CHAPTER 149. LEGALIZING INCORPORATION OF TOWN OF PANAMA. AN ACT to Legalize the Incorporation of the Town of Panama, S. F. 299. incorporation. Election. WHEREAS the Circuit Court of Shelby County Iowa, on or Petition for about the 26" day of March 1886, upon a petition of not less than twenty-five inhabitants of the village of Panama Iowa, appointed commissioners to hold an election within the territory to determine the question of incorporating said town. WHEREAS said commissioners, on or about the 13" day of Incorporation. May 1886, held an election for the incorporation of said town at which a majority of the ballots cast at said election were "For incorporation," and said commissioners made due and legal return of said election to the Clerk of the Court of Shelby County Iowa, and an election was held thereafter at which the town council and other municipal officers were duly elected and assumed the duty of the respective offices, and enacted ordinances for the government of the incorporated town of Panama, and filed. WHEREAS, it appears that a certified copy of all the papers Record not and record entries relating to the incorporation of the town of Panama, on file in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Shelby County Iowa, were not filed in the Recorder's office of Shelby County Iowa and in the office of the Secretary of State as by law required and were not so filed until the 14" day of February 1888, and by reason of which doubts have arisen as to the legality of the incorporation of the said town of Panama, and the acts done and ordinances passed by the town council of said town, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ioua: SECTION 1. That the incorporation of said town of Panama Legalized. Shelby County Iowa, the election of its officers and all the official acts done and ordinances passed by the council of said town not in contravention with the laws of the State are hereby legalized and the same are hereby declared to be valid and binding, the same as though the law had in all respects been strictly complied with in the incorporation of said town, the election of its officers and the passing of its ordinances. SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance Publication. shall be in force, and take effect, from and after its publication in the "Iowa State Register" and the "Harlan Tribune" news papers published at Des Moines Iowa and Harlan Iowa, without expense to the State. Approved March 28th, 1888. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register April 14, and the Harlan Tribune April 4; 1888. FRANK D. JACKSON, Secretary of State. 8. F. 395. Ordinances and acts passed. Records incomplete. Legalized. Publication. CHAPTER 150. LEGALIZING, ACTS OF THE COUNCIL, and certaiN ORDINANCES OF AN ACT Legalizing the Acts of the Council of the City of Red Oak Junction, in the County of Montgomery, State of Iowa, and Legalizing the Ordinances Passed and Adopted for the Government of said City. WHEREAS, The city of Red Oak Junction in Montgomery County, Iowa, incorporated under the laws of Iowa, and through its Board of Trustees, passed and adopted ordinances and performed such other acts as properly devolved upon them by law; and WHEREAS, Said city of the second class, and by its council passed and adopted ordinances for the government of said city, and performed such other acts, as they were by law authorized to do, and WHEREAS, In certain cases the records of said acts, and ordinances fail to show what members of the Council were present at the meeting when such ordinances were passed and adopted; that the rule was suspended by a three-fourths vote of the council as provided by law, and in certain cases that the ayes and nays were called on the passage of ordinances; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That the records and ordinances of the city of Red Oak Junction, being a city of the second class in the County of Montgomery, and State of Iowa, and the Acts of the Council of said city, not in contravention of law, be and the same are hereby legalized, and declared to be as valid and binding as though all of the requirements of law, had in all respects been complied with, and as fully as if the records showed a suspension of the rules by a three-fourths vote on the passage of ordinance of permanent nature, and as if they had been read on their several days, and the votes of the councilmen or trustees had been taken, yeas and nays. SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall be in force and take effect from and after its publication in the Red Oak Express, a newspaper published at Red Oak, I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register, May 10, and the Red Oak Express, March 30, 1888. FRANK D. JACKSON, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 151. LEGALIZING INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT OF GREENWOOD. AN ACT to Legalize the Organization of the Independent School H. F. 535. organization. WHEREAS, On the 2nd day of March 1888, the electors Description of of sub-district number two (2) of the district township of Bradford, Chickasaw Co. Iowa, held an election and by unanimous vote did declare the said sub-district to be an independent school district, having for its territory the SW and the W of the SE and the SNW and the SW of the NE of section No 15, and the S and the SW of the NW and the S of NE and the S.E. N.W. of section 16, and the S.E. and the S of N.Eof section 17, and the Eof section 20, and all of section 21, and the NW and the WN.E. and NW of SE and the N of SW of section 22. All in Township No 94, North Range 14 west being the boundaries of said Ind. Dist. of Greenwood, and, WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as to the legality of the or ganization of said independent district, therefore Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That said independent school district of Green Organization wood in the county of Chickasaw and State of Iowa, be and legalized. the same is hereby declared to be fully and legally organized and incorporated with the boundaries as set forth in the preamble hereto attached the same as though all the provisions of the statute regulating the organization of independent school dis tricts had been fully complied with, and the said district is hereby declared to have the lawful powers, rights and privileges that would have belonged to said district had the same been legally organized on the 2nd day of March A. D. 1888. SEC. 2. All the acts of the defacto officers of said inde. Acts of officers pendent school district of Greenwood are hereby confirmed and confirmed. are declared to have the same force and effect as though said organization had been fully and legally completed on the 2nd day of March A. D. 1888. Publication. SEC. 3. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall take effect from and after the date of its publication in the Iowa State Register a paper published at Des Moines, Iowa and the Nashua Post published at Nashua Iowa, without expense to the State. Approved March 29th, 1888. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register March 31, and the Nashua Post April 5, 1888 FRANK D. JACKSON, Secretary of State. H. F. 496. Number of town ordinances. Ordinances not signed. Ordinances legalized. CHAPTER 152. LEGALIZING, ORDINANCES OF THE TOWN OF GRISWOLD. AN ACT to Legalize Certain Ordinances of the Incorporated Town of Griswold, Cass County, Iowa and to Legalize Acts done Thereunder. WHEREAS, In the month of April, 1881, the Council of the incorporated town of Griswold, Cass County, Iowa, regularly passed ordinances of said city numbering from one (1) to twenty eight (28) inclusive, and in the month of June, 1881, passed ordinances, number twenty nine (29) and thirty (30) and in the month of August, 1884, passed ordinance number thirty one (31), and WHEREAS, Said ordinances were not properly signed by the presiding officer of the council of said incorporated town of Griswold, Cass County, Iowa, as provided by section four hundred and ninety two (492) of the code of 1873, prior to the publishing thereof, but were published without the signature of the presiding officer of the said Council; and, WHEREAS, all of said ordinances were in fact published in the Griswold Advocate, a newspaper published within the incorporated town of Griswold, Cass County, Iowa, as provided by statutes, with the omission as above set forth, and, WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as to whether said ordinances were legally published for the reason that the signature authenticating them was not properly annexed thereto when published: therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That said ordinances of the incorporated town of Griswold, Cass County, Iowa, except those conflicting with the laws of the State of Iowa, if any there be, and the same are declared legal and binding, and all acts done in pursuance of said ordinances are hereby declared legal and binding to the same extent as though said ordinances had been properly signed by said presiding officer prior to their publica tion and the signature authenticating the same had been published therewith. SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance, Publication. shall be in full force and effect from and after its_publication in the Iowa Capital, a newspaper published at Des Moines, Iowa, and the Griswold American, a newspaper published at Griswold, Iowa. Such publication to be without expense to the State. Approved March 29th, 1888. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa Capital March 31, and the Griswold American April 4. 1888. FRANK D. JACKSON, Secretary of State. CHAPTER 153. LEGALIZING, INCORPORATION OF TOWN OF HOLSTEIN. AN ACT to Legalize the Incorporation of the Town of Holstein. H. F. 478. WHEREAS, Certain questions have arisen in relation to th Preamble. legality of the incorporation of the town of Holstein in Ida County Iowa, arising out of the alleged facts that at the election, at which was submitted the question of incorporation of said town, certain votes were cast which were not counted by the judges of said election either for or against incorporation because of indefiniteness, and, WHEREAS, It is alleged that the publication of the ordinances of said town did not comply with the requirements of the statutes at that time, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That the incorporation of the said town of Hol Legalized. stein be and the same is hereby declared to be legal and valio to all intents and purposes, the same as though the laws relating to the incorporation of towns had in all respects been strictly complied with. SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance Publication. shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and the Holstein Advance newspapers published at Des Moines and Holstein, Iowa. without expense to the State. Approved March 29, 1888. I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Des Moines Register, March 31, and the Holstein Advance, April 5, 1888. FRANK D. JACKSON, Secretary of State. |