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January 24. 1848
An Act authorizing David Sterrett, his heirs and assigns to construct a canal or Mill race not exceeding in width one hundred feet from any logical point of the Pittsburg chute of the Iowa River to intersect said Iowa River at a point at or near England's Addition to Wapello running through a part of Block 17 and the northern part of Water street in England's addition, with the privilege of constructing a dam across Pittsburg Chute, and the right to use the water power acquired thereby, and the right of way into and upon any land along the line of said race for said purpose. Provision was also made for the payment of damages to land owners, amount to be determined by the District Court.
January 25, 1848
An Act to authorize A. W. Thompson to establish a ferry across the Mis- sissippi river at a point in Louisa County opposite Keithsburg.
December 16, 1848
A memorial adopted by the lowa Legislature to Congress asking an appropria- tion of lands to aid in the construction of a canal from Iowa City to the mouth of the Iowa River.
December 27, 1848
An Act to establish a State road from Mrs. Feslers in Johnson County to Columbus City in Louisa County.
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January 15, 1849
An Act to lay out and establish a State road from Grandview in Louisa County to Bloomington in Muscatine County and appoints Alexander Ross and Elias Thornton of Louisa County as two of the commissioners.
January 15, 1849
Wesley W. Garner of Louisa County was allowed $9.00 for three day's service as official clerk of the General Assembly.
January, 1849
Act approved January 25, 1849, providing for the election of school fund commissioners on the first Monday in April. 1850, and biennially thereafter. See also Code of 1851, Sections 1089 to 1106.
September 28, 1850
Act of Congress relating to the Swamp Lands, provides as follows :
"That to enable the State of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp or overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby granted to said state." It is further provided that the secretary of the Interior shall make out and transmit to the governor of Arkansas a list of such lands, and cause same to be patented to the State, which patent shall vest the fee simple title in said state subject to the disposal of the legislature.
It is further provided "that the provisions of this act be extended to, and their benefits be conferred upon, each of the other states of the Union, in which such swamp and overflowed lands, known and designated as aforesaid, may be situated." (See Act of February 5, 1851, and Act of February 2, 1853, and also Act of Congress of March 3, 1855.)
January 21, 1851
An Act granting the Toolesboro and Burlington Plank Road Company a right of way, not exceeding 60 feet in breadth.
February 4, 1851
An Act granting the Burlington and Louisa County Plank Road Company , a right of way.
February 5, 1851
An Act granting the Burlington, Wapello & Virginia Grove Plank Road & Bridge Company, a right of way.
February, 1851
The code of 1851, approved February 5 of that year, provides for the elec- tion at the August election of 1851, of a county judge for four years, and a sheriff, coroner, recorder, surveyor and supervisor of roads, for two years each. Prosecuting attorneys and clerks of the court were to be elected in 1852 at the general election, each for the term of two years.
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February 5, 1851
An Act in relation to the swamp lands, provides that the commissioner of the State Land Office may take steps to secure to the State the swamp lands granted by the act of Congress of September 28, 1850. It also authorizes the commis- sioner to dispose of any of the swamp lands of the state for such prices as he may think them worth.
February 5, 1851
An Act to reapportion the State, provides that the counties of Louisa and Washington shall have two representatives each, and one senator jointly.
January 22, 1853
An Act vacating so much of the town of Toolesboro, as is north of the Main street and east of Mound street in said town, except block number 43.
January 22, 1853
An Act in relation to certain State roads. Section 42 of it provides that Samuel Lucas of Muscatine County and J. R. Sisson of Louisa County, and Jonathan Wilson of Washington County are appointed commissioners to locate said road on the nearest and best grounds from Muscatine to Washington.
January 22, 1853
Resolution of the General Assembly in regard to mail facilities, instructing and requesting our senators and representatives to use their influence to procure additional mail facilities. A large number of mail routes are asked for includ- ing one from Port Allen by way of Hawk Eye and Black Hawk to Muscatine three times a week.
January 24, 1853
An Act reapportioning the state into representative districts, and makes Louisa County the 14th District and entitled to one representative.
January 24, 1853
An Act appointing William H. Miller of Muscatine County and John C. Lockwood of Louisa County, agents and superintendents of the construction of the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp lands situated on the Mus- catine Island and on the borders of the Muscatine slough within Muscatine and Louisa Counties.
February 2, 1853
An Act to dispose of the swamp and overflowed lands within the state, pro- vides that all the swamp and overflowed lands granted to the State of Iowa by Act of Congress approved September 28, 1850, there shall be granted to the counties respectively in which the same may lie or be situated for the purpose of constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the same, and the balance of said lands, if any there shall be after the same are reclaimed, shall be applied to the building of roads and bridges when necessary, through and across said lands, and if not needed for this purpose, to be expended in building roads and bridges within the country.
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January, 1855
Act approved January 24, 1855, for a convention to revise or amend the constitution and making the number of delegates correspond to the number of senators in the general assembly, thus giving Louisa county one delegate.
January 13, 1855
Joint resolution of the lowa General Assembly asking for. additional mail facilities. One route mentioned is from Muscatine to Oskaloosa by way of Columbus City, Washington and Sigourney, in coaches six times a week.
January 23. 1855
An Act to annex so much of fractional lot six in Section II, Township 73. Range 2 in the State of Iowa as is surveyed into town lots to the town of Toolesboro, Louisa County, lowa.
January 25, 1855
An Act to apportion the State and to define the boundaries of the senatorial and representative districts. The County of Louisa is made the 13th district and is entitled to one senator, and is made the 17th representative district, and entitled to one representative. And the counties of Louisa and Washington were made the 19th District, and entitled to one representative. This latter was called a "floating," or "flotorial" district.
March 3. 1855
Act of Congress approved March 3rd, 1855, authorizing the issue of patents to individuals who had purchased swamp lands, and providing also for the pay- ment by the United States, to the State, of indemnity for such lands, properly a part of the swamp land grant, as had been sold by the government.
(The Act of 1850, as originally reported by the committee granted only such lands, as were designated on the government plats of surveys as "swamp" or "unfit for cultivation ;" but amendments were adopted making it apply to swamp or overflowed lands, without reference to the description on the surveyor's plats. In 1851, Secretary of the Interior Stuart had decided that the swamp land act of 1850 was a grant in praesenti, and vested title in the states to all swamp or over- flowed lands. Many conflicts arose, because of entries by and sales to, individ- uals of lands which afterward were found to be swamp lands ; the act of March 3d, 1855, was passed to settle these conflicting claims.)
July 15, 1856
An Act authorizing the levy of a tax upon the lands upon Muscatine Island and upon adjoining lands to construct levees and to preserve said lands from overflow.
July 15, 1856
An Act to incorporate the City of Wapello.
July, 1856
.Act approved July 15, 1856, vacates the alley in Block 14 in the town of Grandview, and in Block 16 and 25 in Springer's Addition to Grandview.
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January 21, 1857
An Act to amend the act to incorporate the City of Wapello.
January 22, 1857
An Act providing that all that part of the original town plat of the town of Toolesboro in Louisa County, lowa, heretofore vacated by acts approved Feb- ruary 16, 1842, and January 22, 1853, and being cast of Fort street in said town be restored and made a part of said town, and the streets and alleys made public highways. The act is to take effect from and after its publication in the Wapello Intelligencer and the Burris Commercial.
January 24, 1857
An Act authorizing Wesley W. Garner, James M. Robertson and William L. Toole of Louisa County to sell Out Lot Number 4, Columbus City, and to execute conveyance therefor. It provides that they shall first apply the proceeds of said sale or so much thereof as may be necessary to the payment of the debts created by the trustees of the Columbus City Seminary, and if any money shall remain after the payment of such debts and expenses of sale, it shall be invested in books for the use of some public library in Columbus City.
January 27, 1857
An Act to apportion the State into representative Districts. Section 31 pro- vides that the County of Louisa shall constitute the 31st representative district and have one representative. Section 32 provides that the county of Des Moines shall constitute the 32nd representative district, and shall have two representatives.
Section 33 provides that the counties of Des Moines and Louisa jointly, shall constitute the 33rd representative district, and have one representative. The latter was also a floating district.
January 28, 1857
An Act providing for the location of certain State roads. Section II provides that Evan J. and Samuel M. Hallowel of Henry County, and A. D. Hurley of Louisa County should be the commissioners to locate a State road from Mt. Pleasant to Wapello.
January 28, 1857
An Act in relation to State roads. Section 17 provides that Christian Hershe. R. H. W. Brent and Ananias Simpkins of Muscatine County be appointed com- missioners to locate a State road from Muscatine to Grandview.
January 28, 1857
An Act to incorporate the City of Burris in Louisa County, Iowa, to take effect from and after its publication in the Wapello Intelligencer and the Burris Commercial.
March 16, 1858
An Act to provide for levying a tax on certain lands to build a levee on Mus- catine Island, and for the election of levee commissioners.
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March 20, 1858
An Act creating the first Judicial District and defining the boundaries. Sec- tion 2 provides that the Counties of Lee, Henry, Des Moines and Lucas shall constitute the First District. The name "Lucas" here is undoubtedly intended for Louisa. Lucas county is also included in the 2nd District.
March 22. 1858
An Act apportioning the State into representative Districts, makes Louisa County the ISth District, and entitled to one representative.
March 23, 1858
An Act ordering a special election throughout the State on the 4th Monday of June, 1858, to submit to the people the question whether or not an act entitled, an act authorizing general banking in the State of Iowa passed by the Seventh General Assembly, should go into effect and be in force, and also whether an act entitled, an act to incorporate a State Bank of Iowa, passed by the Seventh Gen- eral Assembly should go into effect and be in force.
March 25, 1858
Joint Appropriation Act. From this it seems that one dollar was paid to the Wapello Intelligencer, and fifty cents to the Wapello Gazette.
March 3. 1860
An Act authorizing the owners of land subject to overflow situated on the Iowa and Mississippi river bottom in Des Moines and Louisa Counties to raise a tax upon said lands, for the purpose of repairing. continuing and extending the levee now commenced.
March, 1860
Act creating a county board of supervisors, approved March 22d and took effect July 4th.
April 2, 1860
An Act apportioning the State into representative districts makes Louisa County the 16th District, and entitled to one representative.
April 5, 1862
An Act repealing the act which provided for levying a tax to complete and keep in repair the levee on Muscatine Island, etc.
March 5, 1862
An Act apportioning the State into Senatorial Districts makes Louisa County the 14th District and entitled to one Senator.
April 8, 1862
An Act for the relief of Jacob Mintun, recites that during his term of office a number of judgments were rendered and entered on his docket which have not his signature thereto, and authorizes him to sign the judgments rendered by him and making them legal and binding.
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April 8, 1862
An Act to divide the State into Six Congressional Districts, the First District being composed of Lee, Van Buren, Davis, Jefferson, Henry, Des Moines, Louisa and Washington Counties.
April 8, 1862
An Act apportioning the State into representative Districts, leaving Louisa County still as the 17th District, and entitled to one representative.
September 11, 1862
An Act to enable the qualified electors of this state in the military service to vote at certain elections.
March 28, 1864
A new apportionment act was passed as to representative Districts but makes no change as to Louisa County.
March 30, 1866
An Act to legalize an election held by the legal voters of the town of Morning Sun to form an independent School District, etc.
April 2, 1866
An Act apportioning the State into Senatorial Districts, makes Louisa County the 14th Senatorial District, and entitled to one senator.
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The IIth General Assembly passed a resolution favoring the tri-weekly mail route from Burlington Ononwa by way of Port Louisa and Grandview.
April 2, 1866
An Act making appropriations for the per diem and expenses of the IIth General Assembly, and other purposes. Section 71 appropriates for the expenses in relation to the sickness and funeral of Honorable N. T. Brown (who was a representative from Louisa County), the sum of $211.65, as follows :
Railroad and stage fare to and from, Des Moines of Mrs. Brown and her
$41.00
son
Incidental expenses
5.00
Medicine and Board
24.30
Shroud, crape, etc
II.60
Burial lot in the cemetery of the state.
19.73
Coffin and hearse 36.00
9.00
Two carriages
For draping hall 9.50
5.00
Digging grave
Dr. Robertson, 10 day's attendance 25.00
. Dr. Boomer, 10 day's attendance
25.00
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January 31, 1868
An Act to correct an error caused by omitting Louisa County in the distribu- tion of railroad taxes due in the years 1863, 1864 and 1865.
April 2, 1868
An Act to enable public corporations to settle their indebtedness, and for this purpose altering and amending existing charters and laws.
April 2, 1868
An Act to legalize certain judgments rendered by Benjamine Furnace, a Jus- tice of the Peace in Louisa County. Jowa, because of his failure to sign the same at the time they were rendered.
April 3. 1868
An Act establishing Circuit and General term courts and defining their powers and jurisdiction. The Counties of Henry and Louisa constitute the Second Circuit in the First Judicial District.
April, 1868
Act approved April 7. 1868. created the office of county auditor and providing that at the general election preceding the expiration of the term of office of the present county judge in any county, and every two years thereafter, there should be elected in each organized county in this state, a county auditor, whose term of office shall commence on the ist of January following his election. The act further directed that the county judge in each county should be ex-officio auditor after January 1. 1869, and until an auditor was elected and qualified and there- after the office of county judge should cease.
April 7, 1868
Apportionment act for representative districts, makes Louisa County the 27th District and entitled to one representative.
April 8, 1868
Senatorial apportionment act makes Louisa County the 14th Senatorial Dis- trict, and entitled to one Senator.
AApril 2, 1868
Memorial and Joint Resolution of the Iowa Legislature asking Congress to declare the lowa River U'nnavigable from the City of Wapello in Louisa County North.
April 13, 1870
There was a new apportionment for representative districts, but no change as to Louisa County.
April 14, 1870
An Act providing that on and after January 1, 1871, the Board of Supervisors should consist of three persons.
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April 16, 1870
A senatorial apportionment act, makes Louisa County the 14th Senatorial District, and entitled to one Senator.
May, 1870
Act of Congress in relation to the lowa river in the state of lowa, approved May 6. 1870, provides that so much of the lowa river in the state of lowa as lies north of the town of Wapello shall be declared not a navigable river or public highway.
March 11, 1872
A joint resolution giving certain authority to the State Auditor in respect to credits claimed by the counties of Harrison, Howard, Marion, Jasper. Louisa, Bremer for State revenue alleged to have been stolen from said counties. In the preamble there is a statement of the special amounts claimed to have been stolen from the several counties, and the amount stated from Louisa County belonging to the general reventie of the State is, $4.592.28.
The Joint resolution authorizes the Auditor of State to receive and consider documentary or other evidence in writing which may be submitted to him, prior to the meeting of the next General Assembly in behalf of either of said counties touching the facts aforesaid as recited in the preamble, and in every case in which such averments may be sustained by such proof to his satisfaction, he is authorized and directed to give the proper corresponding credits to said counties, and report stich action to the next General Assembly.
April 27, 1872
Representative apportionment act makes Louisa County the 28th District, with one representative, and the Senatorial apportionment act passed on the same day, provides that the counties of Louisa and Washington shall constitute the 15th District, and be entitled to one senator.
March 23. 1874
Representative apportionment Act ; no change as to Louisa County.
March 17, 1876
Senatorial apportionment act constitutes Washington and Louisa Counties as the 14th Senatorial District, and entitled to one Senator.
March 17, 1876
Representative apportionment act, makes Louisa County the 30th District and entitled to one representative.
March 26, 1878
Representative apportionment act, makes Louisa County the 30th District and entitled to one representative.
August, 1882
Act of Congress making appropriations for the construction. repair and preservation of certain works on certain rivers and harbors, etc. This act directs
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the secretary of war at his discretion to cause examinations or surveys, or both, and estimates of cost of improvements at a great many places. Among others is the Iowa river from Wapello to its month.
March 23. 1880
Senatorial apportionment. Louisa and Washington counties made the 11th District, and entitled to one Senator.
March 23, 1882
Congressional apportionment, the First Congressional District made to consist of the following counties : Lee, Des Moines, Henry, Van Buren, Jefferson, Washington and Louisa.
March 24. 1880
Representative apportionment. Louisa County made the 30th District, and entitled to one Representative.
April 1, 1882
Representative apportionment. Louisa County made the 31st District, and entitled to one representative.
February 27. 1886
An Act to legalize the proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Muscatine and Louisa Counties in locating and constructing a levee on Muscatine Island, and to provide for the payment of the costs thereof.
March 19. 1886
An Act to legalize the acts and ordinances of the town council of the incor- porated town of Morning Sun.
April 5, 1886
At establishing the office of county attorney.
April 10, 1886
Representative apportionment. Louisa County made the 22nd District and entitled to one representative.
April 19. 1886
Senatorial apportionment. Muscatine and Louisa County made the 20th Senatorial District and entitled to one Senator.
July, 1892
An Act of Congress making appropriations for the construction, repair and preservation of certain public works, etc., directs the secretary of war to cause examinations to be made at a great many localities. Among others is the "Mis- sissippi river, Iowa side, from mouth of Iowa river to Bloomington, to determine the best method of removing the bars and deepening the channel."
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AAugust, 1894
Another river and harbor bill, approved August, 1894, similar to the last one, provision of which is as follows: "So much of the Iowa river within the state of Iowa as lies between the town of Toolesboro and the town of Wapello, in the county of Louisa, shall not be deemed a navigable river or public high- way, but dams and bridges may be constructed across it." This act further pro- vides for dredging the channel of the Mississippi river at Quincy, Illinois, and for continuing the improvement of the Mississippi river from the mouth of the Missouri to Minneapolis, and appropriates the sum of $15,000, and further pro- vides that out of said appropriation he shall cause a survey to be made on the west side of the Mississippi river, commencing at the mouth of Flint creek, in Des Moines county, state of Iowa, and running along the west bank of the river to the mouth of Iowa river, and along the east bank of the Mississippi river from the city of Warsaw to the city of Quincy, with a view to improving the navigation by preventing the water from overflowing the natural and artificial banks along those parts of the river, and deepening the channel.
March, 1895
Act of Congress, approved March 2, 1895, making appropriations for sun- dry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June 30, 1896, and for other purposes. This act appropriates $85,000 to commence the work under the direction of the secretary of war from the mouth of Flint creek, in Des Moines county, state of Iowa, and running along the west bank of the river to the mouth of the Iowa river, with a view to improving the navigation etc.
February 14, 1896
An Act to legalize the proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Louisa County relative to restraining stock from running at large. Because of doubt as to legality of the notice.
February 17 1896
Joint resolution of the Iowa Legislature favoring appropriation by Congress for the reconstruction and repair of the Muscatine Island Levee.
March 19, 1896
An Act to legalize the ordinances of the City Council of the City of Wapello, granting a franchise to W. H. Prescott and his associates as the Wapello Elec- tric Light & Power Company.
April 20, 1896
Provides that the counties of Des Moines, Henry and Louisa shall consti- tute the 20th Judicial District, and be entitled to two Judges.
June. 1896
Act of Congress, approved Jime 3, 1896, making appropriations for rivers and harbors. This act among other things appropriates $75,000 for the purpose of continuing the work of constructing artificial banks between the mouth of Flint
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river ( Flint creek), in Des Moines county, Iowa, and running along the west bank of the Mississippi river to the mouth of the Iowa river.
June, 1897
Act of Congress, approved June 4. 1897, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government, etc .. appropriates $50,000 for continuing the work of constructing artificial banks between the mouth of Flint "river" and running along the west bank of the Mississippi river to the mouth of the Iowa river.
July. 1898
Act of Congress, approved July 6. 1898, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government, etc .. appropriates $40,000, or so much of it as may be necessary to complete the construction of the levee from Flint creek to the Iowa river.
March, 1899
Act of Congress, approved March 3, 1899, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government, etc., appropriates $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the completion of a levee on the west bank of the Mis- sissippi river from the mouth of Flint creek, in Des Moines county, to the mouth of the Iowa river, in Louisa county.
February 14, 1906
An Act empowering the Governor and Secretary of State to make quit claim (leeds conveying to the grantees of S. Dunham the interest of the state in certain lands in Sections 28 and 29. Township 73, North, Range I west.
March 17, 1911
.Act to legalize the incorporation of the town of Grandview, the election of its officers, the passage of its ordinances, etc., etc.
Approved March 17, IQU. Became a law by publication March 23. 19IL.
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