Excerpt from Journal of the House of Representatives of the Seventh General Assembly of the State of Iowa: Begun and Held at the Capital in Des Moines, on the 11th Day of January, A. D. 1858, Being the Seventh Regular Session Under the Old, and the First Under the New Constitution I thank you for the distinguished honor you have conferred on me in selecting me to preside over your deliberations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.