Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-02-01

I'm the Senate, on the 23d, bills were
introduced, to provide for the payment
of S. per day to members of future
General Assemblies /; to give District
Courts additional power to enforce the
Statute relative to committing nuisan-
ces and to amend Section 254S of the
Revision of 1860, relative to guardians
for minors The bill relative to mali
cious trespass, giving Justices of the
Peace jurisdiction where the amount
taken, carried away, or injured, does
not exceed $50, was ordered engrossed
and to be read third time tomorrow,
which is equivalent to its passage
The bill is designed especially to oper-
ate against wood and lumber thieves.
Resolutions were properly referred in
regard to establishing National Edu-
cational Bureau. a bill authorizing
Sheriffs to administer oaths in certain
cases, was passed unanimously.
In the House bills were introduced
toencourage immigration to this State;
to amend the law relative to County
Boards of Supervisors SO as to change
the representation; to protect the indi-
vidual rights ofjoint owners of inclosed
land and to provide that sheep and
swine shall not be free commoners. An
important Opinion was received from
the Attorney General, taking the stand
that the Legislature cannot fix the
tariff Of freight on railroads, which was
ordered printed. Most of the time was
occupied in Committee Of the Whole Oh
the question of County Government.
On the oath, in the Senate, bill
was introduced for an act to increase
the pay of County Supervisors from 50
to So per day requiring the owners
of threshing machines to box certain
parts of the machinery to prevent acct
dents by being caught thereby. Sena-
tor Stiles offered resolution provi-
ding for the purchase, by the State, of
500 copies OF the book entitled Iowa
Colonels and Regiments" for distribu-
ton and for depositing in the State
Library, and with the State Historical
Society. Bills were introduced bill
for the suppression of billiard tables,
declaring them nuisances to prevent
fraud in redeeming land which has
been sold for taxes. This bill provides
that when land has been sold for taxes,
and the same has not been redeemed
within three years from such sale as
to be entitled to the redemption Of such
land, under any existing law, he shall
make application to the District Court,
ETC., by petition and notice to the per-
son holding the tax title, or holding
under him, and the proceeding shall
be conducted in the same manner as in
any other action for the recovery of
real property. The object of the bill is
to prevent fraud in redeeming land I'M
der the plea that it was the property
of minors at the time sold. Senator
Bulls introduced resolution, which
passed, providing copies of the Adju-
tant Generals Report for the Members
of both Houses, State officers and
others. Senator Patterson presented
the report of the committee on County
and Township organizations. The COM
mittee reported back the bill for an
Act to authorize county Supervisors
to use the Relief fund as other funds,
with the following amendment Pro
vided, that said Supervisors may have
enough Of such fund to pay any war
rants now outstanding"
The committee appointed to investi-
gate the expenditures of the contin-
gent fund were instructed to 60 back
to the first expenditure made since the
beginning of the war. The resolutions
relative to improving the navigation
Of the Mississippi river, were taken up