and when duly acknowledged, the same shall be recorded in the county where the person adopting resides, in the office and with the record of deeds of real estate, and shall be indexed with the name of the parent by adoption as grantor, and the child as grantee in its original name, if stated in the instrument.

SEC. 4. Upon the execution, acknowledgment and The relations of record of such instrument, the rights, duties and rela- child changed. tions between the parent and child by adoption, shall thereafter in all respects, including the right of inheri tance, be the same that exist by law between parent and child by lawful birth.

subjects adopt'd

prived of child.

SEC. 5. In case of mal-treatment committed or allowed by the adopted parent, or palpable neglect of duty Mal-treatment on his part, toward such child, the custody thereof may parent to be debe taken from him and entrusted to another at his expense if so ordered by the court, and the same proceedings may be had therefor, so far as applicable, as are ⚫ authorized by law in such a case in the relation of master and apprentice, or the court may, on showing of the facts, require from the adopted parent bond with security, in a sum to be fixed by him, the county being the obligee, and for the benefit of the child, conditioned for the proper treatment and performance of duty toward the child, on the part of the parent; provided, that no action of the Court or Judge in the premises shall affect or diminish the acquired right of inheritance on the part of the child, to the extent of such right in a natural child of lawful birth.

SEC. 6. This act shall be in force from and after the date of its publication in the Iowa Citizen and Iowa State Journal. .

Approved March 16th, 1858.

I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa State Journal on the 9th day of March, 1555, and in the Iowa Weekly Citizen on the 24th day of March,

1558.

Take effect.

ELIJAH SELLS,
Secretary of State.

Prop'rty on Mus

CHAPTER 68.

LEVEE ON MUSCATINE ISLAND.

AN ACT to provide for levying a tax on certain lands to complete and keep in repair a Levee on Muscatine Island, and for the election of a Levee Commissioner to superintend the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That all land, city and town lots on Muscatine Island, between the location of the levee, catine, Island now begun, and the Muscatine Slough, in Muscatine and Louisa counties shall be subject to an equal tax per acre annually, at a rate not to exceed eight cents, and the town and city lots at a rate not to exceed eighty cents each.

taxed.

west side of

SEC. 2. All land, city and town lots, bordering on Property on the the west side of the Muscatine Slough, in Muscatine and Muscatine Louisa counties, that would be benefitted by a levee on Muscatine Island, shall be subject to the same tax as provided in the first section of this act, for land, city and town lots, on Muscatine Island.

Slough taxed.

SEC. 3. The said tax to be levied by the County Co. Judges of Judge of Muscatine county, upon such land, city and Louisa counties town lots as are situated in said county, and

Muscatine and

to make levy.

Tax collected.

Surveyors to make plots of

by the County Judge of Louisa county for such land, city and town lots as are situated in Louisa county.

SEC. 4. The said tax shall be assessed and collected at the same time other taxes are assessed and collected, and not to be paid out, except as hereinafter provided: Provided, that no tax shall be levied until the County Surveyor of Muscatine county, and the County Surveyproperty taxed. Or of Louisa shall have made a survey and plat of all land, city and town lots, within the bounds described in the first section of this act, and such land, city and town lots, west of the Muscatine Slough in Muscatine and Louisa counties as would be benefitted by a levee on Muscatine Island, and shall have filed a copy thereof, containing a description of such land, city and town lots as lie in Muscatine county with the County Judge of said county, and a copy thereof containing a description of such land, city and town lots, as lie in Louisa county with the County Judge of said county.

SEC. 5. At the time fixed by law for the election of Justices of the Peace in this State, there shall be elected.

lected.

election.

in Bloomington and Seventysix township in Muscatine Levee Com'rs ecounty a levee Commissioner, and in Port Louisa and Grandview townships in Louisa county, a levee Commissioner: Said Commissioners must reside on Muscatine Island; and in the election of said levee Commis- Qualification and sioners, no elector shall vote except he resides in the district subject to be taxed under the provisions of this act. Returns of such election shall be made in the same manner as now provided by law for the election of county of ficers, and the person receiving the largest number of votes shall be duly declared elected.

Com'rs authoriz

levee.

SEC. 6. Said Commissioner when elected shall be authorized, after taking and subscribing an oath before ed to construct the County Judge of their respective counties for the faithful performance of their duty, to adopt a plan to complete and keep in repair said levee or levees on Muscatine Island, and to pay for the same, from taxes to be collected under the provisions of this act, and the proceeds of the sale of such swamp land on said Muscatine Island, and the borders of the Muscatine Slough as may plied to conbe conveyed by the United States to the State of Iowa, in conformity with an act of Congress passed the twentyeigth of September 1850, or so much therof as has not been expended on said work, shall be applied to defray the expenses incurred by said levee Commissioners in constructing and keeping in repair said levee or levees on Muscatine Island in their respective counties.

Swamp lands ap

struction.

Books and pap'rs

SEC. 7. As soon as said Levee Commissioners are elected and qualified, or either of them, he or they are relating to levee hereby authorized to receive all books and papers properly appertaining to said levee or levees.

SEC. 8. The said Levee Commissioners shall receive pay of Com'rs. two dollars per day as a compensation for their services, for the time they are actually employed in their official capacity, to be approved by the County Judge.

district not so

SEC. 9. The County Judge in one of the above nam- A failure in one ed counties failing to comply with the provisions of this affect the other.

Conflicting laws repealed.

act, shall in no manner affect the rights of the district in the other county.

SEC. 10. All acts and parts of acts, inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

Approved March 16th, 1858.

ed to file a record of act.

CHAPTER 69.

NEW HAVEN, BUCHANAN COUNTY.

AN ACT to amend Section two of an Act entitled an act to change the name of New
Haven in Buchanan County, approved January 27th, 1857.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That Section two (2) of an act entitled Two years allow. an act to change the name of New Haven in Buchanan County, approved January 27th, 1857, be amended so as to read "within two years after the passage of this act a copy of the same shall be filed for record in the of fice of the Recorder of deeds of Buchanan County, and from and after such filing in all conveyances of lots in any of the said additions the description shall be in accordance with the changes made by this act, Provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to vitiate the title to any lot heretofore conveyed in the said New Haven or any addition thereto.

Take effecf.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its publication in Independence Civilian and Quasqueton Guardian without expense to the State, papers published in Buchanan County, Iowa.

Approved March 16th, 1858.

I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Quasqueton Guardian, on the 22nd day of April, 1855.

ELIJAH SELLS,

Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 70.

VOICE OF IOWA.

AN ACT authorizing School Districts to subscribe for the Voice of Iowa.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

authorized

to

of the State of Iowa, That the Clerk of any School Dis- Clk of the Dist. trict in the State of Iowa, be and is hereby authorized subscribe. to subscribe in the name of the District for one copy of the Voice of Iowa, the same being an Educational Journal and the organ of the State Teacher's Association of the State, and that he pay for the same out of any funds belonging to said districts.

SEC. 2. Said Journal shall be preserved by said The paper to be Clerk and his successors in office as the property of the preserved. District, and when a library shall be formed, shall be

placed in the hands of the Librarian for the use of the District.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its Take effect. publication in the Des Moines Citizen and Cedar Valley Times, without expense to the State.

Approved March 16th, 1858.

I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Des Moines Citizen on the 24th day of March, 1858, and in the Cedar Valley Times on the 1st day of April, of 1558.

ELIJAH SELLS.

Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 71.

J. P., JACKSON TOWNSHIP, POWESHIEK COUNTY.

AN ACT to provide for the election of an additional Justice of the Peace in Jackson
Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa.

of the Peace.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That at the April election, A. D., 1858, and every two years thereafter, there shall be elect- Additional Jused one additional Justice of the Peace in the Township of Jackson, Poweshiek County, Iowa, who shall hold his office within the limits of the town of Montezuma.