members of any club or association by any means whatever, statutes SEC. 16. All statutes and acts and parts of acts inconsistent Inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter as hereby amended are repealed. hereby repealed; provided, however, that this repeal shall not Proviso. affect any act done, any right accruing or which has accrued or been established, nor any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause before the time such repeal takes effect, and no offense committed, nor penalty or forfeiture incurred, and no suit or prosecution pending when the repeal takes effect, for an offense committed, or for the recovery of a penalty or forfeiture incurred, shall be affected by this repeal, and the provisions of section 1555, as amended, and substituted by the act of this Code, § 1555 general assembly approved March 4, 1884, shall apply and have 20th G. A. to as passed by relation to the provisions of the code as herein amended and remain in all penalties as herein provided, shall be held to apply to intoxicating liquors as defined in said act March 4, 1884. Approved, April 3, 1884. force. CHAPTER 144. APPROPRIATION FOR STATE FISH COMMISSION. AN ACT for an Appropriation for the State Fish Commission. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: S. F. 286. agation of SECTION 1. That for the purpose of continuing the work of $5,000 approthe state fish commission as provided by the 16th, 17th, 18th, priated for the and 19th general assemblies: to provide for the distribution of care and propthe salmon trout, siskiwit, California trout, land locked salmon fish. and German carp, now on hand and hereafter to be propagated at the state hatching houses and to continue the propagation and distribution of these and the native fish of Iowa and to distribute such fish as may be donated by the United States fish commission to the state of Iowa and such other work as may be deemed by the governor and the state fish commissioners of importance in introducing valuable varieties of fish into the waters of Iowa. There is hereby appropriated out of any money belonging to the state the sum of five thousand dollars -provided, the above amount be under the control of and Proviso. audited by the executive council. $300 per an num for rent on hatching SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated an additional sum of three hundred dollars per annum to be paid by the executive house at Spirit council as it may become due as rental for the use of the property known as the Spirit Lake hatching house. Lake. Publication. SEC. 3. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall be in force and take effect from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and the Iowa State Leader newspapers published at Des Moines Iowa. Approved, April 5, 1884. 1 hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register April 9, and Iowa State Leader April 10, 1884. J. A. T. HULL, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 145. APPROPRIATION FOR FEEBLE-MINDED. AN ACT Making Appropriation for the Institution for the Feeble- Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That there is hereby appropriated for the institution for the feeble-minded children, the following sums for the purposes herein mentioned. For school apparatus six hundred dollars, $600. For plumbing both water closets and wash sink for cottages twenty-five hundred dollars $2,500. For repairs on old building four thousand dollars $4,000. For furnishing inside of laundry purchasing washers and wringers and constructing dry room two thousand dollars. $2,000. For purchasing new boiler and fittings for same fifteen hundred dollars. $1,500. For enlarging smoke stack two hundred dollars $200. For additional story under gymnasium grading and improvements of grounds four thousand dollars $4,000. For painting, building and furnishing cottages two thousand five hundred dollars. $2,500. For contingent fund, one thousand dollars per annum for two years. There is hereby appropriated fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to be used by the trustees of said institution for the purpose of erecting and furnishing additional buildings and water tower, subject to the approval of the executive council provided, that not more than one half of the appropriation shall be drawn during the year 1884. SEC. 2. The money herein appropriated shall be drawn as How paid. provided in this act and paid on the order of the trustees of said institution at such times as may be deemed necessary by said trustees. SEC. 3. This act being deemed of immediate importance Publication. shall be of force after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Iowa State Leader newspapers published at Des Moines. Approved, April 5, 1884. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register and Iowa State Leader April 9, 1884. J. A. T. HULL, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 146. CERTAIN TAXES IN DAVIS COUNTY LEGALIZED. AN ACT to Legalize the Levy of Certain Taxes in Davis County. S. F. 384. WHEREAS, The Board of Supervisors of Davis county, at Preamble. their September meeting in the year A. D. 1883, did levy a four and eight-tenths mill tax for county purposes, and WHEREAS, This amount is allowed only to counties having a population of less than fourteen thousand inhabitants, except to counties having an area exceeding nine hundred square miles, and WHEREAS, Doubts having arisen as to the legality of said levy; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That the proceedings of the board of supervisors Legalized. of Davis county, done and entered of record, in making said levy, be and the same is hereby legalized and made valid, to all intents and purposes, as though said levy had been made in strict compliance with law. SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance Publication. shall be in force and effect from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and the Davis County Republican, newspapers published at Des Moines and Bloomfield, Iowa without expense to the state. Approved, April 5, 1884. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa CHAPTER 147. S. F. 395. Landowners sidewalks lic road. SIDEWALKS ON HIGHWAYS. AN ACT Relating to Sidewalks on Highways. [Additional to Code, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That it shall be lawful for any owner of land may construct adjoining or abutting on a public road or highway outside the along any pub- limits of any city or town, to build and construct a sidewalk on and along said highway for his own use and for the use of the public traveling on foot, that said sidewalk shall not exceed four feet in width and shall be located along the side of the highway and may be constructed of any material suitable for a foot walk, provided, that said sidewalk shall not be so constructed as to interfere with the proper use and enjoyment of any lands or premises along which it passes, and provided further, that the persons building such walk shall keep the same Persons build in repair, and shall be liable for all injuries occasioned by his failure to keep the same in repair. Proviso shall not interfere with use of lands. ing, liable for injuries. Penalty for injury of sidewalk. Publication. SEC. 2. Any person who shall destroy, injure, or drive or ride upon a sidewalk, so constructed or heretofore constructed except at highway crossings, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than five dollars for each offense, and shall be liable to the party who has built or maintained said sidewalk for all damages. SEC. 3. This act being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force, from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Iowa State Leader, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. Approved, April 5, 1884. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa CHAPTER 148. TOWN OF DALLAS CENTER LEGALIZED. AN ACT to Legalize the Incorporation of the Town of Dallas Center, H. F.533. WHEREAS, In attempting to incorporate the town of Dallas Preamble. Center in the county of Dallas and State of Iowa, there was a failure to file in the office of the recorder of said county (as directed by law) a certified copy of all the papers, and record entries relating to said incorporation, as appeared and still appears on file and of record in the clerk's office and WHEREAS, In attempting to incorporate said town there was Failure to give a failure to give a proper and legal notice by publication of the notice. same as required by law, and a failure on the part of the persons making and laying out the plat of said town to properly sign, execute, acknowledge and record the same as required by law, and WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen with regard to the legality of said incorporation, and with regard to the legality and binding effect of the laws, rules and ordinances adopted and passed by the council of said town for the government of the same and also doubts with regard to the legality of the official acts of other officials of said town, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That the incorporation of said town of Dallas Center, be and the same is hereby legalized, and all the ordinances passed and rules and regulations adopted by the council of said town and all the official acts of the officers thereunder, be and the same are hereby declared to be legal and valid in every respect, as fully and completely as though all certified papers and records had been filed; the proper notice by publication had been given and complete and duly signed and executed plats of said town had been filed and recorded as required by the then existing laws and acts amendatory thereto. SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register, and the Dallas Center Globe, newspapers published in this state, said publication to be without expense to the state. Approved, April 5, 1884. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa Legalized. Publication. |