Repealed,

SEC. 2. Section third, of Chapter 49, of the Session Laws of 1854-5, is hereby repealed. This act shall take ef fect from and after its publication according to law.

Approved Jan. 14, 1857.

Appropriation.

CHAPTER 37.

PENITENTIARY.

AN ACT providing for improvements in the Iowa Penitentiary.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That there be and hereby is appropriated, toward the further completion and improvement of the penitentiary at Fort Madison, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherWhen expend-wise appropriated, to be drawn and expended during the fiscal year.

ed.

SEC. 2. This appropriation shall be expended under the direction and superintendence of the inspectors of the Penitentiary.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of said inspectors, acting as superintendents, to have a wall built inclosing the cells, workshops, hospitals, and other prison buildings, of the following description, to wit: The foundation to be of stone, the wall four feet thick and sunk six feet below the surface of the ground, and extending one foot above the surface; the whole to be done in solid masonry with quick-lime. The wall placed on the foundation will be three feet thick at the bottom and eighteen inches at the top, and twenty-two feet high, with cap stone three feet wide and eight inches thick, to be built and finished in a substantial and workmanlike manner. It will further be the duty of said inspectors, acting as superintendents, to have constructed twenty-five new cells of like character and form as those already completed. They shall also cause to be constructed an apartment to serve as a hospital, the foundation of which and other permanent parts of the building to be constructed with a view to making

it a hospital when completed that will serve all the requirements of that department of the prison.

SEC. 4. The inspectors shall employ one of their num-Superintend'nt ber, whose special duty it shall be to superintend the work,

who shall receive two dollars and fifty cents per day for his Compensation.

services.

SEC. 5. This act to be in force after its publication in the Fort Madison Plaindealer and Iowa City Republican.

Approved January 15th, 1857.

I certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa City Republican Feb. 4, 1857, and in the Fort Madison Plaindealer Feb. 6, 1857.

ELIJAH SELLS,

Sec'y of State.

CHAPTER 38.

SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AN ACT to repeal chapter thirty-five of the acts passed at the Extra Session of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, held in July, A. D. 1856.

district.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Enlarge school State of Iowa, That chapter thirty-five of the acts passed at the session of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, held in July, A. D. 1856, entitled an act to enlarge school districts Nos. one (1) and two, (2) in Bloomington township, Muscatine county, Iowa, and define their boundaries, Repealed. be and the same are hereby repealed.

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

Approved Jan. 15th, 1857.

Trustees' duty.

CHAPTER 39.

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

AN ACT to authorize the election of an additional Justice of the Peace.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That it is hereby made the duty of the trus tees of New Wine township, in Dubuque county, to order an election of an additional justice of the peace, at the April election in 1857, in addition to the two justices now holding office in said township, and that thenceforth there shall be three justices of the peace in said township, elected in accordance with the existing laws.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its publication in the Iowa Capital Reporter and
North West, without expense to the State.
Approved January 17, 1857.

County judge's

warrant.

Treasurer.

CHAPTER 40.

TAXES IN JASPER COUNTY.

AN ACT to enforce the collection of the taxes in the county of Jasper, for the year 1854.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the county Judge of the county of Jasper is hereby authorized and required to place his official warrant on the tax-books of said county for the year 1854, ordering the treasurer of said county to proceed to collect all taxes due thereon.

SEC. 2. That the treasurer of said county, when he shall receive said tax-books with the county Judges warrant endorsed thereon, shall proceed to collect all taxes due and unpaid on said books and pay the same over according to law; and he is in like manner requested to pay over all moneys which he may heretofore have collected on said taxbooks.

sible.

SEC. 3. That the county of Jasper shall be accountable County responto said Treasurer for all damages he may sustain, growing out of the performance of any duties required of him by this act.

SEC. 4. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa City Republican and the Jasper County Express: Provided, the county of Jasper shall pay the expense of such publication. Approved January 17, 1857.

CHAPTER 41.

GLENWOOD CITY.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Glenwood, in Mills county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Boundaries, State of Iowa, That the tract of land lying in township seventy-two (72) north range forty-three (43) west, in the county of Mills, which is comprised in the original town plat of Glenwood, together with all additions that have been regularly recorded, or that may hereafter be made and recorded according to law, with the inhabitants thereof, be and the same is hereby constituted a city and body politic and corporate, with perpetual successsion, by the name of Glenwood, and by that name shall have power to sue and Name. be sue, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, acquire, possess hold and enjoy, whatever real, perso- Powers. nal,or mixed property may be necessary, proper and convenient to carry out the objects of the corporation, sell and convey the same, and shall otherwise possess and enjoy all the powers and attributes and be subject to all the liabilities of a municipal corporation.

SEC. 2. The legislative authority of said city shall be Legislative. vested in a city council, to be composed of a mayor, and

three aldermen from each ward.

SEC. 3. The said city shall be divided into two wards, Ward bound. as follows, to wit: That portion lying south of Sharp street ries.

Qualification of electors.

Election.

Challenge vote

Eligible-office

Time of elect'n

shall constitute the first ward; that portion lying north of Sharp street shall constitute the second ward: Provided, that the said city council may change, unite or divide the said wards, or any of them, whenever they shall think it for the interest of the city.

SEC. 4. Every white male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of the State six months, of the city twenty days, and of the ward in which he offers to vote, ten days next preceding the election, is declared a citizen of said city, and

entitled to vote at all elections thereof.

SEC. 5. The elections of the city (for officers) shall be conducted in a manner similar to that in which the elections are conducted in the townships, as the nature of the case. permits.

SEC. 6. A person offering to vote may be challenged as in other elections in the townships, and an oath may be administered to him in like manner, naming the qualifications herein prescribed.

SEC. 7. No person shall be eligible to any elective office mentioned in this act unless he be a legal voter of the city, and has been a resident thereof for one year next preceding his election.

SEC. 8. That the qualified electors of said city shall, on the first Monday of April, A. D., 1857, and annually on the same day thereafter, elect a mayor, and at the same time six aldermen, a recorder, assessor, treasurer and marshal; and the mayor and aldermen so elected, when assembled togethCity council. er and duly organized, shall constitute the city council, a majority of whom shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. They shall be elected for the term of one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

Manner of elect ing.

Mayor.

SEC. 9. The mayor, recorder, assessor, treasurer and marshal shall be elected by the legal voters of said city, and three aldermen shall be elected in each ward, by the legal voters thereof.

SEC. 10. It shall be the daty of the mayor to see that the laws and ordinances of the city are executed, and their