Year: 1860

at their first meeting thereafter. Said
Commissioners shall have the power to
administer oaths ard to compel the at
tendance of witnesses and the produc
ton Of papers, and the Sheriff Of the
County in which the Board sits shall
serve and execute the necessary process
scs when required by said Com mission
ers, and all claims not presented within
the said six months shall be forever
barred.


IS. When any Of the claims afore
said shall have been decided, the Com
missioners shall report the same to the
Register Of the State Land Office, who
shall audit said claims and none others
in accordance with the second section Of
the said act of the 22d Of March, 1858,
and it shall be the duty Of the Keokuk,
Fort Des Moines and Minnesota r. r.
Co., to pay said liabilities so audited, one
half within one year and one half with
in two years after the aforesaid lands
shall have been certified to the State Of
Iowa or otherwise become the property
Of said Company, with ten per cent in
tcrest thereon from the time said claims
were audited.


So. For every three thousand dollars
worth of work done on the locks and
dams and for every three thousand dol
lars Of said audited liabilities paid by
the said Keokuk, Fort Des Moines and
Minnesota R. r. Co., in accordance with
the second section of the said act Of
March 22d, 1858, the Register Of the
State Land Office shall certify to said
Company 1000 acres from said $4,000
acres of land.


s 10. In case said Keokuk, Fort Dcs
Moines and Minnesota r. Il. Co., shall
not complete said dams or pay said au
dited liabilities as hereinbcforep provided,
then the said Commissioners shall pro-
ceed to complete said dams and pay said
liabilities by the sale or mortgage Of SO
much Of said fifty thousand acres Of land
as may be necessary for that purpose,
provided that said Commissioners may
give said 4. r. Company further time
for the completion of said dams, if in
their opinion the said company shall
have proceeded in the construction therel
Of in good faith, and that said further
time is necessary.


s II. Said commissioners shall as soon
after the organization Of the Board as
may be expedient, proceed to sell all the
interest Of the State in all such locks
and dams belonging to tho Des Moines
River Improvement and the land apper-
tinent thereto, and the water power there
to belonging as shall have been compile
ted by the State or by the said Railroad
Company !; and shall also sell the dams
and water power at keosauqua and Ply
mouth in the sane manner when said
dams shall have been completed, and
shall make conveyanccs in the name Of
the State without warranty to the pur.
chasers Of the interest SO sold, contain
ing covenants on the part Of said pur.
chasers that they and their heirs and as
signs shall and will forever keep said
locks and dams in good repair, and that
they will at al reasonable times pass
boats through said locks and charge on.
ly such tolls as may be agreed upon bel
tween said Commissioners and the pur-
chasers, not exceeding the maximum
rates prescribed in the contract by the
State with the Des Moines Navigation
and Railroad company, which conveyan-
ces shall also be executed by the purcha-
sers as parties Of the second part there
to, and said sale shall be made upon such
terms as will secure the State against all
liability upon any leases or contracts for
water power heretofore executed between
the officers Of the Improvement and in
dividuals, and the proceeds Of said sales
shall be applied first to the payment Of
the expenses of said sales, second to the
payment Of said commissioners. Sd to the
payment of damages for any lands con.
demned, and fourthly any balance that
may remain shall be paid on the audited