Rooms furnished free.

that said Court may be in session during the Argument Term created by this act.

SEC. 9. The State shall be at no expense for rooms to hold the Supreme Court in at Davenport.

SEC. 10. 10. Sections 4, 5, 7, 9 and 10, of Chapter 79 Certain laws de- of the laws of the Fourth General Assembly, approved January 22nd, 1853, are not repealed by this act, but shall remain in full force.

clared in force.

Supreme Court in force.

SEC. 11. The existing rules of the Supreme Court, Existing rules of as adopted at the December Term, A. D., 1857, except the 24th rule, shall be in force at the Argument Terms established in this act, until the same shall be changed by said Court, provided nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit said Court from limiting the time to be occupied by counsel, by rule.

Court has power to adjourn.

Take effect.

SEC. 12. The Supreme Court shall have power to adjourn said Argument Terms, in their discretion, in case any contagious disease should prevail at the time and place of holding the same.

SEC. 13. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Iowa Citizen and Iowa State Journal.

Approved March 20th, 1858.

I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa Citizen March 24th. 1858, and in the Iowa State Journal March 27th, 1858.

ELIJAH SELLS,

Secetrary of State.

Fine and impris

CHAPTER 83.

MISCHIEF TO LEVEES.

AN ACT fixing punishment for malicious mischief.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That if any person maliciously inonm'nt for break- jure, break, or cause to be broken, any levee erected to prevent the overflow of land within this State, such person so offending shall upon conviction be punished by

ing levee.

imprisonment in the Penitentiary not more than five years, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisonment in the County Jail not exceeding one

year.

Sec. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its Take effect. publication in the Iowa State Journal and Iowa Citizen, published at Des Moines, Iowa.

Approved March 20th, 1858.

I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa State Journal on the 27th of March, 1838, and in the Iowa Citizen on the 31st of March, 1858.

ELIJAH SELLS,

Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 84.

DAM ON THE CEDAR RIVER.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize John M. May and his associates te construct a dam across the Cedar River in Linn county." approved January 24th, 1855.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Assembly re

the State of Iowa, That so much of section second of said Law of 5th Gen'l Act as follows the word "Provided," and all of section pealed. third of said Act, be and are hereby repealed.

Approved March 20th, 1858.

CHAPTER 85.

RAIL ROAD COMPANIES.

AN ACT for the benefit of Rail Road Companies.

Code not to ap

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That section numbered six hundred Sec. 659 of the and eighty-nine of the Code, shall not be deemed and ply to R. Road construed to be applicable to railroad corporations and corporators, and stock holders in Railroad Compa

Companies.

Comp'ns author

nies, shall be liable only for the amount of stock held by them in said Companies.

SEC. 2. The said companies shall have the power, ized to borrow and are hereby authorized to mortgage or execute deeds property. of trust, of the whole or any part of their property, and

money on their

interest.

franchises to secure money borrowed by them for the construction and equipment of their roads, and may issue their corporate bonds in sums not less than five hundred dollars secured by said mortgages or deeds of trust, payable to bearer or otherwise, and if payable to bearer, Bonds and their negotiable by delivery, bearing interest at the rate not to exceed ten per centum per annum, and convertible into stock or not, as may be deemed expedient, and may sell them at such rates or prices as they deem proper, and if said bonds shall be sold below their nominal or par value, they shall be valid and binding on the company, and no plea of usury shall be put in or allowed by said companies in any suit or proceeding upon the same.

cover property

quired.

SEC. 3. Said mortgages or deeds of trust may by Mortgages may their terms include and cover, not only the property of that may be ac- the companies making them at the time of their date, but property both real and personal which may thereafter be acquired by them, and shall be as valid and etfectual for that purpose, as if the property were in pos session at the time of the execution thereof.

Mortgages recorded.

SEC. 4. Said mortgages or deeds of trust, shall be recorded in the office of the Recorder of each county through which the road mortgaged or deeded may run, or wherever it may hold lands, and shall be notice to all the world of the rights of all parties under the same, and for this purpose an d to secure the rights of mortga ges or parties interested under deeds of trust so executed and recorded, the rolling stock and personal property of the company, properly belonging to the road and part of the road. appertaining thereto, shall be deemed a part of the road, and said mortgages and deeds so recorded, shall have the same effect both as to notice and otherwise, as to the personal, as to the real estate covered by them.

Rolling stock a

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from

and after its publication in the Iowa Citizen and Iowa Take effect. State Journal.

Approved March 20th, 1858.

I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa Citizen March $1st, 1558, and in the Iowa State Journal March 27th, 1855.

ELIJAH SELLS,

Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 86.

SENATORIAL APPORTIONMENT.

AN ACT to re-apportion the State into Senatoral Districts.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, The ratio for the apportionment of the State into Senatorial Districts shall be one Senator for each seventeen thousand two hundred inhabitants, or fraction thereof exceeding one half in each Senatorial District.

Ratio-17,200.

SEC. 2. The county of Lee shall constitute the first 1st Dist., 2. District and shall have two Senators.

SEC. 3. The county of Van Buren shall constitute 24 Dist., 1. the second District and shall have one Senator.

SEC. 4. The county of Davis shall constitute the sa Dist., 1. third District and shall have one Senator.

SEC. 5. The county of Appanoose shall constitute 4th Dist., 1. the fourth District and shall have one Senator.

SEC. 6. The counties of Wayne and Decatur shall 5th Dist., 1. constitute the fifth District and shall have one Senator,

and the votes for Senator in said District shall be re- canvass in Decaturned to the county seat of Decatur county.

tur.

SEC. 7. The counties of Ringgold, Taylor, Adams, 6th Dist., 1.

Union and Clarke shall constitute the sixth District and

shall have one Senator. The votes for Senator in the Canvass in Marisixth District shall be returned to the county seat of

Union county.

on.

SEC. 8. The counties of Page, Fremont, Mills and 7th Dist., 1. Montgomery shall constitute the seventh District and

shall have one Senator; the votes for Senator in the seventh District shall be returned to the county seat of Mills county.

SEC. 9. The county of Des Moines shall constitute the eighth District and shall have one Senator.

SEC. 10. The county of Henry shall constitute the ninth District and shall have one Senator.

SEC. 11. The county of Jefferson shall constitute the tenth District and shall have one Senator.

SEC. 12. The county of Wapello shall constitute the eleventh District and shall have one Senator.

SEC. 13. The counties of Monroe and Lucas shall constitute the twelfth District and shall have one Senator, and the votes for Senator in the twelfth District shall be returned to the county seat of Monroe county. SEC. 14. The county of Louisa shall constitute the thirteenth District and shall have one Senator.

SEC. 15. The county of Muscatine shall constitute the fourteenth District and shall have one Senator.

SEC. 16. The county of Washington shall constitute the fifteenth District and shall have one Senator.

SEC. 17. The county of Keokuk shall constitute the sixteenth District and shall have one Senator. SEC. 18. The county of Mahaska shall constitute the seventeenth District and shall have one Senator.

SEC. 19. The county of Marion shall constitute the eighteenth District and shall have one Senator. SEC. 20. The county of Scott shall constitute the nineteenth District and shall have one Senator.

SEC. 21. The county of Clinton shall constitute the twentieth District and shall have one Senator.

SEC. 22. The county of Cedar shall constitute the twenty-first District and shall have one Senator. SEC. 23. The county of Johnson shall constitute the twenty-second District and shall have one Senator. SEC. 24. The county of Polk shall constitute the twenty-third District and shall have one Senator. SEC. 25. The county of Jackson shall constitute the twenty-fourth District and shall have one Senator.