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tors were elected for the full term of six years, 

 commencing "March 4, 1883, and for the term 

 ending on that day, to fill the vacancy occa- 

 sioned by the resignation of Samnel J. Kirk- 

 wood, appointed Secretary of the Interior in 

 President Garfield's Cabinet. For the full term 

 James F. Wilson, Republican, was chosen, re- 

 ceiving thirty-five votes against three in the 

 Senate, and fifty-nine against twenty-four in 

 the House. For the vacancy, James W. McDill 

 was chosen, receiving thirty-six votes against 

 three in the Senate, and sixty-five against 

 twenty-four in the House. 



The following are the most important of the 

 measures passed at this session : 



Acts reapportioning the State for members 

 of the Senate and House. 



An act to authorize incorporated cities and 

 towns to procure and donate to railroad com- 

 panies sites for depots, machine-shops, and 

 other buildings. 



An act to increase the number of circuit 

 judges in each circuit of this State containing 

 a city having a population in excess of 22,300, 

 and to provide for the election of said judges. 

 Provides for the election of an additional cir- 

 cuit judge in all circuits situated as above, at 

 the general election in 1882, said judges to 

 hold their offices four years from January, 1883. 



An act to provide for the levy of a half-mill 

 State tax for the years 1882 and 1883, to reim- 

 burse the general revenue fund of the State for 

 money paid on account of war debts, and for 

 the completion of the new Capitol, and other 

 purposes. Provides that the State tax shall be 

 two and a half mills for 1882 and 1883. 



An act providing for the cancellation of taxes 

 voted to aid in the construction of railroads. 

 Provides that where aid has been voted for the 

 construction of a railroad, and the company 

 neglects or refuses to receive such taxes for a 

 period of six months, the company shall for- 

 feit all its right to such aid or tax. The Board 

 of Supervisors shall give such railroad com- 

 panies due notice before such cancellation can 

 be made. 



An act to amend chapter 114, laws of Six- 

 teenth General Assembly, in relation to the 

 submission of amendments to the Constitution 

 of the State to a vote of the people. This act 

 authorizes the submission of amendments to 

 the Constitution to a vote of the people at a 

 special election, as the General Assembly may 

 provide. 



An act to resume all the lands and rights 

 conferred upon the Sioux City and St. Paul 

 Railroad Company, by or under an act of Con- 

 gress, approved May 12, A. D. 1864, to lands 

 not heretofore owned by said company. 



By act of April 3, 1866, the State of Iowa 

 granted to the Sioux City and St. Paul Rail- 

 road Company certain lands ; and by the terms 

 of said grant, if said road was not completed 

 within ten years from the date of acceptance, 

 and the railroad accepted said grant on the 

 20th day of September, 1866, and has failed to 



complete said road, therefore the State resumes 

 the lands. 



An act granting additional powers to cities 

 organized under the general incorporation laws 

 of the State ; provides for taxing itinerant doc- 

 tors and junk-dealers ; prohibits second-hand 

 dealers purchasing from minors without consent 

 of parents ; requiring all buildings to be num- 

 bered ; to change the channels of water-courses ; 

 to control the construction of chimneys, ovens, 

 stove-pipes, and, in general, to have supervision 

 of all chimneys, boilers, and heating apparatus 

 of whatsoever kind or nature, as well as de- 

 posits of ashes, lights in stables, shops, and 

 factories, to provide for the inspection of all 

 steam-boilers ; in short, to have full and com- 

 plete charge of all things which will promote 

 the safety and health of the inhabitants. 



An act to amend chapter 110, acts of Thir- 

 teenth General Assembly, and chapter 35, Acts 

 of Fourteenth General Assembly, and making 

 an additional appropriation for completing the 

 Capitol building. This act appropriates the 

 sum of $525,000, in order to complete the new 

 Capitol, to be drawn as follows : $75,000 to be 

 drawn in the year 1882 : $275,000 in the year 

 1883 ; $175,000 in the year 1884. It provides 

 for the completion of the Senate-chamber, hall 

 of House of Representatives, library-room, and 

 as much more as may be found practicable. 



An act to authorize cities of the first and 

 second class to change their corporate names, 

 and to prescribe the manner in which such 

 change may be made. This act authorizes the 

 council of any city of the first or second class, 

 or of any incorporated town, to change its 

 name by resolution of said council, said resolu- 

 tion to be ratified by a vote of the qualified 

 electors, provided that the name shall not be 

 the same as that of any other city or town in 

 the State. 



An act to repeal section 487 of the Code, 

 and to enact a substitute, in relation to poll-tax. 

 This act repeals section 487 of the Code, and 

 re-enacts the greater portion thereof, changing 

 the age for liability to poll-tax from fifty to 

 forty-five years, and increases the penalty for 

 each day's failure to attend and perform labor 

 from two to three dollars, and makes all prop- 

 erty and wages of the defendant liable to exe- 

 cution in payment of poll-tax, judgment to be 

 obtained before the mayor of a corporation or 

 justice of the peace of a township, the money 

 so collected to be expended upon the streets of 

 the corporation. 



An act to amend chapter 143 of the acts of 

 Sixteenth General Assembly, entitled an act to 

 provide for establishing superior courts in cities 

 of a certain grade. This act repeals the words 

 5,000, and inserts 8,000 ; changes two-thirds 

 into a majority ; provides for change of name 

 to circuit court ; judgments to be made liens 

 on real estate by filing transcripts ; does not 

 affect any actions already commenced in any 

 superior court. 



An act to repeal part of section 521, title 4, 



