North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01

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ton in the Daily State Register, and Iowa Evening
Statesman;
Approved April 9TH, 1868.
hereby certify that the foregoing act took effect
by publication, as required in section 2 thereof, on
the 22d day of April, A. D. 1865.
ED WRIGHT, sec'y of State.
CHAPTER 1853.
AN ACT in Relation to the State Historical socie.
Whereas, The Iowa State Historical Society was
created by an act of the Sixth General Assembly of
the State of Iowa, for the purpose of collecting. ar.
ranging, and preserving books, pamphlets, maps,
charts, manuscripts, papers, paintings. statuary, and
other materials, illustrative to the history of his
State, and also to preserve the memory of the early
pioneers of Iowa, their deeds, exploits. perils, and adj
ventures-to secure facts relative to the history of
our Indian tribes, to exhibit faithfully the antiquities
and to mark the progress of our rapidly developing
commonwealth,-to publish such of the collections OF
the Society as it shall from time to time deem of val.
ne and interest,-to bind such publications and other
books, and pamphlets, manuscripts. and papers as
they may publish and collect,-and to aid in all re-
spects. as may be within its province, to develop the
history of this State in all its departments; therefore,
Section !. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of the State of Iowa, For the above purposes, and to
aid in ~defraying the Incidental expenses of said Socie.
ty, including rent and salary of the Secretary. there
in hereby appropriated out of any money in the State
Treasury not otherwise appropriated. the sum of
tiiIee tnOChtilu uoildT per dnuum Tor TWO years, to
be drawn on the order and expended by the board of
curators of the said State Historical Society in such
sums as they may from time to time require.
Sec. =. 1t shall be the duty of said society to keen
an accurate account of the manner of expenditure of
the money hereby appropriated, and furnish a full
statement thereof, together with the vouchers, to the
Governor of this State in the month of December
preceding the meeting Of each session of the General
Assembly, to be drawn by him aid before it.
Sec. B. There shall be delivered to the said society
eighty $50 bound copies of all books and documents
published by order of the State for tho N ~
efectins exchanges with similar societies in other
States, and for preservation in the library of said
Soc iety.
SEED. All acts or part of acts inconsistent with
this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. s.. This act being deemed of immediate impor-
tancc shall be in force from and after its publication
i. the Daily State Regis ter and Iowa Evening States
man. newspapers published at Des Moines.
Approved April It'll. 1865.
hereby certify that the foregoing act took effect
by publication as required in Section s thereof, on
the 9th day of April, 1858.
CHAPTER 1c4.
AN ACT to legalize. confirm and carry ont a con.
tract between the Dubuque 4 Sioux City Railroad
Company and the Iowa Falls Il Sioux City Railroad
Company J, and to extend the Time for completing
said Railroad from dubuque to Sioux City, to grant
certain lands to the Dubuque, Bellevue 4 Satula
Railroad Company for the building of the Tete Des
Morris Branch and for other Purposes.
Section l. Be it enacted 10y the General Assembly
OF the State of Iowa, That a contract entered into be-
tween the Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad Company
Of the first part, and the Iowa Falls & Sioux City
mnch of the huh1,ns and Sionx Ra;i.oaS 50
to be constructed, together with the franchises,
right OF way, depot grounds: and other appurtenances
right and title of the said Dnhnons and Sionx C;tv
Railroad Company to SD much of the lands granted
by Congress to aid in the construction Of said road as
struction of said road as shall annerta;n 20 . = no Iaaai-
ly applicable to the constrnction of tha uncornis,ad
part of the DUBUQUE and Stony Citv Railroad GA afors-
said excent as To the Lands bsroinaf,ar ,r.m,aJ ~ y,
Dubuque, Bellevue and Sabula Railroad Comnanv he
and is hereby legalized and confrned
Sec. .. That the pro rat, Of sn so.,;ons sc ,.,s
per mile reserved nv said contr.ct 20 ,hn puhnana
and Sioux CITY Railroad Comnanv and The ratd Of
six sections perm iIec conveyed NV laid contract 20 sold
Iowa Fan, a Stony CIV Ra;,road Tnmnanr Iii ua
adiusted between said comnan;as ao fpiIns )" 20
The land actually cnnvaven 70 third rart;oS ahau ho
set apart to said Dnhmon ne md Sow T;.S csmp.. ;.
not exceeding six sections per mile for the road now
built, and if over that number of acres of land have
been conveyed. the excess over that amount shall be
taken off of the west end of the last enstallment Of
the lands SO conveyed and in case less than that
amount of lands have been conveyed as aforesaid.
then a sufficient amount shall be taken to make up
such pro rata from that portion of the land-grant
next adjoining and Immediately west, as near as prac-
ticable, to the lands last conveyed by said DUBUQUE
and Sioux City Railroad Company.
Sec. 3. That II pro rata CT six sections per mile of
said land grant be and the same is hereby granted to
and conferred upou the Dubuque, Bellevue and Sabu-
la Railroad Company to aid in the construction of said
road. known as the Tete Des Mortis branch, required
to be built by the act of Congress granting said lands
to the State of Iowa; provided, That said COMPANY
shall not cucumber or dispose of said lands until the
said branch road shall be completed and open for bus
mess. aud that said branch shall be completed within
two years from the first day of January next. Said
lands shall be of an avarage quality and value of SO
much of said lands granted bv the United States as
now remain uudisposed of. and the Governor of iowa
shall select, or cause to be selected, the land hereby
granted to said Dubuque, Bellevue and Sabula Rail
road Company, or cause the same to be reserved from
lands outside of the six mile limits of said grant. and
upon completion OF said branch as above provided.
he shall execute a patent for said lands to said Gonna.
nv.
Sec. l.. That so much of said land grant as ia appli-
cable to the uncontrolled portion of the road as afore-
said, west OF Iowa Falls, excepting the lands hereby
granted and to said Dubuque, Bellevue, and Sabula
Railroad Company, is hereby granted to and conferred
upon tho said Iowa Falls Il Sioux City Railroad Com
pany. subject to the terms and conditions of the act
of Congress granting the said Ian s, dated the ff-
teenth day of May, A.. d. 1856, and the act amendato-
nv thereto, and the act of Congress passed the present
session and also subject TO the the terms and condi-
tions of this act as herein expressed az follows. t.
wit: The road shall be completed as a frst-class
road from iowa Falls on the route now surveyed,
located and partly graded. through Webster City and
Fort Dodge, and the depot buiiding 20 shall be erected
on the grounds heretofore donated by the people of
said towns for that purpose, and shall be completed
thence to Sioux City. which route shall be ut all
points within the limits of said land grant. The track
OF said road shall be laid with a good, substantial rail,
weighing not less than tiity-six pounds per linear
yard. The road shall he completed to Fort Dodge by
the first day OF July 1869, the time now fixed by act
OF Congress; one-half OF the balance within one year
from that time, and the remainder before the first
day OF January, A. ID 1877; and said road. when
completed, shall he subject to the lease OF the ILL.,
nUis Central Railroad Company, transferred TO the
Iowa Falls and Sioux City, by the Dubuque and Sioux
City Railroad Company, and shall be operated as one