Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-06-29
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.An act supplementary to Chapter lOS,
.Ljn,os of the Tenth Genera! Assembly.
AN ACT supplemental to Chapter los
sef the Laws of the Tenth General AS
sembly. .-.-..s g...r ......
SECTION l. Be it enacted By the Gen
erat assembly Of the State of I0,oa. That
all moneys received by the Register of
the State Land Office, as provided by
the Tenth General Assembly, shall be
paid over to the State Treasurer, who
shall pay out the same as follows: lst,
the expenses of such classification, ap-
ssraisement, advertisement, and sale !;
"a, sums due the State for moneys adj
vanced or due other parties as men,
Sioned in Section of the Act to which
this Act is supplemental; Sd, he shall
pay the warrants provided for in Sec
HiOn of this Act, pro rata, rs such
moneys shaE be received.
SEC. 2. That there is hereby appro-
priated out of the money thus to be
paid into the State Treasury the sum Of
one hundred and seventy thousand dol
lars, or so much thereof as may be nee
assary for the payment of the claims of
the following persons, or their assign
ees:
JamesJ. Kinnersly, Jonas Houghton,
Adam Hine, VIM. Baker, r.. Jackson
for heirs of A. Miller, VIM. Armstrong.
Edwin Manning, John Parker, III. d.
Stewart, Van Buren, county; Meek &
Bros, Joseph Renning, George Grey,
ID. Kennedy, S. Dwight Eaton, Peter
Tobie, Thomas H. Harlan, Guy Wells,
j. z. Grey, Robert p. Grey, Felix Deck,
John Stafford, J. Benning, Admins
traitor, VIM. MCGOWAN, Isaac P. Grey,
Grey & Co., Wells, Chichester & Co..
Green, Bragg & Co., e. Il. Cotton, Meek
& Sons, 0. H. P. Scott, H. X. Love Il
Co.; and the Auditor of State is hereby
required to draw warrants therefor
upon the written application of James
J. Kinnersly and the other parties men
toned in this section, or their assignees,
which warrants shall be payable out of
the moneys mentioned in Section
of this Act, and shall draw interest at
the rate Of seven per cent. per annum,
provided such warrants shall not be
construed as rendering the State liable
to pay the said warrants except out of
the aforesaid Fund.
SEC. 8. The written application for
said warrants shall specify the amount
of warrants that shall be issued in the
name of each of said parties, or their
assignees, the correctness of which
shall be evidenced by the certificate OF
the Register of the State Land Office.
Sec. 4. The warrants issued under
the provisions of this Act shall be re-
in payment for lands sold I'M
der the provisions of the Act to which
this Act is supplemental.
SEC. 5. The Des Moines Valley Rail-
road Company may at any time pay
any of the warrants mentioned in this
Act upon the like condition that they
are authorized by the Act to hich this
Is supplemental, to pay off the CLAIM
theYsin mentioned; and if the said
shall be unadvised of the
of such warrants they
may pay the funds for the redemption
into the State Treasury, from
which time interest shall cease to ac-
ever, that no part of the lands mention
ed in this Act, or in the Act to which
this is supplemental, shall be conveyed
to said Railroad company until all Of
said warrants shall have been paid.
SEC. 6. When the funds for the re-
demption of said warrants shall be re-
ceived by the State Treasurer, he shall
give notice thereof in the manner now
required to be given for the redemption
Of Outstanding warrants.
SIC. Z. That after the lands men,
toned in section of the Act to which
this Act Is supplemental, shall have
been offered for sale, under the provis-
ions of said Act, for the space of three
months and remain unsold, 1t Shall be
for the Register Of the State
Land Office with the advice and ap-
prevail of the Census Board, to sell such -,
lands at less price per acre, if by said
Board deemed advisable, provided the q
said lands should not be sold at price
less than Sl.25 per acre, and provided
said Register shall first give thirty days.
notice by publication in the State Regis
ter, and the Iowa Northwest, of the
time of said sale, at such reduced price.
SEC. 8. All persons who may at the
date of the passage of this Act be Ia ac- )
tual occupation aasd possession OF any /,
portion of said lands, shall have prior 9
right to purchase the same ut $3.50 per
acre, not exceeding 100 acres to any one
settler.
SEC. 8. This Act being deemed of .
Immediate Importance, shall take effect
and be in force from and after its publ /
cation in the Daily State Register and
Iowa Homestead, published at Des I
Iowa.
Approved March 18th, 1866.
I hereby certify that the foregoing
Act was published in the Daily State
Register on the - day of March, 1856,
and in the Iowa Homestead on the 2lst
JAMES WRIGHT,
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