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A floor session excerpt from January 1870 Iowa General Assembly covers debates on transfer books and county records, adjournment motions, and proposals to reorganize county government. It notes lawmakers criticizing western offices while supporting efficiency and citizen access to records and taxes.
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Irish
Sioux City
Woodbury
Traer
Sater
Tself
Lacey
Beardsley
Committee On Federal Relations
Yeur
Federal Relations
Scott County
Senate
Bex Rossey
Senator Tuttle
Committee On Commerce
Northerns Union Society
Fort Podge
M Terrie
General Assembly
State of
Iowa
Census Board
State Register
Des Moines
Lenin
Laws
McKean
Committee On Roads
Twelfth General Assembly
Bridges
Joan McKean
Dixon
Committee On Agriculture
the State Board of Agriculture
Committee On Judiciary
McNutt
Wolf
Traverse
Senator McNutt
Cedar
Moore
Muscatine
Mr. McNutt
Mitchell
Yeas—Mesers
Allen
Atkins
Bennet
Campbell
Casady
Cathcart
Chapin
Claussen
Couch
Donnan
Dysart
Fellows
Griffith
Grimes
Hamilton
Havens
Hawley
Hurley
Ireland
Keller
Knoll
Larrabee
Long
Lowry
McCulloch
Murray
Newell
Patterson
Pierce
Rice
Tuttle
Vale
Vermillion
West
Wright
Bill
Bulis
Clark
Dunham
Fairall
Mulkern
Smyth
Committee On
Ninth General Assembly
Court House
Yeas
Bennett
Larabee
Tutlie
Yale
Tenth General Assembly
Board of
8. M. Lindley
Jasper County
House
Wolke