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cate the agricultural and industrial classes in the sev

eral pursuits and professions of life including military
tactics.

SEC. 2. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repeated.

Approved, March 20, 1884.

H. F. 486.

Land earned but not patented, taxed.

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CHAPTER 28.

TAXATION OF CERTAIN RAILROAD LANDS.

AN ACT to Provide for the Assessment and Taxation of Lands within the State of Iowa, granted to Railroad Companies or Corporations which have become earned but not patented.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:

SECTION 1. That all lands lying within the state of Iowa, which have been heretofore granted or may be hereafter granted to any railroad company or corporation by the general government or by the general government to the state of Iowa and by the state granted to any such railroad company or corporation shall be subject to assessment and taxation within the counties wherein situated from and after the year the same may be earned, to the same extent as though patents had been issued to, and the title of record was in such railroad companies or corporations. The fact that such lands are claimed by more than one such company or corporation shall in no way affect the liability of such lands to assessment and levy, provided, nothing herein contained is intended to subject any lands to taxation for the past that were not taxable prior to the passage of this act.

SEC. 3. [Sec. 2.] Parol evidence shall be admissible to prove when said lands were earned.

SEC. 4. [Sec. 3.] All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

Approved, March 20, 1884.

CHAPTER 29.

LEGALIZING-TOWN OF PATON.

AN ACT to Legalize the Incorporated Town of Paton, Greene H. F. 495. County, Iowa, the Election of its Officers and all Acts Done,

and Ordinances Passed by the Council of Said Town.

WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as to the legality of the incor- Preamble. poration of the town of Paton in Greene county Iowa, the election of its officers, and the ordinances passed by the council of said town, by reason of the failure of the commissioners to make due and legal return of the, notice, which was given, calling for an election for or against incorporation, and the failure of said commissioners to make return of said election to the clerk of courts, and the failure of the clerk of court to publish the notice of the result of said election, and designating to which of the classes of incorporation such town should belong, and the failure to file certified copies of all papers and records entries, relating thereto, with the recorder of the county and the secretary of state; therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:

SECTION 1. That the incorporation of said town of Paton, Legalizing Greene county Iowa, the election of its officers and all the offi- clause. cial acts done and ordinances passed by the council of said town, not in contravention of the laws of the state, are hereby legalized, and the same are hereby declared to be valid and binding, the same as though the law had in all respects been strictly complied with in incorporation of said town, and in the election of its officers.

Approved, March 20, 1884.

H. F. 31.

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LEGALIZING

CHAPTER 80.

-CRAWFORD COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

AN ACT to Legalize the Acts of the Board of Supervisors of Crawford County, in the Establishment of Roads by Order Made September 10, 1874.

WHEREAS, The board of supervisors of Crawford county, Iowa, on the ninth day of April 1874, were petitioned by P. McCormick, D. F. Woodruff, H. C. Laub, and J. V. McHenry, and others to appoint a commissioner to locate county roads on all section lines in Crawford county, Iowa, where practicable and where roads would probably be needed and had not yet been located, and

WHEREAS, On the tenth day of September, 1874, the said board of supervisors at a regular meeting thereof made an order establishing highways in said county in accordance with the request of_said petitioners, and

WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as to the regularity of the proceedings of the said board and other officers in establishing said highways.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:

[SECTION 1.] That the establishing and locating of said highways and all the proceedings and acts of the officers in Crawford county, Iowa in establishing said highways be and the same are hereby legalized and declared valid and binding to the same extent as if the law had in all respects been strictly adhered to in locating and establishing said highways.

Approved, March 20, 1884.

CHAPTER 31.

LEGALIZING-TOWN OF MANLY JUNCTION.

AN ACT to Legalize the Plat and Recording of the Plat of the Town H. F. 42. of Manly Junction in Worth County, Iowa.

WHEREAS, Mrs. Salena Todd, owner of S. E. of section 21, Preamble. township 98, north range 20, west of 5 P. M. procured a portion of same surveyed and platted into blocks and lots, streets and alleys for town of Manly Junction, Iowa, in 1878, which survey and plat was made by one Horace Stearns and dated June 26, 1878; and

WHEREAS, Said Mrs. Salena Todd failed to acknowledge and record said plat but sold and deeded to several different parties several lots as in said plat described, some which parties have again deeded and encumbered same; and

WHEREAS, Chapter 53, of laws of 18th general assembly, which was approved March 16, 1880, made the recording of such plats invalid unless certificates of the recorder and treasurer were attached thereto that the title to the entire tract of land covered by said plat was then in the grantor-which certificates it is now impossible to obtain because of conveyances of several lots to several purchasers thereof; and

WHEREAS, Said Salena Todd and her husband did on the 13th day of October, 1882 approve and acknowledge said plat and did file the same for record in office of the recorder of said county on the 1st day of January 1884, and the same now ap pears in record in the office of said recorder in due form and according to law, except lacking the certificates of treasurer and recorder; and

WHEREAS, The title in fee to said town plat is in said Salena Todd and same is unencumbered and free from taxes or other liens, so far as pertains to the original plat, but not as to lots already sold and conveyed since the plat was made; and

WHEREAS, Question arises as to the validity of said plat and as to how the errors of the past can be cured so that the plat and recording of same can be made lawful and valid; therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:

SECTION 1. That the said recorded plat of Manly Junction Legalizing in Worth county, Iowa, be legalized and declared valid and in clause. all respects binding to the same extent as if the law had been

fully complied with in relation to same.

SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance Publication. shall be in force and take effect after its publication in the Iowa

State Register and the Worth County Eagle newspapers published at Des Moines and Northwood Iowa, without expense to the State.

Approved, March 20, 1884.

I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register and Worth County Eagle March 27, 1884.

J. A. T. HULL, Secretary of State.

H. F. 21.

Preamble.

CHAPTER 32.

LEGALIZING-TOWN OF BELMOND.

AN ACT to Legalize the Incorporation Ordinances, and Acts of the
Officers, of the Incorporated Town of Belmond, in the County of
Wright, Iowa.

WHEREAS, The inhabitants of the town of Belmond, in the county of Wright, and state of Iowa, did in the year 1881 incorporate said town as the incorporated town of Belmond, by complying with or endeavoring to comply with sections 421, 422, 423, 424 and 425 of the code of Iowa; and

WHEREAS, A mayor, recorder, and six trustees, were elected by the citizens of said town; and

WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as to whether the provisions of said sections have been fully complied with, and as to the legality of said incorporation, the election and qualification of the officers, and the acts of all its officers up to this time; and

WHEREAS, That at the regular election of officers for said town, held in March 1883, the mayor was duly elected, and within ten days from the time of his election was sworn into office, by the recorder of said town, and doubts arising as to the authority of said recorder to administer such oath, the said mayor after the expiration of the said ten days, at a regular meeting of the council of said town, in their presence, and with their consent, was again sworn into office by a justice of the peace of said county, all of which was made a matter of record in the records of said town; and

WHEREAS, Certain ordinances though regularly passed signed by the mayor and attested by the recorder and duly published as by law required, the original copies thereof were not recorded in the book of the written ordinances of said town, by the recorder whose duty it was to record them, until some days after the expiration of his term of office; and

WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as to the legality of said ordinances; therefore,

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