North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-05-20
LAWS OF IOWA.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
CHAPTER. 6l
AN AGA to provide fer the 1ncorpora.
ton of Towns and Cities.

AN avn W pEONlu ISA tuC 4uCOl pOlA'
ton of Towns and Cities.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
assembly ofMe State Of IO,cd, That no
town or. city shall hereafter be incorporat-
cd in the State of Iowa in any other man.
ner than as herein provided. None Of the
provisions of this act shall apply to cities
or towns already incorporated.
Section 2. When the inhabitants of any
part of any county not embraced within
the limits of any city or incorporated town,
shall desire to be organized into city or
incorporated town, they may apply by
petition in writing, signed by not less than
thirty of the qualified voters Of the terri
tory to be embraced in the p>sed city
or incorporated town, to the county court
of the proper county, which petition shall
describe the territory proposed to be en-
braced 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 accompanied with salts.
factory proofs Of the number of inhabitants
within the te ritory embraced in said IL
mits.
Section 3. When such petition shall be
presented the court shall forthwith appoint
five commissioners, who shall at once call
an election of all of the qualified electors
residing within the territory embraced
within said limits. as described and plated,
to be held ut some convenient 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 pre- .eding such elec-
ton. 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 the county Judge.
Said commissioners shall act as judges and
clerks Of election, and shall qualify as re-
quircd by law for judges and clerks of
township elections and shall report the
result Of the ballot to the county Judge
aforesaid. The ballot used at such cleo
ton shall be For Incorporation, '"Against
Incorporation"
Section 4. If at said election a majority
Of said ballots shall be cast for incorpora-
ton, tn, county judge shall Immediately
give notice of the result in a newspaper
Tor if there be none, by posting as afore
said, and shall state in such notice to
which of the classes rs named in section
1913, of the Revision Of 1868, said incor-
porated town or city belong and said
county judge shall endorse on said petition
the substance OF the last mentioned notice;
and said petition, so endorsed, together
with the description and plat, shall be filed
and recorded in tho recorders Office of the
proper county. and also copy Of the same
shall be deposited with the Secretary Of
State.
Section 5. So soon AS said record shall
be made and said copy deposited as requir-
ed in section 4, and the election and qua
liication Of officers hereinafter provided
shall have taken place, the inhabitants
within the limits described in said petition
shall DO deemed an incorporated town or
city as the case may be-, and notice Of it's
existence as such shall be taken in all ju-
dicial proceedings in the State.
Section 6. When the record mentioned
in Section four hereof shall have heeen
made, said commissioners shall immedi.
ately give public notice 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 there
of. Said commissioners shall preside ut
said election in the same manner as Judges
and clerks of township elections. snd said
election shall be conducted, and the officers
elected and qualified in the manner pres
cribAd by law for the election and qualii-
cation Of township officers. Provided, the
officers to be elected shall be the same re-
quired by chapter fifty-one, Of the Revi.
sion Of 1850, for the class to which said
town or city shall belong, as shown by the
certificate and notices Of the county judge
required by section four hereof. and they
shall continue in olie only until the time
of the Regular election of said officers and
until their successors are elected and qua
lifed.
Section 7. Sections 1890, 1881, l033,
1893, 1884, lO35, 1896 and 1887, Of the
Revision Of 1860, and all acts or parts of
acts inconsistent with the provisions Of
this act, are hereby repealed.
Section 8. This act being deemed Of
importance shall be in force
from and after its publication in the State
Register and Iowa Statesman, published
in Dee Moines.
Approved April !, 1868.
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