Counties. Terms. Dist. judge. Writs returnable. CHAPTER 200. TWELFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. AN ACT to establish the twelfth judicial district, and to fix the times for hold ing courts therein. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That the counties of Monona, Crawford, Carroll, Woodbury. Ida, Sac, Plymouth, Cherokee, Buena Vista, Sioux, O'Brien, Clay, Dickenson, Osceola, and Buncombe, shall constitute the twel th judicial district. SEC. 2. That the time of holding courts in the county of Woodbury shall be the first Monday of June and December; in the county of Monona on the second Mondays of June and December; in the county of Crawford on the third Mondays of June and December, and in the county of Carroll on the Thursday next after the third Mondays in June and December; and in all other counties at such time. and places, as the judge of said district may appoint. SEC. 3. That there shall be elected a d strict judge for said twelfth district, on the first Monday in Ap∙il next, according to the provisions of the act regulating the election of district judges, approved February 16th, 1847. The abstract of the votes of the counties comprising said district to be returned to the county of Woodbury, according to the provisions of the third section of said act, and the judge elect shall be qualified to act, on receiving a certificate of election and taking the official oath, as provided for by the fourth section of said act. SEC. 4. That all writs, process and proceedings in the counties composing the said district shall be returned as is now directed by law, until the judge of said district is elected and qualified, and no suits, pleas, indictments, process or proceedings shall be quashed or discontinued in conse quence of the formation of the said district or the change of the time of holding courts in any county composing the same. SEC. 5. This act shall be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa City Republican and Iowa Capital Reporter. Approved January 29, 1857. I certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa City Republican, 1 JOINT RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS. NUMBER 1. COMMITTEE ON DES MOINES IMPROVEMENT, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, Employ clerk. That the joint committee to whom was referred that portion of the Governor's Message relating to the Des Moines river Improvement, are hereby authorized to employ a clerk to assist them in their investigations, and that they be author ized to send for such persons and papers as they may find Send for pernecessary to make a full and fair investigation of all matters connected therewith. Approved December 12th, 1856. sous & papers NUMBER 2. GRANT OF LAND. MEMORIAL to Congress for a grant of land in aid of the construction of the To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Your memorialists, the General Assembly of the State of McGregor R.R. Iowa, respectfully represent to your honorable body that energetic efforts are being made by the above named company, for the construction of a road commencing at McGre gor, in said State, at a point opposite the terminus of the Milwaukee and Mississippi railroad,(which is now completed across the State of Wisconsin,) and running thence west to Instructions. Sec. transmit. the Missouri river; that the route is eminently adapted to the advantageous construction of a work of this character; that it is one of the great natural lines of projected railroads commencing between the east and west; that under the donation of lands made by Congress to said State, the northern portion received no benefit therefrom, and your memorialists believing that the construction of said road would greafly facilitate the settlement, and add largely to the wealth of the northern portion of said State, ask that a donation of land lying within the State may be made to aid in its construction. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested to use their influence to procure from the General Government, a donation of every alternate section, equal to three miles in width, on each side of said road, to be given to said company on such terms as in the opinion of the Legislature of this State may be just and reasonable. Resolved, That the Secretry of State transmit a copy of this memorial and joint resolution to each of our members of Congress. Approved Dec. 22, 1856. Instructions. NUMBER 3. SWAMP LANDS. JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the swamp and overflowed lands. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to use all honorable means in their power to procure the passage of a law, at the present session of Congress, in accordance with the joint resolution and memorial, passed at the late extra session of the General Assembly of Iowa, and approved July the 12th, 1856, confirming the selections of swamp and overflowed lands granted to the State of Iowa, and authorizing patents to be issued for all the lands that have been selected and reserv ed from sale or entry at any of the land offices of this State. Resolved further, That the Secretary of State be request- Sec'y forward. ed to furnish each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress with a copy of this joint resolution, also a copy of the joint resolution and memorial passed at the last extra session of the Legislature, and approved July the 12th, 1856. Approved Dec. 18, 1856. NUMBER 4. CUSTOM HOUSE AND HOSPITAL. JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the establishment of a Custom-house and priation. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, Procure approThat our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives requested to use all proper means to secure the establishment by the General Government of a custom. house and marine hospital in the city of Keokuk, and such appropriations for the construction thereof as may ensure their early completion. Resolved, That the Secretary of State be required to for- Sec'y forward. ward to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress a duly certified copy of these resolutions. Approved January 8, 1857. NUMBER 5. STATE BOUNDARIES. JOINT RESOLUTION to Congress, asking the enlargement of the boundaries of the State of Iowa. Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, Annexation. That our Senators be instructed, and our Representatives in Congress be requested to use their influence to procure the annexation of all that portion of land lying west of the Big Sioux river and west of the State of Iowa, which shall be embraced within the bounds by running the north line of the State of Iowa, due west to the Missouri river, and that copies of this memorial be forwarded without delay to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress of the United States by the Secretary of State. Approved January 8, 1857. NUMBER 6. Preamble Opposed to ex tension of slavery. Instructions. KANSAS. JOINT RESOLUTIONS and ins'ructions to our Senators and Representatives in Whereas, under the Constitu ion of the Unitel states, freedom is national and slavery sectional; and beleving that the peace, welfare and honor of the country imperiou-ly require that our national domain shall be preserved free for free homes, for free men; and believing it to have been the policy of our father, dictated by reason and exalted patriotism, to inhibit the extension of slavery, and make freedom the law of our national progress, therefore, Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That we are unqualified'y opposed to the further extension of slavery, within the jurisdiction, or by the sanction of the General Government, and insist that Congress shall exert all constitutional power to preserve our national territory free. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to exert their influence. and vote for the admission of Kansas into the Union as a free State, and to oppose its admission with a constitution establishing or tolerating slavery. Approved January 8, 1857. |