SEC. 10. The ordinances passed by the town counci' Ordinances. shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the recorder, and before they take effect be published in some newspaper in the county, at least five days, or they shall be posted up in the town limits the same length of time. They shall also be recorded by the recorder in a book to be kept for that exclusive purpose, and signed by the mayor and attested by the recorder. It shall also be the duty of the recorder to make and preserve in a separate volume an index of the several ordinances of the town. He shall also keep a minute book, in which he shall record the proceedings of each session of the town council, which books shall be open to the inspection of any person.

SEC. 11. The regular meetings of the town council shall Meetings. be on the first Tues ay in every month. They may, how ever, be convened by the mayor or a majority of the trus tees, whenever, in his or their opinion the same may be necessary.

SEC. 12. Said corporation shall have power to assess for Taxes. corporation purposes, an annual tax on all property in said. town, made subject to taxation by the laws of this State for State and county purposes, not exceeding in any one year one percentum on the value thereof, which value shall be ascertained by the assessor, a duplicate of which shall be made out and signed by the recorder, and delivered to the collector within thirty [days] from the time of the completing of said assessment. They shall have power to equalize any injudicious assessment thus made, on complaint of the person aggrieved.

SEC. 13. The town marshal shall be the collector of any Collector. tax assessed, and he is hereby authorized and required, by distress and sale of property, as sheriff on execution, to collect and pay over to the treasurer within three months after the time of receiving the duplicate thereof, and the treasurer's receipt shall be his voucher. The town marshal shall make personal demand of every resident charged with tax, and shall give ten days' notice by advertisement in some newspaper publi-hed in the county, of the time when he will commence the collection of said tax; and if the tax on any lot or lots, or piece of land on which no personal prop

May redeem.

erty can be found, belonging to the owner of said lot or lots or piece of land, shall remain unpaid three months from the time of the publication of the foregoing notice, it shall be the duty of the marshal to give notice in the nearest newspaper, stating the amount of such tax, together with the description of said lot or lots or piece of land as set forth in the recorded plat of said town, and that the same will be sold to discharge such tax and costs, unless the payment thereof be made within three months from the date of such advertisement; and if such tax be not paid within that time, the marshal shall proceed to sell at public auction, so much of said lot or lots or piece of land as will discharge said tax and costs.

SEC. 14. If the owner of such lot or lots or piece of land shall appear at any time within two years after such sale, and pay to the recorder of said town, for the use of such purchaser, the purchase money, with twenty per centum interest thereon per annum, together with the value and ten per centum on such value of all improvements on such lot or lots or piece of land, made by such purchaser, then he shall be entitled to the right of redemption; the value of such improvement to be ascertained by three disinterested persons appointed by the mayor. From their decision an appeal may be taken to the district court, as in cases originating in a justice's court: Provided, That nothing in this act shall affect the right of minors to the benefit of the right of redemption when they shall arrive at full age.

Publish acc't of SEC. 15. It shall be the duty of the town council annurec'ts disburs- ally, in the month of March, to publish in the nearest news

ments.

Road districts.

paper, or to post on some conspicuous place within the limits of the corporation, an accurate account of the moneys received and expended by said corporation, with the sources from which they were derived, and the objects on which they were expended, which report shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the reco.der.

SEC. 16. The streets alleys and roads within the limits of the corporation shall constitute two road districts, together with so much of the roads leading from said town not exceeding two miles from the corporation limits, as the town council may think proper to order road labor to [be] expended upon, and the town council shall have the exclu

sive right of appointing the supervisors and determining the boundaries of their districts.

SEC. 17. Said corporation shall have the power to regu- Improve str'ts. late and improve all streets, alleys, side-walks, drains or sewers, to sink and keep in repair public wells, remove nuisances, regulate markets, improve the public landing, and do all other things for the improvement of said town, and for the protection and health of the citizens thereof, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and of the State of Iowa. They may lease or rent a given number of lots on the public landing of said town for ware house, mill and manufacturing purposes, not exceeding one lot in front of Fire departm't. each block of town lots along said landing. They shall have the power to establish and organize a fire department, to procure an engine, hose, hooks, ladders and other implements of use in the arrest and extinguishment of fire. They shall have power to license or prohibit shows or public exhibitions, except those of an artistic or literary character; also to license or prohibit the peddling of clocks, watches, jewelry or merchandise, within the limits of said corpora

tion.

SEC. 18. The town council, or a majority of them, shall Town property have power to submit to the legal voters of said town, the question whether town property may be sold: Provided, however, That said corporation shall have no power or right to exercise any control over or right to the flouring mill claim on Miner's Creek, in the limits of said corporation, owned by Bernard H. Pelzer & Brother, embracing four acres of land; and further, if town bonds shall be issued, or money may be borrowed, to aid in the erection of public buildings or for other public purposes, within the limits of said corporation, or whether town property may be sold, bonds issued, or money may be borrowed or appropriated to aid in the construction of any railroad, or bridge, within the limits of the county of Clayton.

SEC. 19. When any of the foregoing questions shall be Special elect'n. submitted to the legal voters of said town, it shall be at a special election, called by order of the town council, of which public notice shall be given in the nearest newspaper at least thirty days prior to said election. Said notice shall contain the whole question, including the amount to be raised, and

the object upon which it is to be expended. It shall also contain a provision to lay a tax for the payment, in addition to the usual taxes. The rate of tax shall in no case be more than one per cent. nor less than one mill on the county valuation. When it is supposed the levy of one year will not pay the entire amount and interest, the proposition and the vote must be to continue the proposed rate from year to year until the amount is paid. Such special tax shall be paid in money, and shall constitute a fund distinct from all others in the hands of the treasurer, until the obligation assumed is discharged. Provided, that in no case the town council shall be authorized to issue bonds, to borrow money, or to make appropriations, or levy a tax for any of the purposes named in this and the preceding section, unless the same shall be authorized by the votes of at least two-thirds of the legal voters of said town at such s ecial election; and further provided, that nothing in the foregoing section be so construed as to prevent the town council from selling any lot or lots or piece of ground of the town property for manufacturing purposes without taking such vote.

Compensation. SEC. 20. The mayor and trustees shall receive no compensation unless the same shall be authorized by a vote of

Notice of election.

Repeal.

the inhabitants of said town at some annual election of the mayor and officers thereof.

SEC. 21. Every annual election shall be preceded by five days' notice thereof published in a newspaper in the county, or put up in three public places in said town.

SEC. 22. That all but section one of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the town of Guttenberg," approved February 5th, 1851, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 23. This act to take effect from and after its publication in one or more of the newspapers published in Clayton county, which publication shall be free of cost [to] the State of Iowa.

Approved January 27, 1857.

I certify that the foregoing act was published in the Clayton County Herald, February 26, 1857.

ELIJAH SELLS,
Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 128.

ΤΙΡΤΟΝ.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Tipton, in Cedar county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Boundaries State of Iowa, That the north west quarter of section six, in township No. eighty north, of range No. two west, the south half of the south-west quarter of section No. thirtyone, in township No. eighty-one north, of range No. two west, the south-east quarter of the south-east quarter of section No. thirty-six, in township No, eighty-one north, of range No. three west, and the east half of the north-east quarter of section No. one, in township No. eighty north, of range No. three, west of the fifth principal meridian, situate in the county of Cedar, together with all the additions that may hereafter be made and recorded according to law, be, and the same is hereby constituted a town corporate, and shall be known by the name and title of the town of Tip

ton.

SEC. 2. That the qualified electors who shall have re- Election. sided within the limits of said corporation for twenty days immediately preceding any such election, shall meet at the Court House, or some other suitable place within said corporation, on the first Monday in March next, and annually thereafter, and then and there proceed to elect by ballot a mayor, six councilmen and a recorder, who shall be citizens of said town, who shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified; the mayor and any three of the councilmen shall be a board for the transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time: Provided, That in case of the death or absence of the mayor, the council may choose a mayor pro tem from their own body: And provided further, That when the mayor or any councilman, recorder, or any other officer, created by ordinance or otherwise, in pursuance of this act, shall remove out of the corporate limits of the said town of Tipton, such office shall become vacant, and in case of said vacancy, if it be that of mayor a councilman or recorder, a special election shall be held to fill the same, ten days' notice at least shall be given of said special election;