Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-04-24

AN ACT to enable Townships and
Incorporated Towns and Cities to
aid inthe Construction of Railroads
SECTION 1. Be it enacted 6y the
General assembly of the State of
IotUa. That it shall be lawful for
any township. incorporated city or
town i'm this State through which any
railway has been or hereafter may be
located, or to which it may be con-
tingnous, to aid i'm the construction
thereof, as hereafter provided.
SECTION 2. Whenever petition
shall be presented to the Council or
Trustees of any incorporated city or
town. or any township, signed by
one-third of the resident taxpayer
of such township, city or town, as
king the question of aiding in the
construction of any railway to be
submitted to the voters thereof, it
shall be the duty of the trustees, or
council, or boards of trustees, to i'm
mediately give notice of a special
election, such notice to be given in
the manner of notices of general
elections, which notices shall specify
the rate of tax to be raised, at which
election the question of Taxation
or "No Taxation shall be submit
ted and If a majority of the votes
polled be ''for ta2ation,o then in that
case the township trustees and coun-
ellis, or trustees of cities or towns,
shall at once determine the per cent
tna of the same, and cause their re-
spective clerks or recorders to pre-
pare and certify to the clerk of the
n 49,
ticable, lists of the same, which shall
be an equal percentage on the
taxable property In such townships,
city or town, but said rate shall not
exceed Ave per centagc on the tax
able property In such townships,
city or towns, but upon the assess
ed value of the property therein.
SECTION 2. That SO soon as such
tax lists are prepared. the tax herein
provided for shall be due and collect
able In the same manner as the coun-
ty tax is collected, and it shall be the
duty of the treasurer of the county
to proceed by himself or deputy TO
collect the same, and to pay it in
to the treasury of such county; and
the same shall be paid out by such
treasurer upon the order of the pres
ident or managing director of the
railroad company, whose road each
tax is voted to aid which order shall
be accompanied by estimates of the
engineer in charge of the work on
each road, showing that an equal
amount has been expended for the
construction of such work within
such county, and is hereby provided
that the taxes SO raised by any town
ship, city or town shall be expended
to aid in the construction of such
road within such township or the one
contiguous thereto, as near as prac-
tiMble, Provided, that any tax-pay
er producing to the county treasurer
prior to the collection of tie tax u
voucher of the proper officer of the
railroad company showing that his
tax has been paid to the satisfaction
of the company, shall, on filing the
the same with the county treasurer,
be discharged from the tax.
SECTION 4. All acts or parts Of acts
with the provisions of
this act are hereby respected.
SECTION 5, This act being deemed
by the General Assembly of immedi-
ate Importance shall take effect aud
be inforce from and after its publica.
ton in the IoWa State Register and
Iowd Egefing Sfatesmdn, newspaper
published at Des Moines, Iowa
This bill having remained with the
Governor three days, Sundays ex-
the General Assembly being
in session, has become a law, this
9th day of March, A. d., 1868. NJ
ED. WRIGHT,
Secretary of State.
STATE OF Iowa,
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE
Dies MONIES, March 9th, 1868. }
i hereby certify that the foregoing
is a true copy of the original roll
now on file In this office. aR
me- I'VE ED. WRIGHT,
Secretary Of State.