any power which they had previous to the passage of this ac, of granting license for additional ferries within said county, nor to prevent the General Assembly of the State of Iowa from repealing this law.

SEC. 3. This act to be in force from and after its publication according to law.

Approved January 24, 1857.

CHAPTER 111.

COPIES OF ORIGINAL ENTRIES.

AN ACT providing for a county record of the original entries of land within its boundaries, and allowing such record to be received and read in evidence in all the courts in this State.

counties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Records of State of Iowa, That it shall be the duty of the recorder, in each of the several counties in this State, to cause to be procured a book entitled "copies of original entries," to be kept as a record in his office, in which shall be copied a list of the original entries of lands within his county, with the name of the person or persons entering the same, and the date of such entry, for which he shall receive a reasonable compensation to be audited and allowed by the county judge of his county.

record.

SEC. 2 Said book containing a copy of such entries, Shall be deemwhen compared with the originals and certified to as true ed a matter of copies by the register of the land office at which such original entries were made, shall be deemed a matter of record; and certified copies thereof under hand of said recorder, may be received and read in evidence in all the courts in this State with like effect as other certified copies of original papers recorded in his office.

tional entries.

SEC. 3. Said recorder shall, from time to time as he may Copies of addideem it necessary, procure in some manner copies of any additional entries under the same restrictions, and with like

effect, until all the lands in his county shall have been entered, and certified copies of the entries thereof procured. Approved January 24, 1857.

Commission'rs

Meeting.

CHAPTER 112.

STATE ROAD.

AN ACT entitled an act to lay out and establish a State road from Fort Madison to Keokuk,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That Joel C. Walker, Josiah Kent, and Noah Hewett, of the county of Lee, be, and are hereby ap pointed commissioners to lay out and establish a State road leading from Fort Madison, on the most practicable route to the Charleston road near the residence of W. H. Griswold, thence on the most practicable route to the Keokuk and Fairfield plank road, at or near the residence of Richard Brown.

SEC. 2. That said commissioners, or a majority of them shall meet at Fort Madison on the first day of April next, or within one month thereafter, and taking with them a competent surveyor, chainmen and markers, and proceed to locate and establish said road according to law as provided for in chapter 38 pages 94 and 95 of the code of Iowa.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its publication in the Fort Madison Argus and Fort Madison Plain Dealer, and the cost of such publication shall be paid out of the county treasury of Lee county.

Approved January 24, 1857.

I certify the foregoing was published in the For Fort Madison Plain Dealer Feb. 6, 1857, and Fort Madison Argus, Feb. 12, 1857.

ELIJAH SELLS,

Sec'y of State.

CHAPTER 113.

WEST POINT.

AN ACT to vacate certain alleys in the town of West Point, Lee county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Vacate d. State of Iowa, That all the alleys in block No. thirty, and the alleys running east and west through block No. fifteen and block No. four in the town of West Point, be, and are hereby vacated.

SEC. 2. This act to be in force from and after its publication according to law.

Approved January 24, 1857.

CHAPTER 114.

ROCKVILLE.

AN ACT vacating a street in the village of Rockville, in Delaware county, Iowa.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Vacated. State of Iowa, That Marion street, in the village of Rockville, in Delaware county, and State of Iowa, be, and is hereby vacated according to law or usages in such cases.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its pub. lication according to law.

Approved January 24, 1857.

CHAPTER 115.

SWAMP LANDS.

AN ACT in relation to the swamp lands of this State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Repeal. State of Iowa, That all acts and parts of acts now in

force allowing the right of pre-emption on the swamp lands of this State, be, and the same are hereby repealed: Provided, this act shall not apply to the actual settlers on said lands at the time of the passage of this act.

SEC. 2. This act to take effect from and after its publication according to law.

Approved January 24, 1857.

Vacated.

CHAPTER 116.

STATE ROAD.

AN ACT to vacate a State road.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That so much of the Camanche and Anamosa State road as is situated in the county of Jones, be, and the same is hereby declared vacated.

SEC. 2. This act to take effect from and after its publication with the laws of this session.

Approved Jan. 24, 1857.

Qualification of voters.

Oath.

CHAPTER 117.

CITY OF BURLINGTON.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the city of Burlington.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That in all future elections held under the charter of the city of Burlington, for city officers or otherwise, no person shall be deemed a qualified voter who is not a citizen of the United States, and who has not resided in said city six months immediately preceding the election at which such person shall offer to vote.

SEC. 2. That the oath to be administered to any voter who may be challenged, or who shall be suspected of not

possessing the requisite qualifications of an elector at such city election, shall be as follows: You do solemnly swear (or affirm as the case may be) that you are a citizen of the United States, that you have been a resident of the city of Burlington for six months immediately preceeding this election; that you are now a resident of the ward in which you offer to vote; that to the best of your knowledge and belief you are twenty-one years of age, and that you have not voted at this election.

itication.

SEC. 3. That no persons except those who are owners Property qual of real estate, or tax payers in the city for other than poll tax, shall be entitled to vote at any special or other election, holden for the purpose of voting a tax or loan upon the owners of real estate and other property in said city; Provided, That any white male inhabitant over the age of twenty-one years, and who shall have been a resident of said city six months immediately preceeding said election, owning real estate or paying other than poll tax, shall be deemed a legal voter at any election holden for the purpose aforesaid.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of Repeal. acts repugnant to the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its publication in the lowa State Gazette, aud Burlington Hawkeye and Telegraph, without expense to the State. Approved January 24, 1857.

CHAPTER 118.

COUNTY SEAT OF FLOYD COUNTY.

AN ACT to legalize the acts of the commissioners who located the seat of justice of Floyd county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Legalize act of State of Iowa, That the acts of Martin V. Burdick, of How-locating. ard county, and Daniel E. Maxon, of Mitchell county, who were appointed by Samuel Murdock, judge of the tenth ju