The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-04-18


ditional sales of personal property
Postponed for one day.
IA bill for an act to amend Sec. 1910
~ tho Revision Of 1860. The object OF
the bill is to get rid of professional
jurors, or in other words those chaps
that have chronic desire OF sitting on
jpgies; and provides 1T Men who
have sdsyed ras4tA lesmen the breyiQns
term shall.not sit on the jury during
the next term. Passed.
A bill for an act to amend Sec. 40
Chapter 1873 ofthe laws ofthe Twelfth
General Assembly, in relation to regu-
lating Insurance Companies.
The provisions Of the bill TO allow
Home Mutual Insurance Companies To
pay salaries to their officers. agents and
employees. Passed.
A bill for an act amending Sec. 799
Revision of 1860. provides for changing
the time of making semi annual pay
ments by County Treasurers to the
State Treasurer, from February to
March and from November to Decem-
her, Passed.
/ A bill to provide for the organiza-
ton of the county of Belknap, lost.
A bill for an act to amend sections
748-759, of tile revision of 1860, in re-
latiOn to revenue. 1t changes the time
for delivering the tax books to the
county treasurers by clerks. By this
act the time for delivering is changed
from November to january, and ex-
tends the time when taxes shall become
delinquent. from February to March.
ordinary expenditures and Increased
taxation by municipal corporations
| Lost.
| A bill for an act to provide for the
compilation of the revenue. laws and
distribution of the same. Passed.
A bill for an act regulating the pub.
LEGATION of delinquent tax sales, re.
ducing the price from twenty cents to
ten cents for each description. After
some debate the bill was postponed till
Tomorrow afternoon.
A bill for an act making counties re.
sp0nsiblc to the State for all revenue
due the same, was, after a brief dis.
cussion, indefinitely postponed.
A bill for an act to amend Section
1898 of the revenue OF 1860, in relation
to the stay of execution, was post
pOned for one day.
"A bill for an act to amend Section
1906. OF the revenue OF 1860, in rela-
ton to the issuance of writs. The bill
| provides that in all cases where prop
perry is wrongfully taken from one
county to another, and these specific
facts are sworn to, the writ may issue
from the county whence such property
was SO wrongfully taken,a the neces-
sary process shall run and be served in
any county where the property may be
found, in the same manner and with
like effect. as If served in the county
where suit is brought. =
A bill for al act in relation to the
boundary lines Of civil townships.
Bv the provisions of the bill no change
shall Interfere with school districts.
/ Passed.
| A bill authorizing county surveyors
to issue subpfenas for witnesses
Passed.
! A bill for an act in relation to the
reorganization Of townships. II pro.
vides that 10 township having SOC
inhabitants shall be merged into any
other township, without majority
vote OF the legal votes OF said town
ships. Passed.
! A joint resolution providing for the
removal of the Capitol corner stone
from the southwest corner, to north.
east corner of the bnilding, and that
the word ''lowa' be engraved oil the
east face Of the stone, and A. D., 1871
on the north face, completely wipine
out the names of the commissioners
now inscribed thereon. AT 4p. III. the
House adjourned. Caro-.