Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-05-08
LAWS OF IOWA.
CHAPTER 81.
AN ACT TO provide for the Incorporation Of
Towns and Citics

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AN ACT TO provide for the Incorporation Q
Towns and Cities.
SECTION 1. Re IL enacted By the General As
som5lg OF the State Of io,ca, That no town OF
city shall hereafter be incorporated in tn,
State Of Iowa in any o her manner than a.
herein provided. None Of the provisions o.
this oct shall apply to cities or towns already
incorporated.
SEC. 2. When the inhabitants Of any par,
Of any county not embraced within the limits
Of any city or incorporated town, shall desire
to be organized into n city or incorporated
town, they may apply by petition in writing,
signed by not less than thirty Of the qualified
voters Of tho territory to be embraced in the
proposed city or incorporated town, to the coun
~ court Of the proper county, which petition
shall describe the territory proposed to DO
embraced in such city or incorporated town,
and shall have annexed thereto an accurate
map or plot thereof, and State the name pro>
posed for such city or incorporated town, and
shall be accompanied with satisfactory proofs
Of the number Of inhabitants within tho ter
ritory embraced in said limits
SEC. 3. When such petition shall be pre~
scented the court shall forthwith appoint FIVE
commissioners, who shall ct once call an cleo.
ten of all the qualified electors residing with
in the territory embraced within said limits.
as described and plated, to be held at some
convenient place within said limits, the notice
for which shall be given by publication in
eoms newspaper published within said limits
lif any there bc,) and by posting notices in
five public places within said limits, not less
than three successive weeks preceding such
election. Such notices shall specify the place
and time Of such election, and description
Of the limits Of said proposed town or city, |
and that description and plat thereof are on !
file in the Office Of tho county judge. Said |
commissioners shall act rs judges and clerks |
Of election and shall qualify as required by |
law for judges and clerks Of township cleo
ticns, and shall report the result Of the ballot
to the county judge aforesaid. The ballot used
at such election shall be- "Tor Incorporation"
Against Incorporation"
SIC 4. If ut said election . majority of
ceid ballots shall be cast for Incorporation
the county judge shall Immediately give no.
tice Of the result in o newspaper Tor if there
be none, by pos,ing,) as aforesaid, and shall
state in such notice to which Of the classes as
named in section l0sS, Of the Revision Of lS60
said o1porated city or town belongs; and
said county judge shall endorse on said petit
zion the substance Of the last mentioned notice.
and said petition, SO endorsed, together with
the description and plat, shall be filed and
recorded in the recorders Office Of the proper
county, and also copy Of the same shall be
deposited with the Secretary Of State.
SEc. 5. So soon as said record shall be
made, and said copy deposited as required in
section 4, and the electionand qualification Of
officers hereinafter provided shall have taken |
place, the inhabitants within the limits des-
cribed in said petition shall be deemed an in
corporated city or town rs the case may be,
and notice Of its existence as such, shall be
toll Tvs al ,,j; ;a1 Ia, Nat
Sec 6. When the record mentioned in Sec
ton 4 hereof shall have been made, said com.
missoners shall Immediately give public nos
tice by Publication two consecutive weeks in
some newspaper (if any there be- published
within the limits Of such town or city, and
also by posting up notices in five public places
(, in said town or city, of the time and place Of
holding the first election for officers thereof.
Said commissioners shall preside at said cleo
ton in the same manner as judges and clerks
| Of township elections, and said election shall
he conducted, and the officers elected and
qualified in the manner prescribed by Law for
the election and qualification of township Off
GERS. Provided, the officers to be elected shall
be the same required by chapter 81, Of the
Revision of 1860. for the class to which said
town or city shall belong, as shown by the
certificate an! net tees Of the county Judge res
1uired by sec. hereof, and they shall con-
tinue in Office only until the time Of the regu-
lar election Of said officers and until their
successors are elected and qualified.
| SEC. I. Sections 1880 1851, 1882, 1893, 1854
! 1885, 1896 and 1887, Of the Revision Of 1860,
and I'LL acts or parts of acts inconsistent with
the provisions Of this act, are hereby repealed
SEC. This act being deemed of immediate
Importance shall be in force from and after
its publication in the State Register and Iowa
Statesman, published in Des Moines.
Approved April !, 1868