The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-05-14
additional Institution for the In

sane.
Section 1. Be it enacted by tht
General Assembly of the State o.
Iowa, That there shall be and il
hereby permanently established a,
| Independence, Buchanan county
Iowa, an additional institution fol
the support and cure of the insane.
See. 2. That E L Morgan of Web
ster county, Maturin Il Fisher o.
Clayton county, and Albert Clarke
of Buchanan county, are hereby ap
pointed board of commissioners tc
select location, and to superintend
the erection Of suitable buildings fol
the use of said institution, and in
case of vacancy in said commission
by death or otherwise, the same shall
be filled by appointment by the Gov.
ernOr. ...4ss.
Sec 3. That said board shall select
the most eligible and desirable loca-
ton of not less than three hundred
and twenty acres, and it must not, in
any event, be moro than two miles
distant from said city Of Indepcn.
dence, which said lands shall be OBJ
tained free Of charge to the State,
and said board shall take deed Of
conveyance Of the same in fee simple
to the State of Iowa, and cause the
same to be properly recorded in the
Office ofrccorder of deeds of the Co.
of Buchanan.
Sec. 4. Said board shall also. at
the earliest day practicable, procure
plans, drawings, and specifications,
for the buildings necessary and prop
er for said institution, the exterior OF
which buildings shall be of stone,
the stone to be procured within the
State, but the plan determined on by
the board shall be such as will admit
of future enlargement so as to pre-
serve the symmetry and be, when
ultimately completed, of capacity
equal to the present building at Mt.
Pleasant; provided, that the erection
only OF such portion of such building
shall be undertaken by said board,
under the provisions of this act, as
may be completed and made ready
for occupancy, by the appropriation
herein made.
Sec. 5. So soon as said board shall
have obtained an approved plan Of
building, they shall advertise for
four weeks in one paper in each of
the following places, viz: Indepen-
dence, Dubuque, Davenport, and Des
Moines, for sealed proposals for con-
tracts to erect the buildings hereby
authorized, according to the plan and
specifications determined on, and
are hereby empowered to contract
with the lowest responsible bidder,
who will build and complete the same
by the first day of December, 1870,
and who shall give adequate security
for the performance ofhis contract.
No contract shall be entered into by
said board, which shall in any event
involve greater expenditure than the
sum appropriated by this act
Sec. 6. Before entering upon his
duties, each commissioner shall make
and sign an oath, and execute bond
in the penal sum Of ten thousand
dollars for the use of the State of
Iowa, to be approved by the census
board, and filed in the office Of the
Secretary of State, conditioned for
the faithful performance of his du-
ties, and the honest and faithful dis
bursement of and accounting for all
moneys which may come into his
hands under the provisions of this
act.
Sec. Z. Said board shall have full
power to appoint, and discharge at
their discretion, a Superintendent,
whose duty it shall be to superin-
tend the work on said building.
which said Superintendent shall res
ceive as his only compensation, such
sums as the board may fix.
Sec. 8. There is hereby appropri-
ated, out of any money in the
State treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, the sum of one hundged and
twenty-five thousand dollars, or SO
much thereof as may be necessary
for the purposes contemplated in this
act
Sec. 9. The accounts of expendi.
lures relating to the construction of
said buildings shall be approved by
the board OF commissioners, and Ger.
tilted to by the Superintendent, and
then paid by Auditors warrants in
the usual manner, drawn in favor of
the party to whom the payment is
due, and the commissioners are au-
thorized to advance and pay on con-
tracts before the same are complete
ly performed, not exceeding seventy
FIVE per cent on estimates of material
delivered, or labor performed.
Sec. 10. Of the sum hereby ap,
propriatcd, not more than the sum
of twenty-five thousand dollars shall
be drawn from the treasury in the
year 1868.
Sec. IL. Themembers of the board
shall each receive five dollars per
day while actually employed in the
discharge Of their duties, and their
actual travelling expenses.
SEC. 12. This act being deemed Of
immediate Importance shall be in
full force from and after its publica-
ton in the Iowa State Register and
Iowa Evening Statesman, newspa.
pers published at Des Moines, Iowa.
Approved April -6th,. 1868. q
| hereby certify that the foregoing
act took effect by publication, as
required.in section IL thereof on the
Goth day of April, 1865.
ED WRIGHT, sec'y of State.
CHAPTER 9s.
An Act to authorize Independent