and such property may be sold therefor when the taxes remain unpaid for six months after posting the notice of the

tax.

SEC. 32. Such sale must be at auction at the office of the Public sale. mayor in said city, between the hours prescribed by law for the sale of real property on execution, thirty days' previous notice being given as above provided for notifying the assessment and tax. In such case he who bids the amount of tax and costs on the same for the least amount of said real estate, will be the highest bidder, and the manner of ascertaining the portion bid for, shall be as in the State revenue. law.

SEC. 33. The marshal shall execute and deliver to the purchaser, in the name of the city of Albia, a deed, which shall have the same force and effect as a deed from the treasurer of the county, in like circumstances, on sales for county and State tax.

Deed.

SEC. 34. The city council shall have the control of the Pavements. streets and alleys and public grounds of Albia, and may cause side-walks to be paved or planked in the same; and to this end may require the owners of lots to pave or repair the same adjoining their respective lots; and if, after reasonable notice given for that purpose, the said owners shall neglect to comply with said order, the same may be done by the city, and the expense thereof assessed to the owners of said adjoining lots, which said assessment shall have the same effect as a tax levied thereon; and said lots may be sold therefor as in cases of other tax sales, and subject to the same redemption.

SEC. 35. All road tax which may hereafter be paid up- Poll tax. on any property within the city of Albia, in lieu of labor, shall be paid to the proper authorities of said city, for the improvement of the streets and alleys thereof, and any person being a resident of said city, subject by the law of the State to do work upon roads and highways, shall be required to do and perform, or cause the same to be done and per- Work on road. formed under the directions of the proper authorities upon the streets and alleys of said city, or public roads and highways leading thereto within a half mile of the corporate limits of said city, as said authorities may direct. The city

Town ordinanances.

council shall supercede the road supervisors in all jurisdiction within the corporate limits, and perform all their duties, and shall be required to perform labor in, and keep in repair, all the public roads and highways leading thereto within one half mile of said city.

SEC. 36. All ordinances passed by the common council of the town of Albia, under the town charter, shall be and continue in full effect until amended or repealed by the city council of said city; and all officers now elected under the Officers contin- articles of incorporation of the aforesaid town, shall hold

ued.

Public act.

Submit charter

their respective offices until their successors are elected and qualified under this act; and shall, after the taking effect of this act, be exclusively governed by its provisions.

SEC. 37. In all cases arising under the provisions of this act, wherein the city of Albia is a party, this act can be pleaded as a public statute.

SEC. 38. This act shall not take effect until the same shall have been sanctioned by a majority of the legal voters of said city of Albia, to be taken at an election to be held on the first Monday of April next; and it is made the duty of the county judge of Monroe county, to order said election, notice of which shall be published at least three weeks in some newspaper published in said city, or written notices be posted up in three of the most public places therein, before said day of election, naming the place where such election shall be had, which shall be within the limits of said city. Said election shall be held in acordance with section two hundred and thirty-four (234) of the code of Iowa. Those in favor of the adoption of this act of incorporation, shall have written or printed on their tickets, "For incorporation;" those opposed, shall have written on their tickets," Against incorporation." The judges and clerks of said election shall make return of one of the poll books to the county judge in the same manner as returns are made in case of township elections. Said county judge shall proceed to canvass the same as required in township elections, and declare the result by publication in some newspaper published in said city, or by posting up a written copy on the door of his office.

SEC. 39. This act to take effect from and after its publi

action in the Iowa City Republican and Albia Independent Press, without expense to the State.

Approved January 28, 1857.

I certify the foregoing act was published in the Iowa City Republican, March 12, 1957.

ELIJAH SELLS,
Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 151.

BURIAL GROUND.

AN ACT to authorize the selling of a tract of land now used as a burial ground in the town of Delhi, Delaware county, and to provide for the removal of the dead therefrom, and for the purchase and improvement of another place of burial.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Sell out-lot in State of Iowa, That the county treasurer of Delaware coun. Delhi. ty, is hereby authorized and empowered to sell at private sale or at public vendue, as in his discretion he shall deem best, and in such parcels as he shall deem advisable, and for cash in hand, out-lot No. one (1) one in the town of Delhi, in said county, and to receive all monies arising from said sale, which monies shall constitute a fund to be devoted to the purpose of carrying into effect the requirements of this act, and to no other purpose whatever; and said treasurer is required safely to keep the same until they shall be drawn from his hands in the manner hereafter required.

SEC. 2. The said treasurer shall proceed to make such Time of sale. sale as soon as the same can conveniently be done, without sacrifice, after the passage of this act; but no delay on his part, from whatever cause the said delay may arise, shall render invalid any sale made by him pursuant to the first section of this act.

SEC. 3. The county judge of said county shall be, and he purchase buryis hereby appointed a commissioner, whose duty it shall be, ing ground. and he is hereby authorized and required, as soon after the treasurer of said county shall have sold the aforesaid lot as as may be, to select and purchase, or procure, or receive by donation, and lay out in such manner as he shall deem ex

pedient, such quantity of land as he shall deem requisite and proper: Provided, the same shall not be less than five acres, to be used as a public burial ground, to procure the conveyance of the same, to be made to the county judge of said county, and to his sucessors in office forever, in trust, for the people said county, for the purpose of being used by them as a public burial ground, and for no other purpose whatsoever; and to improve such lands so far as the funds arising from the sale of out-lot No. one (1) as herein provided for, will do so, after paying the purchase money, if any, and other expense incident to the purchase of said land, or to receiving the same by donation, and the expenses of removing the dead from said out-lot No. one (1) and re intering them on the land to be bought as aforesaid, and for the Apply sale o payment of the purchase money of the land to be bought lot in paym't as aforesaid, the improvement of the said land, the incidental expenses above mentioned, and the expenses incident to the removal and re-interring the dead, the said county judge is hereby empowered to draw on the treasurer aforesaid, from time to time, to the amount of the funds arising from the said sale of out-lot No. one (1), but for no more, by warrants under his hand, as county judge and ex-officio commissioner, specifying in said warrant or warrants, the purpose to which the money so drawn for is to be applied, or for what it is in payment, as the case may be.

Remove dead.

Location.

SEC. 4. The said county judge shall be, and is hereby authorized to remove, to the land to be procured by him as herein provided, from said out-lot No. one (1), the bodies of all such persons as are or shall have been buried there, and still remain there after the expiration of three months from the date of the conveyance of said land to be procured by him as aforesaid, and to cause them to be decently interred, preserving and erecting at the new place of burial, all monuments, toombstones, slabs, or other memorials, which shall be found placed near the graves from which said bodies shall be so removed.

SEC. 5. The land to be procured as provided in the third section of this act, shall be located in the vicinity of the said town of Delhi, at a distance of not more than two miles from the bounds of the corpration of said town.

SEO. 6. This act shall take effect from and after its pub

lication in the Delhi Republican, and the Iowa City Republican.

Approved January 28, 1857.

I certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa City Republican Feb. 17, 1857.

AN ACT to incorporate the city of Washington, Washington county, Iowa.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That all that tract of land lying in the county of Washington, and bounded as follows, to wit: Commencing at the northeast corner of section seventeen (17) in township seventy-five (75) north range seven (7) west, and running thence west one and a half (1 1-2) miles to the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section eighteen (18), and thence south one and a half (1 1-2) miles to the southwest corner of the northeast quarter of section nineteen (19), and thence east one and a half (1 1-2) miles to the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section twenty (20), and thence north to the place of beginning, together with the inhabitants thereof, be, and the same is hereby constituted a city and body politic by the name of Washington.

Boundaries.

SEC. 2. The said city is made a body corporate and is Incorporation. invested with all the powers and attributes of a municipal

corporation.

thority.

SEC. 3. The legislative authority of the city is vested in Legislative aua city council, consisting of a mayor and board of aldermen composed of three from each ward of the city.

SEC. 4. The said city shall be divided into two wards as Wards. follows, to wit: That portion lying north of Main street, together with that portion lying west of Marion street, shall

constitute the first ward; that portion lying south of Main