[450] Act of Jan. 17, 1840: Laws of Ia. (1839-40), 120-22.

[451] Act of Jan. 20, 1843: Rev. Stat. of Ia. (1843), 237-41.

[452] Act of Jan. 17, 1846: Laws of Ia. (1845-46), 23.

[453] Code of Ia. (1851), 223.

[454] Act of Jan. 24, 1855: Laws of Ia. (1854-55), 112, 113.

[455] Act of March 15: Laws of Ia. (1858), 97, 98.

[456] Wright, Report, 96. Cf. Graves v. Graves, 36 Ia., 310; Whitcomb v. Whitcomb, 46 Ia., 437.

[457] Cf. Ann. Code of Ia. (1897), 1135-47; and Code of Ia. (1873), 399-401; also Laws of Ia. (1870), 429 (jurisdiction).

[458] Stat. of Kan. (1855), 310, 311.

[459] Act of Feb. 7: Gen. Laws of Kan. (1859), 385.