Journal - Softcover

Iowa. General Assembly. Senate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461323397 ISBN 13: 9780461323399

Publisher: HardPress, 2019

Synopsis

Journal. This volume records the 1858 Iowa General Assembly, detailing the Senate and House proceedings, committee activity, and executive communications during March 1858. It chronicles a busy session of extensive lawmaking across taxation, public lands, education, infrastructure, judiciary, and state administration, with particular emphasis on education funding, school governance, and infrastructure projects. The text documents numerous amendments, inter-chamber negotiations, conference committees (notably on specific House and Senate measures), printing expenditures, and gubernatorial messages, culminating in an adjournment sine die. Readers gain a meticulous account of the legislative process: readings, motions, engrossment, bill reconsiderations, and the codification efforts that shaped state law and governance. Across its entries, the Journal highlights fiscal oversight, administration reform, and policy debates that defined Iowa’s institutions, balances of power between chambers, and the administration’s oversight of education, public works, and state finance as the session closes with formal appreciations to presiding officers and hospitality extended to attendees.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461323397
• ISBN 13: 9780461323399
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 680