Journal Of The Senate Of The General Assembly Of The State Of Iowa - Softcover

Iowa. General Assembly. Senate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371754348 ISBN 13: 9780371754344

Publisher: HardPress, 1863

Synopsis

Journal Of The Senate Of The General Assembly Of The State Of Iowa. This wartime record documents a mid-1864 session of the Iowa Senate in Des Moines, detailing how the legislature organized, funded, and oversaw war-relief, public institutions, and state finances during the Civil War. The excerpt outlines extensive Soldiers’ Aid and Sanitary relief activities, including in-kind goods and cash accounting, and enumerates lists of goods shipped to troops. It also covers reports on higher education institutions—the State University, the State College Farm, and the Deaf and Dumb Asylum—along with recommendations for capital projects and funding. Further sections address legislative governance, constitutional reform, and a bustling array of bills on taxation, elections, roads, and infrastructure, as well as procedural notices, joint conventions, and executive communications. The overall arc shows a busy, procedural, detail-heavy session aimed at sustaining wartime welfare, reorganizing public institutions, and guiding state policy through a national crisis.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1863
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371754348
• ISBN 13: 9780371754344
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 630