Acts and Resolutions Passed at the ... Session of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa

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A.H. Palmer, Printer, 1847
 

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An Act for the relief of John Wilson
76
An Act in relation to the duty of state and county officers in certain cases
82
An Act to incorporate the city of Farmington Van Buren county Iowa
90
An Act to establish the boundaries of certain counties therein named
100
An Act to repeal an act authorizing the appointment of a county agent
107
An Act to provide for levying and collecting revenue for state and county
116
An Act in relation to the penitentiary
124
An act to repeal an act therein named 152
129
An Act authorizing the secretary of state to procure a state seal 164
137
An Act making an appropriation for the public buildings at Iowa City 173
144
An Act to provide for the place of holding district courts in Jones county
150
An Act to locate and establish a state university 188
156
Joint Resolution in relation to obtaining privilege from the state of Mis
162
Preamble and Joint Resolution relative to the improvement of the Iowa
164
An Act for the relief of the poor
169
Joint Resolution relative to a certain mail route
173
An Act to locate a state road from Canton to Pioneer Grove
185
Joint Resolution providing for a mail route from Fairfield to Oskaloosa 198 164
198
An Act to divide the state of Iowa into judicial districts
199
164
201
An Act fixing the salaries of certain officers therein named and providing
207
An Act to locate a state road from West Point in Lee county to Bonaparte
221
An act to amend the charter of the city of Burlington 17
227
An act to amend an act defining the time of holding elections for state
233
An Act to define the duties of prosecuting attorneys and provide compen
237
An act regulating the fees of jurors in Lee county
260
A bill for an act making county orders bear interest
271
An act to authorize Josephus Beall and James Brierly their heirs
278
Joint resolution providing for a mail route from Tipton in Cedar county
284
Joint resolution to furnish Buchanan county with the laws 95
288
An act amendatory of an act entitled an act to provide for the better
339
An act to establish a ferry at Boatmans mill on the Des Moines river
345
An act to authorize the auditor of state to audit and allow expenses
351
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353
An act authorizing additional tax for state purposes 67
359
An act authorizing Robert Gower to keep a ferry across Cedar river 75
365
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397
An act to establish a state road from the west line of Dallas county
403
A special act for the benefit of the county of Dubuque 131
409
An act requiring all notices of sales by order of courts of record to
415
Secretarys Certificate 2 215
435
Joint resolution for a mail route from Bellview in Jackson county to Independence in Buchanan county 186
454
Joint resolution for a mail route 187
455
Joint resolution for the appointment of a librarian 188
456
Joint resolution for a mail route 189
457
Joint resolution for a mail route 190
458
Joint resolution for a mail route 192
459
Joint resolution in relation to printing the acts and joint resolutions of the present session of the general assembly 193
460
Joint resolution for a mail route 194
461
Preamble and joint resolution asking congress for a donation of land to construct a military road from the Mississippi to the Missouri river 196
462
Memorial to congress for their construction of the act appropriating lands for the improvement of the Desmoines river and to grant additional lands 1...
463
Memorial to congress for an appropriation of lands to improve the naviga tion of the Iowa river 198
464
Memorial and joint resolution asking an increase of the pension of Isaac W Griffith 199
465
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468
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696
An act relinquishing an escheat
706
An act to incorporate the town of Fort Des Moines in Polk county
714
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Page 20 - The proceeds of all lands that have been or hereafter may be granted by the United States .to this state, for the support of...
Page 13 - May, 1848, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of the State six months next preceding the election, and the county or district in which he claims his vote thirty days, shall be entitled to vote at all elections...
Page 15 - No senator, or member of assembly, shall, during the term for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit, under this State, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased, during such term, except such office as may be filled by elections by the people.
Page 402 - The legislatures of those districts or new states, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.
Page 12 - The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable seizures and searches, shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue but on probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons and things to be seized.
Page 18 - In case of the impeachment of the Governor, or his removal from office, death, inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, resignation, or absence from the State, the powers and duties of the office shall devolve upon the Lieutenant-Governor for the residue of the term, or until the disability shall cease.
Page 749 - Every white male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of the state one year next preceding the election, and of the county, township, or ward, in which he resides, such time as may be provided by law, shall have the qualifications of an elector, and be entitled to vote at all elections.
Page 21 - University; and the funds accruing from the rents or sale of such lands, or from any other source, for the purpose aforesaid, shall be and remain a permanent fund, the interest of which shall be applied to the support of said university...
Page 20 - ... the general assembly shall provide, by general laws, for the organization of all corporations hereafter to be created.
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