execution and recording Of such
writing shall operate to destroy the force
and effect of the recording of the map or
plat 50 vacated, and to divest all public
rights in the streets, alleys, commons aud
public grounds laid out or described in
such plat or map. And in cases wherein
any single lot or lots shall have been sold,
the town plat or addition or subdivision Of
town lots, in which said lot or lots so sold
is situated, may be vacated as herein pro-
vided. by all the owners of lots in such
town plat or addition or subdivision of
town lots, joining in the execution Of the
writing aforesaid.
Sec. ,. Any part Of town plat or
nIlii,n 4, c,,t,ly,st,, 1t, |
be vacated under the provisions and sub
icct to the conditions Of this Act, provided
such vacating does not abridgc or destroy
any of the rights and privileges of any
other proprietorS in said town plat, d:
addition thereto, or subdivision Of town
lots, and provided further that nothing
contained in this Act shall authorize the
closing or obstructng of any public road.
laid ont according TO law.
Sec. >. When any par, of II town plat,
or addition or subdivision Of town lots
shall be vacated as aforesaid, the proprie.
tors of the lots so vacated may enclose
the streets, alleys and public grounds ad.
joining said lots in equal proportions,
Sec. 4. 1t shall be the duty of the
county recorder in whose Office the maps
or plats of the towns, additions or subdi
visions aforesaid, are recorded, TO write in
plain legible letters across that part Of
said map or plat so vacated, the word IVA
cated,' and also make q reference on the
same to the volume and page in which the
said instrument of vacation is recorded.
Sec. ). For the purpose of assessing
or conveying any of the lots described in
any map or plat SO vacated, the owner or
owners Of said lots may cause the same to
be plated and numbered in accordance
with section 1922 of the Revision Of ls6O,
said lots including the proportlonate par,
of the adjacent streets. alleys and public
grounds, an Of which can be estimated and
plated without rc,survcy by county sur
veyor.
Sec 4. Nothing in this act shall have
the effect TO discharge any lands or town
lots, or Improvements lying OF being with
in the limits of any addition so vacated
from any corporate tax legally levied upon
the same before such vacation; but such
addition and the property ,horein shall re-
main liable for such corporate taxes tho
same as if no vacation had taken place
And provided further that nothing herein
contained, shall be held to impair the liza
biIity of such addition or subdivision from
its proportion of any existing Cebts, which
may have been incurred by such village
or town.
Sec I. All Acts or parts OF Acts cor
fiicting with the provisions of this Act are
hereby repealed.
! This Bin having remained with the Governor
three days (Sunday SxceptedD the General As,
sembly being in session has become law this
| 3lst day of March, 1862
ELIJAH SELLS, Src'y Of State.