with state and when so executed and delivered shall be deposited with the Deposited auditor of state and the state treasurer shall then pay on the auditor. warrant of the auditor to the grantor or grantors such sum of How paid for. money as the said board of commissioners shall certify they have agreed to pay for said land. building. SEC. 5. That said board of commissioners shall, as soon as Plans and practicable, procure and adopt plans, specifications and esti- estimates for mates for buildings to be erected as such hospital, and shall adopt the plan known as the cottage plan, and all buildings so erected shall be substantially fire proof. The exterior of the buildings shall be plain and of brick. Material. to be received. SEC. 6. That as soon as the plans for such building or build- When bids are ings are settled and adopted and the drawings and specifications therefor have been completed and procured, said board of commissioners shall invite bids or proposals for the material, labor and construction of said buildings by advertisement to be publiseed for thirty days in four daily papers published in the state, one of which shall be published in the city of Des Moines; and Board to make the said board of commissioners shall have power to prescribe such rules and forms for the making and securing of bids or proposals as they shall deem best; but no contract involving the expenditure of more than the sum [of] ten thousand dollars ($10,000) shall be made by said board of commissioners without first inviting such bids; and all contracts shall be let to the Contracts let lowest bidder complying with the rules and forms prescribed bidder. by said board of commissioners. rules for to lowest ent. SEC. 7. That the said board of commissioners shall employ Architect and a competent architect and superintendent of construction who superintendmay, in the discretion of said board, be the same person, and who shall receive such compensation as the said board shall by agreement determine. SEC. 8. The accounts of expenditures in the construction of Expenditure, the buildings shall be certified to by the superintendent and how paid. audited and approved by the board of commissioners, and then paid by warrants of the state auditor, drawn in favor of the party to whom payment is due in the usual manner, and the board is authorized to advance and pay on contracts, before the same are completely performed, not exceeding seventy-five per cent on estimates of material delivered or labor performed. SEC. 9. Before entering upon his duties each commissioner Commissionshall take and sign an oath and execute a bond in the penal sum bonds in sum ers to give of ten thousand dollars for the use of the state of Iowa, to be of $10,000. approved by the executive council and filed in the office of the secretary of state conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties and the honest and faithful disbursement of and accounting for all moneys which may come into his hands under the provisions of this act. of commis SEC. 10. The commissioners shall each receive the sum of Compensation five dollars per day for the time actually employed in the dis- sioners. Secretary. $150,000 charge of their duties, and their actual traveling expenses; and for time and expense they shall render bill under oath. SEC. 11. That the said board of commissioners shall appoint a secretary from their number who shall keep a record of all the proceedings of said board, and an account of all expendi tures. SEC. 12. That there be and there is hereby appropriated out appropriated. of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes of this act, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, provided that not more than one-half of the amount shall be expended in the year 1884. Proviso. When completed, governor to be notified etc. SEC. 13. When said buildings or any of them shall be completed and ready for use, the commissioners shall notify the governor of the state thereof, and he shall at once take steps to organize the same by the appointment of a board of five trustees, who shall hold their office until the next session of the legislature, and whose qualification and duties shall be the same as now provided by law for the trustees of the other insane hospitals in the state of Iowa, and the laws of the state governforce, applica- ing the other hospitals; and the admission of patients thereto, so far as applicable, shall apply to and govern the hospital herein provided for. Laws now in ble. Publication.}} SEC. 14. 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 Iowa State Leader, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved, April 21, 1884. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register and Iowa State Leader April 23, 1884. CHAPTER 202. APPROPRIATION FOR FARMERS' PROTECTIVE ASOOCIATION. AN ACT to Appropriate Funds to Aid the Farmers' Protective As- s. F. 299. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of lowa: fringement of patents. SECTION 1. That there be, and is hereby appropriated, out of $5,000 approany funds, not otherwise appropriated the sum of five thousand priated to aid in defending ($5,000) dollars, or so much thereof, as may be needed, to aid actions for inthe Farmers' Protective Association of Iowa, in defending in actions now pending, or which may hereafter be brought in the state of Iowa on account of alleged infringments of patents on barbed wire, and for the purpose of testing the validity of said patents. SEC. 2. That whenever the executive committee of said as- How drawn. sociation shall certify in writing to the auditor of state, that they are in need of funds for the purposes herein set forth, and shall enter into good and sufficient bond for the faithful disbursement of and accounting for said funds, then the said auditor shall issue his warrant upon the state treasurer for the amount asked for, which amount shall not in the aggregate, exceed the amount hereby appropriated, and the state treasurer shall pay such warrant upon presentation. Approved, April 26, 1884. CHAPTER 203. LEGALIZING CONVEYANCES. H. F. 276. AN ACT Legalizing Conveyances. Acknowledgized when. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That all deeds and conveyances of lands lying ments legal- and being within this state heretofore executed and which said deeds have been acknowledged or proved according to and in compliance with the laws and usages of the state, territory or country in which said deeds or conveyances were acknowledged and proved are hereby declared effectual and valid in law to all intents and purposes as though the same acknowledgements. had been taken or proof of execution made within this state and in pursuance of the acts and laws thereof and such deeds so acknowledged or proved as aforesaid shall be admitted to be Admitted to legally recorded in the respective counties in which such lands may be anything in the acts and laws of this state to the contrary notwithstanding and all deeds and conveyances of lands situated within this state which have been acknowledged or proved in any other state, territory or country according to and in compliance with the laws and usages of such state, territory, or country and which deeds and conveyances have been recorded within this state be and the same are hereby confirmed and declared effectual and valid in law to all intents and purposes as though the said deeds or conveyances so acknowledged or proved and recorded had prior to being recorded been acknowledged or proved within this state. record. Applies to deeds, mortgages and conveyances. SEC. 2. This act shall apply to all deeds, mortgages and conveyances made, filed, recorded and proved as contemplated in section one (1) of this act prior to the first day of January 1884. Approved, April 26, 1884. JOINT RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE TWENTIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY. NUMBER 1. MEMORIAL AND JOINT RESOLUTION of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress Assembled in Regard to an Investigation of the Matters Pertaining to the Fox Indians of Iowa. To the Hon. the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America: The General Assembly of the State of Iowa, beg leave to state. That prior to the year A. D. 1804, the Sac and Fox tribe of Indians of the Mississippi were the owners in common of large tracts of land including great portions of what is now known as the state of Iowa. That by virtue of certain treaties made by them with the United States in said year, and in years subsequent thereto, they ceded said lands, to the United States, and the moneys arising from the sale thereof were invested by the general government for the use and benefit of said Sac and Fox Indians, and that the fund so invested amounts annually to the sum of fiftyfour thousand (54,000) dollars, as will more fully appear, from the Report of the Hon. the Indian Commissioner, for the year A. D. 1881. That by virtue of certain treaties, made by and between Sac and Fox Indians, and the United States, the said Indians were removed, located and settled in the state of Kansas, and afterward removed and settled in the Indian Territory, but before their removal to the last named place, and as early as the year A. D. 1855 a majority of the Fox tribe, not being satisfied with the country, and their relations with the Sacs not being as pleasant as desirable, returned to Tama county Iowa, where they have since resided and with their own money have purchased large tracts of valuable lands, which are held in trust for them, by the governor of the state of Iowa. That by an apportionment made by Congress in the year A. D. 1860, the annuities due and coming to the Sac and Fox tribe of Indians, it was ordered that the Indians in Iowa should receive the sum of eleven thousand one hundred seventy-four and 66-100 (11,174 66-100) dollars, and the balance of said fifty-four thousand (54,000) dollars, was paid to the Indians in the Indian Territory. |