Year: 1866

| fairs OF the salH JfOme.


| Sec. 4. The members of said Board shal


each receive the same mileage, going 4


and returning thcrcfron, as members %


the General Assembly.


Sec. 5. Said Trustees shall, before cH


tering upon the discharge of their duties


take and subscribe an oath or affirmation


to support the Constitution Of the United


States and of this State, and also faithful
| ly to discharge the duties required of then,
by law and the bylaws that may be estal-
l;shcd. 81


Sec. 6. Their first meeting shall be q.
Davenport, at such time as shall be an.
nounced to, them by that member whose
name stands first in list of members 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 Soldiers Orphany'
I[omc," that said Association is ready. to
conform to the provisions of section l Of
this Act. 1


Sec.7. Said Board shall have all the
powers of reception, transmission and sue
cession which belong to an incorporation,
and shall choose President, Treasurer
and Secretary from their own body, and
determine the bonds to be given. 81
Sec. s. The Census Board, when fixing
the rate of State tax to be levied each
year as required by Section 743 Of the Re-
vision of 1860, and Chapter "a of the Acts
of the extra session Of the Ninth General
Assembly, shall include in the rate so FIX
ed three eights of one mill on the dollar,
tax for the support, education and main
tenancc Of the Soldiers Orphans and tho
Board of Supervisors of the several coun-
ties shall levy the said tax as part of tho
State tax for each year, which shall be col
lected 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 Treas7
urer shall apportion the same between tho
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 ap-
pear to the Census Board in 1867, or any
year thereafter, that the amount realized
by the levy of the tax aforesaid, for the
purposes aforesaid, is more than is ncccs-
sary for the purposes aforesaid, they shall
direct the levy of any such tax as may be
sufficient therefore. Z


Sec. 9. The expenses of the transmission
of orphans to the Home, and of the board
and mana cement, shall be paid out Of the
said Orphan fund.


Sec. TO- That the money arising from
the tax provided for by this Act, shall only
he drawn from the Treasury for the pur-
pose of defraying the expenses incurred in
the support of Soldiers Orphans, and at
no greater rate than eight and one-thirtl
dollars per month for each orphan actual
ly supported in the Iowa Soldiers Or
phans' Home; and upon the presentation
to the Auditor each month of sworn
statement of tho number of orphan chill
dren supported by the said institution for
the preceding month, and approved by the
Census Board, it shall be the duty Of the
Auditor to draw his warrant upon the
Treasurer, payable out of the funds afore-
said, to the Treasurer of the said Board,
for the sum of eight and one-third dollars
per month for each child provided that in
estimating the number of children for any
month the whole number of different chill.
dren shall not bo included, but only tho
average number for the entire month.


Sec. IL. That if it shall be found neces-
sary to the successful operation and sup
port of the Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home,
for the year 1866, and till the tax provided
for BY this Act is realized to anticipate any
portion thereof, then it shall be competent
for the President to draw his order or or
ders, countersigned by the Secretary, up
on the Auditor for such sums Us shall be
by the Board found necessary, not exceed
ing in the aggregate twenty-five thousand
dollars and upon the approval of such
orders by the Census Board, endorsed
thereon, it shall be the duty Of the Audit
or to draw his warrant upon the Treasur-
er for such sums, payable out Of any mOn-
ey in the Treasury not otherwise appropri-
ated, which sums shall be 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 disbursements
of the Home, and of its condition, finan-
cial and otht rwise, to each regular session
of the General Assembly.


Sec. l3. That the assessor of each ward
and township in this State, before the first
Monday in June, A. d. 1866, and when he
is making the assessment in each year
thereafter, for the term Of two years, shall
take an enumeration of all the children Of
deceased soldiers who were in the military
service of the Government of the United
States, from his ward or township, nam
ing the company, regiment, battery, bat
talon, or organization to which the de-
ceased soldiers belonged, and make accu-
rate return to the Board Of Supervisors Of
his county, designating the name, age and
sex Of all the children belonging to tho
family of the deceased, for which the as
SCISSOR shall receive the same compensation
as for other services.


Sec. IA. 1t shall be the duty of the Board
of Supervisors to revise said enumeration
list of orphans from time to time, by add
ing thereto or striking therefrom, as they
may deem proper.


Sec. Is. 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 may be necessary
for taking the aforesaid enumeration.


Sec. l6. The Board of Supervisors Of
the several counties shall have control of
the county orphan funds, and shall use
the same for the maintenance and educa-
tien of the orphans aforesaid, in such man.
ner and in such sums as the exigencies of
the case may demand, and for no other
purpose.


Sec. II. The Board of Supervisors may
levy tax not to exceed one-half mill on
the dollar, in any one year, on all the tax
able property in their county, provided
that there are any such orphans in their
county needing such aid, and shall apply
said fund in manner as hcreinbefore d.
rected.


Sec. lS. If the children of the deceased
soldiers aforesaid have no natural or other
guardian. or are neglected, the Board OF
Supervisors may appoint some suitable per-
son in the township, whose duty it shall be
to see that said children are cared for ac-
cording to the spirit and intent of this act.


Sec. 10. The funds raised under the pro-
visions Of Section II, shall be called the
I" Soldiers County Orphan Fund.-" and
shall be levied, collected and paid out in
the same manner as other county funds.


Sec. 10. The provisions regarding this