Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-08-24
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Soldiers Orphans.
AN ACT regarding Soldiers Orphans

AN ACT regarding Soldiers Orphans.
SECTION l. BE it enacted by the Gen
erot assembly Of the State Of Iowa, That
if within four months from the end of
this session of the General Assembly,
the Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home,''
an incorporation Of that name and style,
shall duly and legally convey and
transfer, and duly deliver all its proper
ty, real and personal, including all its
things i'm action, to a Board of Trustees,
for them and their successors, which
Board shall have been appointed by
this General Assembly and whose name
and style shall be the" Board of Trus-
tees Of the Iowa Soldiers Orphans
Hcme," then and upon that event, and
when the sanc shall be by said Board
determined to have TRANSFERRED, the sec
tions of this Act, numbered 2 to II in
elusive, shall be held to be of force and
validity and not otherwise.
SEC. =. The Board of Trustees of
the Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home ="
shall consist of one person from each
Congressional District and one from
the State at large, Tho shall be appoint
ed by the General Assembly for two
years and until their SUCCESSORS are
elected and qualified.
SIC. 3. Said Board shall govern and
manage said Home, and shall have
power to enact laws and rules for the
regulation of all its concerns, and pow
or also to alter the same, from time to
time rs shall seem to them proper; and
shall also have full power to carry Oh
and manage all the affairs of the said
Home.
SEC. 4. The members of said Board
shall each receive the same mileage,
going to and returning therefmm, as
members of the General Assembly.
SEC. 5. Said Trustees shall, before
entering upon the discharge of their
duties, take and subscribe an oath or
affirmation to support the Constitution
of the United States and of this State,
and also faithfully to discharge the du-
ties required of them by law and the
bylaws that may be established.
SEC. &. Their first meeting shall be
at Davenport, at such time as shall be
announced to them by that member
whose name stands first in list of menu
bers as chosen by the Assembly, and he
shall make such call when it shall be
announced to him by the President of
the Association called the Iowa Sol
diers' Orphans Home" that said Asso-
citation is ready to conform to the pro-
visions of Section of this Act.
SCI. Z. Said Board shall have all the
powers of reception, transmission and
succession which belong to an incorpo-
ration, and shall choose a President,
Treasurer, and Secretary from their
own body, and determine the bonds to
be given.
SEC. s. The Census Board, when
fixing the rate of State tax to be levied
each year rs required by Section 743 of
the Revision of 1860, and Chapter "a of
the Acts of the extra session of the
Ninth General Assembly, shall include
in the rate so fixed three Fights of one
mill on the dollar, tax for the support,
education and maintenance of the Sol
diers' Orphans; and the Board of Su-
pervisOrs of the several counties shall
levy the said tax as part of the State
tax for each year, which shall be col
lected and paid into the State Treasury
as other State tax and whenever any
State tax shall be received at the State
Treasury from County Treasures, the
State Treasurer shall apportion the
same between the revenue fund proper
and the Orphans Home fund provided
for in this Act, in proportion to the rate
of tax levied for each of said funds, and
shall receipt for the same accordingly.
And if it shall appear to the Census
Board in 1867, or any year thereafter,
that the amount realized by the levy OF
the tax aforesaid, for the purposes afore-
said, is more than is necessary for the
purposes aforesaid, they shall direct the
. levy of any such tax as may be sufii-
cient therefor.
SEC. 8. The expenses of the trans
mission of orphans to the Home, and of
the board and management, shall be
paid out of the said Orphan fund.
Sec. 10. That the money arising
from the tax provided for by this Act,
shall only be drawn from the Treasury
for the purpose of defraying the expen-
SEES incurred i'm the support of Soldiers
Orphans, and at no greater rate thai,
eight and one-third dsllass per montis
for each orphan actually supported in
the Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home ;
and upon the presentation to the Audi
tor each month of sworn statement OF
the number Of orphan children support
ed by the said institution for the pre-
ceding month, and approved by the
Census Board, it shall be the duty OF
the Auditor to draw his warrant upon
the Treasurer payable out of the funds
aforesaid, to the Treasurer of the said
Beard, for the sum of eight and one
third dollars per month for each child
provided, that in estimating the mum.