The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-06-04
CHAPTER 81.


ton of towns and cities.
L. Rsft enacted 6y the General 10
semby Ok. the State of Iowa, That
no town or city shall hereafter be IN
corporated in the State of Iowa in any
other ln1suner than herein provided
None of the provisions of this act shall
apply to cities or towns alrea dy incorpo-
az. When the inhabitants of any
part of any county not embraced with
in the limits of any city or incorporated
town, they may apply by petition in
writing, signed by not Jess than thirty
be embraced in the proposed city or in
corporated town, to the county court of
the proper county. which petition shall
describe the territory proposed to be
embraced in such city or incorporated
town, and shall have annexed thereto
an accurate map or plat thereof, and
state the name proposed for such city or
incorporated town, and shall be accom-
panied with satisfactory proofs of the
number of inhabitants within the ter
ritory embraced in said linn its.
s3. When such petition shall be pre-
scented the Court shall forthwith ap-
point five commissioners, who shall at
once call an election of all the qualified
cIcCtoIe ItSIuIuB WlIIuu tDe ktIAlAOIy
embraced within said limits, as describ-
ed plated, to be held at some convent
ent place within said limits, the notice
for which shall be given by publication
in some newspaper published within
said limits, if any there be-, and by
posting notices in five public places
within said limits, not less than three
successive weeks proceeding such cleo
ton. Such notices shall specify the
place and time of such election, and a
description of the limits of said proposed
town or city, and that a description and
plat thereof are OH file in the Office Of
the county judge. Said Commission
ers shall act as judges and clerks Of
election, and shall qualify IS required
by law for judges aud clerks Of town
suit of the ballot to the county judge
afore said. The ballot used at such eiec-
ton shall be, For incorporation"
agaiI, st incorporation"
"a If at said election a majority Of
said t'allots shall be cast for incorpora-
ton, the county judge shall immediate
~ Civ notice Of the result in newspa-
per (oI" if there be none, by posting as
aforess nd, and shall state in such notice
to viii CHI of the classes as named in sec
ton lC rs, of the Revision Of 1862 said
incorp. ,rated town or city belongs and
substar zee of the last mentioned notice;
and sait petition, so endorsed, together
with tn e description and plat, shall be
filed and recorded in the Recorders
office for the proper county, and also a
copy of the same shall be deposited
with the Secretary Of State.
). Sc soon as said record shall be
made, and said copy deposited as re-
quired in section 4, and the election and
qualiticau on OF officers herein after pro-
vided shall have taken place, the inhab-
itants within the limits described in
said petition shall be deemed an incor-
porated town or city as the case may be,
and notice of its existence as such,
shall be taken in all judicial proceed
Jugs i'll the state.
S6. When the record mentioned in
! section four hereof shall have been
made, said commissioners shall imme-
diately give public notice by publication
two consecutive weeks in some newsla-
pea, if any there be- published within
the limits OF such town or city, and also
by posting up notices in five public pla.
ces In SAID town or city, of the time and |
place of holding the first election for
officers thereof. Said commissioners
shall preside at said election in the same
manner as judges and clerks of town.
| snip eIectlohs, and said election shall |
be conducted, and the officers elected
and qualified in the manner prescribed
by law for the election and qualification
OF township officers. Provided the
officers to be elected shall be the same
required by chapter 81, of the revision of
1860, Cor the class to which said town or
city shall belong, as shown by the GER
tificate and notices of the county Judge
required by section four hereof, and
they shall continue in office only until
the time of the regular election of said
officers and until their successors are
elected and qualified.
! =. Sections 1890, 1881, 1892, 1888,
1854, 1898, 1885 aud 1887, of the Revision
of 1860, and all acts or parts of acts in
consistent with the provisions of this
act, are hereby repealed.
$. This act being deemed of imme-
dlate Importance shall be in force from
and after its publication in the Daily
State Register, and ioWu Eoening States
nan, newspapers published at Des
Moines, Iowa.
Approved April l, 1868.
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