SEC. 67. Black Hawk county shall be the 66th district and 66 Black entitled to one representative-23,860. SEC. 68. Hawk. Buchanan county shall be the 67th district and 67 Buchanan. entitled to one representative-17,726. SEC. 69. Delaware county shall be the 68th district and, 68 Delaware. entitled to one representative--17,436. SEC. 70. Dubuque county shall be the 69th district and 69 Dubuque, entitled to two representatives-45,496. SEC. 71. Clayton county shall be the 70th district and 70 Clayton. entitled to one representative-26,853. SEC. 72. Fayette county shall be the 71st district, and 71 Fayette. entitled to one representative-22,422. SEC. 73. Bremer county shall be the 72nd district, and 72 Bremer. entitled to one representative,-14,350. SEC. 74. Butler county shall be the 73rd district and 73 Butler. entitled to one representative-14,523 SEC. 75. Franklin county shall be the 74th dtstrict and 74 Franklin. entitled to one representative-11,324 SEC. 76. entitled to SEC. 77. Humboldt county and Pocahontas county shall 76 Humboldt, be the 76th district and entitled to one representative- 14,217. SEC. 78. Buena Vista county shall be the 77th district and entitled to one representative-11,530. Wright county shall be the 75th district and 75 Wright. one representative-9,380. Pocahontas. Buena Vista. SEC. 79. Plymouth county shall be the 78th district and 78 Plymouth. entitled to one representative-15,481. SEC. 80. Sioux county shall be the 79th district and enti- 79 Sioux. tled to one representative-11,584. SEC. 81. Lyon county and O'Brien county shall be the 80th 80 Lyon. district and entitled to one representative-12,396. SEC. 82. Osceola county and Clay county shall be the 81 Osceola. 81st district, and entitled to one Representatives-10,433. Palo Alto. SEC. 83. Dickinson county and Emmet county and Palo 82 Dickinson, Alto county shall be the 82nd district and entitled to one rep- Emmet. resentative-12,281. SEC. 84. Kossuth county and Hancock county shall be the 83 Kossuth. 83rd district and entitled to one representative-14,426. Hancock. SEC. 85. Cerro Gordo county shall be the 84th district and 84 Cerro Gordo entitled to one representative-12,688. SEC. 86. Floyd county shall be the 85th district and enti- 85 Floyd. tled to one representative-15,362. SEC. 87. Chickasaw county shall be the 86th district and 86 Chickasaw. entitled to one representative-13.899.. SEC. 88. Allamake[e] county shall be the 87th district and 87 Allamakee. entitled to one representative-18,335. SEC. 89. Winneshiek county shall be the 88th district, and 88 Winneshiek entitled to one representative-22,680. SEC. 90. Howard county shall be the 89th district and 89 Howard. entitled to one representative-9,305. 90 Mitchell 91 Worth, Winnebago. SEC. 91. Mitchell county shall be the 90th district and entitled to one representative-12,825. SEC. 92. Worth county and Winnebago county shall be the 91st district and entitled to one representative-13,836 Approved May 1st, 1890. S. F. 212. State vs. James Quinn. Sureties. Misfortune to defendant. Refund authorized. CHAPTER 132. REFUNDING MONEY TO HEIRS OF HARRY SCHOFIELD. AN ACT to permit the Board of Supervisors of Marshall County Iowa to refund money with interest to the widow and heirs of Harry Scofield, of Marshall county Iowa. WHEREAS in a Liquor Prosecution in Marshall County, State of Iowa-VS-James Quinn. two judgments were rendered Dec 18th 1885. of $500.00 each upon which Harry Scofield & William Dunn appeared and became sureties between the time of rendering judgment and the attempt at collection, Dunn became a bankrupt leaving Scofield the whole burden of paying the fine under the judgment, and WHEREAS said Scofield was a poor man who had by industry and economy saved enough to purchase an 80 acre farm, had paid all but $300 secured by mortgage on the land, to pay this judgment was compelled to again mortgage his little home, an accident befell him by which he lost an eye and ultimately his life, leaving a widow and three small children whose only support was the income from this 80 acre farm so mortgaged, Therefore Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: SECTION 1. That the Board of Supervisors of Marshall County Iowa is hereby authorized to refund to the widow and heirs of one Harry Scofield of Marshall county Iowa the amount of a certain judgment (it being four hundred dollars) and interest from date of payment of judgment until the same has been refunded from any funds raised for ordinary county revenue now or hereafter coming into the hands of the Treasurer of said county Approved April 11th, 1890. CHAPTER 133. FREMONT COUNTY CREDIT ON SCHOOL FUND ACCOUNT. AN ACT to authorize the Auditor, to credit Fremont County on H. F. 470. account of school fund and county fund. WHEREAS, On the 7th day of March, A. D. 1874, Fremont Lands sold. county did, for the use and benefit of the school fund, sell to M. A. Payne and and G. H. Young, lands in section No. 15, township No. 67, range No. 43 west, said lands being indemnity lands taken in lieu of school lands, and washed out WHEREAS, In June of the said year 1874, the said lands, by Lands reason of encroachment of the Missouri river, were entirely by river. washed out and their former site transferred to the state of Nebraska; the said purchasers (Payne and Young) have refused to pay any part of the debt thus incurred, the principal of of which was $1,303.50, and the interest thereon from the date afore mentioned, to wit, from March 7, 1874, to January 1, 1890, of $1,393.31, and WHEREAS, Fremont county has annually reported to the Interest paid. state and paid the lawful interest on the $1,303.50, the same being the amount due on said lands and the amount of said interest being $1,393.31, not one dollar of which has ever been paid by said purchasers, therefore. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: directed to claim. SECTION 1. That the auditor of state is hereby authorized Auditor and directed to cancel the amount of said claim against Fre- to cancel mont county, to-wit: The sum of $1,303.50, being the amount of unpaid purchase money on said school land and to issue a refund warrant to said county for the sum of thirteen hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-one one hundredths ($1,303.31), the same being the amount of interest erroneously paid by said county into the State treasury. Approved April 9th, 1890. S. F. 404. Receipts given and money received by Auditor on CHAPTER 134. TO RELIEVE ANDERSON M. BENGE. AN ACT to relieve Anderson M. Benge and others to whom loans of the school fund were made in Madison County, Iowa. Whereas, one A. L. Tullis was County Auditor in and for Madison County, Iowa, from the first Monday in January 1881 to the first Monday in January 1885, and as such officer school fund. during the time aforesaid in keeping the account of the School Fund, and Securities pertaining thereto, of the State of Iowa, being held and managed by the Board of Supervisors of Madison County, in many instances, where borrowers of said fund desired to pay the principal or interest of the same due or owing to said County, he, said County Auditor, would and did collect, accept and receive the payment of, the same from such borrowers giving receipts therefor as County Auditor instead of giving the borrowers aforesaid, paying the same, a certificate on which to pay said fund to the County Treasurer of said County, and, Payment faith. Whereas, in the manner aforesaid many borrowers of said made in good School Fund acting in good faith and relying upon the supposed correct business methods and integrity of said County Auditor paid him divers and sundry sums due or owing to said County of principal, interest or both belonging to said fund and believing they were paying the same to the duly authorized officer to receive the same; and, Failure of Whereas, afterwards said County Auditor proved to be a defaulter and failed to account to said County for a large pay over col- amount of the School Fund aforesaid, and having failed to pay to the County Treasurer of said County, divers and sundry amounts of said fund paid by various borrowers thereof to said County Auditor as aforesaid; and, lection. Sureties not liable through limitation. Whereas, the sureties on the official bond of said County Auditor by reason of the Statute of Limitation or other causes were held or adjudged to be not liable to said County for the various amounts involved herein and paid by borrowers of said fund to said County Auditor; and the borrowers aforesaid are liable to said County, and under the law have paid or are required to pay respectively to said County the full amount paid severally by them to said County Auditor as aforesaid; and said County has made good, to the State of Iowa, all loss sustained to the School Fund by reason of the defalcation of said County Auditor; and, paid. Whereas, the following named borrowers of said School Money once Fund having once paid the amount opposite their names respectively are now or have been, by reason of the facts set forth above held liable and required to pay to Madison County the said sums again to-wit: W. H. H. Dabney,.. $452.00 borrowers. And, whereas to pay said amounts a second time after Injustice to having paid the same to the County Auditor in the manner aforesaid is deemed a great hardship upon said borrowers and a burden they ought not under the circumstances to bear, and the Board of Supervisors under the law seem powerless to relieve them from such burden; therefore Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of lowa: submitted to SECTION 1. That the Board of Supervisors of Madison Question of County, Iowa, be and are hereby authorized and empowered release to be to submit at the next general election to the qualified voters electors. of Madison County, Iowa, a proposition for and against relieving from further liability therefor respectively the bor |