North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-06-17
ED WRIGHT, Sec'y of State.
CHAPTER so.

AN ACT Relating to Towns incorporated
under the Provisions of chapter AZ of
the Code of 1851.
Section |. Bo it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Iowa, That upon
the filing in the office of the Secretary of
State of a copy of the record of any in
strument purporting to be the charter Of
incorporation, under chapter AZ Of the
Code of Iowa, q 1851, of any town there
in named and described, duly certified, by
the recorder Of the county wherein such
town is situated, to be correct copy of
the record of such charter as the same APP
pears of record in his Office, such town, so
named and described, shall be deemed to
have been at the date therein mentioned,
for the taking effect Of said charter, duly
incorporated Hereunder as such Town;
and such town shall be advanced to the
grade Of city of the second class in like
manner and on like conditions as provided
by chapter 81 of the Revisions.
See. 2. 1t shall be the duty of every
county recorder. in whose Office there shall
appear record Of any instrument pur-
porting as aforesaid, forthwith to make
and deposit by mail in the Office of the
Secretary of State correct copy of such
record as the same appears in his office,
duly certified by him in manner as afore-
said, upon the performance of which ser
vice such recorder shall be entitled to de-
mand receive from such incorporated town
his legal fees therefor, and on receipt of
such certified copy by the Secretary Of
State, it shall be the duty Of said Secre-
tary to file the same in his Office, and to
endorse thereon the date of such filing and
thereafter his certificate of such fact of
filing and of the date of the same shall be
evidence thereof in all courts and places.
Sec. 3. Any town that may have been
Incorporated under chapter AZ, of the
code of 1851, and that since the taking
effect of chapter l57, Of the laws Of the
7th General Assembly, entitled IAN Act
for the incorporation of cities and towns"
shall have manifested by the election of
the officers mentioned in section 81, of said
act (section 1851 Of the revisions), it inten-
ton to organize US an Incorporated town,
under the provisions Of said Act, shall,
from the time of the election Of any such
officers, be deemed to be thereby organized
under such Act, as such incorporated town,
and all the provisions Of said act, and the
amendments thereto, shall be held to apply
to snch Incorporated town, from the date
Of such election, as fully and in like man.
ner, as if the said town had been origin
ally incorporated and organized under the
said Act, and the official acts Of all per-
sons discharging the duties Of the several
Offices provided for in section 81 aforesaid,
since the organization of such incorpo-
rated town as aforesaid are hereby declar.
cd to be rs valid and effectual to all intenti
and purposes, as if the said town had beer
originally incorporated and organized un-
der and in pursuance Of the Act afore-
said;
Privided, That the legalizing part Of
this act shall not be held to in any man
ner affect any suit, action or legal pro-
ceeding, now pending in any court, in thi