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SEC. 6. Any corporation created or organized by or under Corporate the law of this state which shall violate any provision of the feited by viopreceding sections of this act shall thereby forfeit its cor- lation of act. porate right and franchises, and its corporate existence shall thereupon cease and determine as provided in this section and it shall be the duty of the secretary of state, after the passage of this act, to address to the president, secretary or treasurer of each incorporated company doing business in this state, a letter of inquiry as to whether the said corporation has merged Letters of inall or any part of its business or interest in or with any trust, Sec'y State. combination or association of persons or stockholders as named in the preceding provisions of this act, and to require an answer, under oath, of the president, secretary, treasurer Answer reor any director of said company; a form of affidavit prescribed quired under by the secretary of state shall be enclosed in said letters of inquiry, and on refusal to make oath in answer to said inquiry, the secretary of state shall immediately ca[u]se a certified statement of the facts to be filed in the office of the Statement filed with Attorney General, of the state who shall proceed, or direct Att'y Gensuch proceedings by any county attorney in the state, to commence an action in the District Court of any County in the State of competent jurisdiction, when said proceedings are instituted they shall be conducted as ordinary law actions triable by Court or Jury on the final decision of the same-should the defendant be found guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this act, said Court shall render a judgment and order a revocation of the charter of said company as a penalty Charter refor the violation, or violation for which the said company found guilty. shall be found guilty, and the Secretary of State shall make publication of such revocation in four newspapers in general Revocation circulation in the four largest cities of the State.

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SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State upon Notice to satisfactory edidence (evidence) that any company or associa- combinations tion of persons duly incorporated and operating under the laws to withdraw. of this State have entered into any trust, combination or association as provided in the preceding provisions of this act, to give notice to such corporation that unless they withdraw from and sever all business connection with said trust, combination or association, their charter will be revoked at the expiration of thirty days from date of such notice.

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SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorneys Prosecuting in their respective jurisdictions, and the attorney general, to Attorney enforce the foregoing provisions of this act, and any prosecut- enforce this ing attorney, or the attorney general, securing a conviction law." under the provisions of this act, shall be entitled, in addition to such fee or salary as by law he is allowed for such prosecution, to one-fifth of the fine recovered. When the attorney One-fifth of general and prosecuting attorney act in conjunction in the ered. prosecution of any case, under the provisions of this act, they

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One-fourth of shall be entitled to one-fourth of the fine recovered which they shall divide equally between them, where there is no agreement to the contrary, and it shall be the duty of the Grand Jury, grand jury to inquire into and ascertain if there exists any pools, trusts, combinations within their respective counties.

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Repealing clause.

Publication.

SEC. 9. Chapter 84, Acts of the 22d General Assembly and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 10. Whereas, great injustice is being done to the people of this state by the formation of trusts and trust companies, therefore an emergency exists, and this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication, as required by law, in the Iowa State Register and Des Moines Leader, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. Approved May 6, 1890.

I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa State Register and Des Moines Leader, May 14, 1890.

FRANK D. JACKSON, Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 29.

H. F. 166.

Chap. 45 Acts 17 G. A. repealed.

Weather and crop service

tion of Ag'l Society.

WEATHER AND CROP SERVICE.

AN ACT To repeal Chapter 45 of the laws of the Seventeenth General
Assembly and to enact a substitute therefor, to establish a
Weather and Crop Service and for the collection and dissemina-
tion of Crop Statistics and meteorological data.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of lowa:

SECTION 1. That chapter 45 of the laws of the Seventeenth General Assembly be and the same hereby is repealed, and the following enacted in lieu thereof.

SEC. 2. That there be and hereby is established in the under direc- State of Iowa, under the supervision of the Board of Directors of the State Agricultural Society, a weather and crop service, cooperating with the Signal Service of United States; for the purpose of collecting crop statistics and meteorological data, and more widely disseminating the weather forecasts and storm and frost warnings, for the benefit of producers and shippers of perishable products, and to promote a general knowledge of meteorological science and the climatology of the State.

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SEC. 3. That the central station of said weather and crop service shall be in the city of Des Moines under the charge of

of director.

a Director and an Assistant Director, the said Director to be Appointment apointed by the Governor for a term of two years upon the recommendation of said Board of Directors of the State Agricultural Society; and the Assistant Director to be an officer of Assistant the United States Signal Service who may be detailed for that purpose by the Chief Signal Officer at Washington, D. C.

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SEC. 4. That the said Director cooperating with the Sec- Co-operation retary of the State Agricultural Society shall establish volun- Ag'l Society. teer stations throughout the State, to the number of one or more in each county, and shall appoint observers thereat. And the said Director shall supervise said volunteer stations, Volunteer receive reports thereform of meteorological events and crop conditions, tabulate the same for permanent record, and shall issue weekly weather crop bulletins during the season from Weekly crop April 1st to October 1st; and he shall also edit and cause to be published at the office of the State Printer a Monthly Weather and Crop Review, containing meteorological and agricultural matter of public interest and educational value. And it shall be the duty of the State Printer to issue copies of said Review to the number of 1000 for distribution from the office of the said 1,000 copies of Agricultural Society; and the Directors of said Society may in distribution. their discretion cause to be published a larger number of copies to be delivered to subscribers at a price sufficient to defray the expense of publishing the same, the proceeds to be expended for that purpose only.

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SEC. 5. That the said director shall also compile an annual Annual report, addressed to the Governor, to be printed and bound lished. in the office of the State Printer in such number as the Executive Council may direct; said report to contain a complete review and summary of the results of the years' labors and observations.

appropriated

SEC. 6. That there is hereby appropriated out of any $2,500 per year money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum for expenses. of two thousand and five hundred dollars per year for the period of two years, or such portion thereof as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, to be drawn and expended upon the order of the President and Secretary of the said Agricultural Society; provided, however, that the salary of the said Director shall not exceed the sum of fifteen director. hundred dollars per year.

Salary of

SEC. 7. That this act being deemed of immediate import- Publication ance shall take effect on and after its publication in the fowa State Register and Des Moines Leader, newspapers published in the City of Des Moines, Iowa.

Approved April 24, 1890.

I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa State Register and Des Moines Leader April 26, 1890.

FRANK D. JACKSON, Secretary of State.

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CHAPTER 30.

ADDITIONAL JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

AN ACT relating to certain additional justices of the peace and constables, legalizing their official acts, and the official acts of canvassing boards with reference thereto. (Sec. 590, Code).

WHEREAS Section 590 of the Code of Iowa provides for the election of two justices of the peace and two constables in each township, and Section 592 provides that one or two additional justices of the peace, and one or two additional constables may be elected in each township if the trustees so direct by posting up notices of the same at least ten days before election, and

WHEREAS, by many township trustees, and others, the so giving of notice of the election of such additional officers has been construed to mean that such notice was required only for the first election of such additional justices of the peace and constables, and not for any subsequent election of such additional officers, and

WHEREAS there have been and are now throughout the ing where no State, many acting additional justices of the peace and constables; in townships where no such notice as required by said Section 592 was given, and where such additional officers were declared elected, and duly qualified in their said offices, and acted therein, and many such are still so acting therein, as such additional justices of the peace and constables, wherein the rights and remedies of the people have been affected and involved, and

Doubts as to legality of official acts.

Acts of canvassing boards.

WHEREAS doubts have arisen as to the legality of the "official" acts of such additional justices of the peace and constables, so elected and qualified and as to the legality of the election and official title of such additional justices of the peace and constables who are still acting as such, therefore:

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:

SECTION 1. That the acts of the several county and township canvassing boards within the state in canvassing the votes cast for additional justices of the peace and additional constables, and in declaring the results in said cases wherein there had been no previous notice as provided for in Section 592 of the Code be and the same are legalized and given the same acting legal force and validity as if the provisions of law in reference to previous notice had all been fully and strictly complied with in

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each particular instances; and the official acts of all persons who qualified and acted in an official capacity as additional justices of the peace or additional constables in pursuance of the declaration of the canvassing board as herein before alleged are hereby legalized and given the same force and validity as if the provisions of law in reference to previous notice had all been strictly complied with at the time of the election.

SEC. 2. This act being deemed of immediate importance Publication. shall take effect from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register and Des Moines Leader, newspapers published in Des Moines Iowa.

Approved April 17, 1890.

I hereby certify that the foregoing act was published in the Iowa
State Register April 22, and Des Moines Leader April 23, 1890.
FRANK D. JACKSON, Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 31.

DRAWING MONEY FROM STATE TREASURY.

AN ACT Relating to the drawing of monies (moneys) from the State H. F. 306. Treasury.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:

SECTION 1. That all monies (moneys) now appropriated or Money must that may hereafter be appropriated by general law or by spec- be drawn in ial or general act of the Legislature shall be drawn in accord- with act. ance with the act making such appropriation, provided that in no case shall such monies (moneys) or any portion thereof be drawn before the same is needed for use within thirty days from the date of the requisition.

SEC. 2. The treasurer of the several state institutions shall State institutions govdraw the whole or any part of any special or extraordinary erned. appropriation for their respective institutions in accordance with the act making such appropriation provided that in no case shall the whole or any part of such appropriation be drawn until such sum or sums shall be needed for use within thirty days from the date of the requisition for the purpose of which said appropriation was made.

be refunded.

SEC. 3. Any treasurer of any state institution having Overdrafts to drawn or that may hereafter draw from the state treasury a larger sum of money than is needed for use within thirty days from the date of the requisition for the purpose for which such appropriation was made shall forthwith refund such sum or sums to the state treasury.

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