North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-02
McGREGOR, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH g. 1870

sectlon o4, OF chapter l12, OF the Acts G
the Ninth General Assembly, approve
April s, 1862, and Of the acts amendator
thereto, shall apply only to towns and Gil
les containing not less than three hundre,
inhabitants, within their recorded plat an,
to the territory contiguous thereto
Prorided, that this act shall not affect in
dependent districts already organized.
SEC. 2. Indenendent districts, located
contiguous to each other, may unite anc
form one and the same Independent dis
trict, in the manner following: At tn,
written request of any ten legal voters re
siding in each of said Independent dis.
tricts, their respective Board of Director
shall require their Secretaries to give a
least ten days notice Of the time and
place for meeting Of the Electors rcsid,
ing in such districts, hy posting writer
notices in at least five public places ir
each of said districts, at which meetings
the said electors, shall vote by ballot foi
or against consolidate organization Of
said Independent DISTRICTS and if MAJ
jorty of the votes cast, at the election ia
each district, shall be in favor of uniting
said districts, then the Secretaries shall
give similar notice, of meeting of the
electors as provided for by tn, law for the
organization of Independent districts.
The Independent districts, thus consolids.
ted, shall be completed, and its directors
governed by the same provisions of the
law, which apply to other Independent
districts.
Sec. 8. Section sc, of Chapter l72. of
the Acts of the Ninth General Assembly
is amended to read as follows: Should a
majority of the votes be cast in favor of
such separate organization, the Board of
Directors of the district township shall
give similar notice Of a meeting ef the
electors For the election of six Directors.
Tive of these Directors shall held their
Office until the first annual meeting after
their election, and until their successors
are elected and qualified: two until the
second, and two until the third annuhl
meeting thereafter. Their respective
terms of Office to be determined by lot.
The said six Directors shall constitute a
Board Of Directors for the nistrc;. aud
they shall at their first regular meeting in
each year elect president, secretary and
treasurer, the two latter to be chosen out
side of the Board
Sec. 4. Section 80, of chapter l72, Of
the Acts Of 1862, as amended by chapter
81 of the Acts of 1864, is amended by ad-
ding thereto the following: And the
Treasurer shall make statement to the
district meeting of the receipts and dis
bursemsnts Of the preceding year.
Sec. 5. Section 90, of said chapter -
is amended to read as follows: The an
nual meeting of all independent school
districts formed as herein contemplated,
or under the laws in force at the time of
the taking effect Of this act, shall be held
on the second Monday in March FOR ,hc
transaction Of the business of the district.
and for the election, by ballot, of TWO
Directors as the successors of the two
whose term expires, who shall continue in
Office for three years: and the Presid dent.
Secretary and one Of the Directors then
in Office, shall act as judges of the cleo
ton, and shall issue certificates of eec..
tion to the persons elected for the ensuing
term.
SEC. 6. The electors of the independ-
ent districts organized and in operation
previous to the taking effect of this Act
shall, at the rcgu ar meeting, on the Sec
ond Monday of March, 1870, elect six
Directors, two OF whom shall continue in
Office until the next annual meeting there's
after, and until their successors are elect
ell and qualified, two for two years and
two for three years, their respective terms
of Office to be determined by lot, and six
Directors shall organize as contemplated
by section 3, Of this act, for the original
formation of an independent district.
SRc. I. This act being deemed of im-
mediate importance by the General AS
sembly shall take effect and be in full
force from and after it's publication in the
Daily Io,ra State Register and Daily Des
Noines Bulletin.
Approved Feb. 9, 1870.
l hereby certify that the foregoing Act
was published in the Register and Bnlle-
tin February 10, 1870.
Ed. WRIGHT, Sec. State.
CHAPTER I2.
AN ACT to provide for the Election of
Police Judge and the establishment of a
Police Court, in cities acting under
special characters.
Sec. /. BE ii enacted by the General
assembly Of the State Of lora, That the
legal voters of any city in the State of
Iowa, now acting under the provisions of
special charters heretofore granted, may,
at their next annual election, and every
two years thereafter, at the time of elect'
ing the municipal officers of such corpor-
alton, elect suitable person to be known
as Police Judge, who shall qualify and
give bond in like manner as Justices of
the Peace are required to do.
SEC. ,. That wherever any such city
shall have elected police Judge as afore-
said, al. the powers, jurisdiction, duties,
fees and emoluments, of said Judge and
his Court, shall be the same as are now
provided by Sections III, Ills, lll9 and
LOO of Chanter 81 of the RAyision of