or in manner other city taxes are collected. They may also direct in what manner such taxes shall be expended on the streets, alleys and bridges of said city; and all persons and property rightfully taxed within said city, in accordance with this section, shall thereby he exempt from all taxes to that extent for roads to the county; and the city council is hereby invested with full power and authority to receive from the county treasurer or other county officer all road revenue belonging to the city, and receipt for the same, which shall be a good voucher for the county treasurer or other county officer.

sioners.

SEC. 23. The city council may appoint in such manner Street commisas it determines, and during its pleasure, one or more street commissioners, a clerk of the market, city surveyor, health officers, and such other officers as it deems desirable, and may prescribe their duties, powers and qualifications, and may prescribe for the election of such officers by the citizens of said city; and when a vacancy occurs in any of the elective city officers, the council may fill the vacancy by appointment of record until the next election and qualification of the successor, and in all cases in the absence or inability of the recorder to act, his place may be filled temporarily, or for the unexpired term, at the pleasure of the council.

SEC. 24. The city council shall have power to make all Board of counordinances which shall be necessary and proper for the cil. government of the city, and the carrying out and putting in force and effect the power specified and granted in this charter, not inconsistent with the constitution of the State of Iowa or the United States.

The style of all ordinances shall be:

"Be it enacted by the City Council of Saint Charles City."

SEC. 25. All ordinances and by-laws passed by the city council, signed by the mayor and attested by the recorder, and published as herein required, shall be sufficient to allow the same to be read and received in evidence in all actions and suits in any courts in the State of Iowa; or when the said ordinances, by-laws and regulations shall be published in book or pamphlet form, and purporting to be published by authority of the corporation, the same shall be received

Ordinances.

Removal.

Solicitor.

Security.

Receipts and disbursem'ts.

R. R. stock.

Submit ordin

ances.

in evidence in all courts and places, without further proof. SEC. 26. A removal out of the ward by any alderman, and a removal out of the city by any city officer, shall vacate his office, which shall be filled as provided by this char

ter.

SEC. 27. The city council may appoint a city solicitor, and pay him from the treasury of the city such sum or sums for his services as may be reasonable.

SEC. 28. The mayor and justices of the peace in said city may, in all cases before issuing process, require secu rity to be given for costs; and no prosecution or suit shall be entertained, in any court, against said city unless ample security has been given for costs.

SEC. 29. The city council shall provide by ordinance for the keeping of the public money of the city, and the manner of disbursing the same, and shall audit all claims. against the city, and all officers of the city are accountable to the council in such manner as it directs. It shall publish annually a particular statement of the receipts and expenditures of the city, and of all debts owing to and from the

same.

SEC. 30. Said city shall have power to subscribe to the capital stock of any railroad company, and may issue, or cause to be issued, the bonds of the same, and shall be empowered and required to levy and collect all the necessary taxes to pay the principal and interest of said bonds: Provided, said subscription shall be authorized by a majority vote of the legal voters of said city.

SEC. 31. The city council may submit to the legal voters of said city, at any election of said city, or at a special election called for that purpose, the question of the enactment of any ordinance not repugnant to the constitution of the State of Iowa or that of the Uniten States, the borowing of money by the city for any particular purpose, whether the city shall subscribe to and take stock in any railroad company, or assist in the construction of any other public improvement, whether any street or streets, alley or alleys, block or portion of block, lot or lots or part of lot, or public ground in the city, shall be laid out, opened or improved, extended, or diminished or abolished and vacated, or any other measure to be taken by the city, and in all cases

where a majority of the legal votes cast in said city at such election, shall be in favor of such measure. The city council is hereby authorized and empowered to carry the same into effect according to law and the ordinances of the city: Provided, that in all and every case the said city shall be liable to make full compensation at the fair cash value to the owners of all property, which shall then be taken for public use and for all damages which the owners may sustain by any change which said city council may at any time see proper to make.

SEC. 32. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the St. Charles Republican Intelligencer and Dubuque Tribune. Approved January 28, 1857.

CHAPTER 203.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

AN ACT to provide for an annual appropriation for the benefit of a State Historical Society.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Appropriation. State of Iowa, That there is hereby annually appropriated until the Legislature shall by law otherwise direct, to a State Historical Society, formed or to be formed in connection with, and under the auspices of the State University, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to be expended How expended by said society in collecting, embodying, arranging and preserving in authentic form, a library of books, pamphlets, maps, charts, manuscripts, papers, paintings, statuary, and other materials illustrative of the state of the history of Iowa, to rescue from oblivion the memory of its early pioneers, to obtain and preserve varieties of their exploits, perils and hardy adventures; to secure facts and statements relative to the history, genius and progress or decay of our Indian tribes; to exhibit faithfully the antiquities, past and present resources of Iowa; also to aid in the publication of such of the collections of the society as the society shall

present to the

from time to time deem of value and interest, to aid in binding its books, pamphlets, manuscripts and papers, and in paying other necessary incidental expenses of the society, but no part of such annual appropriation shall ever be paid for services rendered by the officers to the society. Keep acc't and SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the executive committee Governor. of the said State Historical Society of Iowa to keep an accurate account of the manner of expenditure of the said sum of money hereby appropriated, and furnish the same, together with the vouchers thereof, to the Governor of this State, in the month of December of the year the Legisla ture shall meet, to be by him laid before the Legislature.

Books and doc. uments.

SEC. 3. There shall be delivered to said society thirty bound copies of all documents published by order of the State, for the purpose of effecting exchanges with similar societies in other States, and also fifty bound copies of all such documents, to be transmitted through the medium of the secretary of said society, to M. Vattemere, at Paris, in furtherance of his system of international literary exchange.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication according to law. Approved January 28, 1857.

May sell land.

Bond.

CHAPTER 204.

OTIS A. HOLMES.

AN ACT to authorize Otis A. Holmes to sell certain lands.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That Otis A. Holmes be, and hereby is, authorized to sell such lands as were conveyed to him by Richard Ash in trust for the heirs of said Ash.

SEC. 2. That said Holmes, before selling said lands, execute a bond to the said heirs by name, in the penal sum of $2,000 conditioned for the faithful sale of said lands and prompt payment of the respective portions of the proceeds of such sale to the said heirs, as they shall severally direct,

and shall deposit said bond with the county judge of Jack

son county.

SEC. 3. That said Holmes shall give four weeks' notice Notice of sale. of the time and place of said sale, by posting written notices thereof, in three public places, in Jackson county, Iowa; and shall sell such lands at private sale or public auction, and in such parcels at such time and place, and shall be deemed most advantageous to the interest of said heirs, and shall execute deeds to the purchasers thereof, which deeds shail possess all the legal and equitab.e title in and to said land of said Holmes and said heirs to the said purchasers.

SEC. 4. The said Holmes shall, after having deducted Deduction. the necessary charges for said sale, dispose of the several shares of the proceeds thereof, in accordance with the directions of the several heirs of the said Richard Ash, and should no such directions be given by any of the said heirs, within a reasonable time after said sale, the said Holmes shall loan to the best advantage the share or shares to which any heir not thus giving notice may be entitled; such loan being subject to call at any time, shall recall and pay over such loans and interest upon proper demand by the party entitled thereto.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication according to law. Approved Jan. 28, 1857.

CHAPTER 205.

RAILROAD BONDS.

AN ACT to authorize city of Dubuque to issue bonds to aid in the construction of certain railroads therein named.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the city of Dubuque is hereby authorized and empowered to aid in the construction of the Dubuque Western and Dubuque, St. Peters and St. Paul railroad companies, by issuing $250,000 of city bonds to each, in pursuance of a vote of the citizens of said cit, taken in the month of December, A. D. 1856. Said bonds shall be

Bonds.