The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-03-07
LEGALIZING ACT.

An act legalizing the ordinances,
acts, proceedings. resolutions and
amendments to the ordinances passed
by the city council of Leon, Iowa,
and legalizing all the acts, proceed
ings, and resolutions adopted or
passed by the said city council in
changing from the Incorporated town
of Leon, Iowa, to the Incorporated
city Of Leon, Decatur county, Iowa,
legalizing all of the aforesaid proceed
ings as fully and effectually as if the
law in every particular had been COM
piled with in the passage of all said
acts, proceedings and resolutions and
publication thereof, if same had in
any respect been omitted or neglect
ed, and legaliZing all the acts of the
officials acting under said acts, ordi-
nances, proceedings and resolutions.
WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as to
the legality of all the ordinances, acts,
proceedings, resolutions and amend
ments to the ordinances passed by the
city council of Leon, Iowa, and the
acts and elections of the Incorporated
city of Leon, Decatur county, Iowa,
doubts have also arisen in reference
to the legality of all the acts and
elections OF the Incorporated city of
Leon, Iowa, itself, and doubts have
arisen in reference to the legality of
the acts of the city officials of the city
OF Leon, Iowa, acting as such officials;
and.
WHEREAS, Doubts have also arisen
in regard to the legality Of the acts,
proceedings, resolutions and ordi-
nances adopted in regard to changing
from the incorporated town of Leon,
Iowa, to the city of Leon, Iowa; and,
WHEREAS, The ordinances were
not republished as readopted by the
city council OF Leon, Iowa, after its
organization as a city of the second
class: and,
WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as
to the legality of the adoption of the
ordinances of the town OF Leon, Iowa,
by the city of Leon, Iowa: and,
WHEREAS, Certain supposed de-
fects in the publication of certain
ordinances adopted by the city coun-
Gil OF Leon, Iowa. have arisen in re-
gard to wrong numbering; and,
WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen in
regard to the acts, resolutions and or
dinances adopted by the city council
OF Leon, Iowa, dividing the said city
into wards in changing from the in
corporated town of Leon, Iowa, to
city OF the second class. Now, there
fore.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL AS
sEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
SECTION l. That all the acts and
elections of the city of Leon, Decatur
county, Iowa, all the ordinances, acts,
proceedings, resolutions and amend
ments to said ordinances, and all of
the official acts of the city officials of
said city acting as such officials, and
all OF said ordinances, resolutions and
acts are hereby legaliZed and given as
full force and effect as if the law in
every particular had been complied
with in the enactment thereof of all
the proceedings and the adoption of
all ordinances, resolutions, and am
endnlents to the ordinances had been
strictly complied with and all of said
acts had been in conformity to law:
and the division of said city into wards
and any and all acts of the city council
OF the city of Leon, Iowa, in adopting
all of the ordinances of said city of
Leon, Iowa, are hereby legalized and
given the same force and effect as if
all the requirements of law enacting
said ordinances had been fully COM
piled with.
SEC. 2. This act being deemed of
immediate Importance shall be in full
force and effect as soon as the same is
published in the Des Moines Capital,
Des Moines, Iowa, and in the Decatur
County Journal and in The Leon
Reporter, Leon, Iowa, as by law pro-
vided without expense to the state.
ADDrOye0 FphruarV % A u 1907
The more faith man has in his
fellows, the more the world has in him.