SEC. 32. Imprisonment for the violation of any city or- Imprisonment. dinance shall not exceed fifteen, days, and the county jail shall be the place of imprisonment, but at the expense of the city.

SEC. 33. The city council is authorized to levy and col- Taxes. lect taxes not exceeding one-half of one per cent. per annum of all property within the city which is liable for State and county taxes, including improvement on such property; and it may exempt such improvements when it is so determined by a vote of a majority of all the voters of the city, but when such an exemption takes place, the rate on realty. shall not exceed one and one-half of one per cent. on the valuation. The council may also levy a tax on dogs, or may Dogs. prohibit them from running at large in the city: Provided, That the tax thus levied and collected, where improvements are included, shall not exceed one-fourth of one per cent.; and where improvements are exempt, as above named, one fourth of one per cent. on personal property, and one per cent. on real property, until otherwise determined by the qualified voters of the city at an annual or special election held for that purpose.

SEC. 34. The marshal, or in case of his absence or disability, such person as the council may appoint in his stead, shall be collector of taxes, and before proceeding to collect the same, shall give thirty days' notice of the assessment and levy of the tax, and the rate thereof in general terms, without the names or description of property, in a newspaper printed in the city, if there be one, and if not, then by three months in the most public place in each ward.

SEC. 35. During the thirty days, any person aggrieved by the assessment or taxation, may appear before the council, which may correct the same if found erroneous.

SEC. 36. The marshal may distrain upon personal property liable to taxation, and sell the same for payment if not paid in a reasonable time after demand, as constables may sell personal property on execution.

SEC. 37. Taxes on real property shall be a lien thereon, and it may be sold thereon when the taxes remain unpaid for six months after posting the notices of the tax.

SEC. 38. Such sale must be at auction, and there must be thirty days' notice prior to the sale given as above provided

Rate per cent.

Collection.

Correct errors.

Sale of proper

ty.

Lien.

Auction.

Deeds.

Parements.

Road and poll

tax.

Com. schools.

Borrow money

for notifying the assessment and tax, for such sale; he who bids to pay the amount due for the least quantity of land, will be the highest bidder, and the manner of ascertaining the portion bid for, shall be as in the State revenue law.

SEC. 39. The marshal shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a deed, running in the name of the State, which shall have the same force and effect as the deed of the treasurer of the county, in like circumstances, in sales for county and State taxes.

SEC. 40. The council have the control of the streets and alleys and public grounds of Washington city, and may cause sidewalks to be paved in the same; and to this end it may require the owners of lots to pave or repair the same contigious to their respective lots, and in case of neglect, after reasonable time named in the order, the same may be done by the city, and the expense of the same assessed to the contiguous lots, which shall have the effect of a tax levied thereon, and the same may be sold therefor, as for a tax, subject to the same rights of redemption.

SEC. 41. All road tax which may hereafter be paid upon any property in Washington city in lieu of labor, shall be paid to the proper authorities of said city for the improvement of the streets thereof. Any person being a resident of said city, subject by the laws of this State to do work upon roads and highways, shall be required to do or cause the same to be done under the direction of the proper authorities, upon 'the streets of said city, or public roads and highways leading thereto, as said authorities may direct. The city council shall supersede the road supervisor in all jurisdiction within the corporate limits, and perform all of his duties.

SEC. 42. The city council is hereby invested with full control and authority over the common schools in the city, and shall receive and disburse all the school tax levied upon property within the city, or received from the school fund for distribution therein, within the limits of the city.

SEC. 43. The council is authorized to borrow money for any object in its discretion, if at a regular notified meeting under notice, stating distictly the nature and object of the loan, and the amount thereof, as nearly as prac ticable, the voters of the city determine in favor of the loan by a majority vote of two-thirds of the votes given at the

election; and said loan can in no case be diverted from the specified object.

charter.

SEC. 44. On the passage of this act, the trustees of Submission o Washington township shall cause a vote to be taken on the acceptance of this charter, in the manner in which township elections are now called and holden, in which the vote shall be for the charter or against the charter, and shall be by ballot. Those citizens and legal voters only, who reside within the limits of the city, shall be allowed to vote upon the acceptance or non-acceptance of the charter. If the said vote results in favor of said charter, the result shall be so declared and entered on record, and thenceforth the same is accepted. The foregoing election shall be held at the court house, in Washington county, on the third Monday of February A. D. 1857, and the polls shall be opened between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock A. M., and kept open until 4 o'clock P. M. of the same day.

SEC. 45. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Washington Press and Iowa City Republican.

Approved January 28, 1857.

I certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa City Republican, Feb. 13, 1857, and Wasnington Press, Feb. 16, 1857.

ELIJAH SELLS,

Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 153.

RAILROAD BONDS.

AN ACT authorizing the county of Lee to issue bonds to aid in the construction of the Keokuk, Fort Des Moines and Minnesota Railroad.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Bonds. State of Iowa, That the county of Lee is hereby authorized to issue bonds, to aid in the construction of the Keokuk, Fort Des Moines and Minnesota railroad, to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, provided the county judge of said county shall first submit the question to

Proposition submitted.

Principal and interest.

Adopted.

Recinding vote

the vote of the people of said county in the manner provided in section 114 and 115 of the Code.

SEC. 2. The proposition of the question must be accompanied by a provision to lay a tax for the payment of the principal and interest of said bond, in addition to the usual taxes, sufficient to meet the payment of said bonds, principal and interest not to exceed one per cent. upon the county valuation in one year, and to continue from year to year until the amount of said bonds be paid.

SEC. 3. The proposition shall state the rate of interest said bonds shall draw and when payable, and at what time the principal of said bonds shall fall due and become pay

able.

SEC. 4. Upon a majority of the votes being cast in favor of the proposition submitted, the judge shall cause the proposition and the result of the vote to be entered at large in the minute book of the county court, and a notice of its adoption to be published for two successive weeks in any two of the newspapers of the county, and at any time after the vote and after the notice of its adoption shall have been published, as above provided, he shall issue said bonds, which shall be and continue a subsisting debt against said county till they are paid and discharged.

SEC. 5. The proposition thus adopted may be rescinded in a like manner and upon like notice by a subsequent vote taken thereon, but neither contracts made under them nor the taxes appropriated carrying them into effect can be rescinded.

SEC. 6. This act to be in force from and after its publication in the Keokuk Daily Times, the Daily Gate City, the Fort Madison Argus, and the Fort Madison Plain Dealer, without expense to the State.

Approved January 29, 1857.

I certify the foregoing was published in the Fort Madison Argus, March 5, 1857, and in the Gate City, Feb. 25, 1857.

ELIJAH SELLS,

Sec'y of State.

CHAPTER 154.

BRIDGE COMPANY.

AN ACT in relation to the Keokuk and Illinois Bridge Company.

way.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Right of State of Iowa, That the Keokuk Illinois bridge company, a corporation duly organized and established under and by virtue of the general law of incorporation in this State, be, and are hereby granted and confirmed in the exclusive right to construct and maintain a bridge across the Mississippi river, at such point as they may select within the limits of the city of Keokuk, provided, however, that it Not to obstruct shall not be lawful in the construction of the same to obstruct the navigation of said river.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Keokuk Daily Evening Times, and the Daily Post, which shall be done without expense to the State.

Approved January 28, 1857.

I certify that the foregoing act was published in the Gate City, February 26, 1857.

ELIJAH SELLS,

navigation.

Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 155.

INSANE ASYLUM.

AN ACT making further appropriation for the State Insane Asylum.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That there be and is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of forty thousand dollars, for the purpose of the further completion of the State Insane Asylum, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, the same to be paid on the order of commissioners for the erection of said Asylum, which orders shall be audited and paid, as other claims: Provided,

Appropriation.