Subpœna. In the name of the United States of America, you are hereby required to appear before the undersigned, one of the justices of the peace in and for said county, at on the day of at — of noon of said day, to give evidence in a certain cause then and there to be tried plaintiff, and the clock in the between defendant, on the part of the Given under my hand this Venire for a jury. Execution. A VENIRE FOR A JURY. TERRITORY OF IOWA, county, ss. To any constable of said county. In the name of the United States of America, you are hereby commanded to summon good and lawful men to be and appear before the undersigned, one of the justices of the peace in and for said county, on the day of of the clock in the the town of to make a jury, for the trial of an between present (or next) at noon of said day in action of plaintiff and States, was recovered the These are therefore in the name of the United States of as the law exempts) and to make sale thereof ac- Given under my hand this day of 18-. J. K., Justice. Where security has been given for stay of execution Against securion the judgment against the principal and security:— ty. TERRITORY OF IOWA, county, ss. To any constable in said county. Whereas, judgment against for the sum of and -costs, lawful money of the United day of States, was recovered the 18before the undersigned, a justice of the peace in and for the said county, at the suit of on the day of And in the months from whereas have failed. These are therefore in the name, &c. (as in common form.) A WRIT OF ATTACHMENT. TERRITORY OF IOWA, county, ss. To any constable of said county. In the name of the United States of America, you Writ of attachare commanded to attach C. D. by all and singular ment. his goods, chattels, moneys, effects, and credits, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy the sum of (the sum sworn to) with interests and costs of suit, in whosesoever hands or possession the same may be found in your county, and so provide, that the goods and chattels so attached, may be subject to further proceedings thereon, as the law requires; and also to summons the said C. D. if to be found, to be and appear before me at my office, in the town of on the day of 18- to answer unto plaintiff; and also that you summon as garnishees all such persons found in your county, as may be directed by the plaintiff or his agent to appear before the said justice at the time and place aforesaid, to answer such interrogatories as the justice may propound, and have you then and there this writ. Given under my hand this APPROVED, January 21, 1839. day of 18-. O. P., Justice. Laws to be prepared for pub lication. be printed. LAWS AND JOURNALS. AN ACT regulating the publication and distribution of the laws and journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Iowa. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Iowa, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Territory to make an index and marginal notes to the acts and joint resolutions passed at the present session of the Legislative Assembly as soon as possible, and as early as convenient to furnish the Territorial printer with true copies of the said acts and joint resolutions, together with the index and marginal notes thereto, who shall thereupon proceed, without delay, 2,000 copies to agreeably to his contract, to print two thousand copies of the laws, to which shall be added joint resolutions, also the local acts passed by the Legislative Assembly as hereinafter mentioned, and when so printed, they shall by him be put up in half binding, and called "The Statute Laws of the Territory What shall be of Iowa." And there shall be prefixed to the volprefixed to the ume of the acts a complete table of contents, the declaration of independence, articles of confederation and perpetual union, constitution of the United States, with the amendments thereto, the ordinance of congress, July 13, 1787, and the organic law, entitled, "An act to divide the Territory of Wisconsin, and to establish the Territorial Government of Iowa," approved, June 12, 1838. acts. Certificate to livery of the copies. SEC. 2. So soon as the said printing shall be comprinter on de- pleted, and the copies delivered to the Secretary of the Territory, he shall give to said printer a certificate containing a detailed account of all the printing done by the said printer, together with the total amount due for the same, which shall be a sufficient voucher for said Secretary to audit and pay the same out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. To be sent into the several counties. SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Territory is hereby required to contract with some suitable person, or persons, immediately after the printing in this act authorised to be done is completed, to convey and deliver the several volumes of the aforesaid acts, joint resolutions, and journals, to the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and take a receipt. of the several clerks of the boards of county commissioners, who are authorised to receive the acts and journals aforesaid, setting forth that the proper number of volumes of the acts and journals have been delivered in good order. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Secretary to Territory to superintend the printing, in such man-superintend ner as he may conceive most conducive to the public printing. good, the acts and joint resolutions of the Legislative Assembly, and to correct the same by the enrolled bills in his office, and, when the printing of the same shall be finished, to certify the fact of his having compared and found the same correct; which certificate shall be signed and dated by the Secretary, and annexed in print to the volumes of the acts and joint resolutions as aforesaid; and the volumes containing the acts of a general and public nature shall be arranged under their proper heads, in alphabetical order, according to their subject matter. SEC. 5. The other statute laws, not disposed of as No. of copies to aforesaid, shall be distributed as follows, to wit: each county. To the counties of Lee, Van Buren, Henry, Des Moines, and Du Buque, each one hundred copies. To the counties of Scott, Jackson, Muscatine, Louisa, and Cedar, each seventy-five copies. To the counties of Clayton, Clinton, Jones, Johnson, Linn, Jefferson, and Slaughter, each sixty copies. And all counties attached for judicial purposes, twenty copies, to be deposited in the clerk's office of the counties to which they are attached. SEC. 6. It shall further be the duty of the said Copy to the Secretary of the Territory to deliver, or cause to be Governor, delivered, one copy of the aforesaid laws to each of judges, &c. the following named persons, to wit: the Governor of the territory, Judges of the Supreme court, Attorney General, and District Court of the United States, for said Territory. SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the printer, author- Printing and ized to print the journals of the House of Repre- distribution of sentatives, to print, under the direction of the chief the journals. clerk, three hundred copies, and it shall be the duty of the printer, authorized to print the journal of the Council, to print, under the direction of the Secretary of the Council, one hundred and fifty copies, which shall be distributed in equal proportions among the members of their respective houses, that is, to the members of each house its own journals; which said journals shall be delivered to the clerks of the several boards of county commissioners in the same way, time and place, that the aforesaid volumes of the acts are to be delivered, and the said clerks, on receipt thereof, shall deliver the same to the members for whom they are intended; and the Secretary of the Territory shall carefully reserve Copies of laws and file away, in his office, all the volumes of the and journals to statute laws and special acts, by this act directed to be printed, together with forty copies of the journals of the House of Representatives, and twenty copies of the journals of the Council, not otherwise disposed of by this act, to be disposed of by the Legislative Assembly as future circumstances may require. be reserved. To whom the laws shall be distributed. SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the clerks of the boards of county commissioners of the several counties in this Territory, upon application, to deliver to the different civil officers of his county, allowing each one copy of the statute laws, to wit: to every member of the Council and House of Representatives of the present Legislative Assembly, to the judge of probate, each recorder, public administrator, county commissioner, sheriff, coroner, each justice of the peace, county treasurer, county surveyor, each clerk of the district court, and clerk of the county commissioners, mayor of any incorporated city, and to all militia officers above the rank of lieutenant, three copies for the use of the district court, grand jury, and bar, and the surplus copies, if any, shall be by said clerk carefully filed in his office, and kept to be distributed as may be hereafter directed by law; and upon the delivery of the copy of the laws, as aforesaid, it shall be the Clerks to take duty of the clerk aforesaid to take a receipt for the same from such person, and file the same in his office, and in no case shall any person be entitled to more than one copy, although he may hold several offices. receipts. When the vol livered to to be returned. SEC. 9. Upon the expiration of the term of serumes, thus de- vice, resignation, or removal from office, of any county officer, it shall be his duty to return to the county officers, clerk of the county commissioners, for the use of his successor in office, the copy or copies of the laws of this Territory received by him in pursuance of this act, and in case of the death of any such officer, the said copy or copies of the laws shall be returned as aforesaid by his executors or administrators. If any such officer, his executors or administrators, shall refuse or neglect, for the space of three months after the happening of such vacancy as aforesaid, to return the said copy or copies of the laws to the clerk |