OF THE STATE OF KANSAS, PASSED AT THE TWELFTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, COMMENCED AT THE STATE CAPITAL ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1872. TOGETHER WITH LIST OF STATE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF BOTH BRANCHES TOPEKA, KANSAS. PRINTED AT THE COMMONWEA THI STATE PRINTING HOUSE. 1872. . AUTHENTICATION. I, W. H. Smallwood, Secretary of State of the State of Kansas, do hereby certify that the printed Acts and Resolutions contained in this volume are true and correct copies of the enrolled Laws and Joint Resolutions which were passed at the regular session of the State Legislature, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, with the exception of the clerical errors appearing enclosed in brackets; and I further certify that all Laws and Joint Resolutions contained in this volume, not having taken effect by publication in some newspaper, as per certificate thereunto annexed, will take effect and be in force from and arter the 20th day of June, A. D. 1872. [SEAL.] Given under my hand and official seal, this 20th day of June, A. D. 1872. W. H. SMALLWOOD, Secretary of State. INDEX TO CHAPTERS. ACTS LEGALIZED. PAGE. An act to legalize the official acts of John C. Meginnis as justice of the peace for Ellis county, in the years 1871 and 1872 I 2 An act to legalize certain acts of county surveyors and road viewers.......... 2 3 An act entitled an act legalizing the issuing of two thousand dollars additional school bonds for the completion of a graded school house at Quenemo, in district No. 30, Osage county, Kansas................ 3 4 An act to legalize the official acts of the county surveyor of Osage county, Kansas...... 4 5 An act to legalize certain acts of the county commissioners of Brown county........ 6 An act to legalize an election held in the city of Tonganoxie, Leavenworth county, Kansas, on the 10th day of June, A. D. 1871............ 5 6 7 An act to legalize an election held in the town of Eldorado, in Butler county, Kansas, on the 12th day of September, A. D. 1871........... 7 8 An act to legalize an election in "Mission township," Neosho county, Kansas ..... 8 9 An act to legalize the official acts of David J. Evans, county superintendent of public instruction, of Shawnee county...... 9 ΙΟ An act legalizing an election........... ΙΟ II An act entitled an act to legalize the vote of school district No. 42, in Osage county, Kansas, in favor of issuing school bonds of said district, for the sum of twenty |