SECRETARY'S OFFICE, IOWA
IOWA CITY, May 1st, 1849.

I HEREBY CERTIFY, that the acts and resolutions contained in this volume have been by me compared with the original rolls on file in this office, and that the same are true and correct copies

JOSIAH H. BONNEY,

Secretary of State of Iowa.

PASSED AT THE

REGULAR SESSION

OF THE

THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE

STATE OF IOWA ·

WHICH CONVENED AT IOWA CITY, ON THE THIRD DAY OF DECEMBER, ANNO DOMINI, 1850.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

IOWA CITY:

PALMER & PAUL, STATE PRINTERS.

1851.

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1. An act granting the Burlington and Mt. Pleasant plank road company the right of way...

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An act granting the use of Centre Market in Iowa City, to the Davenport and Iowa City rail road company....

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502

3.

An act authorizing the county commissioners court of the county of Davis to have a vote taken in relation to building a court house in said county.....

20

503

4.

An act to grant the right of way to the Davenport and Iowa City rail road company

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5.

An act to change the name of the town of Guttenberg or Guthenburg to Prairie Laporte

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505

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An act to change the name of John William Branzon to William
Allen Lett .....

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An act for the relief of the Rock Island and Lasalle rail road company
An act to authorize the erection of an institution of learning on the
public square in the town of New London in Henry county....
An act to establish new counties, and to define their boundaries...
An act to vacate a part of the town of Portland, in Van Buren county
An act to organize the county of Winneshiek and locate the county
seat thereof ...

12.

An act to repeal an act entitled "An act to authorize Thomas S.
Parks, to keep a ferry across the Mississippi river”....

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517

13.

An act granting the Muscatine and Oskaloosa road and bridge company the right of way... . .

42

517

14.

An act to legalize certain proceedings of the school fund commis

sioner of Des Moines county, and of school district No. 2 of the
township of Burlington in said county.....

44

519

15.

An act providing for the election of an additional justice of the peace in Bloomfield township in Davis county..

An act to amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate and establish the city of Dubuque, approved Feb. 24th, 1847"....

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520

18.

An act to provide for the location of the seat of justice of the several counties therein named... . . .

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520

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An act to locate the seat of justice of certain counties therein named An act to authorize J. H. Franklin to transcribe the records of the probate court of Jasper county......

An act granting the Burlington and Toolsboro plank road company, the right of way...

25. An act to change the name of the town of Washington in Henry county, to Hillsboro... . .

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526

26.

An act to locate the county seat of Pottawattamie county.

27.

An act to locate the county seat of the counties of Cass and Adair..