60 An Act to legalize the action of R. Howe Taylor, president of

the board of directors of the independent school district of

Marshalltown, Iowa, in deeding certain school property. Ap-

proved March 22, 1884...

61 An Act to legalize the acts of the town council of the town of

Modale, in Harrison county, Iowa. Approved March 22,

1884.

62 An Act to legalize the change of the names of the villages of

Lackawanna and Vesper, to legalize the incorporation thereof.

under the name of Lehigh, and to validate the ordinances of

the town of Lehigh and the acts of its officers thereunder.

Approved March 22, 1884....

63 An Act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Williams,

in the county of Hamilton and state of Iowa, and the official

acts of the town council and other officers thereof. Approved

March 22, 1884....

64 An Act to amend section 368, chapter 7, title IV, code of 1873,

relating to the compensation of surgeons or physicians in

coroners' inquests. Approved March 26, 1884....

65 An Act to amend chapter 74, laws of the eighteenth general as-

sembly. Approved March 26, 1884....

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66 An Act to amend section 1384 (chapter 2, title XI,) of the code

of Iowa, in relation to care for the insane. Approved March

27, 1884..

67 An Act to amend section 2 of chapter 156 of the laws of the

seventeenth general assembly, as amended by chapter 193 of

the laws of the eighteenth general assembly, in relation to

the protection of game. Approved March 27, 1884....

68 An Act to provide for the levy of one-half mill state tax for

the years 1884 and 1885 to complete the new capitol building,

and to provide increased accommodations for the insane of

the state, and for other purposes. Approved March 27, 1884. H. F.

69 An Act authorizing the appointment of an agent to select cer-

tain lands along the line of the railroad constructed from Mc-

Gregor to Sheldon, and providing for the payment of the fees

for such selection. Approved March 27, 1884...

70 An Act to provide a fund from which to pay for sheep or other

domestic animals, killed or injured by dogs. Approved March

27, 1884...

71 An Act to relinquish and reconvey to the United States, all

lands and rights to lands, granted to the state of Iowa by the

act of congress entitled, An Act for a grant of land to the

state of Iowa in alternate sections to aid in the construction

of a railroad in the State of Iowa." Approved May 12, A. D.

1864, which have not been earned pursuant to the provisions

of said act. Approved March 27, 1884.......

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72 An Act to provide for selling, leasing and patenting the lands

belonging to the Iowa state agricultural college and farm.

[Amends ch. 117, acts 10th G. A., and repeals ch. 71, acts 15th Sub. H.F.

G. A.] Approved March 27, 1884...

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73 An Act to amend section one, chapter one hundred and five, laws

of the nineteenth general assembly, relating to the institu-

tion for the deaf and dumb. Approved March 28, 1884...... H. F.

74 An Act providing for the election of assessor for state and

county purposes, in cities organized and existing under spec-

ial charters. [Additional to Code, title IV, Čh. 10.] Ap-

proved March 28, 1884.

75 An Act appropriating the sum of $645.24 in payment of claims

held by John H. Gear and the Burlington Gas Light Com-

pany. Approved March 28, 1884..

76 An Act to amend sections 1604, and to repeal and provide a

substitute for section 1605 of chapter 3, title 12, of the code,

in relation to the trustees of the state agricultural college.

Approved March 28, 1884....

77 An Act to amend section 2609 (chapter 6, title XVII) of the

code of 1873, in relation to the truth of return of notices

served on patients in hospitals for the insane. Approved

March 29, 1884.

78 An Act to prohibit the selling or giving of fire-arms to minors.

Approved March 29, 1884...

79 An Act to amend chapter ninety-five (95) of the laws of the
sixteenth general assembly. Approved March 29, 1884....

80 An Act to amend chapter 147, of the acts of the 19th general

assembly, relating to the bonding of county indebtedness.

Approved March 29, 1884....

81 An Act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Nashua,

Chickasaw county, Iowa, the election of its officers, and the

ordinances passed by the council of said town, by reason of

the failure to call the roll and to record the yeas and nays on

the passage of certain ordinances of said town. Approved

March 29, 1884

82 An Act to pay to the Honorable John Shane, late district judge
of the 8th judicial district of Iowa, the salary for his unex-
pired term as such judge. Approved March 29, 1884....

83 An Act to legalize the acts of the board of supervisors of Ida

county in the establishment of roads by order of said board

on June 6, 1876. Approved March 29, 1884.....

84 An Act to authorize the auditor of state to issue certificates of

purchase to certain owners of certain tracts of school-land

in Decatur county, Iowa. Approved March 29, 1884.......

85 An Act to legalize certain ordinances of the town of Sanborn, in

O'Brien county, Iowa, and the acts of its officers thereunder.

Approved March 29, 1884....

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86 An Act to legalize the official acts of J. B. Mead, a justice of

the peace in and for Lyon county, Iowa. Approved March

1884..

87 An act to legalize the organization of the independent school-

district of Rock Valley, in Sioux county, Iowa, and the acts

of the officers thereof. Approved March 29, 1884...

88 An Act to legalize certain acts of the First Universalist Society

of Dubuque, and to relinquish an escheat. Approved March

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89 An Act to legalize the acts of Thos. W. Darling, of Jackson

county, Iowa, while acting in the capacity of a notary pub-

lic in and for said county of Jackson. Approved March

29, 1884....

90 An Act to legalize the incorporation of the town of West Lib-

erty, in the county of Muscatine, state of Iowa. Approved

March 29, 1884...

91 An Act to legalize certain ordinances of the town of Eddy-

ville. Approved March 29, 1884..

92 An Act to provide for the education of J. W. Hallock, at the

Iowa state university, at the expense of the state. Ap-

proved March 29, 1884..

93 An Act to prevent gambling by means of fictitious contracts

for the buying or selling of grain or other produce on mar-

gins, and to provide a punishment therefor. Approved

March 29, 1884

94 An Act relating to a change of the place of trial of civil ac-

tions, amending section 2590 of the code of Iowa. Approved

March 29, 1884.

95 An act to legalize the levy of certain taxes in Van Buren

county, Iowa. Approved March 29, 1884.

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96 An Act to legalize the ordinances and acts, of the incorpor-

ated town of Hepburn, in the county of Page, in the state

of Iowa. Approved March 29, 1884

97 An Act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Garrison,

in Benton county, Iowa, and the acts of the officers thereof.

Approved March 29, 1884.

98 An act to legalize certain proceedings of the council of the

town of Milton, in Van Buren county, Iowa. Approved

March 29, 1884...

100 An Act making appropriation to the Iowa prisoners' aid asso-

ciation. Approved March 29, 1884...

99 An Act to legalize and correct errors in the proceedings

and acts incorporating the town of Baldwin, in Jackson

county, Iowa. Approved March 29, 1884...

104 An Act concerning bells and steam-whistles on locomotives.

[Additional to code, title X, ch. 5.] Approved March 29,

1884.....

105 An Act to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights.

Approved March 29, 1884. ...

101 An Act to legalize certain errors and omissions of the board

of supervisors of Appanoose county, Iowa. Approved

March 29, 1884..

102 An act to amend section 4039, of the code of 1873, relating to

the spread of small-pox. Approved March 29, 1884.

103 An Act to prohibit the use of barb wire in inclosing public

school grounds. [Additional to code, title XII, ch. 9.Ĵ Ap-|

proved March 29, 1884...

106 An Act to amend section 382, chapter 9, title IV, code of

Iowa, relative to the division of townships. Approved

April 1, 1884 ..

107 An Act to legalize the incorporation of the town of St. Ans-

gar, in Mitchell county, Iowa, the election of officers, and all

acts done and ordinances passed by the council of said

town. Approved April 1, 1884..

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110 An Act making appropriations for the college for the blind.

Approved April 1, 1884..

108 An Act making appropriations for the hospital for the in-

sane at Mt. Pleasant. Approved April 1, 1884..

109 An Act making an appropriation, for erecting an addi-

tional wing to the Iowa hospital for the insane at Mt.

Pleasant. Approved April 1, 1884.

111 An Act making appropriations for the institution for the

Ideaf and dumb at Council Bluffs. Approved April 1,

1884..

112 An Act for an appropriation, in aid and support of the

state university of Iowa. Approved April 1, 1884..

113 An Act making an appropriation for the hospital for the

insane at Independence. Approved April 1, 1884...

114 An Act to appropriate funds to furnish buildings, buy

land and make improvements, for the soldiers' orphans'

home, and home for indigent children, at Davenport,

Iowa. Approved April 1, 1884..

115 An Act making appropriation for the better support of the

state university, in the several departments and chairs,

and in aid of the income fund, and for the development

of the institution. Approved April 1, 1884...

116 An Act to authorize the trustees of the Iowa hospital for

the insane at Independence, Iowa, to purchase eighty

acres of land, adjoining the lands now owned by the

state, for the use of said hospital. Approved April 1,

1884...

117 An Act making appropriation for the boys' reform school

at Eldora, Iowa. Approved April 1, 1884.

118 An Act making an appropriation to pay certain ascertained

claims for supplies furnished the Iowa state penitentiary

at Ft. Madison, Iowa. Approved April 1, 1884,

119 An Act to amend section 120, of chapter 8, title 2, code of

1873, (in reference to the executive council) relating to

the providing of supplies for state offices. Approved

April 1, 1884...

120 An Act to authorize township trustees to employ attor-

neys in certain cases. Approved April 1, 1884..

121 An Act to donate certain arms to the grand army of the

republic, department of Iowa. Aproved April 1, 1884. .

122 An Act making an appropriation for the support of the

state normal school at Cedar Falls, and conferring cer-

tain authority upon the board of directors thereof. Ap-

proved April 1, 1884...

123 An Act to amend section 3948 of the code, to punish the

acceptance of bribes by marshals, deputy marshals, po-

licemen and other police officers of cities and towns.

Approved April 1, 1884..

124 An Act to provide for the distribution of funds by the as-

signees of insolvents. Approved April 1, 1884.....

125 An Act to repeal section one of chapter sixty, of the acts

of the eighteenth general assembly, in relation to the

publication of the supreme court reports, and to enact a

substitute therefor. Approved April Î, 1884..

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126 An Act to amend section 2578 of the code of 1873, relating to

the foreclosure of mortgages and other liens on real estate.

Approved April 1, 1884..

127 An Act making an appropriation to employ an expert oculist,

for the benefit of the inmates of the college for the blind.

Approved April 1, 1884....

128 An Act to amend section 1121, chapter 3, title IX, of the code

of 1873, relative to the annual appropriation to the state hor-

ticultural society. Approved April 1, 1884.....

129 An Act making appropriations for the payment of state and

judicial officers, and certain expenses of the general assem-

bly and other matters. Approved April 3, 1884.....

130 An Act to provide for the payment of the expenses of the

committees appointed to visit the state institutions. Ap-

proved April 3, 1884.

131 An Act for the relief of Mrs. J. W. Maddy, of Marne, Cass

county, Iowa, whose husband was killed by the murder-

ers of postmaster Clingan of Polk City, Iowa, while pur-

suing said murderers in Elkhorn Grove, Shelby county,

Iowa. Approved April 3, 1884.....

132 An Act to create a bureau of labor statistics, and to provide

for the appointment of a commissioner of said bureau, and

to define his duties and term of office. Approved April 3,

1884...

133 An Act authorizing actions against railroad companies, to be

brought in the name of the state, upon recommendation of

the board of railroad commissioners. [Additional to code,
title V, ch. 10.] Approved April 3, 1884. .

134 An Act to provide for the publication of the annual proceed-

ings of the Iowa improved stock breeders' association. Ap-

proved April 3, 1884...

135 An Act to enable the state of Iowa to be represented in the

national educational exposition at Madison, Wisconsin, July

15-18, 1884. Approved April 3, 1884....

136 An Act making an appropriation to complete and furnish the

new capitol, and for paving the streets, and grading and put-

ting down the curbing and sidewalks around the capitol

square. Approved April 3, 1884....

137 An Act to authorize the governor to convey eighty acres of

land, now belonging to the reform school at Eldora. Ap-

proved April 3, 1884...

138 An Act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Lettsville,

in Louisa county, Iowa, the election of officers, and all acts

done and ordinances passed by the council of said town.

Approved April 3, 1884.

139 An Act for union railway depot. [Additional to code, title

V. ch. 10.] Approved April 3, 1881..

140 An Act providing for the care and management of the new

capitol. Approved April 3, 1884...

141 An Act making appropriations for the penitentiary at Fort

Madison. Approved April 3, 1884..