Year: 1866

eral assembly of the State of lo,Da, That
ii within four months from the end of
this session OF the General Assembly,
the "Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home"
an incorporation of that name and style,
shall duly and legally convey and trans
fer and duly deliver all its property,
real and personal, including all its
things in action, to a Board of Trustees.
for them and their successors, which
Board shall have been appointed by this
General Assembly, and whose name
and style shall be the Board of Trus-
tees of the Iowa Soldiers Orphans
Home" then and upon that event, and
when the same shall be by said Board
tions of this act, numbered 2 to II inclu.
sive, shall be held to be of force and val
idity, and not otherwise. .sf.-4


Sec The Board of Trustees of
the Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home"
shall consist of one person from each
Congressional District and one from the
State at large, who shall be appointed
by the General Assembly for two years
and until their successors are elected
and qualified.


SEC. 3. Said Board shall govern and
manage said Home, and shall have pow
er to enact laws and rules for the regu-
lation of all its concerns, and power also
to alter the same, from time To time as
shall seem to them proper; and shall
also have full power to carry on and
manage all the affairs of the said Home.


SEC. A. The members of said Board
shall each receive the same mileage,
going to and returning thcfefron,, as
members of the General Assembly.


SEC. ). Said Trustees shall, before
entering upon the discharge OF their du-
ties, take and subscribe an oath or af-
tirmation to support tho Constitution of
the United States and of this State, and
also faithfully to discharge the duties
required of them by law and the by
laws that may be established. .a.vr :


Sec. q. Their first meeting shall be
ut Davenport, at such time rs shall he
announced to them by that member
whose name stands first in list of mem
bers as chosen by the Assembly, and he
shall make such call when it shall be
announced to him by the President of
the Association called the Iowa Sol
diers' Orphans Home" that said Asso-
citation is ready to conform to the pro-
visions Of Section of this act.


SEC. =. Said Board shall have all the
powers of reception, transmission and
succession which belong to an incorpo-
ration, and shall choose President,
Treasurer and Secretary from their own
body, and determine the bonds to be
given.


SEC. 8. The Census Board, when fix
ing the rate of State tax to be levied
each year as required by Section 7l3 of
the Revision of 1850, and Chapter "a of
the Acts of the extra session of the
Ninth General Assembly, shall. include
i'm the rate so fixed three eights of one
mill Oh the dollar, tax for the support,
education and maintenance of the Sol
diers' Orphans; and the Board of Su-
nervisors of the several counties shall
levy the said tax as q part of the State
tax for each year, which shall be collec-
ted and paid into the State Treasury as
other State tax; and whenever any
State tax shall be received at the State
Treasury from County Treasurers, the
State Treasurer shall apportion the same
between the revenue fund proper and
the Orphans Home fund provided for
in this act, in proportion to the rate OF
tax levied for each of said funds, and
shall receipt for the same accordingly.
And If it shall appear to the Census
Board in 1867, or any year thereafter,
that the amount realized by the levy of
the tax aforesaid, for the purposes afore-
said, is more than is necessary for the
purposes aforesaid, they shall direct the
levy of only such tax as may be suifi-
cient therefor.


SEC. 8. The expenses ofthe transmits
sion of orphans to the Home, and of the
board and management, shall be paid
out Of the said Orphan fund.


SEC. 10. That the money arising from
the tax provided for by this act, shall
A hn F,r
tho purpose of defraying the expenses
incurred i'm the support of Soldiers Or
phans, and ut no greater rate than eight
and one-third dollars per month for each
orphan actually supported in the Iowa
Soldiers Orphans Home; and upon
the presentation to the Auditor each
month Of a sworn statement of the num-
Der of orphan children supported by the
said Institution for the preceding month
and approved by the Census Board, il
shall be the duty of the Auditor to draw
his warrant upon the Treasurer, paya-
bic out of the funds aforesaid, to the
Treasurer of said Board, for the sum of
eight and one-third dollars per month
for each child; provided, that in esti-
mating the number of children for any
month the whole number of different
children shall net be included, but only
the average number for the entire
month.


SEC. IL. That il it shall be found
necessary to the successful operation
and support of the Iowa Soldiers Or
phans' Home, for the year 1856, and till
the tax provided for by this act is real
lied to anticipate any portion thereof,
then it shall be competent for the Pres
ident to draw his order or orders, coun-
tersigned by the Secretary, upon the
Auditor for such sums IA shall be by
the Board found necessary, not exceed
ing in the aggregate twenty-five tlous-
ana dollars; and upon the approval Of
such orders by the Census Board en-
dorsed thereon, it shall be the duty Of
the Auditor to draw his warrant upon
the Treasurer for such sums, payable
out Of any moneyin the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, which sums
shall bc returned to the Treasury out Of
the funds provided to be raised by this
act.


SEC. II. Said Board shall make full
and minute report Of all the disbursc-
ments of the Home, and Of it's condi-
ton, financial and otherwise, to each
regular session of the General ASSEM-
bly,.


Sec. 13. That the Assessor of each
ward and township in this State, before
the first Monday in June A. ID. 1866,
and when he is making the assessment
in each year thereafter for the term Of
two years, shall take an enumeration of
oil the children of deceased soldiers who
were in the military service OF the gov
ernment Of the United States, from his
ward or township, naming the compa-
ny, regiment, battery, battalion, or or
ganization to which the deceased SOL
diers belonged, and make accurate re-
turn to the Board of Supervisors of his
county. designating the name, age, and
sex Of all the children belonging to the
family of the deceased, for which the
Assessor shall receive the same compen-
sation AS for other services.


SEC. IA. It shall be the duty of the
Board OF Supervisors to revise said emu
meration list of orphans from time to
time, by adding thereto or striking
therefrom as they may deem proper.


SEC. l5. 1t shall be the duty Of the
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors to
furnish to the Assessors of the several
townships in his county such blanks as
NAV he necessary for taking the afOre-