WHICH CONVENED AT THE CAPITOL, IN IOWA CITY, ON THE FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER, A. D., 1856.

JAMES W. GRIMES, Gov., | JOHN PATTEE, Auditor, ELIJAH SELLS, Secretary, M. L. MORRIS, Treasurer, W. W. HAMILTON, President of the Senate, SAMUEL M'FARLAND, Speaker of the House.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

IOWA CITY:

P. MORIARTY, STATE PRINTER

1857.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER.

1 An act to further restrict the duties of the Super-

intendent of Public Instruction,

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2 An act to establish the 11th judicial district, and

fixing the times of holding courts therein,

3 An act to provide for the payment of the State

bonds due to the Philadelphia bank on the first

day of January 1857,

4 An act to authorize the county judge of Mahaska

county to borrow for county purposes certain

monies therein named,

5 An act to amend chapter sixty-six of the code of

Iowa, entitled school lands and funds,.

6 An act to exempt certain lots in Dubuque,

the property of the United States, from taxa-

tion,

7 An act vacating the public square in the town of

Mt. Vernon,

8 An act authorizing the county judge of Benton

county, Iowa, to transcribe the records of said

county.

9 An act to vacate a part of a State road in the town

of Princeton, in the county of Lee,

10 An act relating to the school fund of the State,

11 An act authorizing the school fund commissioner of

Wapello county to pay money to school district

number two (2) in Washington township,

12 An act to define the boundaries of the seventh dis-

trict, and fix the time for holding courts therein,

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