Buchanan County bulletin and guardian., 1868-07-17
CHAPTER 81.

CHAPTER 81.
AN ACT TO Peru anentlv Locate, and to
Provide for the Erection Of an additional
Institution for the Insane.
SEC. /. Be It enacted 6y tie General As
seably cf the Stute Of fora, That there shall
be and is hereby permanently esta blisaed at
Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa, An
additional institution for the support and
cure ofthe insane.
SEC. 2. That E. T. Morgan, of Webster
county, Maturin l.. Fisher. OF Clayton county,
and Albert Clarke, of Buchanan county, are
hereby appointed a board of commissioners
to select q location, and to superintend the
erection of suitable buildings for the use OF
said institution, and in case Of vacancy in
said commission by death or Otherwise, the
same shall be filed by appointment by the
Goserpor.
SEC. 3. That said board shall select the
most eligible ard desirable location Of not
less than three hundred aud twenty acres,
aud it must not in any event. be more ,han
two miles distant from said city of Indepens
dence, which said lands shall be obtained
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 OF.
6ce Of recorder Of deeds Of the county Of Bu-
chanan.
SSc. 1. Said board shall also, al the
earliest day practicable, procure plans, draw
ings and specifications, for the buildings
Necessary and proper for said institution, the
exterior Of which buildings shall be of stone,
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the plan determined on by the board shall
be such as will admit Of future enlargement
SO as to preserve the symmetry and be, when
ultimately completed, Of capacity equal 10
the present bOilding at Mt Pleasant; pro-
rided, that the erection only of such portion
Of such building shall be undertaken By said
board, under the provisons of this act, as
may be completed and made ready for Occur
paney by the appropriation herein made.
SEC. 5. So seon 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: Inde-
pendence, Dubuque, DaveAport and Des
Moines, for sealed proposals for contracts to
erect the buildings hereby authorized, ac>
cording to the plans and specifications de-
termined on, and are hereby empowered to
contrs ct with the lowest responsible bidder
who will build and complete the same by
the LIST day of December, 1870, and who
shall give adequate security for the performs
ance Of his contract No contract shall be
entered into By this board, which shall in
any event involve greater expenditure than
the sum appropriated BY this act
SEC. s. Before entering upon his duties,
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oath. and execute . bond in the psuai sum
Of ten thousand dollars for the use of the
State Of Iowa, to be approved BY the census
board, and fled in the once Of the Secretary
of State. conditioned for the faithful per.
fsrmance OF his duties, aud the honest and
faithful disbursement aud accounting for all
moneys which may come into his hands
under the provisions Of this act.
SEC. Z. Said Board shall have full pow,
er TO appoint and discharge at their discre-
ton, a Superintendent, whose duty il shall
be to superin,end the work on said building,
which said Superintendent shall receive as
his only compensation, such sum as said
board may fix.
Sgc. s. There is Leleby appropriated,
out Of any money in the State treasury not
otherwise appropriated, the sum OF one
hundred and twenty i've thousand dollars,
OF 90 much thereof rs may be necessary for
the purposes contemplated In this act.
See. 3. The accounts of expenditures re>
lating to the construction of said buildings
shall be approved by the board of comnis-
sioners, and certified to by the superintend-
'ent, ard 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 authorized to advance
and pay on contracts before the same are
completely performed, not exceeding seven.
ty>fve per cent. on estimates of material
delivered, or labor performed.
SEC. 10. OF the sum hereby appropria>
ted, not more than the sum of twentv>fve
thousand dollars shall be drawn from the
treasury in in the year 1868.
SEC. IL. The members of the Board
shall each receive Eve dollars per day while
actually employedin the discharge Of theil
duties, and their actual travelling expenses.
SIC. IL. This Act being deemed By the
General Assembly Of immediate Importance,
shall take eject be in force from aud after
its publication in the DAILY State Register
and LoscG EreniHge Natesmax, seuspspers
pablished At Des Moiues, Iowa.
Approved April 8. 1868. s.s IA
thereby certify that the foregoing Act
took eject by publication, 20 required BY
Section II thereof, on the 20h day Of April,
A. b. 1868.
- tl ED WRIGHT,
t Secretary of State.