TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch. 76. 1845.
789
Chap. LXXVI. - In Jlci supplemental to the act for the admission of the States
of Iowa and Florida into the Union.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the laws of theUnited States , which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the sameforce and effect within the State of Iowa as elsewhere within the UnitedStates .
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said State shall be onedistrict, and be called the district of Iowa ; and a district court shall beheld therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said dis-trict, and be called a district judge. He shall hold, at the seat of govern-ment of the said State, two sessions of the said district court annually,on the first Monday in January, and he shall, in all things, have andexercise the same jurisdiction and powers which were by law given tothe judge of the Kentucky district, under an act entitled “An act toestablish the judicial courts of the United States .” He shall appoint aclerk for the said district, who shall reside and keep the records of thesaid court at the place of holding the same; and shall receive, for theservices performed by him, the same fees to which the clerk of theKentucky district is by law entitled for similar services.
Sec. 3. And be it fiirther enacted, That there shall be allowed tothe judge of the said district court the annual compensation of fifteenhundred dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment, to bepaid quarterly at the treasury of the United States .
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed inthe said district, a person learned in the law, to act as attorney for theUnited States ; who shall, in addition to his stated fees, be paid annuallyby the United States two hundred dollars, as a full compensation for allextra services: the said payment to be made quarterly, at the treasuryof the United States .
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That a marshal shall be appointedfor the said district, who shall perform the same duties, be subject to thesame regulations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees, as areprescribed and allowed to marshals in other districts; and shall, more-over, be entitled to the sum of two hundred dollars annually, as a com-pensation for all extra services.
Sec. 6 . And be it further enacted, That in lieu of the propositionssubmitted to the Congress of the United States , by an ordinance passedon the first day of November, eighteen hundred and forty-four, by theconvention of delegates at Iowa city, assembled for the purpose ofmaking a constitution for the State of Iowa , which are hereby rejected,the following propositions be, and the same are hereby, offered to thelegislature of the State of Iowa , for their acceptance or rejection;which, if accepted, under the authority conferred on the said legisla-ture, by the convention which framed the constitution of the said State,shall be obligatory upon the United States :
First. That section numbered sixteen in every township of the publiclands, and, where such section has been sold or otherwise disposed of,other lands equivalent thereto, and as contiguous as may be, shall begranted to the State for the use of schools.
Second. That the seventy-two sections of land set apart and reservedfor the use and support of a university, by an act of Congress approvedon the twentieth day of July, eighteen hundred and forty, entitled “Anact granting two townships of land for the use of a university in theTerritory of Iowa,” are hereby granted and conveyed to the State, tobe appropriated solely to the use and support of such university, in suchmanner as the legislature may prescribe.
Statute II.March 3, 1845.
Act of March3, 1845, ch. 48.
Act of March3, 1845, ch. 75.Application ofU. S. laws toIowa .
District court.
Sessions.
Jurisdiction.
Act of Sept.24,1789, ch. 2Q,sec. 10.
Clerk.
Compensationof the judge.
Compensation.
Compensation.
Propositions tobe submitted tothe Legislatureof Iowa.
Grant of landsfor the use ofschools.
Grant of landsfor the use of auniversity.
Act of July 20,1840, ch. 90.