An illustrated history of the State of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state, from its first exploration down to 1875; including a cyclopaedia of legislation during the administration of each of the governors, from Lucas (1836) to Carpenter; with historical and descriptive sketches of each county in the state separately, embracing interesting narratives of pioneer life, including an account of the commercial, agricultural and educational growth of Iowa . discharge the duties oftheir offices, had in a great measure, rendered ineffectual the schoollaw, and t
An illustrated history of the State of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state, from its first exploration down to 1875; including a cyclopaedia of legislation during the administration of each of the governors, from Lucas (1836) to Carpenter; with historical and descriptive sketches of each county in the state separately, embracing interesting narratives of pioneer life, including an account of the commercial, agricultural and educational growth of Iowa . discharge the duties oftheir offices, had in a great measure, rendered ineffectual the schoollaw, and there seemed to be some occasion for a special session ofthe legislature and the governor was induced to issue his proclama-tion convening the legislature in an extra session on the 1st Mon-day, the third of January, 1848. The principal reasons assignedby the governor for convening the legislature were to remedy thedefects in school laws, occasioned by the law not taking effect atthe time it was designed to have it; of this session Jesse B. Brownwas speaker of assembly and J. Scott Richman, clerk. The legis-lature passed no law which materially affected the school interest,or made the condition of things much, if any, better than theywould have been, had there been no session. The whigs intro-duced a bill to legalize the acts of Harlan, authorizing him tohold the office for three years, the time for which he was supposedto have been elected ; but the democrats opposed the bill and it. 192 Tutiles History of Iowa. was defeated. The real cause for convening the legislature ap-pears to have been the election of United States senators and su-preme court judges, but the whigs, with the vote of a Mr. Clifton,prevented a joint convention, and these offices were not was an act passed at this session providing for a revision ofthe laws of the state ; and Charles Mason, of Des Moines countyWm. G-. Woodward, of Muscatine county and Stephen Hempstead,of Dubuque county, were app
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